On October 12th, Professor Raffaella Ocone and Dr. Kokou Daize from Heriot-Watt University visited the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IET) for an academic exchange, which is founded by NSFC-RS. Researchers and graduate students in the related fields from Tsinghua University, BeiHang University and Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences participated in the academic session presided by Prof. Wang Haigang. 

In the lecture room, Prof. Raffaella had a report on “Integration of ECT Measurements and Hydrodynamic Measurements in Gas-Solid Flows” and made a detailed exchange with audiences. Dr. Kokou had a report on “Volume Diffusion (Bi-Velocity) Gas Dynamics” which broadened our understanding about micro-scale flow and heat transfer. In the afternoon, Prof. Raffaella and Dr. Kokou visited experimental platforms located in the lab of IET accompanied by Prof. Wang and Prof. Ye. They gave a high degree of evaluation for the scientific research work and discussed the possibility of further cooperation.  

Raffaella Ocone has a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in England, and a foreign academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering in Canada. She gets a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, and undertakes the chief scientist in College of engineering and physical sciences, Heriot-Watt University. Her research direction is to model carbon capture through chemical looping technology. So far, she once served as the chairman of many important international conferences. Her papers are published more than 100. 

Dr. Dadzie completed his PhD in 2005 at Aix-Marseille University (France). Between 2006 and 2011 he was a Post-Doctoral research fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. During his time in Glasgow, he developed volume diffusion kinetic and hydrodynamic theory for predicting non-continuum effects in gases in collaboration with Prof. Howard Brenner at MIT.