Current Research


Multiphase Flow Group

Professor Fan's Plenary Lecture titled "Advances in Gas-Liquid-Solid Fluidization"

  • High Pressure High Temperature Slurry Bubble Column Reactors
  • Bubbling and Turbulent Gas-Solid Fluidized Beds
  • Choking Phenomenon in Gas-Solid Circulating Fluidized Beds
  • Electrical Capacitance Tomography
  • 3-Dimensional Simulation and Experiments of Collision Dynamics between an Evaporative Droplet and a Particle in the Leidenfrost Regime
  • Standing Wave Effects on Transport Properties of Multiphase Flow Systems
  • Multiphase Flow in a Micro-Channel
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Electrostatic Phenomenon in Gas-Liquid-Solid Flow Systems



    • Clean Fossil Energy Conversion Systems Group

    Professor Fan's 2003 Ralph Peck Lecture titled "Toward Clean Fossil Energy Conversion Systems"
  • OSCAR Process Demonstration
  • CARBONOX Process Demonstration
  • CO2 Separation from Flue gases using High Reactivity Metal Oxides
  • CO2 Mineral Sequestration using Mg-bearing Minerals
  • Chemical Looping Combustion of Coal
  • Enhanced Hydrogen Production with in-situ CO2 capture
  • High Temperature Syngas Desulfurization using Supported Metal Oxide Sorbents