School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
Professor
suihong@tju.edu.cn
Hong Sui is currently a professor in Tianjin University, China. She received M.S. degrees from the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology in 2002 and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology Tianjin University in 2013. Her current research interests are VOCs treatment technique, remediation technology and sustainable development of contaminated soil,utilization of unconventional petroleum.
She has worked for 10 years for the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology of Tianjin University. She has published more than 40 academic papers and she has applied for more than ten patents. Besides, she has written four books and she has been involved in more than 20 scientific research projects.
In terms of teaching and talents cultivation: She has undertaken the classroom teaching of Chemical Innovation Practice, Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Chemical Engineering, and Computer Simulation of Separation Process etc with a total teaching workload of 512.4 standard class hours in recent 5 years, and have obtained excellent teaching evaluation.She has instructed my students to participate in the National University Chemical Engineering Design Contest for the successive 3 years during 2013-2017, and they have obtained the gold medal, the second prize and the first prize respectively. She has instructed the graduation field work of 9 Canadian undergraduates for successively 5 years ever since 2012, which promoted the international communication and cooperation of undergraduates. In recent 5 years, She instructed totally 24 undergraduates, 24 postgraduates (16 of them graduated, and 8 are still at school), and assisted in guidance of 18 PhD graduates (10 of them graduated, and 8 are still at school).
In terms of academic, innovation and scientific significance, she has persist the idea for a long time that they will aim at the important demands of the country in scientific research, put stress on both fundamental research and industrial application, taking the interface science as the foundation and master line. She has obtained a number of innovative achievements in such domains as the development, clean and efficient utilization of unconventional petroleum, remediation technology and sustainable development of contaminated soil. The mechanism of mass transfer, migration and transformation among multi-phases and multi-components, the molecular interface mechanics, and the separation strengthening method involved in the research area of development, clean and sufficient utilization of unconventional petroleum resource are applied in the environment remediation field, which then forms the research system featured in intersected chemical, chemical engineering, and environment science. Highlight innovative points: 1. Based on the thermodynamics and interface theory, she has learned the essential factors affecting and limiting peeling of asphaltic oil from the surface of silt, and revealed the separation mechanism of asphaltic oil, water, clay and other fine solid particles in terms of dynamics and molecular action. 2. She promoted for the first time the application of a kind of low viscosity ionic liquid and green reversible tertiary ammonium salt in extraction of oil sand bitumen. She preliminarily probed into the promotion mechanism, and found the practicability of solving the problems of difficult recovery of ionic liquid and poor quality of asphaltic oil from the source. 3. She applied the chemical engineering transfer and separation theory into the migration, mass transfer, interaction, transformation rules and remediation process of complex pollution components in porous media at different spatial and temporal scales. Especially for hazardous chemicals and persistent refractory organic compounds, she put forward a new set of methods for analysis, remediation and evaluation.
Scientific significance: She studied and solved several bottleneck problems which cannot be conquered using the hot water washing method of Canada at present, i.e. mature tailings problem, waste water treatment problem, refining problem caused by fine clay particles carried in asphaltic oil etc. Especially the oil sand green extraction technique with the aid of ionic liquid and switching solvent, has the extreme advantage of high-efficient and green. Her work has placed a base for future industrial promotion of oil sand high-efficient and green utilization technique, and relief the important national stress of excessive dependence on foreign crude oil in China. Moreover, it solved the fundamental problem limiting and affecting migration, scattering and elimination of contaminated substances from porous media interface. They applied the green solvents and promoters developed which can decorate and change the characteristics of the porous media interfaces in the environment restoration, which enabled the great-leap-forward development for future solving of the separation problem of complex pollution components from the porous media interface.
In terms of subject construction and social service: As a skeleton member, she participated actively in the construction of Phase II and III of “985” project, construction of the innovation team of the Ministry of Education, and construction of the Cooperative Innovation Center. She applied the oil sand utilization technique, separation technique, soil remediation technique and VOCs treatment technique with independent intellectual property rights in SINOPEC, Puyang Maiqi Science & Technology Co., Ltd., Tianjin Dagang Oil Field and other enterprises, served social and industrial production. As the deputy director of the Sino Russian green chemical industry and site restoration research institute,she assisted the school and the director in liaison, cooperation with the Russian party and administration work. As a member of the Global Chinese Conference on Chemical Engineering, she coordinated with the Chairman to do the website construction and assortment of the address book etc. Moreover, she behaves as the Responsible Reader of almost a dozen international journals
- Bachelor Degree| Hebei University of Technology| Meticulous Chemical Industry| 1999
- Master Degree| Hebei University of Technology| Chemical Engineering and Technology| 2002
- Doctoral Degree| Tianjin University| Chemical Engineering and Technology| 2005
- VOCs treatment technique
- remediation technology and sustainable development of contaminated soil
