DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty

Dr. Kean Wang Associate  Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2115, Sas Al Nakhl Campus, Office: +971 2 607 5116 Fax: +971 2 607 5200 Email: kwang@pi.ac.ae

PROFILE

Dr. Wang joined PI in Feb 2011. His previous employment includes: Assistant Professor in School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering and in School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; STA/JSPS fellow in AIST Center-5, Tsukuba, Japan; Research Associate in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his PhD in the University of Queensland, Australia; and his Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering Department, Zhejiang University, China.
Dr. Wang started/participated a number of research projects, such as methane/hydrogen storage in carbon nanoparticles, cleaning of fume gases from cooking processes, developing novel polymer-nanocomposite materials, water disinfection with nano-metal particles, and bio-separation with natural polymers/adsorbents. He has published more than 60 research papers in scientific journals and a few book chapters. He has also supervised 5 more PhD students and a few postdoctoral research fellows.      

INTERESTS

Adsorption science and membrane technology in separation/purification applications, including: synthesizing carbon nanoparticles and carbon molecular sieve/membranes; modeling adsorption equilibrium, kinetics, and gas permeation processes; developing low cost adsorbents for energy and environmental applications; energy storage; polymer-nanocomposites; waste water treatment, etc.    

EDUCATION

• PhD. University of Queensland, Australia
• MEng. Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
• B.Eng. Zhejiang University, China 

CURRENT INTERESTS

• Natural gas purification
• Energy storage
• Water treatment/Desalination

TAUGHT COURSES

• CHEG440: Separation Processes
• CHEG511: Reaction Engineering    

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

K. Wang, ‘Diffusion Anomaly and Blind Pore Character in Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes’,  Chem. Eng. Sci. , 62, 3654, 2007.

K. Wang, C. Li, S. Hein, and D. D. Do, “The Role of Finite Kinetics in the Sorption of Hydrocarbons onto an Activated Carbon”,  Chem. Eng. Sci. 62, 6836, 2007

J. Chen, S. Leslie, Loo, K. Wang, ‘High Pressure CO2 Adsorption on a Polymer-derived CMS’, J. Chem. & Eng. Data, 53, 2, 2008

C. Guan, F. Su, X.S. Zhao, K. Wang, ‘Methane Storage in a Template-Synthesized Carbon’ Sep & Purif. Tech., 64, 124, 2008

D. Xu, S. Hein, Leslie Loo, and K. Wang, ‘The Fixed-bed Study of Dye Removal on Modified Chitosan Beads at High pH’, Ind& Eng. Chem. Res, 47, 8796, 2008

C. Guan, K. Wang, C. Yang, ‘Characterization of a Zeolite-templated Carbon for Hydrogen Storage Application’, Micro& Meso Mater., 118, 503, 2009

C. Guan, X. Zhang, K. Wang, C. Yang, ‘Investigation of H2 Storage in a Templated Carbon Derived from Zeolite Y and PFA’, Sep & Purif. Tech., 66,  565–569, 2009

J. Chen, Leslie Loo, and K. Wang, D.D. Do, ‘The Structural Characterization of a CMS Membrane Using Argon Sorption and Permeation’, J. Membr. Sci., 335, 1-4, 2009.

C. Li, S. Hein, and K. Wang, ‘Separation of GMP from Milk Whey Using Modified Chitosan Beads’,  Adsorption, 16, 85, 2010

D. Xu, Leslie Loo, K. Wang, ‘Pervaporation Performance of Novel Chitosan-POSS Hybrid Membranes: Effects of POSS and Operating Conditions’, J. of  Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics,  48(21), 2185-2192, 2010.

Yi Wang, Chun Xian Guo, Xin Wang, Cong Guan, Hongbin Yang, Kean Wang, Chang Ming Li, ‘Hydrogen Storage in Ni-B nanoalloy-doped Three-dimensional Graphene Material’,  Energy & Environmental Science, 4, 195, 2011

X. Song, W.S. Teo, K. Wang, ‘Synthesis and Characterization of Activated Carbons Prepared from Benzene CVD on Zeolite Y’, J. Porous Mater., In press, 2011