Resume

• 2009

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Environmental Engineering

  Air & Waste Management Association

  Prion Co-ed Ultimate Frisbee

  Girls Adventures in Math

  Engineering

  & Science (GAMES)

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• 2007

  M.S.

  Environmental Engineering

• 2001

  B.S.

  magna cum laude

  Chemical Engineering

  Alpha Phi Omega

  Symphonic Band

  Women's Ultimate Frisbee

  Indoor Air Quality Engineering

  Aerosol Sampling and Analysis

  College Teaching and Academic Careers

  Air Quality Control

  Bioenergy Systems

  Climate Change Assessment

  Air Quality Engineering

  Physical Processes in Environmental Engineering

  Theory of Energy and Sustainability Engineering

  Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering

  Air Quality Modeling

  Atmospheric Chemistry

• Engineering

  Chemical Engineering

  Science

  Technical Writing

  Process Development

  Environmental Engineering

  Chromatography

  University Teaching

  Capture and Recovery of Isobutane by Electrothermal Swing Adsorption with Post-Desorption Liquefaction

  Mark J. Rood

  David L. Johnsen

  A bench-scale capture and recovery system to convert a low concentration organic gas to a liquid is described here. Adsorption of isobutane onto activated carbon fiber cloth (ACFC) followed by electrothermal desorption and subsequent liquefaction is demonstrated. Experimental conditions to condense desorbed isobutane were determined based on Dalton’s law and Antoine’s equation. Breakthrough curves for a gas stream containing 2000 ppmv isobutane in air adsorbing onto ACFC-15 demonstrate an adsorption capacity of 0.094 ( 0.017 g of isobutane/g of ACFC with >98% capture efficiency. The system described here utilizes two adsorbers

  which operate cyclically to allow for continuous treatment of the isobutane. Adsorption followed by electrothermal desorption provided a concentration ratio of 240

  which facilitates condensation of the isobutane after compression and cooling and is an order of magnitude greater than what has been previously demonstrated.

  Capture and Recovery of Isobutane by Electrothermal Swing Adsorption with Post-Desorption Liquefaction

  Mark J. Rood

  The use of adsorption on activated carbon fiber cloth (ACFC) followed by electrothermal swing adsorption (ESA) and postdesorption pressure and temperature control allows organic gases with boiling points below 0 °C to be captured from air streams and recovered as liquids. This technology has the potential to be a more sustainable abatement technique when compared to thermal oxidation. In this paper

  we determine the process performance and energy requirements of a gas recovery system (GRS) using ACFC-ESA for three adsorbates with relative pressures between 8.3 × 10–5 and 3.4 × 10–3 and boiling points as low as −26.3 °C. The GRS is able to capture > 99% of the organic gas from the feed air stream

  which is comparable to destruction efficiencies for thermal oxidizers. The energy used per liquid mole recovered ranges from 920 to 52 000 kJ/mol and is a function of relative pressure of the adsorbate in the feed gas. Quantifying the performance of the bench-scale gas recovery system in terms of its ability to remove organic gases from the adsorption stream and the energy required to liquefy the recovered organic gases is a critical step in developing new technologies to allow manufacturing to occur in a more sustainable manner. To our knowledge

  this is the first time an ACFC-ESA system has been used to capture

  recover

  and liquefy organic compounds with vapor pressures as low as 8.3 × 10–5 and the first time such a system has been analyzed for process performance and energy consumption.

  Performance of an Electrothermal Swing Adsorption System with Postdesorption Liquefaction for Organic Gas Capture and Recovery

  Kaitlin

  Mallouk

  The Kern Family Foundation

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Cordis

  The Dow Chemical Company

  Merck

  Rowan University

  Glassboro

  New Jersey

  I am a tenured Assistant Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. I teach a variety of courses including first-year and sophomore engineering clinic

  and Mechanical Engineering Lab.\n\nI am a member of the Advisory Board for the Rowan University Faculty Center and I serve on the University Senate Academic Integrity Committee.\n\nI also coordinate Sophomore Engineering Clinic

  which involves 20 faculty members across 7 departments.

  Assistant Professor

  Rowan University

  I coordinated the lessons and lab staff for the week-long chemical engineering camp for girls entering 8th-10th grade. At camp the girls learned about separations (distillation

  extraction)

  pumps and motors

  bioreactors

  and polymers. We also ran an economics competition developed by Prof T.M. Duncan at Cornell University to simulate the trade offs between capital

  operating

  and research expenditures.

  Girls Adventures in Math

  Engineering

  & Science - Chemical Engineering Camp Coordinator

  Urbana-Champaign

  Illinois Area

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  West Point

  PA

  Vaccine process development.\n\nPerformed membrane and chromatography purifications of a yeast-based protein.\n\nActed as a Merck Research Laboratory liaison in the GMP manufacturing suite during vaccine production lots

  Biochemical Engineer

  Merck

  Glassboro

  NJ

  I was co-appointed in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Experiential Engineering Education and taught a variety of courses including first-year and sophomore engineering clinic

  and Mechanical Engineering Lab.\n\nI served as a member of the Advisory Board for the Rowan University Faculty Center and the University Senate Academic Integrity Committee. \n\nI was coordinator of the Professors & Parents learning community and the chair of the University Senate’s Parental Leave Task Force

  which worked to understand the childcare needs of the Rowan community and provide recommendations to formalize the parental leave policies at the University.

  Tenure Track Instructor

  Rowan University

  I welcome new members to the EngineeringUnleashed.com platform and help connect them to content of interest. I spearheaded the development of a rubric that is used to improve content cards and am dedicated to reviewing cards and highlighting connections for users.

  The Kern Family Foundation

  The Dow Chemical Company

  Midland

  MI

  Testing drug stability in a bench-scale process designed to improve bioavailability.\n\nActively participated in a project group to create a semi-batch production process for modified active pharmaceuticals\n\nUsed particle size analysis to perform stability studies on lyophilized pharmaceutical samples

  DowPharma Intern

  Air Quality Engineering & Science. \n\nMy doctoral research under the guidance of Prof. Mark J. Rood was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and involved implementing and testing a novel air pollution control technology for organic gases that allows the captured organic gases to be recovered as liquids so that they can be recycled. The technology uses adsorption on activated carbon fiber cloth coupled with electrothermal desorption and post-desorption liquefaction. \n\nI also taught CEE446: Air Quality Engineering in the Fall of 2011. This 3-credit course is designed for seniors and first-year graduate students. The course introduces the air pollutants regulated by the EPA and their typical concentrations in flue gases and the atmosphere; control methods for these air pollutants; and the ways that pollutants are dispersed into the atmosphere from their sources.

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Cordis

  Warren

  NJ

  Intern in an analytical chemistry lab. Wrote and validated an analytical test method protocol which was used at manufacturing sites to test drug content in drug-coated stents using UV spectroscopy.\n\nCreated custom reports with unique excel macros to facilitate direct data comparison. Sample review turnover was increased by 50%.

  Intern

  American Society for Engineering Education

  English

  Spanish

  Rowan University Faculty Wall of Fame

  One of 32 faculty/staff named to the Wall of Fame in 2018. I was nominated by alumni for teaching (2x) and advising (2x).