Jonas Baltrusaitis

Assistant Professor
Shale Gas and Hydrocarbon Conversion
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Iacocca Hall, Room B336
111 Research Drive, Mountaintop Campus
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18015

P: (610) 758-6837
E: job314@lehigh.edu
baltrusaitislab.web.lehigh.edu

Lehigh Affiliations

• Chemical Engineering

Areas of Research

• Catalysis and Nanoparticles
• Surface Chemistry
• Environmental Aspects of Energy Conversion and Utilization
• Fossil Fuel Refining, Synthesis, and Conversion
• Engineering Processes for Enhanced Sustainability
• Solid Waste Treatment and Reuse
• Water and Wastewater Treatment
• Environmental Catalysis
• Fate and Transport of Contaminants and Pathogens
• Environmental Remediation

Profile

Prof. Baltrusaitis focuses his research efforts in several areas of sustainable catalytic conversion. Those involve:

• natural gas component catalytic conversion to high value products
• biomass catalytic upgrading
• sustainable sulfur and phosphorus processing
• renewable energy utilization in wastewater processing
• low concentration organic wastewater stream treatment
• emerging contaminant remediation and environmental catalysis
• surface sensitive spectroscopies, data processing method development.