Recently, a team of CUPB faculties participated in the 7th UK-China International Particle Technology Forum in the University of Edinburgh. The forum was jointly hosted by the University of Edinburgh and the Institute of Process Engineering under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 161 representatives from more than 60 universities of 13 countries attended this forum. The participating universities included world famous ones like the University of Cambridge, Imperial College, City University of London, University of Edinburgh, University of Birmingham, Heriot-Watt University, University of Leeds, Princeton University, Duke University, Ohio State University, National University of Singapore, University of Tokyo, etc., and domestic ones like Tsinghua University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Southeast University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Institute of Process Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Engineering Thermal Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Beijing University of Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Ningxia University, Shanghai University of Technology, Jiangnan University, etc., in which there are 5 members of Worldwide Energy University Network (WEUN). Prof. L. S. Fan, the Ohio State University, Academician of the American Academy of Engineering, Prof. James Litster, University of Sheffield, UK, Prof. Hans Kuipers, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Prof. Jennifer Curtis, University of California, Davis (American Presidential Award Winner) were invited to give plenary reports on the forum. There were also keynotes (14 person), oral reports (136 person) and posters (57 person). Experts and scholars from all over the world gathered together to discuss their latest research progress and technological innovation in this field during the 3-day meeting.
The post entitled with “Advance of heat transfer intensified method for regeneration catalyst cooler of fluid catalytic cracking” by Dr. Yao Xiuying, a young faculty of College of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, CUPB, won the Prize of Best Post. According to the special requirements of catalytic cracking regenerator of gas-solid heat transfer, a new type of extra-circulating heat extractor has been designed and developed, which can effectively improve the heat transfer coefficient by 20% and make a significant contribution to improving the quality of products by refining process. At the same time, two other young scholars respectively from the University of Surrey and the University of Tokyo were awarded. Dr. Yao Xiuying is the only Chinese scholar who won this award on the forum
Prof. Liu Mengxi of the College of Chemical Engineering and Environment, CUPB, was invited to give a keynote speech entitled “Development and Commercialization of a Gas-solid Airlift Loop Reactor”, which gave an in-depth introduction to the latest development of CUPB patented technology of gas-solid loop reactor in basic research and industrial applications. The gas-solid loop reactor is a high-efficiency gas-solid reactor obtained by innovatively expanding the gas-liquid circulation theory to the gas-solid system. Mass and heat transfer between gas and solid phases is greatly strengthened by constructing an orderly and controllable gas-solid circulation flow in the reactor. Over the years, Profs. Liu Mengxi and Lu Chunxi have carried out a lot of basic research on the macroscopic flow, mesoscale flow and interphase transfer of gas-solid two phases. Meanwhile they have used the gas-solid circulation flow to develop key equipment for catalytic cracking, such as combined stripper (MSCS), catalyst heat extractor, catalyst mixer, etc. These achievements have realized industrial application in nearly 20 sets of equipment which accumulated a total of 4.06 billion yuan for the enterprise. Based on it, the research team won 1 National Prize and 2 Provincial and Ministerial Awards. In addition, such achievement was well acknowledged by international counterparts.
Since 2007 (Leeds, UK), UK-China International Particle Technology Forums have been held alternately in China and the UK, (Guiyang (in 2009), Birmingham (in 2011), Shanghai (in 2013), Leeds (in 2015) and Yangzhou (in 2017)). This conference was originally named as “the UK-China Particle Technology Forum” but renamed as “UK-China International Particle Technology Forum” as a world-class forum in 2013 because of its expanding influence, and more and more attention paid by the world.
(Edited by: Fan Xiaoyuan, Wan Zehuan)
