SURNAME : Bi
FIRSTNAME: Xiaotao
MIDDLE NAME: Tony
EMAIL: xbi@chml.ubc.ca

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL : Chemical and Biological Engineering
FACULTY: Applied Science
PRESENT RANK: Professor
SINCE: July 2007

POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

Title of Dissertation and Name of Supervisor
Ph.D. thesis: “Flow regime transitions in gas-solids fluidization and transport” , Supervisor: J. R. Grace
M.A.Sc. thesis: “Heat transfer in fast fluidized beds,” Supervisors: Y. Jin and Z.Q. Yu
B.A.Sc. thesis: “Hydrodynamics of a monolithic tubular reactor,” Supervisors: Y. Jin and N.J. Yuan

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

(a) Prior to coming to UBC

(b) At UBC

(c) Date of granting of tenure at UBC: July 1, 2002

LEAVES OF ABSENCE

DETAILS:

I joined the Department in 1997 after working in the Natural Gas Technologies Centre as a senior research scientist on the utilization of natural gas, thermal treatment of waste slurries and gas pollutant removal and control.  My current research interests are in both fundamentals of multiphase flow and fluidization, and applications of fluidized bed reactors in chemical, petrochemical and environmental industries including reactor scaling and simulation, air pollution control (NO x and PM) and green engineering/ecological process engineering. The reaction engineering research involves extensive experimental work with pilot-scale reactors and analysis of data obtained from pilot and full-scale reactors.  Several on-going projects are: 

(1) Hydrodynamics, gas and solids mixing, heat transfer, modeling, simulation and scale-up of turbulent fluidized bed, high density circulating fluidized bed and spouted bed reactors,
(2) Electrostatic charges in gas-solids fluidized beds with dielectric particles,
(3) Catalytic NO x reduction in novel reactors, 
(4) Water management in PEM fuel cells,
(5) Biomass processing systems analysis.
(6) Green Engineering or ecological process engineering ( A recent department seminar )

Current CV: .doc files