Fei WEIDepartment of Chemical Engineering |
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ProfessorPh.D., University
of Petroleum, China, 1990 Fax:86-10-62772051
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Fluidization,
Particle Technology, Particulate and Multiphase Reaction Engineering
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Professor Wei is
director of the Fluidization Laboratory of Tsinghua University (FLOTU). FLOTU.
is dedicated to studies of new and unsolved problems in fluid particle
multiphase flow reaction systems. A full range of theoretical to practical
applications is studied in problems as varied as the gas solids flow structure
of gas-solid turbulent flow, ultrafast fluid-solid reaction, powder
characterization and flow, optimum design of catalytic fluidized bed reactors,
catalytic distillation.
Though based on a foundation of research in two-and three-phase fluidization,
current and future efforts are being directed toward developing novel
multiphase systems for petrochemical, materials and environmental applications.
Novel reactor design and optimization, and coal reaction systems are a few of
the areas to be addressed. Hydrodynamics and other transport phenomena as well
as reactor performance of these systems are targeted for basic study.
The group is
well-equipped for advanced studies in many areas. Gas-solid, liquid-solid,
gas-liquid-solid reactors of various sizes and configurations have been
designed, built, and used both in research and in industies and measurement
techniques including cluster image and analysis system, phosphors tracer
techniques, laser doppler velocimetery at high density, duel-leg optical fiber
density sensor have been developed.
Professor Wei was a
Visiting Professor at Ohio State University,US, The University of Western
Ontario, Canada, Nagoya Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
He worked as a
Research Fellow at the University of Petroleum in Beijing China. He has also
had industrial experience with Jinan Oil refinery in Jinan, China, with Gao Qiao
Petrochemicals Inc., in Shanghai, China, with San Wei Company in Sanxi, China
and with Qilu Corporation. He has consulted for numerous companies including
Sinopec, Gaoqiao, Petrobras, Sanwei.
1996 CPSF
Postdoctoral Fellow Award (10 pa in China)
1997 National Outstanding Young Scientist Award (120 pa in China)
1998 Young Particuology Research Award (2 pa in China)
1998 Chinese Young Science and Technology Award (99 pa in China)
Reactors: 150 mm, 200 mm, 400 mm, 500
mm, gas-solid fluidized bed columns, 150 mm, 186 mm, 420 mm gas-solid circulating
fluidized bed reactor, high-pressure, high temperature gas-liquid,
liquid-solid, gas-liquid-solid, two- and three-dimensional flow visualization
reactor systems. High temperature apparatus for ultrafast gas-solid reaction
studies. High pressure, high temperature multiphase flow apparatus (up to 100
atm and 350 C).
Reaction and
transport phenomena research equipment: Various microreactor system with high
pressure and temperature. Capacitance electrical probes, and pitot tube.
Various: Spectrophotometer, incubator, dissolved oxygen meter and probe,
pH meter and probe, hydrocarbons, CO, Nitrogen analyzers. Laser Doppler
Velocimetery (TSI Co.). Powder Testing Equipment (particle size analyzer, shear
testers consolidating equipment, compressibility-permeability test equipment).