David Agar
David W. Agar (* 1956 ) is a British chemical engineer and lecturer at TU Dortmund University .
Agar studied bioengineering at Swansea University and received a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Houston . As a post-doctoral student , he spent a year at Caltech in Pasadena, California, and then for 16 years at BASF . In 1997 he became Professor of Technical Chemistry (Chair of Chemical Process Engineering (CVT), formerly Technical Chemistry B) at the TU Dortmund.
He deals with chemical process engineering, including multifunctional reactors, microreactors, process intensification, hybrid catalyst systems, dynamic reactor operation, gas processing in fuel cells and CO2 separation and storage .
In 2011, together with Arno Behr (TU Dortmund) and Jakob Jörissen (TU Dortmund), he received the Literature Prize of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for their textbook on technical chemistry.
Fonts
- Arno Behr, David W. Agar, Jakob Jörissen: Introduction to Technical Chemistry , Springer Spectrum 2010
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release TU Dortmund ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Agar, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Agar, David W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |