Lecture: Emulsion Stability and Novel Demulsification

Lecturer: Dr. Zhenghe Xu, P.Eng., University of Alberta, Canada

Time: 14:40 PM

Date: Sept. 28

Place: Academic hall, 3st Floor, Lihua Building

Organizer: State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation

Introduction to Dr. Zhenghe Xu:

　 Dr. Zhenghe Xu graduated with his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Minerals Engineering in 1982 and 1985, respectively, from Central-South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Changsha, China; and Ph.D. in Materials Engineering in 1990 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. He worked as a Research Associate at the Virginia Center for Coal and Mineral Processing and then as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Chemical and Nuclear Engineering) until 1992. He was appointed as an assistant professor in Metallurgical Engineering at McGill University in September 1992, and moved to the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta as an associate professor in January 1997. After promoted to professor in 2000, he was appointed as NSERC-EPCOR-AERI Industry Research Chair in Advanced Coal Cleaning and Combustion Technology from 2002 to 2007, Canada Research Chair in Mineral Processing in 2007, and NSERC-Industry Research Chair in Oil Sands Engineering in 2008. His main research area is interfacial sciences as applied to natural resources processing and utilization. He was elected to Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2008 and awarded APEGA Frank Spragins award in 2012.