Students

Current Students:

  • Jidon Janaun (2007 – ): Ph.D. student working in the area of carbon catalyst for biodiesel production.
  • Stephen Reaume (2009 – ): Ph.D. student on cold flow properties of biodiesel.
  • Amir Dehkhoda (2010 – ): Ph.D. student on biochar catalyst development.
  • Jordon Cheung (2009 – ): M.A.Sc. student on chemical-looping combustion hot unit studies. Co-supervised with Dr. Jim Lim.
  • Paula A. Reyes (2010 – ): M.A.Sc. student on hydrodynamics of limestone for CO2 capture. Co-supervised with Dr. Jim Lim and Dr. John Grace.
  • Tyler Lewis (2010 – ): M.A.Sc. student on biomass gasification tar reduction. Co-supervised with Dr.Xiaotao Bi and Dr. John Grace.
  • Mohammad Masnadi (2010 – ): Ph.D. student on co-fed gasification. Co-supervised with Drs. Drs.John Grace, Xiaotao Bi, and Jim Lim. 

 

Supervised Students:

  • Min Xu (2004 – 2010 ): Ph.D. student working in the area of chemical-looping-combustion. Co-supervised with Dr. Jim Lim.
  • Masakazu Sakaguchi (2005 – 2010 ): Ph.D. student working in the area of biofuels. Co-supervised with Dr. Paul Watkinson.
  • Soojin Lee (2008 – 2010 ): M.A.Sc. student working in the are of biodiesel process simulation.
  • Amir Dehkhoda (2008 – 2010 ): M.A.Sc. student working in the area of biodiesel catalyst development.
  • Saifur Rahaman (2003 – 2009): Ph.D student in Civil Engineering working in the area of UBC MAP liquid-solid fluidized bed crystallizer. Co-supervised with Dr. Don Mavinic.
  • Xiaoxiang Jiang (2008 – 2009): visiting Ph.D. student working on bio-oil upgrading.
  • Saber Naserifar (2009): visiting M.A.Sc. student working on CLC attrition testing.
  • Alex West (2004 – 2006 ): M.A.Sc. student working in the area of biodiesel conversion.
  • Kruti Patel (2004 – 2007 ): M.A.Sc. student studying biodiesel stability and engine emission. Co-supervised with Dr. Steve Rogak.
  • Thomas Bennett (2006 – 2007): 4th year thesis project titled, ‘Solar Thermal Water Heating’.
  • Tim Chen (2005-2006): 4th year thesis project titled, ‘Viscosity Monitoring of Transesterification Reaction’.
  • Ian Chong (2005 – 2006): 4th year thesis project titled, ‘Biodiesel in Fuel Cell’. Co-supervised with Dr. Olivera Kesler.
  • Yeon-Ju Lim (2005): Intern working on separation and characterization of pyrolytic lignin. Co-supervised with Dr. John Kadla.
  • Crissa Villamayor (summer 2005): NSERC USRA student working on the characterization of pyrolytic lignin in bio-oil. Co-supervised with Dr. John Kadla.
  • Conrad Poon (summer 2005): NSERC USRA student working on in-situ measurement of biodiesel production.
  • Michael Lee (summer 2005): NSERC USRA student working on waste water treatment of biodiesel production.
  • Jenny Eng (summer 2005): NSERC USRA student working on fluidization characteristics of biomass. Co-supervised with Dr. John Grace. 
  • Jack Cornelissen (2004 – 2005): Visiting Ph.D. student working on CFD modeling of liquid fluidization. Co-supervised with Dr. John Grace, and Dr. Fariborz Taghipour. 
  • Feng Guan (2003 – 2004 ): MEng student working in the area of biodiesel production.
  • Marc de Asis (summer 2004): Summer student working on the acid catalyzed transesterification reaction for biodiesel production.
  • Patrick Ngan (2003 – 2004): 4th year thesis project titled, ‘Biodiesel Quality Testing’.
  • Clayton Wong (2002 – 2003): 4th year thesis project titled, ‘Two Dimensional Model of a Fluid Bed Using Computational Fluid Dynamics’.

Postdocs

  • Thomas Fouilland (2009 – ): Biodiesel production with supercritical reactor.
  • Zhiming Fan (2006):Upgrading of bio-oil through emulsification with biodiesel.
  • Xiao-Sen Li (2004 – 2005):Upgrading of bio-oil through emulsification with biodiesel.