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The College of Chemical Engineering consists of the Department of Chemical Engineering (DCE), the Department of Environmental Engineering (DEE) and the Research Institute of Chemical Engineering (RICE). There are 92 faculty and staff in the college, including 28 full professors and 28 associate professors. 21 of the professors have been approved as supervisors of Ph. D. Students.
Currently, 919 ergraduate students, 309 raduate students and 78 Ph. D. students are enrolled in the College, majoring in chemical engineering, environmental engineering.
There are also 6 postdoctoral research fellows
Teaching Groups Unit Operations
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Transport Processes
Chemical Technology
Reaction Engineering
Research Labs of RICE
Physical Properties & Process Simulation
Industrial Catalysis & Reactor
Fluid Mixing Engineering
Mass Transfer & Separation Engineering
Process Simulation & Optimization
Hydrodynamics & Heat Transfer
Research Centers
High Gravity Technology R&D Center
Membrane Engineering Development Center
Environmental Science & Engineering Center
Main Research Projects:
(1) Industrial Catalysis & Reactors ( Prof. LI Chengyue)
Dynamic characteristics of reactors
Forced periodic operation of fixed bed reactor
Design and engineering of catalysts
Optimization of reactors
Green chemistry
Clean production processes
(2) Fluid Mixing & Reactor Engineering (Prof. GAO Zhengming)
Single and multiphase mixing in stirred tanks
Fundamental research and industrial applications of stirred reactors
CFD simulation of flow, concentration and temperature fields in single and multiphase stirred reactors
Micromixing, chemical reactions and CFD simulation in stirred reactors
High viscosity and non-Newtonian fluid mixing, heat transfer and CFD simulation in stirred tanks
Polymerization reaction engineering
Mechanical aspects of mechanically agitated reactors
(3) Physical Properties & Process Simulation (Profs. WANG Wenchuan, ZHONG Chongli)
Computer simulation of fluids confined in functional materials
Drug delivery and controlled release systems
Quantum chemical calculations
Transport and equilibrium properties in polymer processing
Thermodynamics of complex systems
Fabrication of micro- and nano-powders
(4) High Gravity Technology (Prof. CHEN Jianfeng )
HIGRATEC for multiphase chemical and biochemical reactions and separations
HIGRATEC aeration and deaeration of Newtonian &non-Newtonian fluids
HIGRATEC desulfurization and dedusting of gases
HIGRATEC reactive distillation
HIGRATEC for preparation of nanomaterials