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Job Title
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AEEMT membership
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Research areas
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Brief description of research interests
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Cheng Heng Pang
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Professor of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials
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Head
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Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Advanced Materials, Bio-medical materials
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Dr. Pang’s research interest, experience and expertise are mainly focused on renewable energy and manufacturing of advanced materials from renewable sources. Current research areas include biomass and coal combustion for power generation purposes, concentrated solar power, clean conversion of fossil fuels, flue gas/air pollution control (mercury removal), and advanced carbon materials (e.g. bio-graphene) for bio-medical applications.
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Tao Wu
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Professor of Chemical Engineering
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Core Member
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Clean energy conversion technologies, energy saving, wastewater treatment, air pollution control, etc
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Prof. Wu has over 25 years of experience on the efficient conversion and utilization of fossil fuels and biomass. His research programmes cover a wide range from blue-sky research to proof of concept and patent development leading to commercialization.
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Guang Zhu
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Li Dak Sum Chair Professor
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Core Member
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Mechanical energy-electric energy conversion materials and devices, flexible pressure sensor
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Professor Zhu’s research mainly focuses on the fundamentals and applications of functional flexible materials and their uses in flexible transducers and pressure sensors.
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Philip Hall
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Associate Professor in Chemical & Environmental Engineering
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Core Member
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Waste recycling; Characterise swirl flow in pneumatic pipelines
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Dr. Hall’s research interests focus on resource recovery of waste materials and novel energy saving systems. Recovery of waste electronic and electrical equipment using vibrational and pneumatic separation systems. The use of recycled plastics in manufacturing. Novel methods for the separation of waste plastics. Clean in place of hydraulic pipe systems using swirl flow. The use of swirl flow in pneumatic pipelines.
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Jim Greer
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Li Dak Sum Chair Professor in Electronic Materials and Devices
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Core Member
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Electronic Materials for Emerging Devices; Semiconductor and Semimetal Nanowires; Computational Material Science; Electronic Structure Theory
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Prof. Greer’s expertise and research interest focus on Device Structures for Electronics, Sensing, Energy Generation; Low-dimensional Materials for Electronic Applications; Materials Characterisation; Atomic Scale Technology Computer Aided Design; Electron Correlations in Devices, Materials and Molecules; Atomic-Scale Technology Computer Aided Design
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Hainam Do
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Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering
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PGR Director
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Exciton and Charge Transport in Organic Semiconducting Materials; bioelectronics materials; Computational Chemistry; Computational Material Science
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Dr. Do’s research interest focus on computational chemistry. He employs a broad range of theoretical and computational chemistry tools to characterise the relationships between microscopic structures and the electronic properties of organic semiconducting materials. The systems of interest to us are conjugated polymers, molecular crystals, light-harvesting complexes and bioelectronics materials.
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Juan Wang
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Associate Professor in Civil Engineering
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Core Member
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Sustainable materials and technologies in geotechnical and road engineering
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Dr. Wang’s research focuses on recycling and reuse of solid wastes; Functional Road materials; Shakedown analysis; Transportation geotechnics; Underground energy storage; Pile foundations
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Mengxia Xu
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Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering
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Core Member
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Development of novel catalysts for pollution control
(e.g., Hg0 and VOCs); Electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 to C2 products; Microwave-assisted thermal conversion of organic solid wastes (e.g., sludge); Harmless treatment and resource utilization of hazardous solid wastes (e.g., fly ash)
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Dr. Xu’s research interests primarily center on the mitigation of gaseous (e.g., Hg0 , VOCs and CO2) and solid (e.g., fly ash) pollutants formed during the thermal treatment (e.g., gasification and incineration) of solid wastes.
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Di Hu
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Associate Professor
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Deputy Head
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Advanced Extractive Electrometallurgy, and Near-net-shape Electrochemical Metallisation
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Dr. Hu is specialised in molten salt electrochemistry, particularly in association with solid-state deoxidation process in high temperature molten salts. His research aims to bring about green technology innovations for metal extractions, alloy fabrications and advanced manufacturing with less environmental impacts. More specifically, his principal research interests lie in (i) extraction, fabrication and recycling of metals and alloys, particularly titanium and its alloys, tantalum and its alloys, and high entropy alloys, (ii) integration of advanced manufacturing processes (such as 3D printing, powder metallurgy and spark plasma sintering) and the electrochemical deoxidation process for near-net-shape production of advanced metallic products with less environmental impacts.
