Jerry H. Meldon
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
4 Colby Street, Medford, MA 02155
Telephone: 617-627-3570 ~ Fax: 617-627-3991
jerry.meldon@tufts.edu

Education:
1968 BE in Chemical Engineering, The Cooper Union
1973 Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests, Areas, or Ongoing Projects:

• Membrane science and technology, especially transport in polymeric and (of hydrogen in) palladium alloy membranes; and catalytic membrane reactors.
• Mass transfer with chemical reaction.
• Mathematical modeling of transport phenomena, especially coupled to reaction.

Selected Publications:
Kalospiros, NS, Ocone, R, Astarita, G and JH Meldon (1991) "Anomalous diffusion and relaxation in solid polymers, "Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 30, 851-864.

Meldon, JH and A Dutta (1994) "Analysis of ultimate permselectivity for H2S over CO2 in alkaline solutions," Chem. Eng. Sci. 49, 689-697.

Deckman, HW, Corcoran, EW, McHenry, JA, Meldon, JH and VA Papvassiliou (1995) "Pressure-drop membrane reactor: equilibrium analysis," Catal. Today 25, 357-393.

Wang P, Meldon, JH and NH Sung (1996) "Heat effects in sorption of organic vapors in rubbery polymers," J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 24, 937-944.

Elkina, I.B. and Meldon, J.H., "Hydrogen Transport in Palladium Membranes," Desalination 147, 2002, 445-448

Meldon, J.H., "Analysis of Diffusion and Reversible Reaction in Spatially Confined Systems," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 41, 3, 2002, 456-463

Courses Taught:

• ChBE 135 Advanced Thermodynamics
• ChBE 21 Transport Phenomena
• ChBE 11 Thermodynamics and Process Calculations II