UNNC lab selected as Provincial Key Lab

The Laboratory for Carbonaceous Waste Processing and Process Intensification Research from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China was selected as one of the 2020 Provincial Key Laboratories, marking a further improvement of the University's research capability. 

Led by Professor Tao Wu, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering and Director of the University's New Materials Institute, the laboratory mainly studies the efficient utilisation of organic waste, pollutant control, process intensification, green chemical technology and advanced catalysis.

Professor Wu is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. Over the past 5 years, he has published more than 100 academic papers, more than half of which in the top 10% of SCI's journals, including App Cat B: Env., ES&T and App. Energy.

In recent years, the laboratory has carried out cutting-edge research on organic solid waste treatment and resource utilisation, especially the challenging industrial organic waste. Some of these research outcomes have been commercialised locally. Exceptional results in environmental protection technology were applied in two local solid waste treatment companies and have increased profits significantly.

Additionally, newly developed disposal technology for industrial solid waste has been licensed to the US company Glenlair Field Inc. and is being applied in hazardous waste treatment for the French company, Veolia. It greatly promotes the development of mobile organic waste on-site treatment technology.

Over the next few years, the laboratory will continue to focus on serving the economic development of Zhejiang Province via advancing technologies in the area of microwave pyrolysis, catalytic reforming, pollutant control and waste utilisation. 

By developing international standard organic waste treatment systems, the laboratory aims to achieve a series of core technology outcomes with independent intellectual property rights and provide substantial technical support for local solid waste treatment enterprises.