• Professor, Chemical Engineering
  • Cathy and Dennis Seith ‘79 Faculty Fellow
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Educational Background

  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania – 1981
  • B.S., Cornell University – 1978

Research Interests

    • 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).