Work at the University of New Haven and Lehigh University has been conducted in the
major area of molecular thermodynamics of pure fluids and fluid mixtures. Projects
have included development of an equation of state, excess enthalpy-based mixing rules,
and an activity coefficient model for correlation and cross-prediction of thermodynamic
properties of halogenated refrigerant mixtures. Other applications in molecular thermodynamics
have been the development of an excess Gibbs free energy model to predict phase transitions
in surfactant solutions, the development of an approach to predict nonideal mixture
phase equilibria from limiting partial molar excess enthalpy data, and the use of
complex domain numerical methods to solve phase equilibrium problems in the critical
region.
Graduate work focused on the characterization of catalytic oxidation of metal pretreated
coal chars and the effects of surface functional groups on catalytic activity of microporous
carbons via the techniques of adsorption microcalorimetry, surface area measurement
and x-ray diffraction. Results of these studies aided in understanding the role of
catalysts in the overall gasification process and in the development of a quantitative
model of chemisorption and adspecies interaction on heterogeneous surfaces.
Refereed Publications
A. S. Gow, R. Errichetti, M. Seaman and O. Zabala, SAFT-Q: A Simple Quartic Equation of State Analog of the Statistical Associating Fluid Theory, in preparation for submission to Fluid Phase Equilibria.
J. Smolen and A. S. Gow, Linear, Cyclic and Branched Lennard-Jones Chain Quartic Equation of State Templates for Associating Fluid Model Development, Fluid Phase Equilibria, recommended for publication in special SAFT 25th Anniversary Edition after minor revision.
A. S. Gow and R. Kelly, A New Simple and Accurate Dispersion Term for Molecular-Based Equations of State, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, in revision.
A. S. Gow and R. Kelly, Twenty-One New Theoretically-Based Cubic Equations of State for Athermal Hard-Sphere Chain Pure Fluids and Mixtures, AIChE Journal, 61, 1677-1690 (2015).
A. S. Gow, S. Demir and S. Alkhaldi, Cubic and Quartic Hard-Sphere and Lennard-Jones Chain Equations of State as Foundations for Complex Fluid Modeling, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 399, 1-15 (2015).
A. S. Gow, III and A. S. Gow, Jr., Microeconomic Theory of Chemical Production Processes: Application to VOC Air Stripping Operations, Advances in Environmental Research, 8, 267-285 (2003).
A. S. Gow, Microeconomic Modeling and Analysis of Commodity Chemical Production in a Simple Plant, New York Economic Review, 34, 4-21 (2003).
A. S. Gow, "A Microfoundations Approach to Input-Output Modeling and Analysis of Simple
Chemical Processes", Journal of Applied Input-Output Analysis, in review.
A. S. Gow, "Renaissance of the Engineering Production Function Approach: Application
to Simple Chemical Reaction Processes", Journal of Productivity Analysis, in review.
A. S. Gow, "Microeconomic Approach for Design and Optimization of Integrated Spacecraft
Life-Support Ecosystem (ISLE) Components", Acta Astronautica, in review.
A. S. Gow, "Microeconomic Modeling and Analysis of Commodity Chemical Production in
a Simple Plant," New York Economic Review, accepted.
A. S. Gow, III and A. S. Gow, Jr., "Microeconomic Theory of Chemical Production Processes:
Application to VOC Air Stripping Operations", Advances in Environmental Research, in press.
A. S. Gow, "Engineering Production Functions for Technical and Economic Analysis of
Popular Alkylation Technologies," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Refinery Processing, AIChE Spring National Meeting, New Orleans , LA , March 2002, 543-553.
A. S. Gow, X. Guo and A. Lucia, "Simulation of Refrigerant Equilibria," Industrial and Engineering ChemistryResearch,36, 2841-2848 (1997).
A. S. Gow, F. P. Stein, X. Guo and A Lucia, "Calculation of Refrigerant Mixture Phase
Equilibria Using a Quasi-Regular Nonrandom Fluid Theory and Local Composition Mixing
Rules," Fluid Phase Equilibria, 116, 60-67 (1996).
C.-L. Peng, F. P. Stein and A. S. Gow, "An Enthalpy-Based Cubic Equation of State
Mixing Rule for Cross-Prediction of Excess Thermodynamic Properties of Hydrocarbon
and Halogenated Refrigerant Mixtures," Fluid Phase Equilibria, 108, 79-102 (1995).
