News

Profs. Abukhdeir and Ward are among 10 semi-finalists in the Canadian edition of the CSA Deep Space Food Challenge, winning $30,000 for a proposed algae rack system that minimizes water and energy use while cultivating nutritious microalgae for astronaut food production. For more information see Waterloo Engineering news.

Congratulations to James Lowman for being selected as a sessional instructor for CHE 102 Chemistry for Engineers!

We are happy to welcome Arshia Fazeli to the group! Arshia will be working on developing a hybrid two-fluid/phase-field model.

We are happy to welcome James Lowman back to the group! He is starting the PhD program after recently completing his MASc and will be focusing developing numerical methods for the solution of dispersed multiphase flow models.

COMPHYS graduate student member James Lowman (supervisor MA Ioannidis and NM Abukhdeir) is completes his MASc thesis entitled "Development of a predictive model for the VAPEX process" (link).

Prof. Gostick gives "Emerging Leaders in Chemical Engineering" plenary talk at the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering conference in Toronto. This plenary session recognized the contributions of three early-career researchers and highlighted their vision and leadership in their respective field of chemical engineering.

COMPHYS faculty member NM Abukhdeir was awarded NSERC Collaborative Research and Development grant with industrial partner Ostara Biological Nutrient Recovery Technologies (Vancouver, BC) to continue research project on polydisperse fluidization relevant to their phosphorous recovery technology.

COMPHYS graduate student member Tanyakarn Treeratanaphitak (supervisor NM Abukhdeir) is awarded her PhD. Her thesis is entitled "Diffuse Solid-Fluid Interface Method for Dispersed Multiphase Flows" (link).

COMPHYS welcomes new graduate student members Thomas Donnely (MASc, ChE), Alexandru Vasile (MASc, ChE), and Kimia Entezari (MASc, ChE) who are joining the research group of Prof. Abukhdeir. Congratulations to Tommy and Alex for both being awarded both the prestigious NSERC Canadian Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M) and the UW Engineering Excellence Masters Fellowship (EEMF)!