Alan M. Allgeier
School of Engineering - Chemical & Petroleum EngineeringEducation
Research
As an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Dr. Alan Allgeier utilizes experiences from his twenty-year career in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries to envision and realize revolutionary technologies for the sustainable manufacture of chemicals and materials. His expertise in heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis and reactor design have been instrumental in production of large scale (monomers for nylon and polyesters) and small scale (clinical-scale pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals) products. Beyond sustainable manufacturing, Dr. Allgeier focuses on the characterization of porous materials including catalysts but also biomass, thermal insulation, solid formulations of pharmaceuticals and adsorbents. At the University of Kansas, he is building a research group around three themes:
Characterization of porous materials and colloidal systems with a multi-technique approach including novel applications of NMR relaxometry
Continuous flow processing applied to pharmaceuticals, with emphasis on transient production of toxic or highly reactive reagents
Synthesis and characterization of heterogeneous catalysts with unique reactivity