Javad Abbasian

  • Professor of Chemical Engineering
  • Director of Graduate Affairs in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Education

MBA from University of 电车无码 (1996)
Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology (Gas Eng., 1986)
M.S. from Illinois Institute of Technology (Gas Eng., 1978)
B.S. from Abadan Institute of Technology, Iran (Gas Eng., 1975)

Research Interests

Professor Abbasian's research interests are in the areas of high-temperature gas cleaning, pollution control and solid waste management, gas separation and purification, and process design and development.

Current Projects

Development of a Regenerative MgO-based Process for Carbon Capture in Advanced Gasification-based Power Generation Processes.

Development of Sorbent-Enhanced Water-Gas-Shift Process

Development of a Process Simulator for Solid-Fuel Gasification

Process Optimization for Utilization of Degraded Watersin Power Plants

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Awards

  • 2024 College Teaching Award, Armour College of Engineering 
  • 2012 Teacher of the Year, Armour College of Engineering
  • 2009 Teacher of the Year, CHBE department

Publications

I. Safari, M. E. Walker, M. Hsieh, D. A. Dzombak, W. Liu, R. D. Vidic, D. C. Miller, and J. Abbasian, 鈥淯tilization of Municipal Wastewater for Cooling in Thermoelectric Power Plants鈥, Fuel, Vol. 111 No. 1, pp 103-113, 2013.

I. Safari, M. Hsieh, S. H. Chien, M. E. Walker, R. D. Vidic, D. A. Dzombak, and J. Abbasian, 鈥淓ffect of CO2 Stripping on pH in Open-recirculating Cooling Water Systems 鈥, Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, DOI 10.1002/ep 11769, 2013

M. E. Walker, R. B. Theregowda, I. Safari, J. Abbasian, H Arastoopour, D. A. Dzombak, M. Hsieh, and D. C. Miller, 鈥淯tilization of Municipal Wastewater for Cooling in Thermoelectric Power plants: Evaluation of the Combined Cost of Makeup water Treatment and Increased Condenser Fouling鈥, Energy, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp 139-147, 2013

M.E. Walker, I. Safari, R.B. Theregowda, M.K. Hsieh, J. Abbasian, H. Arastoopour, D.A. Dzombak, D.C. Miller, 鈥淓conomic impact of condenser fouling in existing thermoelectric power plants,鈥 Energy, 44, 1, pp 429 - 437, 2012.

E. Abbasi, A. Hassanzadeh and J. Abbasian, 鈥淩egenerable MgO-based sorbent for high temperature CO2 removal from syngas: 2. Two-zone variable diffusivity shrinking core model with expanding product layer鈥 FUEL, (will be available in print later in 2012, the paper is currently available online, 2012.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016236112004255

V.S. Gavaskar, and J. Abbasian, 鈥淒ry Regenerable Metal Oxide Sorbents for SO2 Removal from Flue Gases. 3.- Long-Term Durability鈥 Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 51, pp 213鈥217, 2012.

F. Rahmaninejad, V.S. Gavaskar, and J. Abbasian, 鈥淒ry Regenerable CuO/?-Al2O3 Catalyst for Simultaneous Removal of SOx and NOx from Flue gas鈥 Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 119鈥 120, pp 297鈥 303, 2012.

M.E. Walker, J. Abbasian, D.C. Chmielewski, and M.J. Castaldi, 鈥淒ry Gasification Oxy-combustion Power Cycle鈥, Energy & Fuels, 25 (5), pp 2258鈥2266, 2011.

Hassanzadeh and J. Abbasian, 鈥淩egenerable MgO-Based Sorbents for High-Temperature CO2 Removal from Syngas. 1. Sorbent Development, Evaluation, and Reaction Modeling.鈥 Accepted for publication in FUEL, 89, 1287-1297, 2010.

V.S. Gavaskar and J. Abbasian, 鈥淒evelopment of Metal Oxide Sorbents for SO2 Removal from Flue Gases. 2. Modeling of the Sulfation Reaction Involving Copper Oxide Sorbents.鈥 Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 46 (4), 1161-1166, 2007.

V.S. Gavaskar and J. Abbasian, 鈥淒evelopment of Metal Oxide Sorbents for SO2 Removal from Flue Gases. 1. Development and Evaluation of Copper Oxide Sorbents.鈥 Ind. Eng Chem Res., No 1, vol. 45, 2006.

K.S. Oberoi and J. Abbasian, 鈥淓ffects of External Factors on the Measurement of Gas-Solid Reaction Rates.鈥 Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 43, 956-961, 2004.

Books

  • Book chapter on 鈥淚n-Situ Desulfurization of Coal Gas with Calcium-Based Sorbents鈥 in 鈥淒esulfurization of Hot Coal Gas,鈥 by A.T. Atimtay, and D.P. Harrison, book published by Springer-Verlag, 1996.
  • Book chapter on 鈥淪tabilization and Regeneration of Spent Sorbents鈥 in 鈥淒esulfurization of Hot Coal Gas,鈥 by A.T. Atimtay, and D.P. Harrison, book published by Springer-Verlag, 1996.

Patents

R.B. Slimane, J. Abbasian, and B.E. Williams, 鈥 ZnO-Based Regenerable Sulfur Sorbents for Fluid-Bed/Transport Reactor Applications,鈥 U.S. Patent No. 6,794,333 B2, 2004.

Javad Abbasian

Contact Information

312.567.3047 312.567.8874 Room 135 Perlstein Hall