1994 M.E., The City College of the City University of New York, Chemical Engineering
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Liu, K., Fung, S.C., Ho, T.C. and Rumschitzki, D., "Hydrogen decoking with partial activity recovery of Pt-Re/Al 2O3 reforming catalyst: Observation and kinetics," Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, 42(8): 1543-1550, 2003.
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Liu, K., Fung, S.C., Ho, T.C. and Rumschitzki, D., "Heptane reforming over Pt-Re/Al2O3: Reaction network, kinetics and apparent selective catalyst deactivation ;" J. Catalysis, 206, 188-201 March 2002.
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Liu, K., Ho, T.C., Fung, S.C. and Rumschitzki, D.S., "An Experimental Protocol for Studying Kinetics and Catalyst Deactivation”, Studies in Surfaces Science and Catalysis, Vol. 111, 625- 638, 1997.
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Liu, K., Fung, S.C., Ho, T.C. and Rumschitzki, D.S., "Kinetics of Catalyst Coking in Heptane Reforming over Pt-Re/Al2O3", Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, 36(8): 3264-3274, 1997.
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Rumschitzki, D. and Liu, K., "Zwietering's Maximum-Mixedness Reactor and The Continuously Stirred Tank Reactor", Chemical Engineering Science, 49(23): 3883-86, 1994.
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Liu, K., Fung, S.C., Ho, T.C. and Rumschitzki, D.S., "Identification of Coke Precursors in Heptane Reforming with a Multioutlet Fixed-Bed Reactor and a Novel Vibrational Microbalance", Journal of Catalysis, Vol. 169, 455-468, 1997.
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Fung, S.C., Querini, C.A., Liu, K., Rumschitzki, D.S. and Ho, T. C, "In Situ Coking Kinetics Obtained from a New Flow Through Microbalance and Reaction Kinetics Monitored by GC," Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, Vol. 88, 305-312, 1994.
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Liu, K., Ho, T.C., Fung, S.C. and Rumschitzki, D.S., "A New Microbalance Reactor: An Improved Method for In Situ Determination of Catalyst Sorption/Coking Rates and Reaction Kinetics", AIChE Annual Meeting, 1995.
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Liu, K., Querini, C.A., Rumschitzki, D.S., Ho, T.C., and Fung S.C., "Catalyst Coking Rate and Reaction Kinetics Determined Free of Feed Gas By-passing with a New Microbalance", 14th North American Meeting of Catalysis, Snowbird, Utah, June 11-16, 1995.
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Liu, K., Fung, S.C., Ho, T.C. and Rumschitzki, D.S., "Chemistry and Kinetics of Catalytic Reforming of n-Heptane over Pt-Re/Al2O3 Catalyst", AIChE Annual Meeting, 1996.
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Liu, K., Walters, L. and Rumschitzki, D.S., "A New Method for Sub-Millisecond Time-Resolved Spectroscopy and Its Use in the Study of Protein Folding Kinetics", Completed, 1997.
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Bhore, N.A. & Liu, K., "A New FCC Catalyst Additive to Maximize Light Olefins", NPRA Report, 1998.
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Liu, K. and Neeld, K. "Simulation of Mixing and Heat Transfer in Stirred Tanks with VisiMix", AIChE annual meeting, 1999.
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Bellows, R.J., Liu, K. and Dardas, Z, "Membrane Application in Fuel Processing for Fuel Cells", North American Membrane Meeting, Louisville, KT, 2001.
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Chester, A.W., Mathias, M.F. and Liu, K. "Making Ethylene in the FCC", 229th American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 13-17, 2005.
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Jian Sun, Joel DesJardins, John Buglass and Ke Liu* "Noble Metal Water Gas Shift Catalysis: Kinetics Study and Reactor Design" International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, p1259-1264, (30) 2005.
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Jian Sun, Modi Shruti, Ke Liu and John Buglass "On the Mechanism and Kinetics of Zinc Oxide Sulfidation for Packed Bed Reactor Modeling" Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, submitted 2006.
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Ke Liu, Gregg Deluga, Arnaldo Frydman and Dan Hancu "Compact & Flexible On-board Diesel Conversion Technologies", AIChE Annual Meeting, San Fransico, CA, Nov. 12-17, 2006.
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Liu, K., Jiang, X. and Li, B., "Studies on the Hot-State Gas Hold-up of a Gas-Lift Outer Loop Reactor," Journal of Chemical Engineering, 18(2): 32-44, 1990.
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Liu, K. and Jiang, X., "Studies of Air-Lift Tower Loop Bioreactors with Stage Separating Trays," Journal of Food and Fermentation Industry, 15(2):20-31, 1990.
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Liu, K., Jiang, X. and Li, B. "Studies on the Circulation Rate and Flow Model for External Loop Bioreactors," Chinese Journal of Biotechnology, 5(2): 154-159, 1989.
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Liu, K. and Jiang, X., "The Current State and New Trends in Bioreactors," Journal of Industrial Microbiology, 18(5): 20-28, 1988.
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Liu, K. and Jiang, X., "The Studies on the Mass Transfer of an External Loop Bioreactor and the Scale-up of Aerobic Bioreactors," Journal of Northwestern University, 17(3): 7-14, 1987.
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Jiang, X., Li, B., Liu, K., Yang, W., Fu, T. and Wei, T., "Research on the Air-Lift Bioreactor for the Production of Glutamic Acid," Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 3(2): 153-156, 1987.
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Liu, K. and Jiang, X., "The Existing State and Prospects of Biochemical Engineering," Journal of Northwestern University, 17(1): 103-113, 1987.
Dr. Ke Liu is the Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of National Institute of Clean & Low-carbon Energy (NICE), and recently becomes the Vice President of Shenhua Research. He started his career at Exxon-Mobil in 1992, and then worked in United Technologies Corp (UTC) and General Electric over the years, and before he took the CTO position of NICE, he was the Gasification Platform Technology Leader & Principal Scientist of GE Global Research Center. Dr. Liu has numerous publications &over 65 patents & patent applications. He is the lead author of the book “Syngas and H2Production & Purification Technologies” which was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2009. Due to his active role in different energy fields, he was elected as the Board Member of the former “Power, Environmental & Energy Research Center of California Institute of Technology”, the Board Member of International Pittsburgh Coal Conference (PCC) Organization, an leading international organization in coal and related energy industry. He was also elected as the editor in chief of the “International Journal of Clean Coal and Energy”, as well as the associate editor of the “Energy and Fuels” Journal. He was selected to won numerous awards including the National Award for theMinorities in Research(2006 Emerald Honors Special Recognition Award).He obtained the Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from City University of New York, and Master of Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).