Ultrasonic Chemical Process Intensification

Professor Xiaoping Lu works at the School of Chemical Engineering at Nanjing Tech University and is a member of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China and the Ultrasound Division of Acoustical Society of China. Dr. Lu earned his Ph.D. from Nanjing Tech University and has served there as a Doctoral Adviser. His studies involve a number of research projects on chemical engineering that focus on ultrasound chemical process intensification, publishing over 100 SCI and EI articles and granted with over 20 patents in China. Dr. Lu also cooperated with other research laboratories on subjects such as chemical engineering simulation, mass transfer, air-lift reactor, ultrasonic intensification, and other relevant researches regarding the related process engineering application, with institutes including the Chemical Engineering Institute of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Toulouse Institute of Chemical Engineering (ENSIGC), and the National Chemical Engineering Laboratory from Toulouse (UMR CNRS 5503). Dr. Lu established the Institute of ultrasonic chemical engineering, specializing in the research and development of ultrasonic technology. The study of his institute covers the research projects that involve the development and operation of various ultrasonic intensified mass/heat transfer units, ultrasonic chemical and ultrasonic catalytic reactions, ultrasonic enzymatic reactions, ultrasound-driven crude oil cracking, ultrasonic (waste oil, scum, crude oil) demulsification, desalination, and dehydration, ultrasonic viscosity reduction, ultrasonic diesel micro-emulsification, ultrasound on refractory organic wastewater treatment and biological residual sludge reduction, ultrasonic sterilization with circulating water, ultrasonic biomolecule salting out, ultrasound-assisted cleaning and scale inhibition, and ultrasonic chemical reaction device. The research results from Dr. Lu have been used in industrial applications in the field of ultrasound.

Dr. Desheng Deng is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor in the School of Electronic Engineering, at Southeast University. He is the member of the Acoustical Society of China, vice chairman of the branch of physical acoustics and detection acoustics at this society, and an associate editor of electronic devices. His main research interests are in ultrasonics and nonlinear acoustics. He has completed a number of NSFC projects and published about 30 papers in the Journals, such as Journal of American acoustic society. He ever engaged in the research of temperature characteristics of SAW devices, ultrasonic transducers, nonlinear ultrasonic microscopy and so on. He won the second prize of Jiangsu Science and Technology Progress Award in 2002 and the second prize of Natural Science Award of Ministry of education in 2006.

Ping Zhang is professor and the director of the Division of Technological Industry at Lianyungang Technical College. She is a member of the National Steering Committee of vocational College Education on Chemical Engineering of China and Graduate Advisor at Nanjing Tech University. In 2006, Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Nanjing Tech University. From Apr 2012 to Apr 2013, she was a Visiting Scholar at University of Southampton. Dr. Zhang’s research interests focus on medical synthesis and sonochemistry application. She published over 20 articles on various scientific journals, including Chemical Engineering Journal and Ultrasonics. Dr. Zhang has successively been honored the titles of the Outstanding Educator of Jiangsu Province, the Academic Leader of the “Qing Lan Project”, and the Academic Leader of the “333 Project”.

Dr. Haoli Zhou is a professor and the deputy dean of the college of Chemical Engineering at Nanjing Tech University in China. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Waterloo from 2011-2012 and Swansea University from 2019-2020, and was selected as Young Academic Leader of the Jiangsu Qinglan Project in 2023. His current research focuses on developing polymer membrane materials and membrane processes. He has published more than 40 journal publications in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, J. Hazard. Mater., Chem. Eng. J. et al., and has been granted over 20 Chinese patents.

Liqiu Yang is an Assistant Professor at Nanjing Tech University. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 2017 and then worked at the school as a postdoctoral researcher for three years. Her research interests focus primarily on catalysis and membrane separation. To date, she has published over ten papers in international journals, including ACS Catalysis and the Journal of Membrane Science, as well as a chapter in the 2019 Elsevier book Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for Environmental Applications.