A. S. Gow, "Calculation of Vapor-Liquid Equilibria from Infinite-Dilution Excess Enthalpy
Data Using the Wilson or NRTL Equation," Industrial and Engineering ChemistryResearch, 32, 3150-3161 (1993).
A. S. Gow, "A Modified Clausius Equation of State for Calculation of Multicomponent
Refrigerant Vapor-Liquid Equilibria," Fluid Phase Equilibria, 90, 219-249 (1993).
A. S. Gow and J. Phillips, "Microcalorimetric Study of Reactive Surface Area on Demineralized
Coal Chars," Energy and Fuels, 7, 674-679 (1993).
A. S. Gow and J. Phillips, "Microcalorimetric Study of Oxygen Adsorption on Catalytically
Promoted Gasification Chars: Mechanistic Evidence for Alkali and Alkaline-Earth Metal
Carbonate Catalyzed Reactions," Energy and Fuels, 6, 526-532 (1992).
A. S. Gow and J. Phillips, "Calorimetric Study of Oxygen Adsorption on a High Surface
Area Polymer Derived Carbon," Energy and Fuels, 6, 184-188 (1992).
A. S. Gow and J. Phillips, "Mechanistic Analysis of Chemisorption and Surface Interaction
in Batch Calorimetric Systems: A New Approach," Industrial and Engineering ChemistryResearch, 31, 193- 204 (1992).
A. S. Gow and J. Phillips, "Microcalorimetric Study of Oxygen Adsorption on Catalytically
Promoted Gasification Chars," Journal of Catalysis, 132, 388-401 (1991).
A. S. Gow and J. Phillips, "Mathematical Analysis of the Effects of Surface Heterogeneity
in Chemisorption: A New/Old Model," Thermochimica Acta, 148, 173-182 (1989).
Conference Presentations
Stanley SandlerÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ™s Contributions to the Development of Equations of State, Accepted for presentation at the 2015 AIChE Fall Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015.
A New Quartic Equation of State for Real Chain Fluids, Accepted for presentation at the 2015 AIChE Fall Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015.
A Hybrid Free Energy of Micellization Model ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ“ SAFT-Type Equation of State for Aqueous Nonionic Surfactant Systems, SAFT 2015, A 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Statistical Associating Fluid Theory, Houston, TX, May 2015.
New Simple Lennard-Jones Linear and Branched Chain Equations of State within the Johnson and Marshall-Chapman TPT Frameworks, SAFT 2015, A 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Statistical Associating Fluid Theory, Houston, TX, May 2015.
New Simple Basis Terms for the SAFT Equations of State, SAFT 2015, A 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Statistical Associating Fluid Theory, Houston, TX, May 2015.
At the Interface Between Academic Statistical Mechanics and Industrial Process Design: Some Practical Guidelines for Equation of State Development, 2014 AIChE Fall Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2014.
Real Chain Fluid Equations of State Derived from New Versions of WertheimÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ™s Perturbation Theory, 2014 AIChE Fall Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2014.
Model Shale Gas Properties from a Statistical Mechanical Perturbed Hard-Sphere Chain Cubic Equation of State, 2014 AIChE Spring Meeting & 10th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans, LA, April 2014.
A Molecular Thermodynamic Perturbed Hard-Sphere Chain Cubic Equation of State for Hydrocarbons, 2014 AIChE Spring Meeting & 10th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans, LA, April 2014.
A Statistical Mechanically-Based Cubic Equation of State for Athermal Hard-Sphere Chains, 2013 AIChE Fall Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2013.
A Molecularly-Constructed Cubic Equation of State for Nonassociating Fluids, 2012 AIChE Fall Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2013.
A Predictive Molecular Thermodynamically-Based Cubic Equation of State for the Attractive Hard-Sphere Fluid Using Experimental Hard-Sphere Diameters, Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Haven, CT, October 2013.
An Optimized Molecular Thermodynamically-Based Cubic Equation of State for the Attractive Hard-Sphere Fluid Using a Universal Reference Hard-Sphere Diameter, Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Haven, CT, October 2013.
Coupling Bulk Phase Thermodynamic Constraints and Molecular Simulations, 2009 AIChE Fall Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 2009.
