Assistant Professor Arvind Rajendran
Division of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore 637459
Tel: (65) 6316 8813
Fax: (65) 6794 7553
Email: arvind@ntu.edu.sg
Education:
BE (Chemical Engineering) – Annamalai University, India
M.Engg (Chemical Engineering) – National University of Singapore, Singapore
PhD (Process Engineering) –ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland- Adsorption of supercritical and near-critical fluids
- Simulated Moving Bed (SMB) chromatography
- Supercritical fluid technology
- Preparative scale Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC)
- Adsorption based separation processes
Selected publications:
- Rajendran, A., Krauchi, O., Mazzotti, M., and Morbidelli, M. (2004) Effect of pressure drop on column dynamics in supercritical fluid chromatography. J. Chromatogr. A., submitted.
- Rajendran, A., Peper, S., Johannsen, M., Mazzotti, M., Morbidelli, M., and Brunner, G. (2004) Enantioseparation of 1-phenyl-1-propanol by Supercritical Fluid - Simulated Moving Bed Chromatography. J. Chromatogr. A, accepted for publication.
- Rajendran, A., Bonavoglia, B., Forrer, N., Storti, G., Mazzotti, M., and Morbidelli, M. (2004) Simultaneous measurement of swelling and sorption in supercritical CO2 - poly(methylmethacrylate), Ind. Engg. Chem. Res., accepted for publication.
- Hocker, T., Rajendran, A., and Mazzotti, M. (2003) Measuring and modeling supercritical adsorption in porous solids. Carbon dioxide on 13X zeolite and on silica gel. Langmuir, 19(4), 1254–1267.
- Rajendran, A., Hocker, T., Di Giovanni, O., and Mazzotti, M. (2002) Experimental observation of critical depletion: Nitrous oxide adsorption on silica gel. Langmuir, 18(25), 9726–9734.
- Arvind, R., Farooq, S., and Ruthven, D. M. (2002) Analysis of a piston PSA process for air separation. Chem. Eng. Sci., 57(3), 419–433.
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