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RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACULTY

 


Dimitri Hatziavramidis

Industry Professor of Chemical Engineering
Coordinator, Pharmaceutical Engineering

Room 143 Perlstein Hall
Tel.: 312.567.5302
Fax: 312.567.5313
Email: hatziavramidis [at] iit.edu

   
»Education
B.S. from National Technical University of Athens, Greece (Chemical Engineering)
M.S. from University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Chemical Engineering)
Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Chemical Engineering)
 
»Research Interests
  • Drug Delivery - Ocular drug delivery; Pulmonary drugs; Encapsulation of implanted pancreatic islet cells; Membrane transport; Pharmacokinetic models.
  • Pharmaceutical Technology- Crystallization; Particle Technology; Material Properties; Separation and purification processes; Manufacturing of micro- and nano-particles.
  • Fluid and Thermal Sciences - Multi-phase flow with phase change; Mixing; Computational Fluid Mechanics; Turbulence.
  • Molecular Simulations - Monte Carlo; Molecular Dynamics; Path Integral Methods; Computational Biology.
»Accomplishments and Awards
1998-2000: Led cross-functional group in design, development, manufacturing and commercialization of material for media replication disk (CD, DVD)

1984-1988: Developed model for largest oil reservoir in North America (Prudhoe Bay, AK) used by court to resolve multi-million dollar equity issues

1981-194: Amoco Foundation Young Faculty Award

 
»Professional Associations
  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • American Physical Society
  • American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
  • American Society for Quality
  • Executive Committee, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education
»Selected Recent Publications
Liu, X., Hatziavramidis, D.T., et al., CFD Simulations for Anti-solvent Crystallization, AIChE J. 52, 3621(2006).

Yongjin, Y., Hatziavramidis, D., Myerson, A., et al., “Development of a Small-Scale Automated Solubility Measurement Apparatus”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 44, 5427(2005).

Hatziavramidis, D.T., Sun, B. and D. Gidaspow “Gas-Liquid Flow through Horizontal Tees of Branching and I mp acting Type”, AIChE J. 43, 1675(1997).

Hatziavramidis, D.T. “Stability of Thin Evaporating/Condensing Films in the Presence of Surfactants”, Int. J. Multiphase Flow 18, 517(1992).

Hatziavramidis, D.T. “A New Computational Approach to the Miscible Displacement Problem”, SPE Res. Eng. 5, 631 (1990).

Hatziavramidis, D.T. “A Theory for Predicting the Apparent Transport Coefficients of Dispersions”, Physicochemical Hydrodynamics 10, 13(1988).

Hatziavramidis, D.T. “The Effective Mobility of Fine-texture Dispersions Flowing in Porous Media”, J. Chem. Phys. 84, 3379(1986).

Hatziavramidis, D.T. and H.C. Ku, “A Pseudospectral Method for the Solution of the Two-dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations in the Primitive Variable Formulation”, J. Comp . Phys. 67, 361(1986).

Hatziavramidis, D.T. and M. Muthukumar, “Concentration Dependent Transitional Self-friction Coefficient of Rod-like Macromolecules in Dilute Suspension”, J. Chem. Phys. 83, 2522(1985).

Ku, H.C. and D.T. Hatziavramidis, "Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations by Chebyshev Expansion Methods", Comp . & Fluids 13, 99(1985).

Hatziavramidis, D.T. and H.C. Ku, “An Integral Chebyshev Expansion Method for Boundary-Value Problems of O.D.E. Type”, Comp . & Maths. Appl. 11, 581(1985).

Ku, H.C. and D.T. Hatziavramidis, "Chebyshev Expansion Methods for the Solution of the Extended Graetz Problem", J.Co mp .Phys. 56, 495(1984).

Hatziavramidis, D.T. and H.C. Ku, “Pseudospectral solutions of Laminar Heat Transfer Problem in Long Pipelines”, J. Co mp . Phys. 52, 414(1983).

Hatziavramidis, D.T. and M. Muthukumar, "Cluster Theory for the Concentration-dependent Translational Self-friction Coefficient of Rod-like Macromolecules in Suspension", Particulate Sci. and Tech.,1, 317(1983).

Hatziavramidis, D.T. and T.J. Hanratty, “The Representation of the Viscous Wall Region by a Regular Eddy Pattern”, J. Fluid Meh. 95, 655(1979).

Hanratty, T.J., Chorn, L.G. and D.T. Hatziavramidis, "Turbulent Fluctuations in the Viscous Wall Region of Newtonian and Drag Reducing Fluids", Phys. Fluids 20, S112 (1977).

 
»Patents

US 5,141,054, “Limited-Entry Steam Heating Method for Uniform Heat Distribution”, 1992

US 10,014,014, “Solution Filtration Method for Polycarbonate Purification”, 2001


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