Thermochemical Process Engineering

Kevin Van Geem (associate professor) is member of the Laboratory for Chemical Technology of Ghent University. Thermochemical reaction engineering in general and in particular the transition from fossil to renewable resources are his main research interests. He is a former Fulbright Research Scholar of MIT and directs the Pilot plant for steam cracking and pyrolysis. He is the author of more than hundred scientific publications and has recently started his own spin-off company. He is involved in on-line and off-line analysis of complex petrochemical and biochemical samples using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography. Pyrolysis, detailed kinetic modeling, process, scale-up, modeling, and ant-fouling technology belong to his main expertise.

1. Pyrolysis, Gasification and Combustion of Solid Fuels Eliseo Ranzi, Tiziano Faravelli, Flavio Manenti 2. Mechanistic Understanding of Thermochemical Conversion of Polymers and Lignocellulosic Biomass Xiaowei Zhou, Linda J. Broadbelt, Ravikrishnan Vinu 3. Steam Cracking and EDC Furnaces Simulation Yu Zhang, Guihua Hu, Wenli Du, Feng Qian 4. Gas turbines and Engine Simulations Benedicte Cuenot