- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Cathy and Dennis Seith ‘79 Faculty Fellow
- Phone: 979-845-9708
- FAX: 979-845-6446
- Email: m-holtzapple@tamu.edu
- Office: CHEN 231
- Website: Research Website
Educational Background
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania – 1981
- B.S., Cornell University – 1978
Research Interests
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- Chemical, Food, and Energy Production from Renewable Resources
- Kinetic Modeling of Enzyme Reactions
- Bioseparations
- Space Life Support
- Engines
- Heat Transfer
- Air Conditioning/Refrigeration
- Water Desalination
- Food Processing
- Electric Motors/Generators
- Vertical-Lift Aircraft
- Advanced Building Materials
- Biomedical devices
Awards & Honors
- 2018 ASME CIE Young Engineer Award
- 2018 ASME DAC Best Paper Award
- 2018 Texas A&M Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award for Texas A&M
- 2018 Professor Research Award, Texas A&M University AIChE
- 2018 George Armistead, Jr. ’23 Faculty Excellence Award
- 2017 Faculty of the Year, Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association
- 2017 Dean of Engineering Excellence Award
- 2017 James J. Cain Graduate Teaching Award
- 2017 First Year Faculty Fellow
- 2016 Dean of Engineering Excellence Awards
- 2014 Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development
- 2014 William Keeler Memorial Award for Contribution
- 2014 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow, sponsored by George Armistead Jr. '53
- 2013 Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in Public Service
- 2012 Fluor Distinguished Teaching Award
- 2006 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation, Sigma Xi
- 1997 McGraw-Hill Environmental Champion Award
- 1996 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
Selected Publications
- Matthew Falls, Maxine Madison, Chao Liang, M Nazmul Karim, Rocio Sierra-Ramirez, Mark T Holtzapple, Mechanical pretreatment of biomass–Part II: Shock treatment, Biomass and Bioenergy, 126, Pages 47–56 (2019).
- Pratik Darvekar, Chao Liang, M Nazmul Karim, Mark T Holtzapple, Effect of headspace gas composition on carboxylates production in open-culture fermentation of corn stover, Biomass and Bioenergy, 126, Pages 57–61 (2019).
- Chao Liang, Chao Gu, M Nazmul Karim, Mark Holtzapple, Kinetic modeling of countercurrent saccharification, Biotechnology for Biofuels, 12:179 (2019).
- Chao Liang, Chao Gu, Jonathan Raftery, M. Nazmul Karim, and Mark Holtzapple, Development of modified HCH-1 kinetic model for long-term enzymatic cellulose hydrolysis and comparison with literature models, Biotechnol Biofuels, 12:34 (2019).
- Hema Rughoonundun, Mark T Holtzapple, Converting wastewater sludge and lime-treated sugarcane bagasse to mixed carboxylic acids–a potential pathway to ethanol biofuel production, Biomass and Bioenergy, 105, 73–82 (2017).