COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Dec. 19, 2007 - Rayford G. Anthony,
professor of chemical engineering in the Artie McFerrin Department
of Chemical Engineering and former head of the department from
1995-2002, has been accorded the rank of professor emeritus by the
Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.
Anthony joined Texas A&M in 1966 as an assistant professor
of chemical engineering and ascended to the rank of associate
professor in 1969. In 1974, he was named professor of chemical
engineering, and in 1994 he was appointed to the C. D. Holland
Professorship. Currently, Anthony is a senior fellow at the Texas
Engineering Experiment Station, a position that he has held since
1984.
With more than 100 presentations,Ã'Â 130 publications and
five patents to his credit, Anthony is the co-author of three
textbooks with Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering in its
second edition. He also has received the university's most
prestigious award, the Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award for
Research as well as most of the faculty teaching and
researchÃ'Â awards presented by the Dwight Look College of
Engineering.
Anthony has extensive experience in developing catalysts and
modeling catalytic reactors, having worked on dehydrogenation of
butenes to butadiene, oxidation of isobutylene to methacrolein,
catalytic cracking of methanol to produce olefins, hydrocracking of
alkanes and long chain alcohols, direct hydrogenation of coal to
produce liquids, gasification of biomass, synthesis of methanol,
hydrogenation of CO and CO2, and mathematical modeling of
multi-phase reactors.