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Ph.D. Chemical Engineering - University of Minnesota
B.S. Chemical Engineering - University of Maine

New Mexico Tech
Assistant Professor (August 2007 - present)

McGill University
Assistant Professor (September 2003 – August 2007)

* Catalytic mechanisms of C2 fuels
* CFD modeling of fuel reformers
* Stratified catalysts for millisecond partial oxidation reactors
* Conversion of biodiesel and its model compounds for hydrogen production
* Oxygenate production from hydrocarbon fuels
* Stratified catalysts for ethylene production from ethane

C. J. Bell and C. A. Leclerc, "The Effect of Relative Bed Lengths on a Platinum/Nickel Stratified Dual Bed Catalyst for the Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane at Millisecond Contact Times", Energy & Fuels, accepted 8/15/2007

B. N. T. Nguyen and C. A. Leclerc, “Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methyl Acetate as a Model to Investigate the Conversion of Methyl Esters to Hydrogen”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, accepted 4/5/2007.

B. Nguyen and C. A. Leclerc, “Conversion of biofuels to hydrogen bycatalytic partial oxidation”, 234th American Chemical Society Meeting,Boston, MA (August 2007).

B. Nguyen and C. A. Leclerc, “Autothermal partial oxidation of methyl acetate in a catalytic bed reactor”, 2007 AIChE Spring Meeting, Houston, TX (April 2007).

C. Bell and C. A. Leclerc, “Simulation of Pt/Ni stratified bed catalysts for the production of hydrogen by catalytic partial oxidation of methane”, 2007 AIChE Spring Meeting, Houston, TX (April 2007).

B. N. T. Nguyen and C. A. Leclerc, “Metal Oxides as Combustion Catalysts for a Stratified, Dual Bed Partial Oxidation Catalyst”, Journal of Power Sources, 163 623-629, 2007.

B. Nguyen and C. A. Leclerc, “Autothermal partial oxidation of methyl acetate in a catalytic bed reactor”, 56th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Sherbrooke, Canada (October 2006).

B. Nguyen and C. A. Leclerc, “Stratified catalysts for millisecond catalytic partial oxidation of methane”, 19th Canadian Symposium on Catalysis, Saskatoon, Canada (May 2006).

G. C. M. Tong, J. Flynn, and C. A. Leclerc, “A Dual Catalyst Bed for the Autothermal Partial Oxidation of Methane to Synthesis Gas”, Catalysis Letters, 102(3-4) 131-137, 2005.

K. A. Williams, C. A. Leclerc, and L. D. Schmidt, “Rapid Syngas Production from Methane at Short Contact Times: Experimental and Numerical Transient Species Profiles”, AIChE Journal, 51(1) 247-260, 2005.

C. A. Leclerc and J. D. Varner, “Sensitivity of cybernetic models to variability in microarray data”, 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH (October/November 2005).

G. Tong, J. Flynn, and C. A. Leclerc, “Stratified catalysts for methane partial oxidation”, 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH (October/November 2005).

C. Bell and C. A. Leclerc, “Investigation of bimetallic dual-bed platinum/nickel catalytic reactors for the partial oxidation of methane”, 55th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Toronto, Canada (October 2005).

J. Flynn and C. A. Leclerc, “Modeling heat and mass transfer in a catalytic monolith”, 55th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Toronto, Canada (October 2005).

G. Tong, J. Flynn, and C. A. Leclerc, “Stratified catalysts for methane partial oxidation”, 230th American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington, D. C., USA (Aug./Sept. 2005).

L. D. Schmidt, E. J. Klein, C. A. Leclerc, J. J. Krummenacher, & K. N. West, “Syngas in Millisecond Reactors: Higher Alkanes and Fast Lightoff”, Chemical Engineering Science, 58(3-6) 1037-1041, 2003.

C. A. Leclerc, J. M. Redenius, and L. D. Schmidt, “Fast Lightoff of Millisecond Reactors,” Catalysis Letters 79(1-4) 39-44, 2002.