Professor Trevor Brown
Adjunct Professor in Chemistry - School of Science and Technology
Biography
Additional:
My interest in physical and industrial chemistry began with my BSc (Hons) in 1981 and MSc in 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 Professors Keith King and Bob Gilbert. Postdoctoral research with Professor Brian Haynes at the University of Sydney led to a passion for developing experimental techniques for and theoretical modelling of processes at the surfaces of solid materials. I commenced at the University of New England in 1994 and major research projects have included modelling adsorption, the kinetics of heterogeneous chemical processes and carbon oxidation.
Research Interests
- Modelling physical adsorption on solid surfaces
- Accurate kinetic parameters for heterogeneous catalytic reactions
- Kinetics of catalytic coke oxidation
Publications
Selected publications
Fellows, C.M., Brown, T.C., Cooper, A., Parigi, M., Evolution of mobile phases in cometary interiors, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 37, 2020.
Brown T.C., Miron, D.J. and Fellows, C.M., Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(5), 2558-2566, 2019.
Ha N.T.T., Ha, N.N. and Brown, T.C., Carbon dioxide methanation over nickel catalysts supported on activated carbon at low temperature, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 72 (12), 969-977, 2019.
Prangley, R.P., Wallace, A.D., Brown, T.C., Fellows, C.M., Understanding membrane selectivity in pervaporation of water-rich water: ethanol mixtures, The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 96 (8), 1780-1788, 2018.
Brown, T.C., Adsorption properties from pressure-varying Langmuir parameters: n-butane and isobutane on activated carbon, Energy & Fuels, 31(3), 2109-2117, 2017.
Brown, T.C., Miron, D.J., Brown, S.L., Kendell, S.M., Time- and temperature-varying activation energies: Isobutane selective oxidation to methacrolein over phosphomolybdic acid and copper (II) phosphomolybdates, Catalysts, 6 (9), 137, 2016.
Brown, T.C., Miron, D.J., Alanazi, A.K., Le Minh, C., Rate parameter distributions for isobutane dehydrogenation and isobutene dimerization and desorption over HZSM-5, Catalysts, 3(4), 922-941, 2013.
Miron, D.J., Kendell, S.M., Munshi, A.M., Alanazi, A.K., Brown, T.C., Time-varying flexible least-squares for thermal desorption of gases, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 45(6), 374-386, 2013.
