Faculty & staff
- Dr. Gary S. Huvard
Associate professor - Phone: (804) 827-7000, ext. 413
- Fax: (509) 472-9835
- E-mail: gshuvard@vcu.edu
- Address
- 601 West Main Street, Room 438
- P.O. Box 843028
- Richmond, Virginia 23284-3028
Education
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1979
- B.S., Chemistry, Campbell University, 1974
Classes taught
- EGRC 115 Spreadsheeting and VBA Programming Laboratory
- EGRC 201 Chemical Engineering Fundamentals I: Material Balances
- EGRC 202 Chemical Engineering Fundamentals II: Energy Balances
- EGRC 312 Chemical Reaction Engineering
- ENGR 315 Process and Systems Dynamics
- ENGZ 402L-403L Senior Design Studio (Laboratory/Project Time)
- EGRC 428 Introduction to Polymer Science and Engineering
- ENGR 430 Process Modeling and Simulation
- EGRC 440 Unit Operations Laboratory
- MGMT 491 Topics in Management
- ENGR 492 Advanced Transport Phenomena
Research interests
- Diffusion in polymers and devolatilization processes
- Chemical kinetics and reaction engineering, especially polymerization reaction engineering
- High temperature degradation of organic solvents
- Supercritical fluid processing, especially supercritical fluid swelling of and infusion into glassy polymers
- Chemical process synthesis, modeling and simulation, especially dynamic modeling and stochastic simulation of batch processes
Current research topics
- Devolatilization of microfiber fabrics
- Modeling transport of highly interacting solutes in polymers
- Transport models for artificial blood oxygenation systems
Professional employment experience
- 1999 ??present: Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University
- 1990 ??present: President, Famous Engineer Brand Software Co.
- 1989 ??present: President, Huvard Research and Consulting Inc.
- 1987 ??89: Associate, R&D, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
- 1983 ??87: Associate, R&D, The B.F. Goodrich Co.
- 1979 ??83: Senior engineer, R&D, The B.F. Goodrich Co.
- 1978 ??79: Engineer, R&D, The B.F. Goodrich Co.
- 1974 ??78: Research/teaching assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
- Summer 1974: Analytical chemist, North Carolina State Department of Agriculture
Books
- G.S. Huvard and R.M. Felder, “Student Workbook for Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes” (by R.M. Felder and R.W. Rousseau), Wiley, New York (2005).
Publications
- G.S. Huvard, “Make summer internship a learning experience,” Chemical Engineering Education, 32(1), 48 (1998).
- E.A Grulke and G.S. Huvard, “Devolatilization of Fibers, Latices, and Particles,” Chapter 17 of “Polymer Devolatilization,” R.J. Albalak, ed., Marcel Dekker, New York (1996).
- G.S. Huvard and E. Eller, “Estimating Model Parameters with HiQ,” Scientific Computing and Automation, February, (1995).
- G.S. Huvard and R.M. Felder,“Training: Hit the Ground Running,” Chemical Engineering, 100(6), 133 (1993).
- A.R. Berens, G.S. Huvard, R.W. Korsmeyer, and F.W. Kunig, “Application of Compressed Carbon Dioxide in the Incorporation of Additives Into Polymers,” J. Appl. Poly. Sci., 46(2), 231 (1992).
- A.R. Berens and G.S. Huvard, “Interactions of Polymers with Near-critical Carbon Dioxide,” ACS Symposium Series #404, Chapter 14 of “Supercritical Fluid Science and Technology,” (1989).
- G.S. Huvard, P.P. Nicholas, and S.E. Horne Jr., “Kinetics and Mechanism for the Phase Transfer Catalyzed Cycloaddition of Dichlorocarbene to cis-1,4-Polybutadiene,” Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Chemistry, 23, 2005 (1985).
- I.M. Hodge and G.S. Huvard, “Effects of Annealing and Prior History on Enthalpy Relaxation in Glassy Polymers III: Predictions for Polystyrene from Analysis of a Single Thermal History,” Macromolecules, 16, 371 (1983).
- A.R. Berens and G.S. Huvard, “Particle Size Distribution of Polymers by Analysis of Sorption Kinetics,” Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, 2, 359, (1981).
- G.S. Huvard, V.T. Stannett, W.J. Koros, and H.B. Hopfenberg, “The Pressure Dependence of Carbon Dioxide Sorption and Permeation in Poly(acrylonitrile),” J. Membrane Sci.., 6, 185, (1980).
- R.M. Felder and G.S. Huvard, “Permeation, Diffusion, and Sorption of Gases and Vapors,” Chapter 17 of “Methods of Experimental Physics: Part C: Polymer Physics,” R.A. Fava, Ed., Academic Press, New York, (1980).
- W.J. Koros, D.R. Paul, and G.S. Huvard, “Energetics of Gas Sorption in Glassy Polymers,” POLYMER, 20, 956, (1979).
Patents
- A.R. Berens, G.S. Huvard, and R.W. Korsmeyer, U.S. Patent 4,820,752 (1989). “Process for incorporating an additive into a polymer and product produced thereby.”
- G.S. Huvard, D.M. Coates, and H. Shin, U.S. Patent 5,043,109 (1991). “Process for flash-spinning dry polymeric plexifilamentary film-fibril strands.”
- G.S. Huvard and A.D. Lobo, U.S. Patent 5,378,300 (1995). “Method for removing labels adhered to a diskette and de-labeling means for doing so.”