Contact Information Email: Click to Mail Phone: (805) 893-2821 Fax: (805) 893-4731 Office Location: 3336 Engineering II Address: Duncan A. Mellichamp Professor Mail Code 5080 Chemical Engineering Dept. University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080 USA Lab Phone: (805) 893-3120

Assistant Information Name: Pat White Email: Click to Mail Phone: (805) 893-2214 Fax: (805) 893-4731

Course Pages ChE 184A-B. Chemical Process Design

Education & Honors

BS: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 1959

MS: Post-Grad Studies 1959-60 / Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany

PhD: Chemical Engineering - Purdue Universtiy, Lafayette, Indiana 1964

Honors: American Statistical Association: Statistics in Chemistry Award (Aug. 1994)

1990 Merriam-Wiley Award by American Society for Engineering Education (Distinguished Authorship Award for best engineering textbook published in 1989): Process Dynamics and Control (co-authors D.E. Seborg and T.F. Edgar).

Seventy-fifth Anniversary Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University 1988.

US Patent 3,496,146 (March 1970), "Preparation of Glycol Terephthalate Linear Polyester by Direct Esterification of Terephthalic Acid."

Research

Publications

Online Publication List

Griffin, D.W., Mellichamp, D.A., Doherty, M.F. Selectivity vs. Conversion and Optimal Operating Policies for Plant with Recycle. AIChE Journal, 2007, In preparation.

Griffin, D.W., Ward, J.D., Doherty, M.F., Mellichamp, D.A., A Steady-State Operating Policies for Plants with Multiple Reactions of Equal Overall Order. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2006, 45, 8056.

Ward, J.D., Mellichamp, D.A., Doherty, M.F. Choosing an Operating Policy for Seeded Batch Crystallization. AIChE Journal, 2006, 52, 2046.

Ward, J.D., Mellichamp, D. A., Doherty, M.F. Insight from Economically Optimal Steady-State Operating Policies for Dynamic Plantwide Control. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2006, 45, 1343.

Ward, J.D., Mellichamp, D.A., Doherty, M.F. Novel Reactor Temperature and Recycle Flow Rate Policies for Optimal Process Operation in the Plantwide Context. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2005, 44, 6729.

Ward, J.D., Mellichamp, D.A., Doherty, M.F. The Importance of Process Chemistry in Selecting the Operating Policy for Plants with Recycle. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2004, 43, 3957.