Research Interests

Professor Toor's teaching and research have been primarily in mainstream chemical engineering. He was head of the Chemical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon and subsequently Dean of Carnegie Institute of Technology. Although retired, he continues part-time activities in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy.

In addition to fundamental studies of binary and multicomponent mass transfer, and reactive mixing, he has been concerned with environmental and energy issues such as removal of sulfur oxides from stack gases and extraction of oil from oil shale.

He is current research in reactive mixing, the interaction between mixing and chemical reactions, is concerned with developing methods for predicting conversion and yield during turbulent mixing by closing the average convective diffusion equations.

Representative Publications

H.L. Toor, "Solution of the Linearized Equations Carnegie Mellon of Multicomponent Mass Transfer," AIChE Journal , vol. 10, p. 460, 1064. 1953-. vol. 10, p. 460, 1964.

G. Vassilatos and H.L. Toor, "Second Order Chemical Reactions in a Nonhomogeneous Turbulent Fluid," AIChE Journal , vol. 2, p. 666, 1965. 

K.T. Li and H.L. Toor, "Turbulent Reactive Mixing With a Series Parallel Reaction: Effect of Mixing on Yield," AIChE Journal , vol. 32, p. 1312, 1986.

M.L. Hanks and H..L. Toor, "Relative Importance Of Macro- and Micromixing in Turbulent Reacting Jets," I&EC Research , vol. 34, p. 3252, 1995.

H.L. Toor, "Turbulent Reactive Mixing of Reversible Reactions," AIChE Journal , vol. 43, p. 303, 1997.