Javad Tavakoli
Professor of Chemical Engineering
229 Acopian Engineering Center
(610) 330-5433
FAX: (610) 330-5059
tavakoli@lafayette.edu
Common Courses Taught

Reaction Kinetics & Reactor Design (ChE 413)
Chemical Engineering Laboratory III (ChE 412)
Chemical Engineering Computing (ChE 314)
Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (ChE 334)
Alternative Energy Sources (ChE 370)
Oil, Politics, and the Environment (VAST 211)
Technological Solutions to Environmental Problems (FYS 044)

Educational background
D.E.Sc., Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, 1988
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1977
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, 1973
Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.), The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1993
Research interest
Application of chemical engineering principles to environmental problems; biofuel from waste cellulosic materials, catalytic oxidation, industrial wastewater treatment, catalyzed destruction of VOCs, and thermal and photothermal destruction of hazardous wastes.
Ongoing projects

Ethanol from waste cellulosic materials
Removal of non-biodegradable chemicals from industrial wastewater streams
Removal and destruction of perchlorate from contaminated water systems
Catalytic oxidation of methanol to oxygenates

Recent publications

An Intercomparison of Polymeric Ligand Exchangers for Removal of Perchlorate from Water, P. S. Dimick, A. D. Kney, J. Tavakoli, S. E. Mylon and D. Zhao, Journal of Separation Science and Technology, 43: 1–19, 2008.

Temperature Programmed Reduction (TPR) for Measurement of Oxygen Content in Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron (nZVI), J. Cao, X. Li, J. Tavakoli and W. Zhang,  Journal of Environmental Science & Technology, 42: 3780-3785, 2008.

Disinfection of Contaminated Water Using Solar Irradiation, L. Caslake, D. Connolly, V. Menon, C.M. Duncanson, R. Rojas, and J. Tavakoli; Applied and Environmental Microbiology Journal of American Scoiety for Microbiology, Vol. 70, No. 2, P. 1145-1150, 2004

A study of reproducibility of magnetic influence on calcium carbonate precipitation, A. D., Kney, S. Showalter, S., J. Tavakoli, A. Dougherty, and S. A. Parsons, 78th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium June 2004

Influence of Magnetic Field on a Strong Acid Ion-Exchange Material, A. Kney, J. Tavakoli, A. Dougherty, Fernando Molina-Polo, Shawna Showalter, the 1st IWA Conference on Scaling and Corrosion in Water and Wastewater Systems, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK, March 2003

Wet Oxidation of Aqueous Polyvinyl Alcohol Solution, Y. S. Won, S. O. Baek, and J. Tavakoli, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 40, 1, pp. 60-66, 2001

Alternative Technologies for Destruction of Hazardous Wastes, J. M. Berty, M. Lavid, and J. Tavakoli, 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, September 2001

Enhanced Selectivity of Select Ion-Exchange Materials in the Presence of a Magnetic or Electrostatic Field, A. D. Kney, , J. Molek, and J. Tavakoli, Proceedings of the World Water & Environmental Resources Congress, Orlando, Florida, December 2001

Environmental Impact of Wood Fuels for Energy Production, D. Breger, M. Dorr, and J. Tavakoli, 2000 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), Global Warming and It Mitigation: An Engineering Response, Florida., 2000

Catalyzed Chemical Oxidation of VOCs, B. Kline, J. Tavkoli, and J. M. Berty, Chemical Oxidation: Technology for the Nineties (reprint), eds. W. W. Eckenfelder, A. R. Bowers, and J. A. Roth, Technomic Publishing Co., Vol. 6, 246, 1997

Awards
2003 Faculty Recognition Award, The Association of Black Collegians
1999 Fulbright German Studies Award
1995 Aaron O. Hoff Advisor of the Year Award
1995 United Nation TOKTEN Award
Professional organization membership
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
The American Chemical Society
American Society of Engineering Education
The Combustion Institute


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