Public Research Seminar by Sustainable Energy and Environment Thrust, HKUST(GZ) - Process Integration Techniques for Industrial Decarbonisation
In the last decade, achieving carbon neutrality has become a major focus for various countries and economic sectors globally. Various techniques and planning tools have been proposed in order to achieve the carbon neutrality target by the mid of this century. Carbon capture, utilisation and storage, as well as negative emission technologies are among those that have received good attention in recent years, apart from the conventional renewable energy. For effective deployment of these technologies, various planning tools were proposed. Among them, process integration techniques and carbon emission pinch analysis (CEPA) have received good attention and have been utilised in various countries and sectors for decarbonisation efforts. Past works were reported for the use of these techniques at various scales, ranging from product carbon footprint reduction, plant-level CO2 emissions reduction, to regional or nation-wide greenhouse emission avoidance; which is now known as carbon management network in short. This talk will present various insight-based techniques developed in the past decade in addressing CO2 reduction problems.
Professor Dominic Foo is a Professor of Process Design and Integration at the University of Nottingham Malaysia, and is the Founding Director for the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the Engineering Council UK, Professional Engineer (PEng) with the Board of Engineer Malaysia (BEM), ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineers (ACPE), as well as the President for the Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE). He is top 1% world-renowned scientist according to Stanford List, working in process integration for resource conservation and CO2 reduction. He collaborates with more than 50 research scholars and industrial practitioners over Asia, Europe, North America and Africa. Professor Foo is an active author, with eight books, more than 230 journal papers and made more than 240 conference presentations, with more than 40 keynote/plenary speeches. He served as International Scientific Committees for many important international conferences (CHISA/PRES, FOCAPD, ESCAPE, PSE, SDEWES, etc.). Professor Foo is the Editor-in-Chief for Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability (Springer Nature), Subject Editor for Process Safety & Environmental Protection (Elsevier), and editorial board members for several other renowned journals. He is the winners of the Innovator of the Year Award 2009 of IChemE, Young Engineer Award 2010 of IEM, Outstanding Young Malaysian Award 2012 of Junior Chamber International (JCI), Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer 2013 (Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan), Vice-Chancellor’s Achievement Award 2014 (University of Nottingham) and Top Research Scientist Malaysia 2016 (ASM).
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