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Arastoopour. Hamid Arastoopour is presently Max MGraw professor of Energy/ Environment/ Economics and chairman of Chemical & Environmental Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He is one of the pioneers and leading researchers in computational fluid dynamics for gas/particulate and fluidized bed systems. He began this approach in 1978, and today it is being used by many industries all over the world for process evaluation and design. This approach has continuously shortened the road from laboratory-scale to commercialization for fluidized bed processes. Today he has a partnership with both of the main software development companies (Fluent, Inc., and AEA Technology) to further improve this advanced design tool. His early work in agglomeration of particles significantly enhanced the understanding of agglomeration of polymeric materials. One of his significant contributions to the area of Particle Technology has been his research in particle Characterization and Non - Invasive measurement of particle flow parameters using laser Doppler Anemometer Techniques. He has over 75 publications including 3 book chapters and 9 U.S. patents, 6 of which are in the Pulverization and agglomeration of the particles. He received many Award including AIChE Donald Q. Kern Award in Heat transfer and Energy Conversion, AIChE Lectureship in Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems for significant contribution and pioneering work in numerical simulation of fluid-particle and fluidized bed systems (1999), Ernest W. Thiele Award of AIChE Local Section for significant contribution to the practice of the chemical engineering profession in the Midwest (1997), University Excellence in Teaching sponsored by Amoco Foundation (1992) and leadership recognition from Council for chemical Research (2000). He was chairman of the fluid particle systems and fluidization area of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in 1996 and 1997, and volume editor of the Fluidization and Fluid Particle Systems 1998 and 1999 Symposium Series. He is currently on the editorial board of the Powder Technology Journal and member of the Conical for Chemical Research Governing Board.
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