Dr. Robert S. Tranter

Education

BSc 1st Class Honours, Chemistry, University of Hull, England

 

Ph.D , Combustion Chemistry, University of Hull, England; Advisor: Prof. Raymond W. Walker

Career

1994-1997

Visiting researcher, Institute for the Physical Chemistry of Combustion, Deutsch Forschungsanstalt fuer Luft und Raumfahrt, Stuttgart Germany.

1997-1999

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. Chemical Engineering, UIC.

1999-2002

Lecturer, Dept. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago

2002 - present

Research Assistant Professor and Lecturer , Dept. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago

Selected Publications

  • “High Pressure, High Temperature Shock Tube Studies of Hydrocarbons”, Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics, 4(11), 2001-2010, 2002 (with K. Brezinsky, R. Sivaramakrishnan and M.D. Allendorf).
  • “High-Pressure Single-Pulse Shock Tube Investigation of Rich and Stoichiometric Ethane Oxidation”, accepted Proc. Int. Comb. Symp. 29, 2002, (with K. Brezinsky, H. Ramamoorthy,  A. Raman, K. Brezinsky  and M. D. Allendorf ).
  • "Design of a High Pressure Single Pulse Shock Tube for Chemical Kinetic Investigations",     Review of Scientific Instruments, 72, 3046, 2001 (with K. Brezinsky and D. Fulle).
  • "Calibration of Reaction Temperatures in Very High Pressure Shock Waves Using Chemical Thermometers", International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 33,722, 2001 (with K. Brezinsky, R. Sivaramakrishnan,  and N. Srinivasan.)
  • ”Thermodynamic functions for the cyclopentdienyl radical: The effect of the Jahn-Teller distortion”.Int J. Chem Kinet.. 34, 834, 2001.(with J.H Kiefer ., H.Wang , A.F.Wagner )
  • ”Rate constants for the reactions of H atoms and OH radicals with ethers at 753 K” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys 3, 4722, 2001
  • ”Rate constants H and OH attack on propanone, butanone and pentan-3-one at 753 K, and the oxidation chemistry of the radicals formed.”Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys 3, 1262, 2001(with R.W.Walker )
  • “Pyrolysis of cyclopentadiene: rates for initial C-H bond fission and the decomposition of c-C5H5 radical” ., Tranter R.S., . Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Combustion, (with R.D.Kern , Q.Zhang , J.Yao , B.S.Jursic, M.A.Greybill ., J.H. Kiefer )
  • “Direct measurement of the reaction pair C6H5NO and C6H5 + NO by a combined shock tube and flow reactor approach.” 26th International Symposium on Combustion, Naples July 1996. Proceedings 26, 575, 1996, (with C. Horn , P. Frank , H.H.Grotheer ,Th. Just )