Rate My Professor Geoffrey Barton

Barton's teaching and research interests lie primarily in process systems engineering, encompassing process modelling, optimisation, and control with applications to energy and environmental systems. He served as teacher/coordinator for key postgraduate courses, including CHNG5005 Wastewater Engineering, which offers an overview of wastewater treatment technologies such as characterisation, treatment and disposal costs, the Australian regulatory framework, primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment options, solids management, water reuse, process integration, and process simulation software. He also coordinated CHNG5006 Advanced Wastewater Engineering, addressing advanced topics like biological nutrient removal using commercial software, constructed wetlands, wastewater management in food processing, resources, and coal seam gas industries, and emerging research in advanced treatments. His scholarly output includes 'Model Development and Validation: An Iterative Process' (Chemical Engineering Education, 1992), 'The future for electrocoagulation as a localised water treatment technology' (Colloids and Surfaces A, 2005, with P.K. Holt and C.A. Mitchell), 'Development of a CFD Model of Bubble Column Bioreactors: Part One—Review and Validation' (Chemical Engineering & Technology, 2013, with D.D. McClure et al.), and contributions to stability robustness analysis and dynamic optimisation in chemical processes. Barton has participated as Chief Investigator in Australian Research Council projects, including IC140100026 involving collaborations with the University of Lorraine and industry partners.