Amyn Teja
Regents' Professor and Grassmann Foundation Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Contact Information
Building: Ford ES&T
Office: 2226
Phone: 404.894.3098
Fax: 404.894.2866
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Mailing Address
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering
311 Ferst Drive, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0100
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Amyn Teja
Education
B.Sc. 1968, Imperial College, Univ. of London
Ph.D. 1972, Imperial College, Univ. of London
Bio
Dr. Teja has published more than 250 papers and advised more than 50 graduate students. He is a Fellow of AIChE, and was the 2002 recipient of the AIChE's Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology. He has also served on numerous editorial boards and won teaching and service awards.
Research Interests
r. Teja’s main areas of research are thermophysical properties of materials and separation processes, particularly processes involving supercritical fluids. His research addresses problems related to environmental control, natural gas transmission, pharmaceutical processing, polymer processing, and nanoparticle production. Specific current projects include VOC emissions from aqueous solutions; polymer blend formation and doping in supercritical fluids; wax and amino acid crystallization; hydrothermal processes for nanoparticle synthesis; and thermal properties of nanofluids. The common theme in these projects is the exploitation of solubility phenomena and solvent properties to facilitate separations and product development.
Current projects in the Teja group include:
• Continuous hydrothermal synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles (including battery electrode materials)
• Transport properties of nanofluids for thermal energy management
• Manipulation of crystallization variables for the control of morphology and
nanoparticle size
• Carbon dioxide processing of electrically conductive polymer nanocomposites
• Henry’s constants and partitioning of VOCs
• Dilute solution theory and the solubility of solids in supercritical fluids
• Separation of chemotherapeutic compounds from natural products
• Thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids and fluid mixtures