Edward M. Trujillo

Title

Edward M. Trujillo

Education

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, 1975

M.S. Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1970

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Arizona, 1969

Curriculum Vitae

See Curriculum Vitae (PDF).

Faculty Web Page

http://www.che.utah.edu/~trujillo/

Class Web Pages

None at present.

Research

  • Development of biogeochemical acid mine drainage mathematical models in collaboration with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management that describe humidity cell experiments and actual waste rock dump sites.
  • Investigating the multicomponent adsorption of heavy metals from waste waters using immobilized biomass beads. Development of multicomponent mathematical models describing batch adsorption and column operation.
  • Development and modeling of an improved system for the oxygenation of anchorage-dependent mammalian cells using perfluorocarbons and perfluoroalkylated proteins.

Other Areas of Interest

  • Supercritical fluid extraction of plants
  • Removal of Selenium from wastewaters using a redox process
  • Measurement of high osmotic pressures
  • Enhanced oil recovery - principally polymer flooding and alkaline flooding

Selected Publications

White, William, Kim Lapakko and Edward Trujillo, “Progress of BLM-funded Acid Rock Drainage Research,” published in the Proceedings of the 24th Annual conference of the National Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programs (NAAMLP), www.onenet.net/~naamlp, Park City, UT, USA, September 15-18, 2002.

Lin, C-K, E. M. Trujillo, and W. W. White, “A Three-dimensional, Three-phase Geochemical Kinetic Model for Acid Rock Drainage,” in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage, Vancouver, American Society of Surface Mining and Reclamation, Vol. II, pp.479-495, June, 1997.

Trujillo, E.M., M. Spinti, and H.Zhuang “Immobilized Biomass: A New Class of Heavy-Metal-Selective Ion Exchangers,” Chapter 6 in “Ion Exchange Technology: Advances in Pollution Control”, edited by A.K. Sengupta, published by Technomic Publishing Co., pp. 225-270, 1995.