Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China / Plasma Fluidized Bed

Introduction.- Why plasma fluidized bed?.- Thermal plasma fluidized bed.- Non-thermal plasma fluidized bed.- Influencing factors on understanding of plasma fluidized bed.- Discharge characterization of plasma fluidized bed.- Hydrodynamics of plasma fluidized bed.- Heat transfer and mass transfer in the plasma fluidized bed.- Scientific and industrial application of plasma fluidized bed.- Comparison of the performance with different plasma fluidized beds.- Energy and economy.- Applicative ability and environmental risk.- Outlook.

Prof. Changming Du received his PhD degree in 2006 from Zhejiang University. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, working on plasma environmental technology, waste treatment and reusing technology. He is skilled in equipment manufacturing and product innovation. Prof. Du has hosted or taken part in 25 scientific research projects and built up industrial/pilot 6 demonstration facilities. He has filed 80 patents, and published 3 monographs. He has contributed more than 85 journal papers, in journals such as Chemical reviews, Scientific Reports, Applied Energy, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Hazardous Materials. Prof. Du was awarded "Science and Technology New Star in Zhu Jiang" in 2013, and received the 9th "Youth Technological award" in 2014, which was awarded by China environmental science academy.

Prof. Rongliang Qiu received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from Nanjing Agricultural University in 1987, 1989 and 1992, respectively. He has been professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering (SESE) at Sun Yat-sen University since 2001. Since 2005, he has been Director of Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Environmental Pollution, and, since 2012, Dean of SESE. In 2004, Prof. was elected into "New Century Excellent Talent Program" by Ministry of Education, P.R. China; he received South China Excellent Teacher Award in 2011 and Pearl River Scholar Award, Guangdong Province. In 2012, he received the Distinguished Youth Award by Natural Scientific Foundation of China (NSFC). To date, Prof. Qiu has been in charge of more than 30 research projects, and has published around 200 academic papers in international and Chinese journals.