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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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70
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375
National Ranking
171

Chemistry

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6394
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  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for brilliant achievements in modeling and simulation of chemically reacting flows, including the development of the CHEMKIN family of models

Overview

Robert J. Kee is affiliated with the Colorado School of Mines in the United States. Their research primarily spans Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on key subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Automotive Engineering, Catalysis, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their published work addresses multiple topics including advancements in solid oxide fuel cells, advanced battery technologies research, fuel cells and related materials, advancements in battery materials, catalysis and oxidation reactions, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and advanced battery materials and technologies.

Their frequent coauthors include Huayang Zhu, Sandrine Ricote, Kasra Taghikhani, Peter J. Weddle, and Gregory S. Jackson.

Robert J. Kee has contributed to a variety of publication venues. The most frequent outlets include ECS Meeting Abstracts, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, SSRN Electronic Journal, Electrochimica Acta, and Membranes.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Robert J. Kee include:

  • Faradaic efficiency in protonic-ceramic electrolysis cells, 2021, Journal of Physics Energy
  • Modeling Coupled Chemo-Mechanical Behavior of Randomly Oriented NMC811 Polycrystalline Li-Ion Battery Cathodes, 2021, Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Electro-chemo-mechanical finite-element model of single-crystal and polycrystalline NMC cathode particles embedded in an argyrodite solid electrolyte, 2023, Electrochimica Acta
  • Perspectives on Technical Challenges and Scaling Considerations for Tubular Protonic-Ceramic Electrolysis Cells and Stacks, 2022, Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Chemo-Mechanical Behavior of Highly Anisotropic and Isotropic Polycrystalline Graphite Particles During Lithium Intercalation, 2020, Journal of The Electrochemical Society

Robert J. Kee has received recognition as a Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018 for work related to modeling and simulation of chemically reacting flows, including the development of the CHEMKIN family of models.

Best Publications

  • CHEMKIN II: A FORTRAN Chemical Kinetics Package for the Analysis of Gas-phase Chemical Kinetics

    R. J. Kee

  • A FORTRAN COMPUTER CODE PACKAGE FOR THE EVALUATION OF GAS-PHASE, MULTICOMPONENT TRANSPORT PROPERTIES

    R.J. Kee;G. Dixon-Lewis;J. Warnatz;M.E. Coltrin

  • CHEMKIN-III: A FORTRAN chemical kinetics package for the analysis of gas-phase chemical and plasma kinetics

    R.J. Kee;F.M. Rupley;E. Meeks;J.A. Miller

  • The Chemkin Thermodynamic Data Base

    Robert J. Kee;Fran M. Rupley;James A. Miller

  • On reduced mechanisms for methaneair combustion in nonpremixed flames

    R.W. Bilger;S.H. Stårner;R.J. Kee

  • Chemically Reacting Flow : Theory and Practice

    R. J. Kee;Michael Elliott Coltrin;Peter Glarborg

  • OPPDIF: A Fortran program for computing opposed-flow diffusion flames

    A.E. Lutz;R.J. Kee;J.F. Grcar;F.M. Rupley

  • Highly durable, coking and sulfur tolerant, fuel-flexible protonic ceramic fuel cells

    Chuancheng Duan;Robert J. Kee;Huayang Zhu;Canan Karakaya

  • A computational model of the structure and extinction of strained, opposed flow, premixed methane-air flames

    Robert J. Kee;James A. Miller;Gregory H. Evans;Graham Dixon-Lewis

  • CHEMKIN: a general-purpose, problem-independent, transportable, FORTRAN chemical kinetics code package

    R.J. Kee;J.A. Miller;T.H. Jefferson

  • Highly efficient reversible protonic ceramic electrochemical cells for power generation and fuel production

    Chuancheng Duan;Robert Kee;Huayang Zhu;Neal Sullivan

  • Modeling Elementary Heterogeneous Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells

    Huayang Zhu;Robert J. Kee;Vinod M. Janardhanan;Olaf Deutschmann

  • Kinetic modeling and sensitivity analysis of nitrogen oxide formation in well-stirred reactors

    Peter Glarborg;James A. Miller;Robert J. Kee

  • Chemical Kinetics and Combustion Modeling

    James A. Miller;Robert J. Kee;Charles K. Westbrook

  • A Mathematical Model of the Coupled Fluid Mechanics and Chemical Kinetics in a Chemical Vapor Deposition Reactor

    Michael E. Coltrin;Robert J. Kee;James A. Miller

  • PSE: a Fortran program for modeling well-stirred reactors

    Peter Glarborg;Robert J. Kee;Joseph F. Grcar;James A. Miller

  • Kinetic Modeling of the Oxidation of Ammonia in Flames

    James A. Miller;Mitchell D. Smooke;Robert M. Green;Robert J. Kee

  • Methane reforming kinetics within a Ni–YSZ SOFC anode support

    Ethan S. Hecht;Gaurav K. Gupta;Huayang Zhu;Anthony M. Dean

  • A general mathematical model for analyzing the performance of fuel-cell membrane-electrode assemblies

    Huayang Zhu;Robert J. Kee

  • Methanation of carbon dioxide by hydrogen reduction using the Sabatier process in microchannel reactors

    Kriston P. Brooks;Jianli Hu;Huayang Zhu;Robert J. Kee

  • The computation of stretched laminar methane-air diffusion flames using a reduced four-step mechanism

    N. Peters;R.J. Kee

Frequent Co-Authors

Huayang Zhu
Huayang Zhu Colorado School of Mines
Peter Glarborg
Peter Glarborg Technical University of Denmark
James A. Miller
James A. Miller Argonne National Laboratory
Ryan O'Hayre
Ryan O'Hayre Colorado School of Mines
Anthony M. Dean
Anthony M. Dean Colorado School of Mines
Andrew M. Colclasure
Andrew M. Colclasure National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Scott A. Barnett
Scott A. Barnett Northwestern University
Mitchell D. Smooke
Mitchell D. Smooke Yale University
Olaf Deutschmann
Olaf Deutschmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Mark D. Allendorf
Mark D. Allendorf Sandia National Laboratories

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