Pricing, Output, and Investment Decisions Under Uncertainty: a Game Theoretic Approach for the Study of Chemical Process Industry Economic Behavior, AlChE National Spring Meeting, New Orleans, LA. April 2004.
Engineering-Based Microeconomic Tools for the Chemical Process Industries, AlChE National Spring Meeting, New Orleans , LA. March 2003.
Microeconomic Modeling and Analysis of Commodity Chemical Production in a Simple Plant, 55th Annual Conference of the New York State Economics Association, Buffalo , NY . October 2001. (Won Outstanding Conference Paper Award and is published
in New York Economic Review).
Economic Production Functions for Technical and Economic Analysis of Popular Alkylation
Technologies, AlChE National Spring Meeting, New Orleans , LA. March 2002.
Transition Temperature Calculations for Polymer Mixtures, AlChE Annual Meeting, Reno , NV . November 2001.
Micoeconomic Theory of Chemical Production Processes: Application to an Isothermal
Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR), 54th Annual Conference of the New York State Economics Association, Buffalo , NY . October
2001.
Statistical Thermodynamics of Self-Assembled Systems. A New Excess Free Energy Model
for the Description of Phase Equilibria in Ternary Aqueous Nonionic Surfactant-Alkane
Solutions, AlChE Annual Meeting, Chicago , IL . November 1996.
Excess Enthalpy-Based Mixing Rules for Multiphase Refrigerant Mixtures, AlChE National Spring Meeting, New Orleans , LA. February 1996.
A Three-Liquid Theory and Quasi-Chemical Excess Free Energy Model for Description
of Thermodynamic Properties and Phase Behavior of Aqueous Nonionic Surfactant Systems, AlChE Annual Meeting, Miami, FL. November 1995.
Statistical Thermodynamics of Self-Assembled Systems: A New Excess Free Energy Model
for Description of Phase Equilibria in Aqueous Nonionic Surfactant Solutions, International Symposium on Micelles, Microemulsions and Monolayers: Quarter Century
Progress and New Horizons, Gainesville , FL. August 1995.
Simulation of Refrigerant Mixture Phase Behavior Using Local Composition Mixing Rules,
a QuasiRegular Nonrandom Fluid Theory and a Complex Equation Solver, Seventh International Conference on Fluid Properties & Phase Equilibria for Chemical
Process Design, Snowmass, CO. June 1995.
Prediction of Refrigerant Mixture Phase Equilibria Using Excess Enthalpy-Based Mixing
Rules and a Complex Domain Equation Solver, AlChE National Spring Meeting, Houston , TX . March 1995.
Simulating Multiphase Separations with a Single Model, AlChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco , CA. November 1994.
Prediction of Vapor-Liquid Equilibria from Heat of Mixing Data for Systems Containing
Hydrocarbons and Other Simple Fluids Using an Excess Enthalpy-Based Cubic Equation
of State Mixing Rule, 44th Annual Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Calgary, Alta. October 1994.
Cross-Prediction of Thermodynamic Excess Properties of Halogenated Refrigerant Mixtures
Using a Cubic Equation of State with Isolation of Variables Technique, AIChE National Spring Meeting, Atlanta , GA. April 1994.
Prediction of Phase Equilibria with Local Composition EOS Mixing Rules Incorporating
Excess Enthalpy Data, AlChE Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO. November 1993.
Prediction of Multicomponent Phase Equilibria from an Equation of State with Local
Composition Mixing Rules Incorporating Excess Enthalpy Data, 43rd Annual Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Ottawa, Ont. October 1993.
Microcalorimetric Study of the Adsorption of Oxygen on Chars Produced from Coals of
Different Rank, 10th AnnualPittsburghCoal Conference, Pittsburgh , PA. September 1993.
Microcalorimetric Study of Oxygen Adsorption on Catalytically Promoted Gasification
Chars: Mechanistic Evidence for Alkali and Alkaline-Earth Metal Carbonate Catalyzed
Reactions, AICHE Annual Meeting, Miami , FL. November 1992.
An Optimized Four-Parameter Equation of State for Pure Fluids and Fluid Mixtures, 42nd Annual Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Toronto , Ont. October 1992.
