Yi ChengPhD, Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084, China

Tel:86-10-62794468

Email:yicheng@tsinghua.edu.cn

Education

2000, PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, PR China

1994, B.E., Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, PR China

Careers

2008.01-present Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

2003.02-2007.12 Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

2001.01-2003.03 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Western Ontario, Canada

1998.11-2000.12 Research Fellow, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Research Areas

Multiphase reaction engineering; Micro-chemical engineering; Plasmas; Fluidization; Industrial catalysis

Major Awards

2020 National First-Class Undergraduate Courses, China

2017 Ten-thousand Talents Program (National special support program for high-level personnel recruitment), China

2016 Teaching Excellence Award, Tsinghua University

2015 Youth Science and Technology Innovation Lead, Ministry of Science and Technology

2014 The First Prize, Science of Technology Progress Award, China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation.

2013 The First Prize, The Ministry of Education Natural Science Award, China.

2010 P&G Youth Particuology Award, Chinese Society of Particuology

2010 National Awards for Chemical Engineers, China Petroleum & Chemical Industry Federation

2009 Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Universities, Ministry of Education

2008 Youth Outstanding Contribution in Science and Technology, China Petroleum & Petrochemical Industry Association

2008 The Best Young Teacher Awards, Tsinghua University

2002 Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China, Chinese Ministry of Education

Invited Talks

2022 Keynote speech, Mixing, mass transfer and reactions in ionic liquids in microchannel reactors. The First Annual Conference of Micro Chemical Technology of Chinese Chemical Society,August 8-10, 2022.

2021 Invited lecture, Fundamental study and applications of multiphase micro-reaction engineering. East China University of Science and Technology, August, 2021

2021 Invited lecture, Fundamental study and applications of multiphase reaction engineering under non-conventional, extreme conditions. Dalian University of Technology, May 2021

2019 Invited lecture, Fundamental study and applications of multiphase reaction engineering under non-conventional, extreme conditions. South China University of Technology, November 2019

2019 Invited lecture, Low-temperature assisted multiphase reaction processes. Nanjing University of Technology, October 2019

2019 Invited lecture, Multiphase reaction engineering under non-conventional, extreme conditions. Chongqing University, July 2019

2021 Fundamental study and applications of multiphase reaction engineering under non-conventional, extreme conditions. Southern University of Science and Technology, January 2019

2018 Invited Lecture, Process Intensification of Transfer Phenomena and Reactions in Multiphase Reactors. ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Clinton, USA, Oct 25, 2018

2018 Invited lecture, Chemical conversion processes at ultra-high temperatures in thermal plasma reactors. Chevron, San Francisco, USA, July 26, 2018

2017 Invited lecture, Fundamental study and applications of multiphase reaction engineering under non-conventional, extreme conditions. Beijing University of Chemical Technology, December 28, 2017

2017 Invited lecture, Fundamental study and applications of multiphase reaction engineering under non-conventional, extreme conditions. Nanjing Tech University, November 20, 2017

2017 Invited lecture, Fundamental study and applications of multiphase reaction engineering under non-conventional, extreme conditions. Southeast University, November 20, 2017

2017 Invited lecture, Fundamental study and applications of multiphase reaction engineering under non-conventional, extreme conditions. Shanghai Jiaotong University, November 12, 2017

2016 Invited Lecture, Modeling of Intra-Particle Transport Phenomena and Reactions in Multiphase Flows. The First International Workshop on Computational Particle Technology and Multiphase Processes, Suzhou, March 9-12, 2016.

2016 Keynote Speech, Chemical conversion processes at ultra-high temperatures in thermal plasma reactors. GCCES2016, Singapore, July 20-22,2016

2016 Keynote Speech, Intensified pyrolysis for asphaltene utilizaiton in thermal plasma. 252nd ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 21-25, 2016

2016 Keynote Speech, Mixing and Reaction inside Micro-Droplet: Visualization, LBM Simulation and Drug Nanoparticles. 14th International Conference on MicroREaction Technology (IMRET14), Beijing, September 12-14 2016

2016 Keynote Speech, Cleaner conversion of coal and other hydrocarbons to chemicals in thermal plasma reactors. the Fifth International Congress on Sustainability Science & Engineering (ICOSSE’16), Suzhou, China, October 24-27, 2016.

2015 Invited Talk, Mixing process inside micro-droplets: Visualization and LBM simulation. The 8th Sino-US Joint Conference of Chemical Engineering, Shanghai, Oct 12-16, 2015.

2014 Invited Talk, Chemical conversion processes at ultra-high temperatures in thermal plasma for functional nanomaterial fabrication. 2014 International Symposium on Plasmas for Catalyses and Energy Materials (ISPCEM 2014), Tianjin, China, Sept 13-16, 2014.

2014 Invited Talk, Recent development of coal pyrolysis in thermal plasma. 7th World Congress on Particle Technology (WCPT-7), Beijing, May 19-23, 2014.

