HONG YONG SOHN

Professor Sohn's current research areas are Novel Flash Ironmaking Technology; Inorganic Nano-Material Synthesis; Fluid-Solid Reaction Engineering; and Flash Smelting Processes.

His other research interests have been on the In-Process Separation of Zinc from Steelmaking Off-Gas, Chemical Synthesis of Inorganic Nanomaterials, Metallurgical Process Engineering including CFD Modeling, Nonferrous metal production (especially coppermaking at high temperatures), Synthesis and Processing of Ceramic and Intermetallic Compounds, Hydrogen Storage Materials Development, Solvent Extraction, Combustion of Solids and Liquids, Roasting for selective formation and recovery of desired minerals and phases, Impurity behavior and removal/recovery during smelting and/or refining, Reactor and process design and/or optimization of pyro/hydrometallurgical processes (using various modeling techniques such as flowsheet modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics), and Measurements and analyses of fluid-particle reaction kinetics