Low to Moderate Pressure Phase Equilibria Predictions from Excess Enthalpy Data Using
Wohl's Expansion for the Excess Gibbs Energy, AlChE Annual Meeting, Los Angeles , CA . November, 1991.
Microcalorimetric Study of Oxygen Adsorption on Catalytically Promoted Gasification
Chars, AlChE Annual Meeting, Chicago , IL . November, 1990.
Novel Microcalorimeter for the Analysis of Heat Evolution from Electrochemical Processes, 45th Annual Calorimetry Conference, Ann Arbor , MI . July 1990.
Microcalorimetric Study of Oxygen Adsorption on Gasification Chars: Effect of Catalyst
and Pretreatment Temperature on Char Structure and Reactivity, 45th Annual Calorimetry Conference, Ann Arbor , MI . July 1990.
Microcalorimetric Study of Oxygen Adsorption on Coal Chars, 44th Annual Calorimetry Conference, Oak Ridge , TN. August 1989.
Mechanistic Analysis of Chemisorption: A New Approach, 44th Annual Calorimetry Conference, Oak Ridge , TN. August 1989.
Microcalorimetric Study of Oxygen Adsorption on Coal Chars, Nineteenth Biennial Conference on Carbon, Penn State Univ., Univ. Park, PA. June
1989.
Mechanistic Analysis of Chemisorption and Surface Interaction in Batch Calorimetric
Systems: A New Approach, 28th Annual Spring Symposium of the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society, Pittsburgh
, PA. March 1989.
Mathematical Analysis of the Effects of Surface Heterogeneity in Chemisorption: A
New/Old Model, 9th International Conference on Thermal Analysis, Jerusalem, Israel. August 1988.
Invited Lectures
Tools for the Design of Simple Molecularly-Based Engineering Equations of State, 2012 AIChE Northeast Regional Conference, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, March 2012.
A Molecularly-Constructed Cubic Equation of State for Simple and Complex Fluids, Amgen Seminar Series in Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, February 2012.
Prediction of Phase Equilibria for Process Design: Some Simple Models and Methods, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. February
2001.
Thermodynamic Properties of Environmentally Friendly Refrigerant Mixtures: From Measurement
to Molecular Modeling, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University , Bethlehem , PA. October
1996.
Phase Equilibria for Environmentally Safe Refrigerant Mixtures: A Perspective on Experimental
Techniques and Predictive Methods, Institute of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. August 1994.
Calculation of Phase Equilibria with Equation of State Mixing Rules Incorporating
Infinite-Dilution Reduced Excess Enthalpy Data, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island , Kingston , RI .
February 1993.
Sessions Chaired at Professional Meetings
Industrial Organization, 55th Annual Conference of the New York State Economics Association, Buffalo , NY . October
2002.
Thermodynamics and Transport Properties: Refrigerants, AlChE Spring National Meeting, New Orleans , LA. March 1998 (Co-Chaired by M.
Huber.)
Advances in Thermodynamics and TransportPropertiesI.Experiment and Correlation, AlChE National Spring Meeting, New Orleans , LA. February 1996 (Co-Chaired by
F. P. Stein.)
Advances in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties II: Theory and Simulation, AlChE National Spring Meeting, New Orleans , LA. February 1996 (Co-Chaired by
A. Lucia.)
Other Professional Activities
(a) Professional Honors and Societies
Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Member of Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society
Member of Phi Lambda Upsilon National Honorary Chemical Society
Member of Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity
(b) Peer Reviewer for
Fluid Phase Equilibria (Elsevier Science Publishers)
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (American Chemical Society)
Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data (American Chemical Society)
Petroleum Research Fund (American Chemical Society)
National Science Foundation
(c) Paper Discussant for
Michael Jerzmanowski ( Brown University ), TFP Differences: Appropriate Technology vs. Efficiency, 55th Annual Conference of the New York State Economics Association, Buffalo , NY . October
2002.
Teaching
Have developed and taught courses throughout the chemical engineering curriculum including
chemical engineering thermodynamics, chemical reaction engineering, unit operations
with laboratory, transport phenomena analysis, plant design and economics, chemical
process fundamentals, and general chemistry I and II with laboratory. Several student
independent study and research projects have also be undertaken.
Previous Positions
Visiting Research Scientist, Lehigh University , Institute of Thermo-Fluid Engineering
and Science, Department of Chemical Engineering.
