Farid Aiouache

Biography:

Dr Farid Aiouache is Senior lecturer at Lancaster University since November 2012 after working as Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast (2006-2012) and Project engineer for a year in the oil and gas industry (CUB Engineering, Calgary, Canada, (2005–2006). He was full time Postdoctoral Fellow at Ecotopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Japan (2003–2005) and a part-time Research Associate at the National Industrial Science and Research Institute, Japan, (2003–2005). During his postdoctoral work, he was involved in a pioneering work on spatially resolved NIR/IR imaging for heterogeneous reactions. He gained his PhD in Chemical Engineering (Nagoya University, 2000-2003) for a work on reaction and transport rate effects on pervaporative reactive distillation efficacy. Prior to his PhD project, he was Research Visitor at Nagoya University, chemical reaction engineering laboratory, 1999-2000, and was involved in a research area on multifunctional reactors (membrane reactors and reactive distillation). He holds a research background in oil and gas industry, reaction engineering applied to multifunctional reactors and process intensification for green chemical design. Currently, He is carrying out research projects in 3D modelling of catalytic processes, spatially resolved spectroscopic tools for 3D observations of fluid flow, mass and heat trends in chemical processes using lasers and tomography techniques applied to reactors, adsorbers, fuel cells, batteries, etc). Other subjects under developments are sustainable separation processing using green solvents, rational use of CO2 (separation, conversion and storage), bio-wastes conversion to liquid and gaseous fuels, bio-catalytic recovery of valuable metals from e-wastes, catalytic stripping  for nuclear waste waters processing, reactive waste ashes  for biodigestates processing into fertilizers. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed papers.