Undergraduate Student Hanbi Liu Wins AIChE Separations Poster Competition

Hanbi Liu, senior undergraduate student, recently won first place in the Division 1 Separations Poster Competition at the annual American Institute of Chemical Engineer’s meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

Liu’s poster, entitled, “Oxidative Degradation of Aqueous Amine Solvents for CO₂ Capture”, presents her research in Professor Gary Rochelle’s lab, studying the relationship between amine structure and oxidation behavior.

Professor Rochelle’s group studies CO₂ removal from fixed CO₂ sources, such as coal fired power plants, with amine solvents and the oxidative degradation of different amines. Oxidation is the main contributor to solvent loss in CO₂ capture.

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