Research

Main areas of research

  • Two and three phase fluidized bed reactors (bioreactors)
  • Fixed bed catalytic reactor, adsorption
  • Bubble/slurry bubble columns hydrodynamics
  • Heat transfer in non-Newtonian fluids,
  • Reactive drying at ppm level
  • Hydrophobic membrane application in wastewater treatment
  • Odor abatement
  • Reactor design for advanced oxidization process

Significant contributions to research

  • Development of a new process for odor abatement for Cargill Value Added Meat Co. London Ontario.
  • Development of a new method for determination of flow patterns in liquid-solid and gas-liquid-solid fluidized beds, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, UWO, London Canada
  • Development of a new method for online monitoring saturation/regeneration of solid catalysts in reactive drying fixed bed columns, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, UWO, London Canada
  • Determination of flow structure in a slurry bubble column by study of heat transfer from an electrically heated probe in slurry bubble.
  • Successful application of high voltage electrical field on polymerization reactions, Macromolecular Engineering Research Center, UWO, London, Canada
  • Successful implementation of membrane per-vaporation for wastewater treatment (for the first time) and crystallization, TODA Advanced Materials, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
  • Development of a new process for odor abatement, Cargill Value Added Meat products, London, Ontario, Canada
  • Supervision/co-supervision of PhD and Master of Engineering students
  • Application of tomography technique in study of hydrodynamics in L-S and G-L-S fluidized beds, UWO, London Canada
  • Innovative design of reactors for wastewater treatment by advanced oxidation process using titanium dioxide, UWO, London Canada
  • Fabrication of titanium dioxide nano tubes, UWO, London Canada
  • Supervision/co-supervision of PhD, MSc and MEng students