Dragomir Bukur

Holder of the Joe M. Nesbitt Professorship
Professor


Research Page

Telephone: (979) 845-3401
Fax Number: (979) 845-6446
E-mail: d-bukur@tamu.edu

Mailing Address...
233 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building
3122 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3122

Education

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1974
M.S., University of Minnesota, 1972
Diploma, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1970

Awards & Honors

Halliburton Professorship, 1993-1994, 2003-2004
Fellow AIChE, 2000
Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Research, 1994
Senior TEES Fellow, 1991

Research Interests

Dr. Bukur’s research focuses on the areas of chemical reaction engineering and catalysis. Conversion of coal (or natural gas) derived synthesis gas to transportation fuels and chemical feedstocks via Fischer - Tropsch synthesis has been the focal point of his research. Dr. Bukur’s research includes catalyst synthesis, catalyst testing in fixed bed and stirred tank slurry reactors, kinetic and reactor modeling, and catalyst characterization by a variety of physico-chemical methods.

Selected Publications

Bukur, D. B., Ma, W. P., Carreto-Vazquez, V., Nowicki, L. and Adeyiga, A. A.,‖ Attrition Resistance and Catalytic Performance of Spray-Dried Iron Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts in a Stirred Tank Slurry Reactor‖ Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 43, 1359-1365, 2004.

Ma, W. P. Ding, Y., Carreto-Vazquez, V. and Bukur, D. B. ―Study of catalytic performance and attrition strength of the Ruhrchemie catalyst for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis in a stirred tank slurry reactor‖, Applied Catalysis A, 268, 99-108, 2004.

Bukur, D. B., Ma, W. P. and Carreto-Vazquez, V., ―Attrition studies with precipitated iron Fischer-Tropsch catalysts under reaction conditions‖ Topics in Catalysis, 32, 135-141 (2005).

Bukur, D. B., Lang X. and Nowicki, L. ―Comparative Study of an Iron Fischer-Tropsch Catalyst Performance in Stirred Tank Slurry and Fixed-Bed Reactors‖, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 44, 6038-6044 (2005).

Bukur, D. B.,‖ Attrition studies with catalysts and supports for slurry phase Fischer-Tropsch synthesis‖, Catalysis Today, 106, 275-281 (2005).