Professor Kenneth Brezinsky

    Selected Publications

  • “High Pressure, High Temperature Shock Tube Studies of Hydrocarbons”, Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics, 4(11), 2001-2010, 2002 (with R. Tranter, R. Sivaramakrishnan and M.D. Allendorf).
  • “High-Pressure Single-Pulse Shock Tube Investigation of Rich and Stoichiometric Ethane Oxidation”, In Press  Proc. Int. Comb. Symp. 29, 2002, (with R.S. Tranter, 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 R.S. Tranter 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 R.S. Tranter, R. Sivaramakrishnan, and N. Srinivasan.)
  • "Microwave Assisted Combustion Synthesis of Tantalum Nitride in a Fluidized Bed", In Press, Journal of the American Ceramics Society, (with A. Jain).
  • “Microwave Assisted Combustion Synthesis of Chromium Nitride in a Fluidized Bed”, In Press, Proc. Int. Comb. Symp. 29, 2002 (with A. Jain).
  • “Fluidized-Bed Combustion Synthesis of Titanium Nitride”, Proc. Comb. Inst. 28, 1373-1380, 2000. (with K-O. Lee and J.J. Cohen).
  • “Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Titanium Nitride”, AIAA Paper 99-0697, 1999 (with K-O Lee, J.J. Cohen).
  • “The Pyrolysis and Oxidation of Phenol”, J. Phys. Chem, 102, pp. 8614-8619, (1998) (with M. Pecullan and I. Glassman).
  • “ Supercritical Pyrolysis of Decalin, Tetralin, and N-Decane at 700-800K. Product Distribution and Reaction Mechanism”, Combustion Science and Technology 136, 373-390, (1998) (with J. Stewart and I. Glassman).
  • “Modeling the Combustion of Toluene-N-Butane Blends”, 27th International Symposium on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA. p337-344 1998 (with S. Klotz and I. Glassman).
  • "Supercritical Combustion Synthesis of Titanium Nitride", Twenty-Sixth Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1996, pp. 1875-1881. (with J.A. Brehm, I. Glassman and C.K. Law).
  • "The Gas Phase Combustion Synthesis of Materials", Twenty-Sixth Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1996, pp. 1805-1816.

    Dr. Brezinsky received his B.S. degree Magna Cum Laude from the City College of New York with Honors in Chemistry. After devoting a few years to teaching science at the secondary school level he returned to school to pursue graduate studies receiving his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the City University of New York. At the completion of his graduate work, Dr. Brezinsky joined the Chemistry Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. 

     After his Postdoctoral work,  he went to Princeton University to join the Fuels Research Laboratory of Professor I. Glassman as a Professional Research Staff member.  Dr. Brezinsky was subsequently promoted to

Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist.  In 1996, Dr. Brezinsky was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He became Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the beginning of 2003.