Preface in dedication to Professors Yong Jin and Zhiqing Yu--颗粒学报PARTICUOLOGY

Zhu, J., & Bi, X. (2006). Preface in dedication to Professors Yong Jin and Zhiqing Yu. China Particuology, 4(3), 103. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1672-2515(07)60246-2

Preface in dedication to Professors Yong Jin and Zhiqing Yu

Jesse Zhu (Guest editor) ^a, Xiaotao Bi (Guest editor) ^b

a University of Western Ontario
b University of British Columbia

10.1016/S1672-2515(07)60246-2

Volume 4, Issues 3–4, July 2006, Page 103

Available online 27 November 2007.

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This special issue of China PARTICUOLOGY is dedicated to Professors Yong Jin and Zhiqing Yu of Tsinghua University, China, to celebrate over five decades of their careers in chemical engineering research and education. Prof. Jin graduated in 1959 from Ural Polytechnic College in Svivdelovsk in the former USSR and then completed his post-graduate studies in Tianjin University in China in 1960. Thereafter, he taught at the Chinese University of Science and Technology for 13 years before joining Tsinghua University in 1973. Prof. Yu graduated in 1956 from Tianjin University in China and joined Tsinghua University thereafter. Between 1957 and 1959, Prof. Yu undertook more studies in Moscow Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology in the former USSR. During the 1970s, Professors Jin and Yu jointly created the Reaction Engineering Program in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University, which later became one of the largest fluidization research groups in the world, known as FLOTU — Fluidization Laboratory of Tsinghua University.

Over the past 30 plus years, they have made highly significant contributions to research and practice of fluidization and related fluid-particle systems. Their work has entailed a wide spectrum of research and development from fundamental understanding to practical applications of gas-solid, liquid-solid, and gas-liquid-solid fluidization systems, resulting in over 300 publications and 20 patents to their credit. In particular, Professors Jin and Yu are recognized as world leading experts through their work on turbulent fluidization and clever and unique configurations of baffles/internals to promote bubble breakup and induce early transition to turbulent fluidization, on circulating fluidized bed riser reactors, and on the ground-breaking studies of gas-solid downer and liquid-solid and gas-liquid-solid riser systems. Their work has shown great ingenuity, often incorporating innovative geometries and novel experimental techniques, to gain special knowledge and new understanding. Their dedicated work on hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer, reactor design and development for chemical, petrochemical and other industrial applications has won respect from their colleagues world-wide. As true practitioners, they have also successfully incorporated theory into industrial practice and have invented numerous fluidization processes, many of which have led to significant economic impact.

Professors Jin and Yu are also excellent educators and mentors. Their team at Tsinghua University has become one of the leading fluidization groups in the world, largely due to their joint leadership and great efforts in training graduate students and young researchers. A large number of their former students and younger associates are now very active in fluidization and related areas in both academia and industry world-wide. Many of them have established themselves and begun to play an important role in the field. Professors Jin and Yu have also contributed to chapters in several widely circulated reference books in this area and have also been responsible for several valuable review articles that benefited the entire community. They were also on the editorial team for the first comprehensive fluidization textbook in Chinese entitled "Fluidization Engineering Principles", published by Tsinghua University Press in 2001.

Together with their colleagues in the Tsinghua fluidization group, Professors Jin and Yu have received numerous awards from the Chinese chemical industry and various government bodies. In 1997, Professor Jin was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering. This year, Professor Jin received the prestigious Fluidization Lectureship Award sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

The guest editors would like to thank the valuable contributions from friends and colleagues working in the area of fluidization and fluid-particle systems. The guest editors would also like to thank the reviewers for their dedicated effort that helped to make this special issue a great success.

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