- utilization of unconventional petroleum
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2014.6-2015.7
 Georgia Institute of Technology | Academic visitor  -
2005.5-2005.11
 Cranfield University | Academic visitor  -
2007.11-2019.12
 Tianjin University | Professor  -
2005.5-2007.11
 National PeiYang Distillation Tech. Eng. Limited Company | Postdoctoral researcher 
- Papers
- [1] Cu2O Ps/Bi2O2CO3flower-like complex photocatalysts withenhanced visible light photocatalytic degradation of organicpollutants
- [2] Quick decision-making for close-boiling distillation schemes
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- [3] Understanding the Liberation of Asphaltenes on Muscovite Surface
- [4] Synthesis and characterization of a core–shell BiVO4@g-C3N4 photo-catalyst with enhanced photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation
- [5] Removal and Recovery of O-xylene by Silica Gel Using Vacuum Swing Adsorption
- [6] Conversion of low-grade heat from FCC absorption-stabilization system to electricity by organic Rankine cycles: Simulation and optimization
- [7] Optimization of coal-based methanol distillation scheme using process superstructure method to maximize energy efficiency
- [8] Continuous hydrogen production by dark fermentation in a foam SiC ceramic packed up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor
- [9] Automated control system for the liquid distributor managing of distillation research stand with a structured packing
- [10] Role of binary solvent and ionic liquid in bitumen recovery from oil sands
- [11] Modeling the adsorption of PAH mixture in silica nanopores by molecular dynamic simulation combined with machine learning
- [12] Novel off-gas treatment technology to remove volatile organic compounds with high concentration
- [13] Ionic liquids assisted solvent extraction for unconventional oils recovery: computational simulation and experimenta tests
- [14] Recovery of heavy hydrocarbons from Indonesia carbonate asphalt rocks I: Solvent extraction, particle sedimentation, and solvent recycling
- [15] Understanding the roles of switchable-hydrophilicity tertiary amines in recovering heavy hydrocarbons from oil sands
- [16] Interfacial sciences in unconventional petroleum production: from fundamentals to applications
- [17] Effect of solvent addition on bitumen-air bubble attachment in process water
- [18] Image analysis of heavy oil liberation from host rocks/sands
- [19] Fluidized countercurrent solvent extraction of oil pollutants from contaminated soil (Part 1: Fluid mechanics)
- [20] Influence of particle size and organic carbon content on distribution and fate of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbon fractions in chalks
- [21] An Optimization Model for Shanbei Crude Oil Blending
- [22] Modelling and process analysis of hybrid hydration-absorption column for ethylene recovery from refinery dry gas
- [23] Effect of dynamically controlled irrigation of a structured packing on mixture separation efficiency
- [24] The optimization and prediction of properties for crude oil blending
- [25] Enhancing Bitumen Liberation by Controlling the Interfacial Tension and Viscosity Ratio through Solvent Addition
- [26] Ozonation of diesel-fuel contaminated sand and the implications for remediation end-points
- [27] Influence of soil and hydrocarbon properties on the solvent extraction of high-concentration weathered petroleum from contaminated soils
- [28] Frédéric Coulon, Influence and interactions of multi-factors on the bioavailability of PAHs in compost amended contaminated soils
- [29] Numerical Simulation of Liquid–Solid Countercurrent Fluidization inside an Extraction Column Based on Particle Trajectory Model
- [30] Recycling of solvent used in a solvent extraction of petroleum hydrocarbons contaminated soil
- [31] Ionic liquid enhanced solvent extraction for bitumen recovery from oil sands
- [32] Solvent extraction for heavy crude oil removal from contaminated soils
- [33] Coordinative Adsorption of Thiophene with Metallic Silver/Adsorbent Cotton Prepared via Aqueous In-situ Reduction for Desulfurization
- [34] Operational parameters, evaluation methods, and fundamental mechanisms: Aspects of non-aqueous extraction of bitumen from oil sands
- [35] Distribution of SARA fractions in the bituminous layer of Athabasca oil sands
- [36] Pilot application of SVE enhanced bioremediation technology for in situ clean up of light oil contaminated site
- [37] Remediation of PAHs and heavy metals in co-contaminated sites with cyclodextrin
- [38] Combining Solvent Extraction and Bioremediation for Removing
- [39] Modeling for Volatilization and Bioremediation of Toluene-contaminated Soil by Bioventing
- [40] A new downstream process design for fluid catalytic cracking unit to raise propylene yield and decrease olefins content in gasoline
- [41] Benzene, toluene and p-xylene interations and the role of microbial communties in remediation using bioventing
- [42] Flow, transport and biodegradation of toluene during bioventing
- [43] A study on cometabolic bioventing for the in situ remediation of tricholoethylene
- [44] Cometabolic microbial degradation of trichloroethylene in the presence of toluene
- Patents
- [1] Catalytic cracking fractionation and absorbing-stabilizing system and energy-saving method
- [2] VOCs recovering deep cooling apparatus and method
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- [3] Volatile organic tail gas treatment method and mobile device
- [4] A method and apparatus for oil sands separation
- [5] A method and apparatus for methyl amine recovery and reuse
- [6] Ionic liquid separation method used for bitumen separation from oil sands
- [7] Off-gas treatment system combined with soil vapor extraction technology
- [8] Energy saving apparatus for shale oil condensate recovery process
- [9] absorbing-stabilizing system and energy-saving set-up and operational process
- [10] A method for treating high concentration oil-contaminated soil
- [11] Ex-situ remediation method for volatile organic composition polluted soil
- [12] Oil transfer apparatus with Low pressure drop
- [13] Ex-situ remediation system for oil-contaminated soil
- [14] Energy saving apparatus and operational process for fractional tower
- [15] Energy saving technic and apparatus for removal water in ethanol by distillation
- [16] A model and solve method for FCCU process simulation and optimization
- [17] Technic for removal and recovery residual organic solvent in soil