Mark Holtzapple

Educational Background

Captain/Research Chemical Engineer, U.S. Army Natick R&D Center — 1982 to 1985
- Refrigeration
- Heat transfer
- Stirling engines
- Water desalination

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

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).