Ralph W. Pike

Ralph W. Pike is the Director of the Minerals Processing Research Division/Center for Energy Studies and is the Paul M. Horton Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University (pike@lsu.edu). His degrees are in chemical engineering, doctorate and bachelors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of textbooks on optimization for engineering systems and coauthor books on design and modeling of chemical processes and on computational transport phenomena. His research specialties are optimization theory and applications for the optimal design of engineering systems, on-line optimization of continuous processes, optimization of chemical production complexes, and related areas of resources management, sustainable development, and chemicals from biomass. Books that he has authored and co-authored:

Ralph W. Pike, Essentials of Optimization for Chemical Engineering, Kindle Direct Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-1645700968 ASIN: 1645700968 print edition, ASIN: B07ZWNFMWC e-book edition (2019)

Ralph W. Pike, Essentials of Economic Decision Analysis for Chemical Engineering, Title ID: 5287746 ISBN-13: 978-1507771723, print edition, , ASIN: B00UH15GXS ebook edition, Createspace, Amazon.com(2015)

Ralph W. Pike, Optimization for Engineering Systems Revised, (Kindle Edition) ASIN: B00BF2TLXO Amazon.com (2013).

Debalina Sengupta and Ralph W. Pike, Chemicals from Biomass: Integrating Bioprocesses into Chemical Production Complexes for Sustainable Development, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2012.

Richard C. Farmer, Ralph W. Pike, Gary C. Cheng, and Yen-Sen Chen, Computational Transport Phenomena for Engineering Analysis, Taylor & Francis Publishing Company, 2009,