Assistant Engineering

Daniel O'Connell

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West Caldwell, NJ 07006

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Education

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering May 2010

Rowan University. Glassboro, NJ 08028.

Employment

Research Assistant, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Rowan University, Summer

2009

Industrial Sponsor: Novartis

. Investigated key factors in removal of soluble palladium complexes by

fixed- bed adsorption

. Developed reaction rate limited model predicting breakthrough and

solved resulting first order quasi-linear differential equation by

numerical methods

. Conducted experiments to study effect of reaction mixture flow rate

and QuadraPure TU bed lengths on breakthrough time

. Developed relationship between residence time and breakthrough time

Academic Projects

Removal of Soluble Palladium Complexes by Fixed-Bed Adsorption, Spring 2009

Industrial Sponsor: Novartis

. Modeled adsorption column using QuadraPure TU to remove palladium

catalyst from reaction mixture

. Developed model for palladium concentration as a function of time and

position from bed entrance

. Determined surface reaction rate from batch equilibrium data

DCG Holography, Fall 2008

Industrial Sponsor: RL Associates

. Developed method for producing ultra thin films of ammonium dichromate

gelatin used to develop image of ocean sub-surface

. Constructed spin table and used x-ray defraction methods to measure

thickness and model thickness as a function of spin speed and gelatin

quantity applied

. Optimization resulted in development of mold method

Computer and Laboratory Equipment Expertise

Visual Basic , Matlab , Polymath , Mathematica , Comsol , Statgraphics ,

Aspen+ ,

HPLC, GC, Spectrophotometer

Publications and Presentations

O'Connell, Daniel, Eileen Batten, Pamela L. Kubinski, and Megerle L.

Scherholz, Removal of Soluble Palladium Complexes by Fixed-Bed Adsorption,

AIChE Mid Atlantic Regional Conference, Hampton University, April 18, 2009

Honors: 3rd place in the poster competition.

O'Connell, Daniel and Eileen Batten, Removal of Soluble Palladium Complexes

by Fixed-Bed Adsoprtion, AIChE National Student Conference, Nashville,

Tennessee, November 9th, 2009

Activities

AIChE; National and Rowan University Chapter, Phi Kappa Sigma Intl.

Fraternity

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