Dr. J. D. (Bob) Seader

 

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus
University of Utah
Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering
50 S. Central Campus Drive
Room 3290 MEB
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-9203
Phone: (801)581-6916
Fax: 801-585-9291
Email: J.Seader@utah.edu

Education:
B.S., (Summa Cum Laude), 1949, University of California, Berkeley 
M.S., 1950, University of California, Berkeley (under Charles W. Tobias) 
Ph.D., 1952, University of Wisconsin, Madison (under W.R. Marshall, Jr.) 

Employment:
Chevron Research Corporation, 1952-1959 
Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation, 1959-1965 
University of Idaho, 1965-1966 
University of Utah, 1966-2003 

 
        
      


Recent textbooks:
 

www.wiley.com/college/seader

Errata for Printings 1 and 2
Errata for Printings 3 and 4
Errata for Printing 5

Errata for Instructor’s Solutions Manual

 


http://he-cda.wiley.com/WileyCDA/HigherEdMultiTitle.rdr?name=seider

 


Current Research Interests:

1.  Development of new mathematical methods for solving large sets of nonlinear equations to obtain multiple solutions.

2.  Mathematical studies of computer- aided process synthesis and design.
 
 

Recent Publications:

Seader, J. D. and M. Kuno, et. al., Mapped Continuation Methods for Computing all Solutions to General Systems of Nonlinear Equations, Comp. and Chem. Engr., 14, 71-85 (1990). (Best Paper Award).

Riley, A. M., J. D. Seader, et. al., An In-situ Volumetric Method for Dynamically Measuring the Absorption of Deuterium in Palladium During Electrolysis, J. Electrochem. Soc., 139, 1342-1347 (1992).

deNevers, N., and Seader, J. D., Helping Students Develop a Critical Attitude Towards Chemical Process Calculations, Chem. Eng. Edu., 26, 88-93 (1992).

Lee, W. Y., Seader, J. D., et al., Multicomponent Liquid-Phase Diffusion and Adsorption in Porous Catalyst Particles, Chem. Eng. Science, 48, 595-607 (1993).

Lee, S. Y., Coronella, C. J., and Seader, J. D., et al., Modeling and Temperature Regulation of a Thermally coupled Reactor System via Internal Model Control Strategy, Ind. Eng. Chem. Research, 32, 3029-3036 (1993).

Coronella, C. J., S. Y. Lee, and J. D. Seader, "Minimum Slugging Velocity in Fluidized Beds Containing Vertical Rods," Fuel, 73, 1537-1543 (1994).

 

Balaji, G. V., and J. D. Seader, "Applications of Interval Mathematics," Reliable Computing, 1, 215-223 (1995).

 

“Computers in Chemical Engineering Education”, B. Carnahan, editor, CACHE, Austin (1996).

 

Seader, J. D., J. J. Siirola, and S. D. Barnicki, Section 13 (Distillation) of  Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, 7th edition,

McGraw-Hill, New York, (1997).

 

Jalali, F., and Seader, J. D., “Homotopy Continuation Method in Multi-phase Multi-reaction Equilibrium Systems”,

Computers and Chem. Engr., 23, 1319-1331 (1999).

 

J. D. (Bob) Seader Festschrift, Preface by D. R. Paul, Ind. Eng. Chem. Research, 39, 1527-1528 (2000). 

 

Lewin, D. R., W. D. Seider, and J. D. Seader, “An Integrated Approach to Process Design Instruction”, Computers and Chem. Engr., 24, 1369-1374

(2000).

 

Jalali, R., and Seader, J. D., “Use of Homotopy-Continuation Method in Stability Analysis of Multiphase, Reacting Systems”,

Computers and Chem. Engr., 24, 1997-2008 (2000).

 

Sorensen, R. A., Seader, J. D., and Brewster, B. S., “Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer for Cocurrent Upflow of Dilute Gas-Coal Particle Suspensions

 in a Circular Tube”, Ind.Eng.Chem. Res., 40, 457-464 (2001).

 

Vadapalli, A., and Seader, J. D., “A Generalized Framework for Computing Bifurcation Diagrams using Process Simulation Programs”, Computers

and Chem. Engr., 25, 445-464  (2001).

 

Gritton, K. S., Seader, J. D., and Lin, Wen-Jing, “Global Homotopy Continuation Procedures for Seeking All Roots of a Nonlinear Equation”,

Computers and Chem. Engr., 25, 1003-1019 (2001) .

 

Lewin, D. R., Seider, W. D., and Seader, J. D., “Integrated Process Design Instruction”, Computers and Chem. Engr., 26, 295-306 (2002).              

 

 
 

Affililations with Links to other Web Sites:

                    AIChE:            http://www.aiche.org/

                    University of Utah:         http://www.che.utah.edu/

                     CACHE (Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Education):   http://www.che.utexas.edu/cache