Trevor Brown
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Contact
| Email: | tbrown3@une.edu.au |
| Room: | C23 3.25 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2872 (or +61 2 6773 2872 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3268 |
| Homepage: | http://www.une.edu.au/chemistry/research/brown.shtml |
Additional:
Course Co-ordinator - Faculty of The Sciences
My general interest in Physical/Industrial Chemistry began with my BSc (1981) and MSc (1983) degrees at the Australian National University. An enthusiasm for chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics was initiated after working with Professor John Barker at SRI International and propagated with my PhD studies at the University of Adelaide under the co-supervision of Professor Keith King and Professor Bob Gilbert. Postdoctoral research with Professor Brian Haynes at the University of Sydney resulted in an interest in the development of experimental techniques for investigating the kinetics of gas/solid processes. My independent academic career commenced in 1994 at the University of New England and since then my research interests have mainly concentrated on determining the kinetics of heterogeneous chemical processes that either have or show potential for industrial applications
Research interests
My four main areas of current research investigation are:
- accurate kinetic parameters for heterogeneous catalytic reactions,
- hydrometallurgical processes involving antimony oxide species,
- the kinetics of catalytic coke oxidation and
- gas/surface collision processes.
Teaching Interests
- Physical chemistry
- Thermodynamics
- Chemical kinetics
- Materials chemistry
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Bernett, R. D., Mitchell, A. and Brown, T. C. Hydronium ion formation during the hydrometallurgical formation of valentinite (Sb2O3), Journal of Materials Science Letters, in press, 2003.
Whitten, A.; Spackman, M.A.; Dittrich, B.; Turner, P.; Brown, T.C. Charge Density Analysis of Antimony Oxide Compounds, Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, in press, 2003.
Brown, T. C., Le Minh, C., Toth, B., Alcala-Jornod, C. and Rossi, M. J. Kinetic Model for Non-Sticky Collisions in Pulsed Molecular Diffusion Tube Experiments Surface Science, 542(1-2), 150-159, 2003.
Sun, Y. and Brown, T. C. "Catalytic dehydrogenation, cracking and aromatization over Ga/ZSM-5 and Zn/ZSM-5 at low pressures," International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 34(8), 467-480, 2002.
Sun, Y. Robson, T. A. and Brown, T. C. Kinetics of the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Isobutene over Cr2O3/La2(CO3)3, Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry, 11, 70-78, 2002.
Li, C. and Brown, T. C. "Carbon combustion kinetics from temperature-programmed oxidation," Carbon, 39, 725-732, 2001.
Sun, Y. and Brown, T. C. "The kinetics of catalytic dehydrogenation and cracking of isobutane over HZSM-5 at low pressures," Journal of Catalysis, 194, 301-308, 2000.
Li, C. and Brown, T. C. "Temperature-programmed oxidation of coke deposited by 1-octene on cracking catalysts," Energy & Fuels, 13(4), 888-894, 1999.
Li, C., Le Minh, C. and Brown, T. C. "Kinetics of CO and CO2 evolution during the temperature-programmed oxidation of coke deposited on cracking catalysts," Journal of Catalysis, 178, 275-283, 1998.
Le Minh, C., Li, C. and Brown, T. C. "Kinetics of coke combustion during temperature-programmed oxidation of deactivated cracking catalysts," Catalyst Deactivation 97, (B. Delmon and Y. T. Yates, Eds), Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Vol. 111, 383-390, 1997.
Le Minh, C., Jones, R. A., Craven, I. E. and Brown, T. C. "Temperature-programmed oxidation of coke deposited on cracking catalysts: combustion mechanism dependence," Energy and Fuels, 11(2), 463-469, 1997.
Saiban, S. and Brown, T. C. "Kinetic model for cloud-point blending of diesel fuels," Fuel, 76, 1417-1423, 1997