NTU-CEE Distinguished Seminar Series: High Performance Membranes for Separation and Reaction

Moderator

Asst Prof. SHE Qianhong

About the Seminar

Growing applications of membrane processes in water and energy pose new and interesting demands on both membranes and its process design. Our research at Imperial College London centers around developing new membranes and their applications in separation and reaction processes.

We have developed unique cross-sectional structures for polymeric, ceramic, and metallic membranes, with fabrication techniques extended to micro-monoliths. These membranes can be functionalized with advanced nanomaterials or catalysts to incorporate multiple functions into a single device.

Our research investigates the use of graphene, graphene oxide, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) as thin films or granules within the membrane's cross-sections. We have also incorporated catalysts to construct micro-reactors and fuel cells. This seminar will highlight our new membrane fabrication techniques and applications of these purposely-designed membranes in separation and reaction.

About the Speaker

Professor Kang Li has been a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London since 2007. Currently, he leads a research group at Imperial to conduct multidisciplinary research in membrane science, solid oxide fuel cells, wastewater treatment, membrane catalysis, separation processes and reaction engineering.

He received Rector's Award and Research Excellence Award at Imperial in 2007 and President’s Award for Excellence in Research in 2017. His commitment to working at interdisciplinary boundaries is evidenced by his involvements as an editorial board member of Journal of Membrane Science, Elsevier (Membrane Technology) Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Wiley (Chemical Technology), Polymers, MDPI, Switzerland (Polymer Science) and Reactive and Functional Polymers, Elsevier (Functional Polymers) and as a guest editor in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Elsevier (Energy).

He has published extensively in international referred journals (cited over 23800 times) with h-index of 79 (Google Scholar) and has authored a book on Ceramic Membranes for Separation and Reaction (Wiley 2007). Kang Li is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK.