Current Group Members

Group Ph. D. Alumni

Group M. S. Alumni

Group M. Eng. Alumni (since 2011)

Dr. Lund

VanNatter photo

Rainee M. VanNatter

Rainee completed her Ph. D. in early 2011. For her dissertation, she performed a computational study of the surface reaction chemistry of water-gas shift over iron oxide and promoted iron oxides, comparing the computational results to parameters resulting from experimental kinetics studies.

Papers

“Copper Promotion of High Temperature Shift,” J. S. Coleman, M. Zhang, R. M. Van Natter and C. R. F. Lund, Catalysis Today, 160, 191-197 (2011). [more info]

“A DFT Study of the Effect of Copper Promotion upon Iron Oxide Surface Species,” R. M. Van Natter, J. S. Coleman and C. R. F. Lund, J. Molecular Cat. A, 311, 17 (2009). [more info]

“DFT Models for Active Sites on High Temperature Water-Gas Shift Catalysts,” R. M. Van Natter, J. S. Coleman and C. R. F. Lund, J. Molecular Cat. A, 292 76 (2008). [more info]

Presentations

“Role of Copper as a High Temperature Shift Promoter,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville TN, November 8-13, 2009.

“Comparison of Unpromoted Ferrochrome WGS Catalysts to Those Promoted with Au or Cu.” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, November 2007.

“A Computational Study of Fe3O4 (100) Surface Species Related to Water-Gas Shift.” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2006.

Dissertation

Rainee M. VanNatter, “Active Site Models for High Temperature Water Gas Shift Reaction Over Iron Oxide Catalysts,” Ph. D. Dissertation, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Dept. of Chemical Engineering (2011). [more info]