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Dr. Sieghard E. Wanke
Professor Emeritus
Room 728 Chemical & Materials Engineering
Telephone: (780) 492-3817
Fax: (780) 492-2881
Email: sieg.wanke@ualberta.ca |
Most of Dr. Wanke's research activity has been in the areas of heterogeneous catalysis, reaction kinetics and reactor modeling. Specific areas of expertise include preparation, characterization and evaluation of supported catalysts (supported noble metal catalysts, supported Ziegler-Natta catalysts and supported hydroprocessing catalysts). The catalyst characterization techniques with which he is very familiar are chemisorption, physical adsorption, wide-angle x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. He is also very familiar with size exclusion chromatography, temperature rising elution fractionation and differential scanning calorimetry for the characterization of polyethylenes. Dr. Wanke and his colleagues have made significant contributions in the areas of deactivation (sintering) and regeneration of supported noble metal catalysts, metal - support interactions, and oscillatory and chaotic oxidation kinetics. Recently they have made significant advances in the development of supported catalysts for gas-phase olefin polymerization.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Wanke received the APEGGA Frank Spragins Technical Award, Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, Max Planck Gesellschaft Fellowship, and various teaching awards.
Recent Publications See All
Wu, L. and Wanke, S.E., 2009, “MgCl2-Supported TiCl4 Catalysts for the Production of Morphology Controlled Polyolefins” in Handbook of Transition Metal Polymerization Catalysts (R. Hoff and T. Mathers, eds.). John Wiley & Sons, Chapter 8.
Wu, L. and Wanke, S.E., 2009, “Product Morphology in Olefin Polymerization with Polymer supported Metallocene Catalysts” in Handbook of Transition Metal Polymerization Catalysts (R. Hoff and T. Mathers, eds.). John Wiley & Sons, Chapter 9.
Hammawa, H. and Wanke, S.E., 2007, “Influence of Support Friability and Concentration of α-Olefins on Gas-Phase Ethylene Polymerization over Polymer-Supported Metallocene/MAO Catalysts”, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 104, 514-527.
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