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Dissertation Project Ideas for Stanford Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering

Shape the future of sustainable energy, materials, and chemical processes through rigorous scientific inquiry and innovation.

📘 Introduction

Stanford’s Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering enables students to solve energy, sustainability, and process engineering problems at the molecular, reactor, and system scale. The topics below push the boundaries of chemistry, computation, and systems design.

⚗️ Dissertation Topics

Design of Catalysts for CO2 Conversion into Liquid Fuels

Membrane-Based Separation Techniques for Green Hydrogen Production

Kinetic Modeling of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions

Bio-Based Polymers: Design, Synthesis, and Lifecycle Analysis

Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Using Nanostructured Electrodes

Enzyme Immobilization for Continuous Biocatalytic Processes

Supercritical Fluids in Pharmaceutical Particle Engineering

Multiscale Modeling of Catalytic Surface Reactions

Energy Storage Materials for Grid-Scale Applications

Reactive Transport Simulations in Porous Catalytic Media

Advanced Process Control in Microreactor Networks

Hydrodynamic Studies in Multiphase Packed Bed Reactors

Engineering Bacteria for Waste-to-Energy Bioconversion

Flow Batteries with Organic Redox-Active Materials

Photocatalytic Water Splitting with Metal Oxide Nanostructures

Techno-Economic Analysis of Synthetic Fuel Production Pathways

Machine Learning-Driven Process Optimization in Biofuel Plants

Thermochemical Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass

Fabrication of Functional Nanocomposites for Catalytic Applications

Modeling and Simulation of High-Pressure Gas-Phase Polymerization

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