This book provides a detailed overview of the plasma fluidized bed. It is an innovative tool and generally combines plasma process with another efficient reactor, fluidized bed, providing an excellent method for particulate processes over conventional technology. The development and designs of typical types of plasma fluidized beds, mainly thermal plasma fluidized beds and non-thermal plasma fluidized beds are discussed. The influencing factors on the performance of plasma fluidized beds are analyzed in detail. The mechanism, i.e. the discharge characteristics, hydrodynamics, heat transfer and mass transfer are analyzed to offer a further insight of plasma fluidized beds. Applications of plasma fluidized beds for different areas, including metallurgy extraction, green energy process, environmental protection and advanced materials are presented. The book is a valuable reference for scientists, engineers and graduate students in chemical engineering and relative fields.
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.
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rof. 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.
Prof. Jujun Ruan received his PhD degree in 2012 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is currently an associate professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, working on waste treatment and reusing technology. Prof. Ruan has hosted or taken part in 10 scientific research projects. He has contributed more than 30 papers in academic journals including Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, et al. He has also filed 15 patents.
