Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director, Pharmaceutical Engineering Program
York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science, Room 120
973-596-3548
piero.armenante@njit.edu

Education

• University of Virginia, PhD 1984
• University of Rome, Laurea in Ingeneria Chimica 1977

Research Interests

• study of single and multiphase mixing in reactors and stirred vessels
• biological treatment of hazardous substance
• contingency planning for industrial emergencies
• pharmaceutical process and equipment design
• biomedical engineering

Current Research Projects

Current environmentally-related projects include:

• utilization of anaerobic treatment processes
• alternate electron acceptors
• micro-nutrients in the biological treatment of aliphatic and aromatic chlorinated compounds.

In the area of mixing, recent projects involve:

• the use of laser-Doppler velocimetry (LDV) and computational fluid mechanics (CFD) to study mixing phenomena in reactors
• the determination of the minimum agitation speed to achieve the complete dispersion state in a number of different mixing systems

Recent Publications

Uehara-Nagamine, E. and Armenante, P. M., "Effect of Process Variables on the Single-Feed Semibatch Precipitation of Barium Sulfate," Chem. Eng. Res. Des. (Trans. IChemE, Part A), ., 2001, 79: 979-988.

Villarante N. R., Armenante, P. M., Quibuyen, T. A. O., Fava, F, and Kafkewitz, D., "Dehalogenation of Dichloroethene in a Contaminated Soil: Fatty Acids and Alcohols as Electron Donors and an Apparent Requirement for Tetrachloroethene," Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 2001, 55: 239-247.

Akiti, O. and Armenante, P. M., "A Computational and Experimental Study of Mixing and Chemical Reaction in a Stirred Tank Reactor Equipped with a Down-pumping Hydrofoil Impeller Using a Micro-Mixing-Based CFD Model", Proc. 10th Europ. Conf. on Mixing, Delft, The Netherlands, July 2-5, 2000, Elsevier, New York, pp. 61-68..

Armenante, P. M., Mazzarotta, B. and Chang, G.-M., "Power Consumption in Stirred Tanks Provided with Multiple Pitched-Blade Turbines", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 1999, 38: 2809-2816.

Armenante, P. M., Kafkewitz, D., Lewandowski, G. A. and Jou, C. J., "Anaerobic-Aerobic Treatment of Halogenated Phenolic Compounds," Water Res., 1999, 33: 681-692.

Armenante, P. M., Uehara Nagamine, E. and Susanto, J., "Determination of Correlations to Predict the Minimum Agitation Speed for Complete Solid Suspension in Agitated Vessels," Can. J. Chem. Eng., 1998, 76 (3): 413-419.

Armenante, P. M. and Uehara Nagamine, E., "Effect of Low Off-Bottom Impeller Clearance on the Minimum Agitation Speed for Complete Suspension of Solids in Stirred Tanks," Chem. Eng. Sci., 1998, 53: 1757-1775.

Awards and Honors

• Saul K. Fenster Innovation in Engineering Award, 2004
• Harlan J. Perlis Research Award, 1998