Naoko Ellis
Professor
naoko.ellis@ubc.ca
Home department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Website: Systems Beings Lab
Research Interests
- Biomass Utilization
- CO2 Capture
- Fluidization and Multiphase Systems
- Sustainability and Environmental Education
- Transdisciplinary Research and Learning
Research Projects
- Transdisciplinary Climate Emergency: Exploring complex systems around low carbon futures through transdisciplinary approaches. Collaborating and co-creating with others to advance environmental literacy in higher education and connect with communities and other partners to imagine change. Ongoing curiosity about how collective and relational efforts may help us understand the patterns of interactions and ultimately catalyze effective movements towards hopeful futures.
- Energy Systems and Transitions: Approaching energy transitions through the lens of systems and as processes, research is conducted by connecting technology and communities (e.g., ACET projects), and academic, public and private stakeholders for regional and national decarbonization strategies (e.g., BC CCUS visioning workshop).
- Multiphase Systems and Reaction Engineering: Understanding the hydrodynamics of fluidized beds as critical to the design and scaling of fluidized bed reactors that are used as various reactors. Deploying various measurement techniques and modeling methods to study and predict the behaviour of fluidized beds and other multiphase reactors. Fluidized bed applications include biomass utilization for energy production and carbon capture through looping systems.