Award Lecture: Particle Dynamics in Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems: Part 1. Educational Issues

Authors

  • Liang-Shih Fan The Ohio State University

Abstract

The Chemical Engineering Division, ASEE, Union Carbide Lectureship Award winner for 1999.

Part 1 of 2.

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Author Biography

Liang-Shih Fan, The Ohio State University

L.S . Fan is Distingui shed University Professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Ohio State University. His expertise is in fluidization and multiphase flow, powder technology, and particulates reaction engineering. Professor Fan is the U.S. editor of Powder Technology and a consulting editor of the A!ChE Journal and the International Journal of Multiphase Flow. He has also authored or co-authored three books, including the textbook Principles of Gas-Solid Flows (with Chao Zhu; Cambridge University Press, 1998), in addition to 240 journal articles and book chapters, and has edited nine symposium volumes.

Professor Fan is the principal inventor (with R. Agnihotri) of a patented process, "OSCAR," for flue gas cleaning in coal combustion and is the Project Director for the OSCAR commercial demonstration, funded at $8.5 million as Ohio Clean Coal Technology, currently taking place at Ohio McCracken power plant on the Ohio State University campus.

He has served as thesis advisor for two BS, twenty-nine MS, and forty-two PhD students at Ohio State, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Published

2000-01-01

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 1 (2000): Winter 2000

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