Civil Engineering Departmental Seminar - High-value utilization of thermochemical for organic solid waste

Professor Yong Chen is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, a current member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, and Chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Association for Science and Technology. Prof. Chen obtained his Ph.D. from Nagoya University in 1993. He has been working in the development of energy and resource utilization of organic solid waste for a long time. A series of technologies and integrated methods including thermochemical conversion, physical conversion, chemical conversion, and biochemical conversion have been utilized to achieve high-value energy and resource utilization of household waste, animal manure, and agricultural and forestry waste. He has been in charge of more than 50 major national and provincial-level projects. He has published over 300 papers in English and Chinese and published 9 monographs in Chinese. He has been awarded 2 Second-class National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 7 provincial-level Science and Technology Progress Awards, and Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Progress Awards.