The Gene and Linda Voiland School of

Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering

Faculty

Richard Zollars, Ph.D.

Associate Director and Professor

The Gene and Linda Voiland
School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Washington State University
118 Dana Hall Spokane St.
P.O. Box 642710
Pullman, WA 99164-2710



Office: Dana 114 (Tel: 509 335-2670)
rzollars@wsu.edu
Dr. Zollars's Website

Graduate Students

Courtney Bonuccelli

Teaching Modules


Research Interests

  • Bioseparations: Affinity chromatography, field flow fractionation
  • Chemical Engineering: Multiphase chemical reactor design with simultaneous heat and mass transfer, fine particulate processing, cryogenic processing conditions, chemical vapor deposition
  • Interfacial Phenomena: Analysis of instabilities (waves) at interfaces, adsorption of surface active materials
  • Polymer Science and Engineering: Relationships of polymer structure and composition to reactor type and conditions, especially for heterophase polymerization
  • Surface and Colloid Science: Adsorption of surface active species, affinity separations, stability of colloids to Brownian and shear-induced coagulation, light scattering methods for the measurement of colloidal particle size, microcellular and micellar generation of particles

Selected Publications

  1. “ChE Department: Washington State University”, with N. Hilliard, Chemical Engineering Education, 33(1), 6 (1999).
  2. “Ionic Absorbates on Hydrophobic Surfaces”, an invited chapter in Surfaces of Nanoparticles and Porous Surfaces, J. A. Schwarz and C. I. Contescu, Editors, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1999.
  3. "Sedimentation Field Flow Fractionation of Nonspherical Particles”, with P. Blau, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 183, 476 (1996).
  4. "Adsorption of Single Anionic Surfactants on Hydrophobic Surfaces", with C. E. Hoeft, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 177, 171 (1996).
  5. “Teacher Institute for Science/Mathematics Education Through Engineering Experiences”, with D. C. Orlich, J. N. Petersen, W. J. Thomson, invited publication in The Hexagon of Alpha Chi Sigma, 86(4), 68 (1995).
  6. “Heat Transfer to and Transport Properties of Wheat Gluten in a Tubular Reactor” with T. D. Strecker and R. P. Cavalieri, Journal of Food Process Engineering, 18, 431 (1995).
  7. “A Hybrid Rotor for Continuous Bioprocessing”, with C. F. Ivory and M. Gilmartin, Biotechnology Progress, 11(1), 21 (1995).

The Gene & Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, PO Box 642710, Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164-2710, 509-335-4332, Email ChEBE: chebe AT wsu DOT edu