About Me
Doctor of Philosophy, Chemical Engineering, 1990, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Master of Science, Chemical Engineering, 1983,
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, 1980,
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Education
Ph.D. ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Chemical Engineering ; 1990

M.S. ; New Jersey Institute of Technology ; Chemical Engineering ; 1983

B.S. ; New Jersey Institute of Technology ; Chemical Engineering ; 1980

2025 Fall Courses
CHE 701C - MASTERS THESIS

Teaching Interests
Chemical Reaction Engineering, Chemical engineering Laboratory
Past Courses
CHE 349: KINETICS & REACTOR DESGN

CHE 396: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LAB I

CHE 495: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LAB I

CHE 496: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LAB II

CHE 612: KINTCS OF RCTNS RCTR DGN

EVSC 790F: DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

FED 101: CHE-FUND OF ENGINEERING DESIGN

Research Interests
Reaction engineering, catalysis, process control, process modeling, analytical monitoring, applied optics
Journal Article
Yuan Zhu, Z. Wu, C. Yi, Somenath Mitra, Robert B. Barat. 2020. "Dry Reforming of Methane Over a Ruthenium-Carbon Nanotube Catalyst." ChemEngineering , vol. 4 , no. 1 , pp. 16.

Yuan Zhu, Chen Yi, Kun Chen, Somenath Mitra, Robert B. Barat. 2018. "Dry reforming of methane over palladium-platinum on carbon nanotube catalyst." Chemical Engineering Communications , vol. 205 , no. 7 , pp. 888-896.

Yuan Zhu, Nadia Al-ebbinni, Richard Henney, C. Yi, Robert B. Barat. 2018. "Extension to multiple temperatures of a three-reaction global kinetic model for methane dehydroaromatization." Chemical Engineering Science , vol. 177 , pp. 132-138.

Roman S. Voronov, Sagnik Basuray, G Obuskovic, Laurent Simon, Robert B. Barat, Ecevit A. Bilgili. 2017. "Statistical analysis of undergraduate chemical engineering curricula of United States of America universities: Trends and observations." Education for Chemical Engineers , vol. 20 , pp. 1-10.

Robert B Barat, Donna Cedio-Fengya, John Stevens. 2017. "The Maximum Mixedness Model Applied With Detailed Reaction Mechanisms." International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering / De Gruyter , vol. 15 , no. 3 .

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Instructor's Manual
"Manual for ChE 396 - Chemical Engineering Laboratory I"
NJIT Moodle site, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2016.

"Manual for ChE 496 - Chemical Engineering Laboratory II"
NJIT Moodle site, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2016.

"Laboratory Manual for ChE 396 (Chemical Engineering Laboratory I)"
NJIT Moodle site , January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2014.

"Laboratory Manual for ChE 496 - Chemical Engineering Laboratory II"
NJIT Moodle site, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2014.

Conference Proceeding
"Weather Robustness of THz Communications Exemplified with Emulated Dust Clouds"
International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2012.

"THz and IR Signaling through Fog Scintillations"
18th European Wireless Conference, April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2012.

"Interferometric and Synthetic Aperture Real-Time Terahertz Imaging"
2009.

"Explosive identification with Terahertz spectroscopy: a model based approach"
2007.

"Terahertz Synthetic Aperture and Interferometric Imaging"
2007.

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Other
"Terahertz imaging system and method"
November, 2004.