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Office: Kingsbury Hall W301A
Phone:(603) 862-2298
email: P.T.Vasudevan@unh.edu
Fax: (603) 862-3747
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Dr. Vasudevan's research interests are in the area of biocatalysis and heterogeneous catalysis, in particular hydrodesulfurization catalysts, deep HDS catalysis, mechanistic studies of enzyme deactivation, bioremediation using enzyme systems, and purification of proteins. Currently, he is working in the area of biofuels (biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol using enzymes).
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Graduate Dissertations/Theses Directed:
| George Haddock | Applications of the Catalatic and Peroxidatic Action of Catalase | Sep 1991 |
| Dinesh Thakur |
Effect of Pressure on Enzyme Stability: Soluble and Supported Catalase |
Dec 1992 |
| Deepak Agrawal |
Development of Expert Systems for Plastic Selection and for Capital Cost Estimation |
Sep 1992 |
| Olivia Luting Li |
Enzyme Catalyzed Polymerization and Precipitation of Phenol from Wastewater |
Sep 1994 |
| Fan Zhang |
Characterization of Supported Molybdenum Sulfide Catalysts |
Sep 1995 |
| Tao Zhou |
Kinetics of Cholesterol Oxidation by Cholesterol Oxidase |
Jan 1995 |
| Yatin Gokarn |
Deactivation Studies of Urease in Urea Hydrolysis |
Jan 1995 |
| Paul Genest |
Purification of Lipase by Continuous Chromatography |
Sep 1996 |
| Ken Wilkinson |
Characterization of Tungsten Sulfide Catalysts |
Dec 1996 |
| Ashish Palekar | Optimization of Lipase Purification by Rotating Size Exclusion Chromatography | Jun 1998 |
| Jonathan Whittum | Enzyme Catalyzed Polymerization and Precipitation of Aniline from Wastewater | May 2000 |
| Dan Bailey | Tyrosinase Catalyzed Phenol Oxidation | Sep 2000 |
| Shuo Yan | Theoretical Modeling of a Rotating Annular Chromatography Unit and Purification of Porcine Lipase by HIC. | Sep 2000 |
| Karin Como | Immobilized Catalase on CoFoam Hydrophilic Polyurethane Composite | May 2002 |
| Yingjing Fu | Kinetics of E.coli growth for the production of GFP | Sep 2003 |
| Fernando Sanchez | Enzyme catalyzed production of biodiesel from olive oil | Sep 2004 |
| Alison Dupont | Remediation of MTBE in water | Dec 2005 |
| Robert Coggon | Transesterification of triolein by solid catalysts | Sep 2006 |
| Priya Saripalli | Degradation of MTBE | Dec 2006 |
| Maninder Gill | Simulation and Control of Processes | Sep 2007 |
| Xiangping Shen | Transesterification of waste oil by C. lipase | Dec 2007 |
| Vibha Sundaram | Short-cut Design, Simulation and Economic Analysis of a Biodiesel Plant | |
| Boyi Fu | Effect of Organic Solvents on Enzyme-Catalyzed Synthesis of Biodiesel | Sep 2009 |
| Paetrice Jones | Enzymatic Synthesis of Celllulosic Ethanol | Sep 2009 |
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