Soji ADESINA Professor
	location	Room 711 F10
	telephone	9385 5268
	facsimile	9385 5966
	email	a.adesina@unsw.edu.au
	School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering The University of New South Wales UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia

Qualifications	B.Sc. (Hons I) Chem. Eng., University of Lagos, Nigeria, 1980 M.A.Sc.(Chemical Eng.) University of Waterloo, Canada, 1984 PhD (Chemical Eng.) University of Waterloo, Canada, 1986
Awards and Honours	CIDA/NSERC Research Fellowship Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship Award for doctorate program University of Waterloo Student Visa Award Nigerian National Merit Award for excellent undergraduate performance Elf (Nigeria) Petroleum Company Scholarship for undergraduate studies
Employment	Professor, School of Chemical Sciences &Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Other Appointments	Council Member, International Association of Catalysis Societies Member, Asian-Pacific Chemical Reaction Engineering Working Party
Research Interests	Major research programs are in the general areas of catalysis, reaction engineering and mathematical analysis. Recent projects include: Catalyst synthesis and optimisation Evidence-based analysis of different catalyst preparation methods. Development of novel synthesis routes for high performance nanocrystalline catalysts. Catalyst characterisation methods – temperature-programmed techniques, electron microscopic, spectroscopic and transient tools for solid surface and bulk properties. Combinatorial catalysis. Petrochemical Processes Fischer-Tropsch reaction for gas-to-liquid fuels – kinetics, mechanism and selectivity studies. Steam and dry reforming of hydrocarbons over bimetallic catalysts. Natural gas upgrade via oxidative dehydrogenation and partial oxidation. Fluid catalytic cracking operations. Desulpurisation and hydrogen recovery from refinery waste gases. Synthesis of higher alcohols and value-added oxygenates. Environmental Catalysis Photocatalysis for resource recovery and waste treatment – applications to minerals, agricultural, textile and petrochemical processing industrial effluents. Catalytic wet oxidation. Biological degradation of industrial wastes via enzyme catalysis. Solar detoxification processes. Reactor design,analysis and operation Design and optimisation of innovative reactor structures and configurations for energetically-smart systems Membrane reactor for hydrogen regeneration from gaseous effluents. Catalytic distillation reactor for application in the fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals production. Photoreactor design and modelling – internally- and externally-irradiated configurations. Scale-up and dynamics. Multiphase reactor operation – bubble column, slurry and trickle-bed systems for petrochemical processing. Novel strategies for the design and operation of reactors with decaying catalysts. Mathematical modelling and simulation Computational fluid dynamics for chemically-reactive systems. Multivariate analysis and process identification. Nonlinear analysis – method of weighted residuals, multiple steady-states, bifurcation and stability studies. Advanced statistical methods for reaction engineering Please VISIT the Reactor Engineering & Technology Group page for additional information.
Selected Publications	Lee, Y.-J., Nguyen, T.H., Khodakhov, A. and Adesina, A.A. (2004), “Physicochemical attributes of oxide supported-Mo2 Ncatalysts synthesized via sulphide nitridation”, J. Molecular CatalysisA:Chemical 211(1-2), 191-197. Pareek V.K. and Adesina,A.A., (2003), “Analysis of photocatalytically reactive systems: Kinetic modelling and reactor design via computational fluid dynamics”, in Handbook of Photochemistry and Photobiology, eds. Nalwa, H.S., American ScientificPublishers, Stevenson Ranch, California, USA vol. 1, 345-412. Safinski, T., Adesina, A.A., and Young, B., (2003),“Parametric study of a novel basket-impeller column”, Can. J. Chem. Eng. 81,574-580. Pareek, V.K., Adesina, A.A., Srivastava, A. and Sharma, R. (2003), “Modelling of a Non-isothermal FCCRiser” Chem. Eng. J. 92, 101-109. Tafreshi, Z.M., Opoku-Gyamfi, K. and Adesina, A.A. (2000), “A two-phase model for variable-densityfluidized bed reactors with generalized nonlinear kinetics”, Can. J. Chem. Eng.78, 715-724. Opoku-Gyamfi, K. and Adesina, A.A. (1999), “Forced composition cycling of a novelthermally self-sustaining fluidised bed reactor for methane reforming”, Chem.Eng. Sci., 54, 2575-2583. Cao, D. and Adesina, A.A. (1999), “Fluidised bed reactor studies of H2Sdecomposition over supported Ru-Mo sulphide catalysts”, Catal. Today, 49,23-31. Adesina, A.A.(1996), "Hydrocarbon synthesis via Fischer-Tropsch reaction: Travails and Triumphs", Appl. Catal. 138, 345-367. Pareek, V.K., Cox, S., Brungs, M.P., Young, B. and Adesina,A.A, (2003), “Computational fluid dynamic(CFD) simulation of a pilot-scale annular bubble column photocatalyticreactor”, Chem. Eng. Sci. 58(3-6), 859-865. Hardiman, K.M., T.Y. Ying, and Adesina, A.A., “Monometallic Co/Al2O3, Ni/Al2O3and Bimetallic Co-Ni/Al2O3 Catalyst Systems for PropaneSteam Reforming: Characterisation, Activity and Stability Studies”, paper no. icc2004-35531, 13thInternational Congress on Catalysis, Paris, France, 11-16 July, 2004. Nguyen, T.H., Yue, E.M.T., Lee, Y.J., Khodakov, A., Adesina, A.A. and Brungs, M.P. (2003), “Synthesis of bimetallic Mo-Wcarbide from its sulphide precursor via propane carburization: Statistical correlation of the physicochemical properties with preparation conditions”,Catal. Commun. 4(8), 353-359. Yuni K. Krisnandi, Peter D. Southon, Adesina, A.A. and Russell F. Howe,(2003), “ETS-10 as a photocatalyst”, Int. J. Photoenergy, 5(3), 131-140.