Dr James Titiloye

Phone number
+44 (0)121 204 3429

Email
j.titiloye@aston.ac.uk

Room number
Chemical Engineering 104B

Profile

I joined the School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2001 as a lecturer in Chemical Engineering. I am currently the Programme Admissions Tutor and Programme Director for MSc in Chemical Process Technology.

Qualifications & Education

• PhD (1988) Petrochemicals & Chemical Technology UMIST, Manchester

• MSc (1985) Petrochemicals & Chemical Technology, UMIST, Manchester

• BSc Chemistry (Hons) (1983) University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Employment

• Research Fellow (1999-2001) CMMP, UCL and Imperial College, London

• Lecturer (1994-1999) School of Science & Engineering, University of Abertay Dundee

• Research Officer (1993-1994) Department of Chemical Engineering, Bath University

• Research Officer (1988-1993) Department of Chemistry, Bath University

Teaching activity

CH1105: States of Matter and Thermodynamics 

CE2007: Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Chemical Process Control

CE2001: Reaction Engineering

CE3002: Advanced Reaction Engineering

Research interests

• Design and Development of Zeolites Membranes for Separation Processes

• Catalytic Pyrolysis of Biomass

• Design, Characterisation and Modelling of Catalysts

PhD Supervision

Currently supervising 2 PhD Students. Opportunities for research supervision welcome.

Membership of Professional Bodies

• CEng, MIChemE

• MRSC

• FHEA

Selected publications 

• Synthesis and Characterization of Silicalite-1 Composite Membranes
  J.O. Titiloye and I. Hussain
  Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, (2008) 318, 50-58

• Fast pyrolysis of cassava rhizome in the presence of catalysts
  J.O Titiloye, A. Pattiya, A.V. Bridgwater
  Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, (2008) 81, 72-79

• The Structure and Dynamics of 2-Dimensional Fluids in Swelling Clays
  N.T. Skipper, P.A. Lock, J.O.Titiloye, J. Swenson, Z.A. Mirza, W.S. Howells,
  F.Fernandez-Alonzo,
  Chemical Geology (2006) 230, 182-196

• Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Adsorption and Diffusion behaviour of Pure and Mixed -Alkanes in Silicalite
  I. Hussain I. and J.O. Titiloye
  Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (2005) 85, 143-156

• Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations of methane in potassium montmorillonite clay hydrate at elevated pressures and temperatures
  J. O. Titiloye and N. T. Skipper
  Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2005) 282, 422-427