Recently, 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting was held in the eastern city of USA, Orlando. Prof. Huilin Lu attended the meeting and was awarded Lectureship Award in Fluidization. Prof. Huilin Lu was invited to give plenary lecture titled “An Approach of Coupled KTGF of Euler Granular Phase and DEM of Lagrangian Discrete Particles Applied to Gas-Solid Fluidized Beds” in Particle Technology Award Lectures. In the lecture, the research work led by him in recent years on gas-solid two-phase flow and kinetic theory of granular flow was introduced in detail, which has received extensive attention.

Since the Lectureship Award in Fluidization was set in 1997, AIChE organized and nominated one person annually by its peers and confer this award to one who has made leading and outstanding contributions in fundamental research frontier and application development in the fields of fluidization and particle fluid multiphase flow systems. Previous winners included Mooson Kwauk (1997), the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yong Jin (2006), the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Jinghai Li (2010), the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Huilin Lu won the award as a Chinese scientist again nine years later.

AIChE is a professional organization for chemical engineers. The annual meeting is held once a year and is the largest and most influential international academic conference in the chemical industry in the world. The annual meeting is not only a platform to show and exchange the latest achievements of chemical industry development, but also a vane reflecting the frontier achievements of scientific research in this field. The meeting is highly valued and recognized by the global peers in the field of chemical engineering and enjoys a very high academic reputation. Nearly 5900 participants from 57 countries attended the annual meeting this year.