Richard K. Herz

PROFESSOR RICHARD K. HERZ

Department of NanoEngineering
Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego 

Office: 2308 Atkinson Hall
Phone: 858-534-6540
e-mail: herz@ucsd.edu

Education:
PhD, U. C. Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
MS, U. C. Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
BS, University of Denver, Chemical Engineering

Research Interests:


Renewable Resources - cellulosic biomass to fuels and chemicals

Catalysis under Dynamic Conditions

Reaction-Diffusion in Porous Materials

Interactive Software Simulations

SimzLab ... delivers interactive simulations

ReactorLab ... chemical reactor simulations

PureWaterLab ... simulations for ultrapure water systems


Patterns in a porous catalyst pellet during cycling of CO in O2. Each panel shows a different species or rate in the same pellet. The vertical axis is position in the pellet. The top of each panel is the surface exposed to flowing gas. The horizontal axis is time. Results of numerical simulations are shown which have been matched to experimental measurements of gas concentrations at the top and bottom of each panel.