Lecturer
Rayen School of Engineering
Moser Hall 2068
phone: (330) 941-3019
Ph D, Chemical Engineering
University of Kansas
Dissertation/Thesis Title — "Greener Hydroformylation with Nanofilterable Rhodium Catalysts in a Stirred Membrane Reactor"
MS, Chemical Engineering
University of Kansas
Dissertation/Thesis Title — "Solubilities of CO and H2 in Neat and CO2-Expanded Hydroformylation Reaction Mixtures Containing 1-Octene and Nonanal up to 80 °C and 90 bars"
BS, Chemical Engineering
Tianjin University
Organic Reactions Catalysis Society
ORCS Student Travel Award
North American Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering
NASCRE Young Researcher Travel Award
University of Kansas
Frank Bowdish Outstanding PhD Research Award
North American Catalysis Society
Kokes Student Travel Award
Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, University of Kansas,
Best Poster Award
ACS Green Chemistry and Engineering Meeting
NSF Scholar Travel Award
University of Kansas
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Youngstown State University
Lecturer
Youngstown State University
Adjunct faculty
Youngstown State University
Adjunct faculty
University of Kansas
Graduate Teaching Assistant
"Enhanced hydroformylation of 1-octene in n-butane expanded solvents with Co-based complexes"
D. Liu, Z. Xie, W. Snavely, R. Chaudhari, B. Subramaniam
Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, issue 3, p. 344-352"Continuous Hydroformylation with Phosphine-Functionalized Polydimethylsiloxane Rhodium Complexes as Nanofilterable Homogeneous Catalysts"
Z. Xie, G. Akien, B. Sarkar, B. Subramaniam, R. Chaudhari
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, volume 54, issue 43, p. 10656–10660"Supercritical Fluids and Gas-expanded Liquids as Tunable Media for Multiphase Catalytic Reactions"
B. Subramaniam, R. Chaudhari, A. Chaudhari, G. Akien, Z. Xie
Chemical Engineering Science, issue 115, p. 3-18"Development of a Greener Hydroformylation Process Guided by Quantitative Sustainability Assessments"
Z. Xie, B. Subramaniam
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, volume 2, issue 12, p. 2748–2757"Enhanced Hydroformylation by Carbon Dioxide-Expanded Media with Soluble Rh Complexes in Nanofiltration Membrane Reactors"
Z. Xie, J. Fang, S. Maiti, W. Snavely, J. Tunge, B. Subramaniam
AIChE Journal, volume 59, issue 11, p. 4287-4296"Prediction of Multicomponent Phase Behavior of CO2-Expanded Liquids Using CEoS/GE Models and Comparison with Experimental Data"
K. Ye, F. Hannsjörg, Z. Xie, B. Subramaniam, K. Sundmacher
Journal of Supercritical Fluids, issue 67, p. 41"Solubilities of CO and H2 in Neat and CO2-Expanded Hydroformylation Reaction Mixtures Containing 1-Octene and Nonanal up to 353.15 K and 9 MPa"
Z. Xie, W. Snavely, A. Scurto, B. Subramaniam
Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, volume 54, issue 5, p. 1633"Hydroformylation in CO2-Expanded Media"
R. Wang, H. Cai, Z. Xie, B. Subramaniam, J. Tunge
ACS Symposium Series, issue 1006, p. 202