OGIRC

University of Western Ontario
Dept. Engineering

Dr. Zhu's main research interests are in the powder handling, fluid-particle and multiphase systems. His current research interests include circulating fluidized bed riser and downer reactors, liquid-solid and gas-liquid-solid circulating fluidized beds, fluidization regime transition, mixing, heat transfer, modelling and design of fluidized bed reactors, and fluidization of cohesive fine and ultrafine powders, plus many new applications of powder technology. His most important research achievements include the establishment of the new concept "high density riser" flow, milestone work on liquid-solids circulating fluidized bed and downer fluidized bed, and more recently the development of novel technologies that can efficiently handle ultrafine powders real for industrial applications.