个人简介

Awards Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision MITACS Mentorship Award for Graduate Student Supervision Premier's Research Excellence Award First Year Teaching and Learning Award Golden Apple Teaching Awards Queen's National Scholar Governor General's Gold Medal

研究领域

Kim McAuley's research group develops mathematical models of chemical and biochemical processes. These models are used to predict product quality, production rates and the effectiveness of operating and control strategies for industrial processes and laboratory-scale reactor systems. Professor McAuley's models help companies to monitor, optimize and control their production processes. One of the most difficult problems faced by modelers is determining appropriate values for kinetic, thermodynamic and mass-transfer parameters that appear in model equations. McAuley's research group develops methods for estimating parameters in a variety of challenging situations including: models with a large number of parameters and insufficient data to reliably estimate all of them simplified models and models for use in on-line monitoring and control fundamental dynamic models of processes influenced by stochastic disturbances models of polymerization reactors that describe detailed branching and molecular weight development In addition, Kim McAuley collaborates with the Southeastern Ontario Cancer Centre to develop polymer gel dosimeters used for calibrating 3-D radiation dose distributions generated by cancer radiotherapy equipment. Experiments and models are used to design improved 3D gel dosimeters that are safer to use and that have improved accuracy using a variety of read-out techniques.

Mathematical Modeling Parameter Estimation Process Monitoring and Control Polymerization Polymer Gel Dosimetry

近期论文

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Zhao, Y., D. Latham, B.A. Peppley, K.B. McAuley, H. Wang and R. Lehoux, "Simulation of Dry Reforming of Methane in a Conventional Downfired Reformer", AIChE J. accepted, 2016. Hajar, Y., K.B. McAuley and F. Zeman, "Sulfur as a Fuel Source in a Combined PowerCycle Equipped with Dry Flue Gas Desulfurization System", Energy & Fuels, 30, 8511-8519, 2016. Li, X.L., H. Karimi, P.J. McLellan, K.B. McAuley and C. Jeffrey, "Mathematical Model for a Point-of-Care Sensor for Measuring Carbon Dioxide in Blood", Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, 236, 635-645, 2016. Zhao, Y.R., D.J. Arriola, J.E. Puskas and K.B. McAuley, "Applying Multi-Dimensional Method of Moments for Modeling and Estimating Parameters for Arborescent Polyisobutylene Production in Batch Reactor", Macromolecular Theory & Simulation, accepted, 2016. Eghtesadi, Z. and K.B. McAuley, "Mean-Squared-Error-Based Method for Parameter Ranking and Selection with Non-Invertible Fisher Information Matrix", AIChE Journal, 62, 1112-1125, 2016. Zhao, Y.R., P.D. Iedema, J.E. Puskas and K.B. McAuley, "Advanced Monte Carlo Modeling Using Weight-Based Selection of Arborescent Polyisobutylene Molecules in a a Batch Reactor", Macromolecular Theory & Simulation, 25, 134-154, 2016. Nasr, A.T., K.M. Alexander, L.J. Schreiner and K. B. McAuley, "Leuco-Crystal-Violet Micelle Gel Dosimeters I. Influence of Recipe Components and Potential Sensitizers", Physics in Medicine and Biology, 60, 4665-4683, 2015. Nasr, A.T., K.M. Alexander, T. Olding, L.J. Schreiner and K. B. McAuley, "Leuco-Crystal-Violet Micelle Gel Dosimeters II. Recipe Optimization and Testing", Physics in Medicine and Biology, 60, 4685-4704, 2015. Cui, W.J., K.B. McAuley, R.E. Spence and T. Xie, "Mathemematical Modeling of Polyether Production from 1,3-Propanediol: Accounting for Linear Oligomers", Macromol. React. Eng., 9, 186-204, 2015. Nasr, A.T., K.M. Alexander, L.J. Schreiner and K.B. McAuley, "Opportunities for improving the performance of LCV micelle gel dosimeters: 1. Preliminary Investigation", J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 573, 0102037, 2015. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/573/1/012037. Nasr, A.T., K.M. Alexander, T. Olding, L.J. Schreiner and K.B. McAuley, "Opportunities for improving the performance of LCV micelle gel dosimeters: 2. Recipe Optimization", J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 573, 012039, 2015. DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/573/1/012038. Zhao, Y.R., K.B. Mcauley and J.E. Puskas, "Parallel Models for Arborescent Polyisobutylene Synthesized in Batch Reactor", AIChE Journal 61, 253-265, 2015. Karimi, H. and K.B. McAuley, "A Maximum-Likelihood Method for Estimating Parameters, Stochastic Disturbance Intensities and Measurement Noise Variances in Nonlinear Dynamic Models with Process Disturbances," Computers & Chemical Engineering 67, 178-198, 2014. Eghtesadi, Z. and K.B. McAuley, "Mean Square-Errorr Based Method for Parameter Ranking and Selection to Obtain Accurate Predictions at Specified Operating Conditions," Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 53, 6033-6046, 2014. Zhao, Y.R., P.D. Iedema, J.E. Puskas and K.B. McAuley, "Advanced Monte Carlo Model for Arborescent Polyisobutylene Production in Batch Reactor," Macromolecular Theory and Simulations 23, 383-400, 2014. Francoeur A.J.B., H. Karimi, L. D'Agnillo and K.B. McAuley , "A Model for the Devolatilization of EPDM Rubber in a Series of Steam Stripping Vessels," AIChE Journal 60, 2596-2606, 2014. Cui, W.J., K.B. McAuley, R.E. Spence and T. Xie, "Assessment of Mass-Transfer Effects during Polyether Production from 1,3-Propanediol," Macromolecular Reaction Engineering 8, 476-492, 2014. Karimi H. and K.B. McAuley, "An Approximate Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Estimating Parameters in Nonlinear Dynamic Models with Process Disturbances," Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 92, 835-850, 2014. Karimi, H. and K.B. McAuley , "An Approximate Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Estimating Parameters, Noise Variances and Stochastic Disturbance Intensities in Nonlinear Dynamic Models," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 52, 18303-18823, 2013. McAuley, K.B. and A.T. Nasr, "Fundamentals of Gel Dosimeters," Journal of Physics: Conf. Ser. 444, article 012001, 2013. Nasr, A., T. Olding, L.J. Schreiner and K.B. McAuley, "Preliminary evaluation of diacetylene-based 3D micelle gel dosimeters,"Journal of Physics: Conf. Ser. 444, article 012041, 2013. Zhao, Y.R., K.B. McAuley and J.E. Puskas, "Monte Carlo Model for Arborescent Polyisobutylene Production in Batch Reactor,"Macromolecular Theory & Simulation 22, 365-376, 2013. Woloszyn, J.D., P. Hesse, K.D. Hungenberg and K.B. McAuley, "Parameter Selection and Estimation Techniques in a Styrene Polymerization Model," Macromolecular Reaction Engineering 7, 293-310, 2013. Eghtesadi, Z., S. Wu and K.B. McAuley, "Development of a Model Selection Criterion for Accurate Model Predictions at Desired Operating Conditions," Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 52, 12297-12308, 2013. Nasr, A.T., T. Olding, L.J. Schreiner and K.B. McAuley, "Evaluation of the potential for diacetylenese as reporter molecules in 3D micelle gel dosimetry," Physics in Medicine and Biology 58, 785-805, 2013.