Pigford, Robert

Mark A. Barteau is Robert L. Pigford Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He received his B.S. degree from Washington University in 1976 and his M.S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1981) from Stanford University. His research area is chemical engineering with specialized interests in application of surface techniques to reactions on nonmetals, hydrocarbon and oxygenate chemistry on metals and metal oxides, scanning probe microscopies, and catalysis by metal oxides. 

This book is dedicated to Robert L. Pigford and Page S. Buckley, two authentic pioneers in process modeUng and process control... 

Thomas K. Sherwood and C. E. Reed, Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1939 William R. Marshall and Robert L. Pigford, The Application of Differential Equations to Chemical Engineering Problems, University of Delaware, Newark, 1947 A. B. Newman, Temperature Distribution in Internally Heated Cylinders, Trans. AlChE 24,44-53 (1930) T. B. Drew, Mathematical Attacks on Forced Convection Problems A Review, Trans. AlChE 26,26-79 (1931) Arvind Varma, Some Historical Notes on the Use of Mathematics in Chemical Engineering, pp. 353-387 in W. F. Furter, ed., A Century of Chemical Engineering [17]. 

Only 3 years later, in 1947, Hougen and Watson published Kinetics and Catalysis (Chemical Process Principles Part 3), which forms the basis of modem chemical reaction engineering. In the same year, W. Robert Marshall and Robert L. Pigford prMi h A Applications of Differential Equations to Chemical Engineering Problems, illustrating applications of mathematics to many areas of chemical engineering. Up to a certain point, it constituted the first step toward the systematic process design. 

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