Gary Rochelle
Energy Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Process Engineering
Gary Rochelle is Professor in Chemical Engineering. His areas of expertise are in Energy, Environmental Engineering and Process Engineering. Rochelle received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Rochelle became associated with the Separations Research Program (SRP) in 1986 and up until the SRP, he was working on a technology called flue gas desulfurization. He later expanded his area of research to include acid gas treating. Rochelle later started an Industrial Associates Program focused on flue gas desulfurization and later expanded to both flue gas desulfurization and acid gas treating.
In 2000 Rochelle refocused and technically married the two (acid gas treating and flue gas desulfurization) and began working on CO2 capture from power plants. Flue gas desulfurization addresses air pollution from sulfur dioxide on power plants; acid gas treating addresses CO2 emissions or releases from natural gas; and CO2 capture from power plants addresses CO2 emissions from power plants. Rochelle conducts his research for CO2 capture in a pilot scale facility at the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources at the Pickle Research Campus.
