Gaurav, a Ph. D. Candidate, matriculated in the Fall of 2006 after completing his B. E. in Chemical Engineering at Bombay University in the Spring of 2006. Gaurav is studying the deactivation mechanisms associated with very low temperature water-gas shift over gold supported on ferrochrome. He is expected to complete his Ph. D. studies in 2011.

“A Rate Expression for Water-Gas Shift over a Gold/Ferrochrome Catalyst,” G. N. Vajani, S. L. Ng and C. R. F. Lund, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 50 (18), 10493-10499 (2011). [more info]

“Deactivation of Gold-Ferrochrome Very Low Temperature Water-Gas Shift Catalysts,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 7-12, 2010.

“Kinetic Study of Water-Gas Shift over Au-Ferrochrome Catalysts,” Annual AIChE Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 17, 2008.

Gaurav N. Vajani, “Low Temperature Water-Gas Shift Reaction over Gold-Ferrochrome Catalysts,” Ph. D. Dissertation, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Dept. of Chemical Engineering (2011). [more info]