L.-S. Fan gives 6th Annual KAIST CBE Global Distinguished Lectures
Distinguished University Professor and C. John Easton Professor in Engineering L.-S. Fan was chosen to present the 6th Annual Global Distinguished Lectureship series at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, Korea this month.
The lectureship is an annual event featuring an internationally leading researcher in chemical and biomolecular engineering at a foreign institution.
Professor Fan will give two seminars on recent trends and research advances and participate in informal discussions with KAIST faculty and students:
Lecture 1: "Chemical Looping Technology - Metal Oxides, Reactors and Processes," December 6, 2016
Lecture 2 - "Chemical Engineering Education in Particle Flows," December 7, 2016.
Professor Fan is one of the world's leading experts on fluidization and multiphase flow, powder technology and energy and environmental reaction engineering. He is the inventor of seven industrially viable clean fossil conversion processes: OSCAR, CARBONOX, PH Swing, CCR, Calcium Looping, Syngas and Coal-Direct Chemical Looping. These processes control sulfur, nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide emissions and convert carbonaceous fuels to hydrogen, electricity or liquid fuels.
He also invented the electrical capacitance volume tomography for three-dimensional, real-time multiphase flow imaging that is currently being used in academia and industry.
Professor Fan has received numerous awards including the ACS E.V. Murphree Award; the AIChE Alpha Chi Sigma, R.H. Wilhelm, and 67th Institute Lectureship Awards; the ASEE Dow Lectureship Award; the CCR Malcolm Pruitt Award; the R&D 100 Award; and many additional awards from The College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, including the Joseph Sullivant Medal, one fo the university's highest honors. In 2008 Dr. Fan was named by AIChE as one of the "One Hundreed Engineers of the Modern Era."
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and AIChE; a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering; and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Australia Academy of Technology Science and Engineering (ATSE), the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and is an Academician of Academia Sinica.
Previous KAIST Global Distinguished Lectureship awardees include Dr. Ignacio E. Grossman, Carnegie Mellon University (2015); Dr. Julio M. Ottino, Northwestern University (2014); Dr. Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue University (2013); Dr. Gregory Stephanopoulous, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012); and Dr. William J. Koros, Georgia Institute of Technology (2011).
