Professor Hongwei Wu’s topic is “Some Recent Advances in Particulate Matter Emission during Biomass and Biofuels Combustion” at the 6th International Conference on Biomass Energy (ICBE2018).

Education

2000 PhD in Chemical Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Australia

1996 MEng in Thermal Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), China

1993 BEng in Thermal Engineering, HUST, China

Research Interests

• Bioenergy science and engineering
• Fuel science and engineering
• Production, characterisation and processing of slurry fuels
• Thermochemical processing or co-processing of fuels
• Biochar production, tuning, chacterisation and applications
• Transformation of mineral matter in fuels
• Reactive turbulent flows
• Solar-thermochemical processing
• Emission from fuel thermochemical processing
• Utilisation of flyash, ash cenospheres and other solid wastes
• Hydrogen production from solid fuels (biomass, coal and wastes)
• Heat and mass transfer in industrial processes
• Safety, loss prevention and risk management in industrial processes
• LNG value chain, production, spill, dispersion and safety
• Metallurgical reductants including coal, biomass charcoal, methane, hydrogen etc
• Life cycle analysis

HONOURS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2008 – present Associate Editor, Energy & Fuels – an American Chemical Society journal

2012 – present Guest Professor, CNRS-PROMES, France

2017 – present Adjunct Professor, Chongqing University, China

2014 – present Overseas Expert, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2009 – present Guest Professor, State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, HUST, China

2007 – present Overseas Expert, State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, “111” plan supported by the Ministry of Education and the National Bureau of Overseas Experts, China

2009 – present International Assessor, Natural Science Foundation of China

2008 – present OZReader and assessor, Australian Research Council, all schemes