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Kow Kien Woh
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Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering
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Safety Officer
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Nanoporous composite; nano materials
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Dr. Kow research focused on the conversion of agricultural waste into nanoporous materials. His work mainly related to the combustion, pyrolysis, microwave extraction, ultrasonic processing, and sol-gel method of agriculture waste to synthesize materials for other chemical applications including thermal insulation and adsorption materials Recently, he proved that internal CO2 curing using porous carrier is able to improve the mechanical performance of cement products, thus offering new approach for CO2 capture in cement production.
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Lionel O'Young
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Honorary Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor
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Core Member
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Process Development and Computer-aided system engineering
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Dr. O'Young ‘s research interest focus on multiscale objective process. His expertise is on the workflow and technical aspects that can smoothen and speed up the process development from laboratory study to plant scale production. That includes but not limited to:
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Optimization of reaction conditions
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Synthesis, design and development of reactor
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Synthesis, design and development of separation system
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Process integration and intensifications
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Kok Hoong Wong
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Assistant Professor
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Core Member
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Polymer composite recycling and reuse, waste management and circular economy
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He has a broad research experiences in the areas of polymer composite recycling technologies, which not only include the standard options like fluidized bed, pyrolysis and solvolysis, but also led research on developing a more efficient and economical hybrid recycling technology for recovery of higher quality fibres and polymers. He has also led research on the application of the recycled fibre in areas such as nonwoven mat for heating and electromagnetic interference shielding, reinforcement for thermoplastic composites and GFRP recyclates for sandwich core. Current research includes hybrid recycling process optimisation, wind turbine blade recycling and reuse, discontinuous fibre alignment.
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Kam Loon Fow
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Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering
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Core Member
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Dr. Fow’s research interest focused on the synthesis, application and modelling of solid materials for catalytic production of fine chemicals, conversion of waste materials and energy storage.
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Zheng Wang
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Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering
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Events Manager
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Full component recycling of lithium ion battery via mineral processing techniques
Plastic recycling for high value-added products: wood plastic composite
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Dr. Wang is an environmental engineer with research experience in the development of solid waste separation technologies. The rationale of his research is to concentrate or separate valuable fractions from solid waste stream at the earlier stage with physical approaches to improve the environmental performance of recovery process. Previous research projects includes pneumatic separation and vertical vibratory separation for metal recovery from shredded WEEE, attrition scrubbing for de-contamination of cast sand, density based separation of plastic pellets and flakes, and lithium ion battery recycling.
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Jason Li
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Research Fellow in Clean Process Technology
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Core Member
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Application of swirl flows for process intensification
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Dr. Li is an environmental engineering with research experience in numerical and experimental investigations of swirl flows and its applications. He is currently investigating a geometrically induced swirl flow generated by a four-lobed swirl induction pipe section and its applications. This include but not limited to the intensification of Clean-In-Place process in closed processing systems by introducing swirl flows and ultrasonic monitoring methods, the application of swirl flow on Hydraulic/Pneumatic conveying to save energy and reduce wear, and the improvement of aerosol delivery performance of Dry Powder Inhalations devices by producing stronger particle-particle collision and particle-wall collision.
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Xiang Luo
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Research Fellow
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Core Member
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Enhanced hydrogen production from medium-low temperature catalytic steam reforming
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Dr. Luo’s research interest focused on catalytic steam reforming for hydrogen production. Steam reforming of nature gas has been regarded as one of the most important ways for industrial hydrogen production. However, this high temperature reaction brings challenges for operation and rig material. Therefore, it is of great significance for the development of hydrogen energy industry to realize the rapid and low-cost technology of medium-low temperature hydrogen production from methane steam reforming. Based on this issue, novel catalytic materials and the mechanism study of medium-low temperature steam reforming will be very important.
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