Process Engineering at Multiscale – a Surrey Perspective
时间：2018年9月30日上午9:00
地点：贺兰山校区科技楼C219室
Speaker ：Prof. Charley Wu (邬传宇)
Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH. E-mail: C.Y.Wu@surrey.ac.uk
Process engineering concerns the conversion of raw materials into value-added products through translating customers’ needs into production systems in a wide range of industries, such as chemical, petrochemical, food, advanced material and pharmaceutical industries. Process engineering hence involves the design, optimization and intensification of chemical and biological processes, which are typically multiscale problems. In this talk, a brief overview of the wide range of research activities related to chemical and process engineering at the University of Surrey will be presented, which include energy and materials, digital & process innovation, water processing technology, health & food, formulations and products. In addition, how a multiscale approach can be taken to tackle challenging problems associated with process engineering will be illustrated. Furthermore, various options for potential research collaboration and partnership in undergraduate and postgraduate education will be discussed.
Speaker’s biography
Prof. Chuan-Yu (Charley) Wu is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, the University of Surrey. UK. He is currently an executive editor for Powder Technology, a leading peer reviewed journal on particle systems. He recently co-authored a monograph on “Particle Technology and Engineering” published by Elsevier in 2016 and edited two books entitled “Discrete Element Modelling of Particulate Media” and “Particulate Materials: Synthesis, Characterisation, Processing and Modelling” published by RSC publishing. He also edited five journal special issues and published over 100 scientific papers. He has given more than 60 invited presentations and seminars at international conferences, industrial companies and universities worldwide. Prof. Wu is a member of the advisory and editorial board for “Particuology”, and “Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B (APSB) ”.
Prof. Wu has expertise in particle technology, discrete element methods, finite element analysis, modelling and simulations, pharmaceutical engineering and granular dynamics. His research has been supported by global pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sanofi and MSD, in addition to EPSRC and EU. He recently coordinated a EU FP7 consortium on predictive modelling of roll compaction that consists of 14 partners and 15 researchers from 8 European countries, with a total budget of €3.8m and is also leading a new EU H2020 consortium (€4.2m with 15 partners) on thermomechanical analysis of particle systems.
Prof. Wu obtained his BSc and MSc from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and his PhD. on finite element analysis of particle impact problems from Aston University (Birmingham, UK) in 2002. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Engineering in the University of Leicester from 2001 to 2003, and at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy in the University of Cambridge between 2003 and 2005. In November 2005, Prof. Wu was awarded a prestigious EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship and joined the University of Birmingham. He was appointed as a senior lecturer in the School of Chemical Engineering at Birmingham in December 2008 and a professor in chemical engineering at the University of Surrey in January 2013.
