CONTACT INFORMATION

Professor of Chemical Engineering &

Industrial Chemistry, and Chair

Department of Chemistry

A-Block 221A

Phone: (902) 563-1210

Fax: (902) 563-1880

E-Mail: adango_miadonye@cbu.ca

EDUCATION

B.Sc. (Hons), SouthBank University, England.

PhD, Loughborough University, England.

At Cape Breton University, 1998-

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

 

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Dr. Miadonye joined the Chemistry faculty in fall of 1998. He was

a Senior Lecturer  at the University of Science & Technology,

Port HarCourt, (1991-1996), Visiting Canadian Commonwealth Research

Fellow (1996-1998) and Postdoctoral Fellow (1991-1993) at Lakehead

University, Ontario.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH

Dr. Miadonye teaches Industrial Chemistry, Fundamental of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Thermodynamics, Reservoir Engineering, Instrumental Analysis I, General Chemistry and Advanced Topics in Chemical Technology.

His research interests include viscosity modeling and characterization of crude petroleum, processing-structure-property relationship of polymers, and green chemistry.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Miadonye A, and L. D’Orsay, "Modeling the Viscosity versus Temperature and Pressure Light Hydrocarbon Solvents", Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 15(6), pp. 640-645, December 2006.

McKenna, T. and A. Miadonye, "Viscosity Model for CO-Noble Gas Mixtures at Atmospheric Conditions", Petroleum Science and Technology, Vol. 24, pp. 1195-1204, 2006.

 Miadonye, A. L. Evans and T. M. McKenna, "Study of Asphaltene precipitation in dilute Solution by Calorimetry" WIT Transactions on Multiphase Flow, Vol. 50, pp. 13-21,  2005.

Britten, A.J., Whiffen, V. and A. Miadonye, "Heavy Petroleum Upgrading by Microwave Irradiation", WIT Transactions on Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 41, pp.103 112. 2005.

 Miadonye, A. and T. M. McKenna, "Viscosity Model for Pure Gases at Atmospheric Conditions", Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 14(3), June 2005.

Miadonye A, and W. Clyburn, "Modelling the Viscosity of Natural Gas Mixtures", Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements, Vol. XI, p. 63-73, edts. Brebbia, C.A; Carlomangno, C.M and P. Anagnostopoulos. Pubs. WIT press. Southampton, UK. 2003.

Miadonye, A., N. Doyle, A. Britten, N. Latour, and V.R. Puttagunta, "Modelling Viscosity and Mass Fraction of Bitumen-Diluent Mixtures", J. Can. Pet. Tech. 40(7), 52-57, July 2001.

Miadonye, A., N. Latour, and V.R. Puttagunta, “Correlation for Viscosity and Solvent Mass Fraction of Bitumen-Diluent Mixtures", Petroleum Sci. & Tech., 18(1&2), 1-14, 2000.

Miadonye, A., V.R. Puttagunta, "Modeling the Viscosity-Temperature Relationship of Nigerian Niger-Delta Crude Petroleum", Petroleum Sci. & Tech., 16(5&6), 627-638, 1998.

Miadonye, A., N. Latour, and V.R. Puttagunta, "A Simple Correlation for Estimating the Viscosity of Bitumen-Diluent Mixtures and Mass Fraction of Diluent", 49th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference. October 3-6, 1999, Saskatoon, Canada.

Miadonye, A., Singh, B and V.R. Puttagunta, "Viscosity of Bitumen, Effect of Pressure and Temperature". Encyclopaedia of Chemical Processing and Design. Vol. 62. edt. John J. McKetta. p. 455-464, 1998.

Miadonye, A., Singh, B and V.R. Puttagunta, "Viscosity, Heavy Oils". Encyclopaedia of Chemical Processing and Design. Vol. 63. edt. John J. McKetta. p. 1-10, 1998.

Miadonye, A., Singh, B and V.R. Puttagunta, "Viscosity, Heavy Oils and Bitumen". Encyclopaedia of Chemical Processing and Design. Vol. 63. edt. John J. McKetta. p. 10-16, 1998.

Singh, B., V.R. Puttagunta, and Miadonye, A, "Viscosity, Prediction". Encyclopaedia of Chemical Processing and Design. Vol. 63. edt. John J. McKetta. p. 55-63, 1998.

Miadonye, A., V.R. Puttagunta, R. Srivastava, S.S. Huang and Y. Dafan, "Generalized Viscosity Model for the Effects of Temperatures, Pressure and Gas Composition", J. Can. Pet. Tech., 36(1), 50-54, (1997).

Miadonye, A. and V.R. Puttagunta, "Viscosity Correlation for Unrefined Petroleum Liquid", Chapter 3 published in the 'Advances in Engineering Fluid Mechanics Series' edited by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Gulf Publishing Company, Morganville, New Jersey, USA, 1996.

Miadonye, A., "Processing-Structure-Thermomechanical Property Relationships of Unplasticised PVC Dry-blend", Indian Journal of Technology, 29(5), 247-249 (1991).

Miadonye, A., "Mechanism of Stabiliser Distribution in Rigid PVC Profile", Indian Journal of Technology, 26(10), 487-490 (1988).

Hemsley, D.A., Higgs, R.P. and A. Miadonye, "UV Fluorescence Microscopy in the Study of Polyvinylchloride Powders and Extrudates", Polymer Communications, 24(4), 103-106 (1983).