Dr. Ali Lohi
Areas of Academic Interest
Simulation / modeling and optimization of chemical processes
Modeling of fluid flow and rheological behavior of fluid-particles systems
Membrane fouling remediation 鈥� food and wastewater applications
Waste utilization and low level energy management
Bioenergy, oil and gas production (midstream and downstream)
Spotlight
Every day, when Ali Lohi makes the commute from Waterloo to Toronto, North American car culture is on evident display. Lohi passes hundreds if not thousands of single-occupancy vehicles, each one striking a chord with his ecological consciousness. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a lifestyle problem and a mindset that we have here,鈥� he says. 鈥淏ut we can fix it. Even if it takes generations.鈥�
A pillar of 91福利鈥檚 engineering program, Lohi helped shape the school鈥檚 undergraduate, master's, and PhD programs while simultaneously holding an adjunct appointment at another university. At 91福利, Lohi teaches his students strategies for maintaining society鈥檚 current living standards while decreasing energy consumption. He practises what he preaches. In his own research, Lohi converts agricultural waste鈥攃orn cobs and sweetgrass鈥攊nto cost-efficient bio oil and synthesis gas (syngas), and finally into butanol.
Lohi believes that a greener future needs engineers and scientists from all different disciplines to work together. 鈥淚t鈥檚 up to everybody to make the world a better place,鈥� he says. 鈥淚鈥檓 just doing my part.鈥�
"Being a young university, 91福利 can show its societal progress, because it鈥檚 changing at the same rate."
- Kazemzadeh A., Ein-Mozaffari F., Lohi A., Pakzad L., 2017, 鈥淚ntensification of Mixing of Shear-Thinning Fluids Possessing Yield Stress with the Coaxial Mixers Composed of Two Different Central Impellers and an Anchor鈥�, Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification 111, 101-114.
- Alchikh-Sulaiman B., Ein-Mozaffari F., Lohi A., 2015, 鈥淓valuation of Poly-Disperse Solid Particles Mixing in a Slant Cone Mixer Using Discrete Element Method鈥�, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 96, 196-213.
- Liu H., Elkamel A., Lohi A., Biglari M., 2014, 鈥淓ffect of Char Combustion Product Distribution Coefficient on the CFD Modeling of Biomass Gasification in a Circulating Fluidized Bed鈥�, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 53, no. 13, 5554-5563.
- Abdelrasoul A., Doan H., Lohi A., 2013, 鈥淚mpact of Operating Conditions on Fouling Probability and Cake Height in Ultrafiltration of Latex Solution,鈥� Journal of Membrane and Separation Technology, 2, no. 2, 134-147.
- USA Provisional Patent - 鈥淲ater Purification Device鈥�, Abdelrasoul/Doan/Lohi, US#62415694, 2016.