CEE Faculty Profile

John Crittenden

Director, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, Hightower Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Environmental Technologies.

Affinity Group: Environmental Engineering
Address:

Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
828 West Peachtree St. NW, Suite 320
Atlanta, GA 30332-0595

Phone: 404-894-7895
Email: john.crittenden@ce.gatech.edu
Web: http://sustainable.gatech.edu/about/JCC_Full_Bio.pdf

Research Interests

  • Pollution Prevention
  • Physical Chemical Treatment Processes (Ion Exchange, Oxidation Processes, Catalytic Oxidation, Photocatalytic Oxidation, Electrocatalysis, Adsorption, Electro-Adsorption, Air Stripping)
  • Transport of Organics in Saturated and Unsaturated Groundwater
  • Modeling of Fixed-Bed Reactors and Adsorbers (Photocatalysis, Low Temperature Catalysis in Aqueous and Gas Phases, Transport of Organics in Saturated and Unsaturated Groundwater)
  • Sol-Gel Chemistry for Preparation of Zeolites and Catalysts
  • Surface Chemistry and Thermodynamics (Prediction of Adsorption Capacities and Surface Catalyzed Rate Constants)
  • Mass Transfer
  • Numerical Methods
  • Modeling of Wastewater and Water Treatment Processes

Education

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, 1976
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MSE Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, 1972
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, BSE Chemical Engineering, 1971