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Ronald W. Rousseau
School Chair &
Cecil J. "Pete" Silas Chair
Contact Information
Building: Ford ES&T
Office: 1378
Phone: 404.894.2867
Fax: 404.894.2866
email
Mailing Address
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering
311 Ferst Drive, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0100
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Projects & Students
Former Group Members
1. Solid-Liquid Equilibrium in Multi Solute Systems (with Amyn S. Teja)
Izumi Kurosawa, Ph.D. Student
Began: August 2000
Projected Completion Date: December 2003
2. Crystallization of Proteins (with Athanassios Sambanis)
Karsten Bartling, Ph.D. Student
Began: August 2001
Projected Completion Date: July 2004
3. Effect of pH on the Crystallization and Morpology of Naproxen
Jennifer Sherard, M.S. Student
Began: August 2001
Projected Completion Date: May 2004
4. Modifying the Morphology of Napoxen
Young-Soo Kim, Ph.D. Student
Began: August 2001
Projected Completion Date: July 2005
5. The Use of a Tubular Crystallizer to Produce Crystals of Desired Morphology
Jose Mendez-del Rio, M.S. Student
Began: August 2002
Projected Completion Date: July 2004
6. Modeling the Formation of Pharmaceutical Hydrates and Solvates
Chie-Wei Jennifer Luk, Ph.D. Student
Began: August 2002
Projected Completion Date: July 2006
7. Nucleation and Growth of Burkeite-Like Double Salts on the Heat-Transfer Surfaces of Black Liquor Evaporators (with W. James Frederick and C. Verrill)
Chris Young, M.S. Student
Began: August 2003
Projected Completion Date: July 2005
8. Using an FBRM Instrument to Determine Crystal Size Distributions
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Began:
Projected Completion Date:
Former Group Members
Daniel D. Euhus, Ph.D., defended thesis September 2003, "Nucleation In Bulk Solutions And Crystal Growth on Heat-Transfer Surfaces During Evaporative Crystallization Of Salts Composed of Na2CO3 and Na2SO4" (with W. James Frederick), currently employed by Shell Chemical Company, Houston, Texas
Bing Shi, Ph.D., 2002, "Nucleation Characteristics of Mixtures of Sodium Carbonate and Sodium Sulfate in Complex Solutions," currently employed by Agouraon/Pfizer La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92121
Thomas Paxton, Ph.D., thesis being written, "Heterogeneous Crystallization of Proteins using Mineral Substrates," currently employed by Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, IL
Jeffrey Givand, Ph.D., 1999, "Development of a Thermodynamic Model to Enhance Crystal Purity," currently employed by Merck and Company, West Point, PA
David Chang, M.S., 2000, "I. Solubility and Purity of Amino Acid Crystals. II. Preferential Incorporation of L-Valine over L-Leucine in L-Isoleucine Crystals During Crystallization from HCl Solutions," currently a Ph.D. student at Auburn University
Kouji Maeda, Visiting Professor from the Himeji Institute of Technology, Himeji, Japan, 1998-1999, "Utilization of Liquid-Membrane Mediated Crystallization of Paraffins"
Moussa Dikko, Visiting Researcher, Summer 2003, "Effects of Particle Concentration on FBRM Output"
Rousseau Research Group ~ August 2006
Top Row: George DuMont, Quinta Nwanosike, Ronald Rousseau,
Krystle Chavez, & Stephanie Barthe
Bottom Row: Cosmas Bayuadri, Karsten Bartling,
Laurent Nassif, & Apichit Svang-Ariyaskul