L. T. Fan

L.T. Fan, PhD 1957, is university distinguished professor of chemical engineering and holds the Mark H. and Margaret H. Hulings Chair in Engineering at Kansas State University. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Veszprem, Hungary. He is the first recipient of the Iinoya Award given by the Society of Powder Technology, Japan. He also received KSU distinguished graduate faculty award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Fan is the author or coauthor of several books and numerous technical articles; he is listed in many Who's Who including American Men and Women in Science, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Engineering.

Fan has advanced chemical engineering science of multi-phase processes through his research in fluidization, semifluidization, flow through porous media and heterogeneous chemical reactions. He has contributed significantly to process systems engineering through applications of optimization techniques, graph theory, optimal control theory and artificial intelligence. Fan holds many patents for his inventions in various technologies including fluidized bed pyrolysis, semifluidized bed filtration, bioreactor and leather-polymer composites.