Fluidization is an important field of both fundamental research and broad industrial applications. Current understanding of the complex fluid-particle multiphase flow patterns, coupled with heat and mass transfer and chemical reactions, is still incomplete.
With a long established tradition, this series of conferences has been held all over the world tackling challenges and successes with the design and operation of fluidized beds and similar fluid-particle systems. This newest session in Guilin, China stimulated the interplay between the academic, engineering and industrial communities to address the challenges for the future of fluidization technology.
Conference Co-Chairs
- Chi-Hwa Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Wei Ge, Institute of Process Engineering, CAS, China
Plenary Speakers
- Professor Hamid Arastoopour, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
- Professor Jamal Chaouki, Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
- Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens, University College London, United Kingdom
- Professor Benjamin Glasser, Rutgers University, USA
- Professor Stefan Heinrich, Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany
- Professor Christine Hrenya, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
- Professor Hans Kuipers, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Professor Gert Lube, Massey University, New Zealand
- Professor Fei Wei, Tsinghua University, China
- Professor Jesse Zhu, Western University, Canada
- Professor Qingshan Zhu, Institute of Process Engineering, CAS, China
Keynote Speakers
- Professor Xiaotao Bi, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Professor Ronald W. Breault, National Energy Technology Laboratory, USA
- Professor Ray Cocco, Particulate Solid Research, Inc., USA
- Professor Hugo de Lasa, Western University, USA
- Professor Niels Deen, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Professor Alberto Di Renzo, University of Calabria, Italy
- Professor Qingjie Guo, Ningxia University, China
- Professor Masayuki Horio, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
- Professor Qinfu Hou, Monash University, Australia
- Professor Navid Mostoufi, University of Tehran, Iran
- Professor Hervé Neau, CNRS, France
- Professor Wojciech Nowak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Australia
- Professor Raffaella Ocone, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
- Professor J. Ruud van Ommen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Professor Christoph Pfeifer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
- Professor Mikio Sakai, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Professor Yansong Shen, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Professor Atsushi Tsutsumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Professor Wei Wang, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Professor Charley Wu, University of Surrey, Unuted Kingdom
- Professor Qingang Xiong, General Motors, USA
- Professor Guangwen Xu, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, China
- Professor Ji Xu, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Professor Wuqiang Yang, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom