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Shijie Liu, PhD.

Associate Professor

302 Walters Hall
(315) 470-6885
(315) 470-6945 (fax)
sliu@esf.edu

Research Interests

Chemical Kinetics: Surface reactions, chemical pulping, bleaching, chemical treatment
Biochemical kinetics: Fermentation, biotreatment
Mass transfer: Membrane separation, Multiscale diffusion, dispersion, convective transport
Fluid Particle Systems: Fluid transport in porous media, slurry/suspension flow
Process optimization: Physical/mathematical modeling, optimization
Fiber properties: Morphological and chemical properties
Applied Mathematics: Numerical analysis, volume averaging

Graduate Research Projects

Ethanol fermentation from wood extract sugars and/or wood extracts
Butanol fermentation from wood extracts and/or wood sugars
PHA fermentation and recovery using wood extracts as feed stock
PLA production or lactic acid fermentation from wood extracts and/or wood sugars
Wood extraction and/or woody biomass extraction
Fractionation of wood extracts with membrane
Conversion of woody biomass to platform chemicals by enzyme and bacteria
Cellulose hydrolysis
Hydrolysis of wood extracts
Chemical pulping of woodchips and/or agricultural woody biomass

Courses

BPE 132 Bioprocess Engineering Orientation Seminars
BPE 335 Transport Phenomena
BPE 421 Bioprocess Kinetics and Systems Engineering
ERE 542 Bioreaction Engineering
PSE 132 Paper Science and Engineering Orientation Seminars

Education

Ph. D. Chemical Engineering. University of Alberta, Edmonton 1992.
B. Sc. Chemical Engineering. Chengdu University of Science & Technology (now Sichuan University), P.R. China. 1982.

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, SUNY ESF, 2007.
Assistant Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, 2005.
Senior Engineer, Alberta Research Council, 2005
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta. 1996 - 2005

Activities

Vice Chair, TAPPI Nonwood Fibers Committee, 2008
Chair, PAPTAC Nonwood Fibres Committee, 2004 – 2007
Vice Chair, PAPTAC Nonwood Fibres Committee, 2003 - 2004
Nonwood Symposium Co-Chair: PAPTAC PAPERWEEK, Montreal, Canada 2004, 2005, 2006

Professional Societies

Tappi – Since 2001. (Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, USA).
AIChE – Since 2005 (American Institute of Chemical Engineers, USA): Forest Products Division; Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division.
Society for Biological Engineering – Since 2005
PAPTAC – Since 2001 (Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada)
CSChE – 1996 – 2005 (Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers)
APEGGA – Since 1994 (The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta)
Appita – Since 2003.

Sample Publications

Sun, Y.; Lin, L.; Pang, C.; Deng, H.; Peng, H.; Li, J.; He, B. and Liu, S. 2007 "Hydrolysis of Cotton Fiber Cellulose in Formic Acid", Energy & Fuels, 21, 2386-2389.

Liu, S. and T.E. Amidon. 2007 "Essential Components of Wood-based Biorefinery" O Papel, LXVIII (3), 84-105.

Liu, S.; Amidon, T.E.; Francis, R.C.; Ramarao, B.V.; Lai, Y.Z.; and Scott, G.M. 2006 "From Forest Biomass to Chemicals and Energy: Biorefinery Initiative in New York", Industrial Biotechnology, 2(2):113-120.

Liu, S. and Masliyah, J.H. 2005 “Dispersion in Porous Media”, Handbook of Porous Media, 2^nd Ed. by K. Vafai.

Ha, Z., Ring, Z. and Liu, S., 2005 “Estimation of Isomeric Distributions in Petroleum Fractions”, Energy & Fuels, 19(4), 1660-1672.

C. L. Gallant, H. Q. Yin, S. Liu, J.P. Heggers, R.E. Langford, M.E. Olson, D.A. Hart, R.E. Burrell, 2005, “A Comparison of In Vitro Disc Diffusion and Time-Kinetic Assays for the Evaluation of Antimicrobial Wound Dressing Efficacy”, Wound Repair and Regeneration, 13 (4), 412-421.

G. Li, Y. Lin, S. Liu, H. Rui, X. Yang, 2005, “A Finite Difference Non-overlapping Non-matching Domain Decomposition Algorithm for Heat Equation”, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Series B: Applications & Algorithms, accepted.

Ha, Z., Ring, Z. and Liu, S., 2005 “QSPR models for boiling points, specific gravities and refraction indices of hydrocarbons”, Energy & Fuels, 19, 152-163.

Liu, S. 2004 “A Simplistic Mechanistic Model and Effect of Consistency on Alkaline Peroxide Brightening of Mechanical Pulps”, Chem. Eng. Sci., 59, 4375-4381.

Liu, S. 2004 “Parametric Estimation and Error Structure”, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Series B: Applications & Algorithms, 11, 1-28.

Liu, S. 2003 “Chemical Kinetics of Alkaline Peroxide Brightening of Mechanical Pulps”, Chem. Eng. Sci., 58, 2229-2244

Liu, S., Zhu, Z. and Masliyah, J.H. 2003 “Effect of dispersion on particle segregation due to sparged air in a hydrocyclone”, Canadian Chem. Eng. J., 81, 549-556.