The primary research thrust is High-Gravity (HiGee) Process Intensification, an technology that uses rotating centrifugal fields to achieve process intensification. A significant enhancement in momentum, heat, and mass transfer, together with reduced equipment height and energy consumption, can be achieved through high-gravity technology. Our research spans the fundamental hydrodynamics and transport phenomena of multiphase systems, the development of advanced rotating packed beds and functional packing materials, AI-driven reactor design and optimization, and the scale-up of HiGee technologies for industrial applications.

Current research themes include:

Gas-liquid mass transfer intensification

The gas-liquid mass transfer process accompanied by chemical reaction and the intensification means and mechanism are investigated within the process from chemical reaction to inter-phase mass transfer.

Decarbonization and desulfurization,

Remove H₂S、SO₂、CO₂ from natural gas, refinery gas, and industrial emissions and investigate the selective absorption of H₂S with multi-acid gases coexisting. The high gravity technology is employed to enhance gas-liquid mass transfer and improve the selectivity.

AI-driven design and scale-up of HiGee processes

AI-enabled design that integrates mechanistic models with data-driven methods to determine optimal structures and operating conditions from target mass-transfer efficiency, selectivity, and energy consumption will be developed. This approach will accelerate the design and scale-up of HiGee equipment for decarbonization, desulfurization, and gas–liquid reaction processes.

2005.09 - 2010.06:  PhD,  Majoring in Chemical engineering and technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology

2005.09 - 2010.06: BEng, Majoring in Chemical engineering and technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology 

   

2010.07- now: Graduate University of Chinese academy of sciences 

2010.05 – 2010.07: High Gravity Research Center of Beijing Research Institution of Chemical Industry, SINOPEC

   

[1]Zhi Qian, Zhisheng Yu,Xinchun Liu, Hongxun Zhang and Yiwen Jv. A Pilot-scale Demonstration of Reverse Osmosis Unit in Coal-bed Methane Produced Water Treatment and Its Governing Modeling Research. Chin. J. of Chem. Eng ,2012, 20(2): 302-311. 
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[2] Zhi Qian , Kai Guo. Selective absorption of H₂S from gas mixture of CO₂ and H₂S into aqueous N-methyldiethanolamine in a　rotating　packed bed. I&EC Research, 2010, 49(13): 6196–6203.
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[3] Zhi Qian, Kai Guo. Modeling study on gas-liquid mass transfer accompanied by reversible reaction in a rotating packed bed. Chin. J. of Chem. Eng ,2010, 61(4): 832-838. 
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[4] Zhi Qian, Lianbin Xu, Huibo Cao, Kai Guo. Modeling　study　on　absorption of CO₂ by aqueous solutions of MDEA in rotating packed bed. I&EC Research, 2009, 48(20), 9261-9267. 
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[5] Zhi Qian, Kai Guo. Modeling and kinetic study on absorption of CO₂ by aqueous solutions of MDEA in a modified wetted wall column. Chin. J. of Chem. Eng., 2009,17(4): 571-579.  
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