Dr. JoAnn Slama Lighty serves as the Dean of the College of Engineering at Boise State University, where she is also a Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering. Prior to this appointment at Boise State University, she was on faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah for almost 29 years. During her tenure as a professor, she was Chair of the department and held several other leadership positions. Since October 2013 until her move to Boise State in July 2017, she served as the Division Director for Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and...Read more
This article will explore how to estimate and maximize the effective heat transfer rate in agitated vessels with viscosities in the 50,000 to 10 million cP range. ...
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