Expertise

Expertise: bioengineering, fermentation, kinetics, separation, pulping, bleaching, fiber properties, sustainability, biofuel, renewable chemicals, biomaterials

Research Interests

  • Bioenergy, biomaterials, sustainability
  • Bioengineering: metabolic pathway and kinetics, fermentation
  • Chemical Kinetics: surface reactions, chemical pulping, bleaching, chemical treatment
  • Mass transfer: Membrane separation, multiscale diffusion, dispersion, convective transport
  • Fluid Particle Systems: Fluid transport in porous media, slurry/suspension flow
  • Process optimization: Physical/mathematical modeling, optimization
  • Fiber properties: Morphological and chemical properties
  • Applied Mathematics: Numerical analysis, volume averaging

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Organizational Affiliations

Department of Chemical Engineering, Academic Departments and Divisions, College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Education

Chemical Engineering
1992, PhD, University of Alberta, Canada
Chemical Engineering
1982, BS, Sichuan University, China