Advisor: Professor Gilbert F. Froment
CoAdvisor: Professor Rayford G. Anthony

My research work focuses on understanding the chemistry of hydroisomerization and hydrocracking of complex feedstocks through mathematical modeling. In this research our ultimate objective is to build a kinetic model that represents the chemistry of this industrially important catalytic process at the fundamental level. We apply single-event kinetic approach developed by Dr. Froment and use quantum chemical techniques to determine the structures of different molecular species and intermediates. This model will be used for accurately predicting the product distributions with varying feedstocks and to optimize the commercial hydrocracking reactor with respect to different operating conditions.