Research activities in the Reactor Engineering and Technology Group is primarily driven by the industrial challenge to improve current plant operation in resource utilization, recovery and to create novel processes with superior material and energy economy within an environmentally sustainable framework. Specifically, we concentrate on 3 main areas with applications in the petrochemical and biological processing industries, namely;

1. catalyst design and synthesis,
2. reaction diagnosis and kinetics and
3. reactor modeling and analysis.

The group has recently moved into new laboratories equipped with world-class facilities for catalysis and reaction engineering research as described in the relevant sections of this website. In all areas of research, experimental inquiry is well-guided by appropriate mathematical strategies to complement and optimize laboratory effort. This unique approach allows us to equip group members with the most advanced and latest skills -instrumentation and computational - in catalytic reaction engineering. The group has trained over 22 PhD and Master's students and hosted several visiting scholars and exchange students from overseas in the past 10 years. Presently, there are 12 PhD students, 2 postdocs, and 3 exchange students. The group also has international linkages with universities in France, Germany, India and Canada.