Dr. Hart assists in the investigation and analyses of fires, explosions, and chemical process safety incidents. His doctoral studies in chemical engineering focused on the design of novel liquid solvent materials for carbon dioxide separations. He developed a reflectance infrared spectroscopic technique for the decoupled, quantitative assessment of both physical and chemical absorption in the novel materials. Dr. Hart has experience in the design of high temperature and high pressure experimental techniques.
Dr. Hart’s analytical capabilities encompass the use and interpretation of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), gas and liquid chromotagraphy, infrared, ultra-violet, visible, fluorescence, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and mass spectroscopy. Additionally, Dr. Hart has used process design simulation software, such as ASPEN and HYSYS, using experimentally determined input data in order to evaluate the techno-economic viability of carbon dioxide capture technologies.
Hart R, Pollet P, Hahne DJ, John E, Llopis-Mestre V, Blasucci V, Huttenhower H, Leitner W, Eckert CA, Liotta CL. Benign coupling of reactions and separations with reversible ionic liquids. Tetrahedron 2010; 66(5):1082–1090.
Blasucci V, Hart R, Mestre VL, Hahne DJ, Burlager M, Huttenhower H, Thio BJ, Liotta CL, Eckert CA. Single component, reversible ionic liquids for energy applications. Fuel 2010; 89(6):1315–1319.
Blasucci VM, Hart R, Pollet P, Liotta CL, Eckert CA. Reversible ionic liquids designed for facile separations. Fluid Phase Equilibria 2010; 294(1–2):1–6.
Pollet P, Hart R, Eckert CA, Liotta CL. Organic aqueous tunable solvents (OATS): a vehicle for coupling reactions and separations. Accounts of Chemical Research 2010; 43(9):1237–1245.
Presentations
Hart R, Switzer J, Rohan A, Fahdel A, Eckert CA, Liotta CL. Design and development of reversible ionic liquids for post-combustion CO2 recovery. Oral presentation, International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, HI, 2010.
Hart R, Switzer J, Rohan A, Fahdel A, Eckert CA, Liotta CL. The design of reversible ionic liquids for post-combustion CO2 recovery. Oral presentation, American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2010.
Hart R, Cope E, Eckert CA, Liotta CL. Nearcritical water for facile deprotection reactions and benign urea production. Oral presentation, American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2010.
Hart R, Eckert CA, Liotta CL. Unique class of sustainable solvents: Reversible ionic liquids. Oral presentation, 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2010.
Hart R, Cope E, Eckert CA, Liotta CL. Design and development of a sustainable DMSO substitute: piperylene sulfone. Oral presentation, 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2010.
Hart R, Cope E, Pollet P, Eckert CA, Liotta CL, Kjell DP. Nearcritical water for the benign removal of N-Boc protecting groups. Oral presentation, American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, 2009.
Hart R, Blasucci V, Eckert CA, Liotta CL. Development of one-component reversible ionic liquids for energy applications. Poster presentation, American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, 2009.
Hart R, Liotta CL, Eckert CA. Structure-property relationships for the optimization of reversible ionic liquid solvents. Oral presentation, American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2008.
Hart R, Eckert CA, Liotta CL. Design of optimal solvent systems for post-combustion CO2 recovery. Poster presentation, Interuniversity National Consortium (INCA) Green Chemistry Summer School, Venice, Italy, 2008.
Hart R, Dilek C, Llopis-Mestre V, Lu J, Liotta CL, Eckert CA. Chemical equilibria in ‘smart’ ionic liquids. Oral presentation, American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007.