2014 Invited Talk, Chemical conversion processes at ultra-high temperatures in thermal plasma for functional nanomaterial fabrication. 2014 International Symposium on Plasmas for Catalyses and Energy Materials (ISPCEM 2014), Tianjin, China, Sept 13-16, 2014.

2014 Invited Talk, Recent development of coal pyrolysis in thermal plasma. 7th World Congress on Particle Technology (WCPT-7), Beijing, May 19-23, 2014.

2013 Plenary lecture, Integrating plasma physics & chemistry with multiphase flows in fluidization engineering. FLUIDIZATION-XIV, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, May 25-30, 2013.

2012 Plenary lecture, Coal pyrolysis to acetylene in thermal plasma reactor: from fundamental study to industrial demonstration. 2012 International Symposium on Plasmas for Catalyses and Energy Materials (ISPCEM 2012), Tianjin, China, September 21-24, 2012.

2012 Keynote speech, Plasma-assisted synthesis of chlorinated polymers using a gas-solid contacting process, The 22nd International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE-22), Maastricht, the Netherlands, September 2-5, 2012.

2012 Invited talk, Rapid coal pyrolysis to acetylene in thermal plasma reactor: from fundamental study to industry, The 14th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (APCChE 2012), Singapore, February 22-25, 2012.

2011 Award for Honorable Mention Technical Paper (1 of 3),Rapid coal pyrolysis to acetylene in multi-stage thermal plasma reactor, The 28th Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, September 12-15, 2011.

2011 Invited talk, Plasma-assisted multiphase reactors and their applications in clean coal conversion and materials preparation, The 2nd Chemical Reaction Engineering Conference, Shanghai, July 21-22, 2011.

2011 Invited talk, Millisecond contact time reactors for low-cost hydrogen production, Frontier in Chemical Engineering – the 3rd Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium, Beijing, July 17-20, 2011.

2010 Invited talk, Modeling and simulation of chemically reacting flows in gas-solid catalytic and non-catalytic processes, Frontier in Chemical Engineering – the 2nd Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, October 4-7, 2010.

2008 Keynote speech, Development of coal pyrolysis to acetylene in hydrogen plasma reactor, the 1st International Symposium on Gasification and Application (iSGA), Shanghai, December 11, 2008.

2008 Invited talk,Research activities of Tsinghua University in multiphase reaction engineering,Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, November 10, 2008.

2008 Invited talk, Reactor analysis of coal pyrolysis to acetylene in hydrogen plasma reactor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA, November 6, 2008

2008 Invited talk,Research activities on fundamentals and applications of microreactors,Bayer (Shanghai), October 24, 2008

2008 Invited lecture, Research activity of Tsinghua University in fluidized bed technology, Seminar on Fluidization and Fluidized Bed Conversion Processes, organized by Fluid & Particle Processing Division, The Society of Chemical Engineers, Kyoto, Japan, September 11, 2008.

2008 Invited talk, Modeling and simulation of hydrodynamics in downer reactor,Chinese-German Workshop: From microscale to technical dimension– challenges in the simulation of dense gas-particle flows, Hamburg, Germany, May 19-20, 2008.

2008 Invited talk, Millisecond mixing and reactions in multiphase reactors, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, May 16, 2008.

2006 Invited talk,Downer reactor: from concept phase to industrial application,for PSRI Fluidization Lectureship Awards (represented Prof. Yong Jin), AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2006.

2005 Invited talk, Non-invasive measurement techniques applied in multiphase flow tomography and fluid micromixing studies, Frontier in Chemical Engineering, jointly organized by NSF (USA) and NSFC (China), August 9-12, 2005.

2005 Keynote speech, Genetic algorithm based fast X-ray CT technique applied in multiphase flow measurement. The 3rd China/USA/Japan Joint Chemical Engineering Conference, Beijing, October 11-13, 2005.

2003 Invited talk, Downer reactor: from conceptual design to industry, UOP (Chicago, USA), November 2003.

2000 Visiting talk, Geometrical control of hydrodynamics in multiphase flow reactors using fractal injectors, University of Cambridge, UK, October 2000.

Service to Community

Member of Managing Directors of Chinese Society of Particuology

Member of AIChE, CIESC (Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China)

Professional Committee Member of Process Simulation of CIESC

Professional Committee Member of Chemical Process Intensification of CIESC

Professional Committee Member of Micro-Chemical Process Technology of CIESC

Professional Committee Member of Engineering Thermal Chemistry of CIESC

Editor, Clean Energy (Oxford University Press, Executive Deputy Editor in Catalysis and Reaction Engineering)

Editor, Green Processing and Synthesis (DE GRUYTER)

Editorial Advisory Board member, International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering

Editor, Petrochemical Technology (石油化工)

Editor, Chemical Industry and Engineering Progress (化工进展)

Editor, Natural Gas Chemical Industry (天然气化工)