Lindsay Soh

Associate Professor and Department Head
AEC 266
(610) 330-5447
sohl@lafayette.edu
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Other Titles

  • Kate and Walter A. Scott ’59 Scholar in Engineering

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University
  • B.S., Environmental Engineering Science, University of California, Berkeley

Teaching Areas

  • Alternative energy sources
  • Green design
  • Introduction to engineering
  • Material and energy balances
  • Separations and mass transport

Research Interests

  • Sustainability and green engineering
  • Biomass valorization
  • Supercritical carbon dioxide
  • Green solvents
Selected publications
  • Neefe, S.R., Carroll, M.J., Bala, A.M. & Soh, L. Recycling Binary Solvent Mixtures Using Distillation and Membrane Separations: Implications for End-of-Life Considerations. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 2023; 11(33), 2445-12457.
  • Dougher, M., Soh, L. & Bala, A.M. Techno-Economic Analysis of Interesterification for Biodiesel Production.Energy & Fuels. 2023; 37(4), 2912-2925.
  • Berry R.T.,Dach, E., Melhorn, J.A., Yip, N.Y., & Soh, L. Assessing the Temperature-Dependent Tunable Polarity of N,NDimethylcyclohexylamine (DMCHA) and Water Mixtures. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 2022; 10(11), 3726-3734.
  • Senra, M., McCartney, S.N., Soh, L. The effect of bio-derived additives on fatty acid methyl esters for improved biodiesel cold flow properties.  Fuel. 2019; 242, 719-727
  • Curia, S., Dautle, S., Satterfield, B., Yorke, K., Cranley, C.E., Dobson, B.E., La Scala, J.J., Soh, L., Gordon, M.B. and Stanzione III, J.F., 2019. Betulin-based thermoplastics and thermosets through sustainable and industrially viable approaches: new insights for the valorization of an underutilized resource.ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 7(19), pp.16371-16381
  • Soh, L., Lane, M.K., Xiang, J., Kwan, T.A., Zimmerman, J.B. Carbon dioxide mediated transesterification of mixed triacylglyceride substrates. Energy & Fuels. 2018; 32(9), 9624-9632
  • Tian, Y., Xiang, J., Verni, C., Soh, L. Fatty Acid Methyl Ester Production via Ferric Sulfate Catalyzed Interesterification. Biomass and Bioenergy. 2018; 115, 82-87.
  • Leggieri, P.A., Senra, M.J, Soh. L. Cloud Point and Crystallization in Fatty Acid Ethyl Ester Biodiesel Mixtures with and without Additives. Fuel. 2018; 222, 243-249.
  • Soh, L. & Eckelman, M.J. Green Solvents in Biomass Processing. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. 2016, 4(11), 5821-5837