RISUD Distinguished Lecture

New Design Approaches to CO2 Capture and CO2 Conversion for Sustainable Chemicals and Fuels

6 November 2019 (Wed)

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Tea reception | 5:30 PM Professor Chunshan Song Room Y302, 3/F, Lee Shau Kee Building (Block Y), Director of EMS Energy Institute; Distinguished Professor of Fuel Science and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Campus map) Chemical Engineering, Abstract Pennsylvania State University, USA

Control of atmospheric CO2 emission has become a central issue worldwide due to its potential impact on global climate change. Capturing CO2 and converting it into chemicals, materials, and fuels using renewable energy, is an important path for sustainable development. The fossil fuels that make up over 80% of the global primary energy supply today all originated from CO2 millions of years ago. As a new direction of sustainable energy development, capture and catalytic conversion of CO2 can be used for production of carbon- based chemicals and fuels as well as materials which are currently produced using fossil energy. This presentation will discuss some new design approaches to CO2 capture and catalytic CO2 conversion to chemicals and fuels. One of the new approaches for CO2 capture is based on solid “Molecular Basket” sorbent (MBS) being developed at the Pennsylvania State University. MBS consists of functional polymers and nano-porous materials which shows high selectivity to CO2 at high capacity. MBS has been successfully demonstrated for CO2 capture and separation at pilot plant scale. The structures of the nano-porous materials and the functional polymers are major factors affecting the working capacity, rates of uptake and release of CO2, and stability. Due to its low reactivity as the product of combustion, CO2 activation and conversion are challenging tasks. We have been exploring various new bimetallic catalysts and multi-functional catalysts for the activation and hydrogenation of CO2, using H2 produced from H2O with renewable energy. Various catalysts and processes have been explored for CO2 conversion for the production of important industrial chemicals and fuels including C2-C4 lower olefins (e.g. ethylene, propylene), liquid hydrocarbon fuels, methanol as well as aromatics. The key to effective CO2 conversion and utilization is to develop highly selective and active catalysts and catalytic processes for converting CO2 along specific reaction pathways to desired chemicals and fuels. The ultimate goal of our research is to develop a new CO2-based sustainable supply of chemicals, materials and fuels. Speaker’s biography Dr. Chunshan Song is a Distinguished Professor of Fuel Science and Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director of the EMS Energy Institute and Associate Director of Institutes of Energy and the Environment at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. He received BS in Chemical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China, and MS and PhD in Applied Chemistry from Osaka University, Japan. He worked at Research Center of Osaka Gas Company in Japan before joining Penn State in Nov 1989. His research is focused on catalysis and chemical processing for clean energy and sustainable development, including adsorptive CO2 separation and catalytic CO2 conversion, adsorptive and catalytic hydrocarbon processing, synthesis and application of novel nano-porous materials and shape-selective catalysis for chemicals ad fuels. He is a strong proponent for using CO2 in developing sustainable chemicals, materials and fuels. He has 360 refereed journal publications with 27,800 citations and an h-index of 76 (on Google Scholar), 8 patents, edited 12 books and delivered 60 plenary and keynote lectures at international conferences and over 290 invited lectures worldwide. He served as Chair of American Chemical Society’s Fuel Division and Petroleum Division, Chair of the 12th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization and Co-chair for the 24th North American Catalysis Society Biennial Meeting. He is the founding Director of the University Coalition for Fossil Energy Research funded by US DOE-NETL with $20 M for 6 years since 2016. He also serves as Director of the Joint Center for Energy Research established between Penn State and Dalian University of Technology. Currently he is the Editor in Chief for Advances in Catalysis, Advisory Editor for Journal of CO2 Utilization, Associate Editor for Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, and on the advisory boards for 14 journals in energy and fuels, catalysis and CO2 research. He has received many awards such as George A. Olah Award and Henry H. Storch Award from American Chemical Society, ACS Fellow, Distinguished Researcher Award from ACS Energy and Fuels Division, Distinguished Fulbright Scholar Award from US-UK at Imperial College London, Invited Professor at University of Paris VI, Chang Jiang Scholar Award at Dalian University of Technology, Honorary Professor at Tianjin University, Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Herman Pines Award from Catalysis Club of Chicago, Excellence in Catalysis Award from Catalysis Club of Philadelphia, AIST and NEDO Fellowship Awards from Japan, and within Penn State, the Faculty Scholar Medal, Distinguished Professor, Wilson Award for Outstanding Research, and Faculty Mentoring Award. According to Elsevier and Shanghai Ranking 2016, he is one of “The Most Cited Researchers” worldwide in “Energy Science and Engineering” and “Chemical Engineering”.

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