王美宏教授学术报告

一、报告题目

Process and Energy Systems Engineering: CCUS and beyond …

二、报告人：王美宏教授，University of Sheffield, UK

三、报告地点：常州大学国交院（明行楼）516室

四、报告时间：2017年12月18日下午2:00

王美宏教授简介

Meihong moved to the UK in Jan. 1999 to join the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London as Research Assistant (also part-time PhD at UCL), then Postdoctoral Research Fellow from Jan. 2002.  He joined the University of Hull in Oct. 2012 as Reader, was promoted to Professorship in Aug. 2014.   From Sept. 2016, he moved to the University of Sheffield as Professor of Energy Systems. 

Meihong is a Chartered Engineer.   He has published over 100 technical papers.   One of his publications was awarded SAGE Best Paper Prize 2014 and also Ludwig Mond Prize 2014 by IMechE.  Another paper (Wang et al., 2011) is the most cited paper in Chemical Engineering Research and Design since 2010.   Since Oct. 2006, Meihong has been involved in 19 research projects worth around £20 million from UK Research Councils (EPSRC and NERC), European Union (EU) and Industry as investigators (PI or CI).   From Jan. 2014 to Dec. 20117, Meihong coordinates a project funded by EU FP7 Programme on International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) with 40 research staff from 6 partners (3 from Europe and 3 from China).   From 2014 to 2018, Meihong leads an EPSRC funded consortium project (worth £1.27 million) applying process intensification for carbon capture using solvents with flue gas from gas-fired CCGT power plants. There are 10 academics, 5 research staff plus 6 Managers from industry involved in this 42-month project.

Meihong became EPSRC Peer Review College Member from Sept. 2012. He is also an academic Member and also Scientific Council member of EPSRC funded UK CCS Research Centre (UKCCSRC), Member of Science Board in EPSRC funded Hydrogen and Fuel Cell (H2FC) SuperGen Hub and Member of the Science Board in the EPSRC funded Energy Storage SuperGen Hub.   Since 2006, he has been involved in organising 7 international academic conferences. He hosted 10^th European Conference on Coal research and Its Application (ECCRIA 10) at the University of Hull in Sept. 2014. This event attracted 121 delegates from 14 countries to Hull for 3 days. Meihong is currently Associate Editor for IMechE Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering.     

Meihong currently leads the Process and Energy Systems Engineering Research Group at Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield with 12 researchers (5 post-doctoral researchers, 6 PhD researchers and 2 visiting researchers).