The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has announced its Institute Lecturer for 2015. Liang-Shih Fan, Distinguished University Professor and the C. J. Easton Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University, will present the 67th Institute Lecture to be held on November 11 at AIChE’s Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The lectureship is awarded to a distinguished AIChE member who has made significant contributions to the chemical engineering sciences in his or her field of specialization.
Fan will discuss his next-generation invention of clean, chemical looping, energy conversion processes for CO2 emission control and chemicals production, and his invention of electrical capacitance volume tomography (ECVT) technology used worldwide for multiphase flow imaging.
In his lecture, “Metal Oxide Reaction Engineering and Particle Technology Science: A Gateway to Novel Energy Conversion Systems,” Fan will describe the general properties of metal oxide materials for emerging technology applications including novel chemical looping platforms that employ metal oxide composite particles as oxygen carriers to produce hydrogen, syngas, chemicals, and liquid fuels from carbonaceous feedstocks such as coal.
Fan, who serves as director of Ohio State’s Clean Energy Research Laboratory, is an international authority in the fields of particle science and technology and fossil energy conversion systems. The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) has cited Fan’s clean fossil energy conversion processes as groundbreaking technologies for CO2 emission control and carbonaceous feedstock conversion.
The DOE and its National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) are using Fan’s ECVT technology for imaging their pilot-scale circulating fluidized-bed reactor system, while the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is using it to image a trickle-bed reactor for space missions.
Fan’s many publications have helped shape education in particle science and technology. His recent book, Chemical Looping Systems for Fossil Energy Conversion (AIChE/Wiley, 2010), has been widely adopted by researchers and practitioners worldwide.
An AIChE fellow, Fan also is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Engineering and Mexican Academy of Sciences. He earned his doctorate in chemical engineering at West Virginia University.
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