David Chester Upham
Assistant Professor
Research Classification
Research Interests
Energy Transformation and Energy Using
catalysis
Energy
Greenhouse gas mitigation
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Research Options
I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
Recruitment
Master's students
Doctoral students
Postdoctoral Fellows
Any time / year round
Catalysts for CO2 conversion
Methane pyrolysis
New ways to electrically heat thermochemical reactors with low-GHG electricity
Carbon fiber synthesis
High temperature hydrogen separation membranes
Ammonia as a hydrogen carrier
Technoeconomic analysis
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Publications
- Dry reforming of methane catalysed by molten metal alloys (2020)
Nature Catalysis, 3 (1), 83-89 - Optimization-based technoeconomic analysis of molten-media methane pyrolysis for reducing industrial sector CO2 emissions (2020)
Sustainable Energy & Fuels, - Bromine and iodine for selective partial oxidation of propane and methane (2019)
Applied Catalysis A: General, 580, 102-110 - Revealing the Synergy between Oxide and Alloy Phases on the Performance of Bimetallic In-Pd Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol (2019)
ACS Catalysis, 9 (4), 3399-3412 - Catalysts for sustainable processes: Understanding and controlling active site environments (2018)
Meet the Faculty Candidate Poster Session - Sponsored by the Education Division 2018 - Core Programming Area at the 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting, , 114-116 - Halogen-Mediated Partial Combustion of Methane in Molten Salts to Produce CO2-Free Power and Solid Carbon (2018)
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 6 (11), 15673-15681 - Hydrogen production using methane: Techno-economics of decarbonizing fuels and chemicals (2018)
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 43 (5), 2540-2555 - Catalytic molten metals for the direct conversion of methane to hydrogen and separable carbon (2017)
Science, 358 (6365), 917-921 - Investigation of the Bromination/Dehydrobromination of Long Chain Alkanes (2017)
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 56 (34), 9411-9418 - Molten salt chemical looping for reactive separation of HBr in a halogen-based natural gas conversion process (2017)
Chemical Engineering Science, 160, 245-253 - Techno-Economic Analysis of Methane Pyrolysis in Molten Metals: Decarbonizing Natural Gas (2017)
Chemical Engineering and Technology, 40 (6), 1022-1030 - Halogen-Mediated Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane Using Iodine or Molten Lithium Iodide (2016)
Catalysis Letters, 146 (4), 744-754 - Partial oxidation of propane with CO2 on Ru doped catalysts (2016)
Catalysis Science and Technology, 6 (14), 5483-5493 - CO2 methanation by Ru-doped ceria: The role of the oxidation state of the surface (2015)
Catalysis Science and Technology, 5 (3), 1783-1791 - Investigation of the active sites of rhodium sulfide for hydrogen evolution/oxidation using carbon monoxide as a probe (2014)
Langmuir, 30 (19), 5662-5668 - Metal sulfides as hydrogen electrocatalysts for H2-Br2 flow batteries (2014)
Fuels and Petrochemicals Division 2014 - Core Programming Area at the 2014 AIChE Annual Meeting, 3, 307-308 - Gas-phase chemistry to understand electrochemical hydrogen evolution and oxidation on doped transition metal sulfides (2013)
Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 160 (10), A1902-A1906 - Direct and repetitive growth cycles of carbon nanotubes on stainless steel particles by chemical vapor deposition in a fluidized bed (2010)
Carbon, 48 (9), 2652-2656
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