In celebrating our work for 2014, we are holding an FRC Research Day on Dec 9 in the morning and ending with a lunch. The event will start at 9AM in Room 202. Students will give a 3 min thesis talk, faculty and postdocs will give a short talk, or a summary of conference attended. The speakers for the talk are listed as follows,
| Speaker | Title of talk |
| Dr. Norman Epstein | Wall effect in packed and related beds |
| Dr. Xiaotao Bi | Generalized flow regime maps for vertical fluid-particle flow systems |
| Dr. Naoko Ellis | Situating Fluidized Bed Pilot Scale Studies in Academia |
| Hafizur Rahman | Measurement of Solids Circulation Rate in a High Temperature Dual Fluidized Bed Gasifier |
| Badr Mohamed | Catalysts as a Microwave Absorber and in-situ Improve the Quality of Bio-Oil and Biochar Produced from Microwave-assisted Pyrolysis |
| Ziliang Wang | Local heat transfer between wall to bed in a conical spouted bed |
| Christoph Kaindl | Attrition of VPO catalysts by air jets |
| Stefan Vinnenberg | Liquid-Solid Fluidization |
| Amir Ahmadi Motlagh | CFD simulation of Hydrodynamics in Fluidized beds |
