Mark Holtzapple

Professor

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Telephone: (979) 845-9708
Fax Number: (979) 845-6446
E-mail: m-holtzapple@tamu.edu

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

Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1981
B.S., Cornell University, 1978

Awards & Honors

Texas A&M Ingenuity Award, 2003
Testified at field hearing before U.S. House of Representatives, 2003
Halliburton Professorship, 2002-03
Corps of Cadets Teaching Award, 2002
Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award, 2001
Ford Fellowship, 2001

Research Interests

Dr. Holtzapple's research interests include bio-based fuels and chemicals, food and feed processing, water desalination, air conditioning, high-efficiency engines, jet engines and vertical-lift aircraft. He has developed a wide variety of technologies, including conversion of alcohol fuels from biodegradable wastes and protein sugar recovery from energy cane. In addition, he has developed the StarRotor engine, which is three times more efficient than the conventional internal combustion engine.

Selected Publications

J.R. Lara, G. Noyes, M.T. Holtzapple. An investigation of high operating temperatures in mechanical vapor-compression desalination, Desalination, 227(1-3), 217 – 232 (2008).

R. Sierra, A. Smith, C. Granda, M.T. Holtzapple, Producing fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass, Chemical Engineering Progress, 104(8), S10 – S18 (2008).

J.P. O’Dwyer, L. Zhu, C.B. Granda, Chang, V.S. and M.T. Holtzapple, Neural network predicting biomass digestibility based on structural features, Biotechnology Progress, 24(2) 283 – 292 (2008).

L. Zhu, J.P. O’Dwyer, C.B. Granda, and M.T. Holtzapple, Structural features affecting biomass enzymatic digestibility, Bioresource Technology, 99(9) 3817 – 3828 (2008).

C.B. Granda, L. Zhu, M.T. Holtzapple, Sustainable liquid biofuels and their environmental impact, Environmental Progress, 26(3), 233 – 250 (2007).