2026 Matthew J. Realff: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	48	4561	4391	1308	1207	278	8983

Overview

Matthew J. Realff is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with particular focus on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The main topics of their research include:

Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
Membrane Separation and Gas Transport
Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
Adsorption and Cooling Systems
Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Matthew J. Realff has published extensively in a variety of scientific journals, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
SSRN Electronic Journal
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering
Applied Energy

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

Ryan P. Lively
Christopher W. Jones
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Yanhui Yuan
Jan Lerou

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Matthew J. Realff are:

Support Pore Structure and Composition Strongly Influence the Direct Air Capture of CO₂ on Supported Amines, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
Direct aromatization of CO2 via combined CO2 hydrogenation and zeolite-based acid catalysis, 2021, Journal of CO2 Utilization
Research needs targeting direct air capture of carbon dioxide: Material & process performance characteristics under realistic environmental conditions, 2022, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering
Sorbent-coated carbon fibers for direct air capture using electrically driven temperature swing adsorption, 2023, Joule
Designing the bioproduction of Martian rocket propellant via a biotechnology-enabled in situ resource utilization strategy, 2021, Nature Communications

Best Publications

Cellulose crystallinity--a key predictor of the enzymatic hydrolysis rate

Mélanie Hall;Prabuddha Bansal;Jay H. Lee;Matthew J. Realff

688
Citations
Modeling cellulase kinetics on lignocellulosic substrates.

Prabuddha Bansal;Melanie Hall;Matthew J. Realff;JayHyung Lee

511
Citations
Optimal design and global sensitivity analysis of biomass supply chain networks for biofuels under uncertainty

Jinkyung Kim;Matthew J. Realff;Jay H. Lee

432
Citations
Machine learning: Overview of the recent progresses and implications for the process systems engineering field

Jay H. Lee;Joohyun Shin;Matthew J. Realff

413
Citations
Design of biomass processing network for biofuel production using an MILP model

Jinkyung Kim;Matthew J. Realff;JayHyung Lee;Craig Whittaker

296
Citations
Systems Design and Economic Analysis of Direct Air Capture of CO2 through Temperature Vacuum Swing Adsorption Using MIL-101(Cr)-PEI-800 and mmen-Mg2(dobpdc) MOF Adsorbents

Anshuman Sinha;Lalit A. Darunte;Christopher W. Jones;Matthew J. Realff

277
Citations
Assessing performance and uncertainty in developing carpet reverse logistics systems

Markus Biehl;Edmund L. Prater;Matthew J. Realff

270
Citations
Multivariate statistical analysis of X-ray data from cellulose: A new method to determine degree of crystallinity and predict hydrolysis rates

Prabuddha Bansal;Melanie Hall;Matthew J. Realff;JayHyung Lee

230
Citations
Robust reverse production system design for carpet recycling

Matthew J. Realff;Jane C. Ammons;David J. Newton

195
Citations
Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions for an ethanol production process based on blue-green algae.

Dexin Luo;Zushou Hu;Dong Gu Choi;Valerie M. Thomas

159
Citations
Carpet Recycling: Determining the Reverse Production System Design

Matthew J. Realff;Jane C. Ammons;David Newton

145
Citations
Research needs targeting direct air capture of carbon dioxide: Material & process performance characteristics under realistic environmental conditions

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125
Citations
Strategic design of reverse production systems

Matthew J. Realff;Jane C. Ammons;David Newton

122
Citations
Support Pore Structure and Composition Strongly Influence the Direct Air Capture of CO2 on Supported Amines

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122
Citations
Dynamic programming in a heuristically confined state space: a stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling application

Jaein Choi;Matthew J. Realff;Jay H. Lee

120
Citations
Operational planning and optimal sizing of microgrid considering multi-scale wind uncertainty

Joohyun Shin;Jay H. Lee;Matthew J. Realff

115
Citations
Metamodeling Approach to Optimization of Steady-State Flowsheet Simulations: Model Generation

K. Palmer;M. Realff

104
Citations
Direct aromatization of CO2 via combined CO2 hydrogenation and zeolite-based acid catalysis

Iman Nezam;Wei Zhou;Wei Zhou;Gabriel S. Gusmão;Matthew J. Realff

97
Citations
A high-flux polyimide hollow fiber membrane to minimize footprint and energy penalty for CO2 recovery from flue gas

Ryan P. Lively;Michelle E. Dose;Michelle E. Dose;Liren Xu;Justin T. Vaughn

92
Citations
Modeling of rapid temperature swing adsorption using hollow fiber sorbents

Fateme Rezaei;Swernath Subramanian;Jayashree Kalyanaraman;Ryan P. Lively

87
Citations
Biological pretreatment of cellulose: Enhancing enzymatic hydrolysis rate using cellulose-binding domains from cellulases

Mélanie Hall;Prabuddha Bansal;Jay H. Lee;Matthew J. Realff

82
Citations
Elucidation of cellulose accessibility, hydrolysability and reactivity as the major limitations in the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose

Prabuddha Bansal;Bryan J. Vowell;Mélanie Hall;Mélanie Hall;Matthew J. Realff

80
Citations
Design and optimization of free‐fall electrostatic separators for plastics recycling

Jing Wei;Matthew J. Realff

75
Citations
Sample average approximation methods for stochastic MINLPs

Jing Wei;Matthew J. Realff

74
Citations