Aris, Rutherford

Aris, Rutherford, Introduction to the Analysis of Chemical Reactors, Prentice Hall, 1965. 

Jem, K.M., Aris Rutherford, and Cussler, E.L., Anisotropic Membrane Transport, Chem. Engr. Comm, (in press). 

An asterisk denotes joint supervision of graduate work. The numbers refer to the enumeration in the Bibliography. The lowercase letters refer to the Edited Books section of the Bibliography. Those listed under my own name are those for which I am solely responsible, with the exception of 132, whose author is, or rather was, Aris Rutherford. 

Erwin N. Hiebert. Walther Nernst and the Application of Physics to Chemistry. In Springs of Scientific Creativity Essays on Founders of Modem Science, Rutherford Aris et al., eds. Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press, 1983, pp. 203-231. Source for Nernst s fight with Haber. 

Rutherford Aris, Introduction to the Analysis of Chemical Reactors, copyright 1965, pp. 10-13. Adapted by permission of Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 

I learned about chemical reactors at the knees of Rutherford Aris and Neal Amundson, when, as a surface chemist, I taught recitation sections and then lectures in the Reaction Engineering undergraduate course at Minnesota. The text was Aris Elementary Chemical Reaction Analysis, a book that was obviously elegant but at first did not seem at all elementary. It described porous pellet diffusion effects in chemical reactors and the intricacies of nonisothermal reactors in a very logical way, but to many students it seemed to be an exercise in applied mathematics with dimensionless variables rather than a description of chemical reactors. 

Editor s Note We are grateful to Prof. John Seinfeld (California Institute ofTechnol-ogy) for bringing our attention to the following poem, written by Prof. Rutherford Aris of the University of Minnesota to congratulate Princeton University s Chemical Engineering Department on their fiftieth anniversary. 

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS BY THE FABRICATION, SOLUTION, AND PRESENTATION OF ORDINARY AND PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES FROM THE PAPERS OF RUTHERFORD ARIS... 

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much hlood in him This title, given by Prof. Rutherford Aris and his collaborator W.W. Farr to their recent paper [Chem. Eng. Sci., 41 (1986) 1385], is a phrase used by Lady Macbeth (Macbeth, V, 1, 42-44). Fierce, isn t it Apparently, they mean it to imply that traditional theoretical problems in the dynamics of chemical reactions, in particular the known problem of the dynamics of the continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR), are far from being exhausted. Novel mathematical approaches provide new results oriented to physico-chemical comprehension. This current trend is confirmed by the present volume. 

ALAN W. WARDWELL1, ROBERT W. CARR, JR., and RUTHERFORD ARIS... 

Elementary Chemical Reactor Analysis Rutherford Aris Reaction Kinetics for Chemical Engineers Stanley M. Walas... 

Elementary chemical reactor analysis / Rutherford Aris. p. cm. — (Butterworths series in chemical engineering)... 

Rutherford Aris, Elementary Chemical Reactor Analysis, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1969. A rather broad, analytical book in which theory of the general case is presented first and then followed with applications. 

Applied Statistical Mechanics Thomas M. Reed and Keith E. Gubbins Elementary Chemical Reactor Analysis Rutherford Aris Kinetics of Chemical Processes Michel Boudart Reaction Kinetics for Chemical Engineers Stanley M. Walas... 

Rutherford Aris, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 151 Amundson Hall, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, USA... 

I am indebted to Professor Rutherford Aris of the University of Minnesota for encouraging me to undertake this work and for his critical review of the manuscript. I am also indebted to Professor Dan Luss of the University of Houston for many constructive criticisms and comments. I would like to thank Miss Evelyn Anderson and Mrs. Ruth Barnett for typing the manuscript and Mr. Frank Chu for assisting with the preparation of the manuscript. 

The very mathematical orientation of chemical reaction engineering led to avant-garde research on American soil. Professor Neil Amundson from Minnesota pubhshed a pioneering work on the stabihty of chemical reactors, and professor Rutherford Aris from the same university published a monumental treatise on reaction and diffusion in porous catalysts. In parallel, the optimization aspects of chemical reactors were developed further by many... 

---