4^th International Conference on Chemical Engineering September 17-18 Pacific Gateway Hotel at Vancouver Airport, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 17-18, 2018

Dr. Nicolas Abatzoglou is full professor and ex-Head of the Department of Chemical & Biotechnological Engineering of the University of Sherbrooke. He is Adjunct Professor at the University of Saskatchewan and Laval University. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is a specialist in Process Engineering involving particulate systems. He is the Director of the GRTP-C&P (Groupe of Research on Technologies and Processes in the Chemical & Pharmaceutical Industry). Since May 2008, he is the holder of the Pfizer Industrial Research Chair in Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) in Pharmaceutical Engineering. He is one of the Leaders in Canada’s NCE Network BioFuelNet on Biorefining. He is co-founder of the company Enerkem Technologies Inc., precursor of Enerkem Inc., a spin-off commercializing technologies in the field of energy from renewable resources. His scientific production includes a 100+ publications, reviews, conferences, keynotes, plenaries and invited lectures, patents and three book chapters.

His research interest includes Process Engineering involving particulate systems.

Dr. Davis L. Ford is an Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, and a Visiting Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. He is practicing environmental engineer with over forty-five years of experience in the field. In addition, he serves on the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin as an adjunct professor, has published more than one hundred technical papers, has co-authored or contributed to ten textbooks, and written two biographies and co-authored one children’s book. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and in countries of Europe, South America and Asia. Ford received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Texas A&M University and his master and doctorate degrees in environmental engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a Distinguished Engineering Graduate of both Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin as well as a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M. Ford was elected into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has served as president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and chairman of the Academy Ethics Committee. His honorary affiliations include Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Chi Epsilon. Ford serves on the Board of a publicly-owned oil and exploration company (CWEI, NASDAQ) and the Board of the Texas A&M University Press.

He is interested in Chemical, Petroleum & environmental issues & especially in environmental researches he got over forty-five years of experience in the field.

Head of the Department of Theoretical Mechanics and Resistance of Materials, Yaroslavl State Technical University (Yaroslavl, Russia). Specialty - physics, specialization - theoretical physics (1989). She is D. Sc. in the physical and mathematical field (direction - processes and devices of chemical technologies, 2009), has more than 300 scientific publications on the modeling of bulk materials processing and liquid flow processes, as well as over 50 patents of the Russian Federation.

Her research area includes modeling the processing of bulk materials, (for example, the technological operations of mixing and deaeration of solid disperse media) and the transport of fluid flows.

Dr. Adango Miadonye, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry in the School of Science & Technology has received global recognition in the field of petroleum engineering and petroleum chemistry. His impressive publication record includes 80 peer-reviewed articles, numerous book chapters, and a number of presentations at important international conferences. An accomplished and respected student supervisor, Dr. Miadonye is extensively cited and has also formed the basis for a number of industrial collaborations. Well-respected by his colleagues nationally and internationally, Dr. Miadonye has been a leader and contributor to his professional academic community holding offices and serving on committees with numerous academic and professional societies.

His research interest includes how temperature and pressure affect the viscosity of bitumen and crude oil, green chemistry, sustainable solvents and processing, petroleum and petroleum products characterization, polymeric materials characterization and processing.

Giacomo Cao, Professor of Chemical Engineering, is currently the Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cagliari, Italy and the Head of the Bioengineering Group at CRS4, Italy. The main research interests in the field of biomedical engineering are the design of rotating bioreactors for engineered cartilage growth, the experimental analysis and modeling of in vitro proliferation of mesenchymal stem cells, the use of human mesenchymal stem cells for acute toxicity tests as well as the development of novel processes for tissues decellularization and recellularization.

Gas-Liquid Reactions and Reactors Engineering Self-Propagating High-Temperature Reactions Adsorption and Ion Exchange Synthesis of Advanced Materials by SHS, FACS, BM and SPS Mechanochemical Reactions and Reactors Contaminated Sites Remediation Toxic Wastes Inertization and Recycling Tissue Engineering Microalgae Technology Toxicology of Nano-particles and Chemicals using hMSCs ISRU and ISFR processes for space exploration

Melaz Tayakout-Fayolle is a Full Professor with the LAGEP (Automatic and Chemical Engineering) of University of Lyon 1, France. She has received her BSc in Physics and Chemistry and MSc in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Marseille. Her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering was obtained in 1991 from the University of Lyon. She has worked three years (2005-2008) as Research Engineer for IFPEN Company. Since 1991, she has taught courses in chemical engineering, thermodynamics, mass transfer and dynamical modeling.

Her research area of interest include modeling of triphasic reactor: Mass transfer, chemical kinetics of the complex matrix and thermodynamics and design concepts in reactors.

Dr. Michele Trancossi, Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University has received global recognition in the field of energy and energy assessment of processes, with a personal major interest on transport. He has more than 70 peer review papers, 4 books’ chapters, despite a a relative young academic age. He has obtained an important international reconnaissance for his activity, being member of Portuguese FTC (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), permanent Member of C-MAST (Centre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies) /FCT Portugal, adjunct professor at Universitade da Beira Interior, president of CEDITA, the research centre by Romaero SA, the largest Romanian aeronautic industry. Dr. Trancossi has been into a leadership position into 3 EU financed project (for a total budget of more that 5 mls). He is holding offices and serving on committees with numerous academic and professional societies, including ASME, ASTM and SAE.

field of energy and exergy assessment of processes

Dr Abbas Amini is an assistant professor at the Australian College of ACK and Western Sydney University, and the member of graduate supervisory board. After obtaining PhD, he conducted research with other Australian universities, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash and Deakin Universities, and as a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a recent published book in 2016. Abbas is the editor of ten reputed journals, and the committee member of 20 international conferences.

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