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Li Jinghai, a chemical engineer and CAS member, was born in Jingle County, Shanxi Province in October 1956.
He graduated from the Department of Thermal Engineering of the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1982. He entered a master's degree program at his alma mater in the same year. He obtained his Ph.D. from the former CAS Institute of Chemical Metallurgy (now the CAS Institute of Process Engineering, IPE) in Beijing in 1987. He conducted his post-doctoral research at the City University of New York and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. After returning to China in 1990, he served as assistant research professor, associate research professor, professor, vice director and director of IPE in succession. In February 2004, he was appointed a vice president of CAS.
Prof. Li has been engaged in quantitative design and scale-up studies of particle-fluid systems. He proposed a multi-scale approach based on micro-scale of individual particles, micro-scale of particle aggregates and macro-scale of apparatuses, and formulated the variational criterion for the heterogeneous flow structure of particle-fluid systems, leading to the establishment of the Energy-Minimization Multi-Scale (EMMS) model. The model has been extended to calculating radial profiles in particle-fluid systems and defining the critical condition for choking from one steady state to another. He further proposed that compromise between dominant sub-mechanisms in complex flow systems leads to the formation of heterogeneous structures, and formulated the variation criterion by analyzing compromise between the sub-mechanisms. In addition, he has made progress in computer-aided experiments in particle-fluid systems, as well as in clean-coal technology.
Prof. Li has filed 16 patents and put some of them into industrial applications. In recognition of his outstanding contributions, he was honored by two prizes from the National Awards for Natural Sciences, two prizes from the CAS Awards for Natural Sciences and one prize from the CAS Awards for Technical Inventions.
Prof. Li currently serves as chair of the Expert Committee on Energy under the National "863" Program, vice president of the All China Youth Federation and president of the Chinese Society of Particulogy. In addition, he sits on editorial committees or international advisory boards for several international periodicals, such as Powder Technology, Advanced Powder Technology and Chemical Engineering Science.
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