Experience

Rutgers School of Engineering

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  • Design and perform laboratory experiments studying the effect of hydrostatic pressure on torque applied to a powder bed in an agitated filter bed dryer. • Correlate the torque to the agglomeration and attrition of the powder bed. • Examined the flow and drying of pharmaceutical materials to study the effect of material and drying. • Incorporated EDEM software to simulate experiments and analyzed particle temperatures to examine the effect of intermittent mixing on heat transfer. • Present analysis and research developments at bi-weekly meetings with research stakeholders • Build MATLAB programs to streamline the analysis of experimental data, reducing processing time by over 2 hours • Developed methods and experiment for impregnating catalyst supports to study the effect of concentration on metal loading • Examined the moisture content of wet supports in fluidized bed dryers to understand the effect of air velocity, bed loading, and temperature on the drying rate. • Modified prior Fortran code to simulate impregnation and drying of catalysts to correlate experimental results to simulation results to develop predictions for metal distribution in catalysts. Show less