Prof. Li was a distinguished teacher in China and twice won the state excellence teaching award. His book, “Reaction Engineering”, won the highest award in the excellence undergraduate textbook category, an award organized by the Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China in 2002. Li has published three textbooks about chemical reaction kinetics and reaction engineering, and more than 70 research papers in the field of reaction engineering. Prof Xin has taught the reaction engineering course since 1997 at Tianjin University and is in charge of the State Elite Course. His research focuses on reaction engineering, on which he has published more than 60 papers. Lin Li, Staff Research Engineer at Chevron Energy Technology Company, Richmond, CA. PhD in Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, 1989. Worked 9 years at Dept. of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He moved to the US in 1998, and after research experiences at Princeton University and UC Berkeley he joined UOP, Des Plaines, IL, in 2001 as R & D Specialist. He has published 1 book, more than 40 journal papers and many technical presentations. He also has 4 Chinese patents, and 12 US patent/applications.

• 1. Introduction2. Fundamentals of Reaction Kinetics3. Tank Reactors4. Tubular Reactors5. Residence Time Distributions and Flow Models of Reactors6. Chemical Reaction and Transport Phenomena in Heterogeneous Systems7. Analysis and Design of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactors8. Fluidized Bed Reactors9. Multiple-phase Reactors10. Fluid-Solid Non-Catalytic Reaction Kinetics and Reactors11. Fundamentals of Biochemical Reaction Engineering12. Fundamentals of Polymerization Reaction Engineering13. Introduction to Electrochemical Reaction Engineering