Please join the Columbia Climate School for a special lecture featuring Professor Huang Qunxing Vice Dean, College of Energy Engineering Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China.
“China's Multi-Billion Investment in Mitigating Climate Change: Phasing out global landfilling by means of Waste-to-Energy Power Plants”
Professor Huang is the Vice Dean of the College of Energy & Engineering at the University of Zhejiang. He engages in research on the efficient and clean thermal treatment of solid waste including MSW, sludge, waste plastics, oily sludge. He also interests in combustion optimization technology development. He is the coordinator of the Global WtERT Councill and member of Chinese incineration Committee of China association of Urban environmental sanitation and managing editors of journal Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy. He is also the PI for more than 30 research projects such as national key research and development program project, 973 program project, 863 program project, high technology development program project, NSFC and many projects supported by industrial companies. He has published more than 80 international peer-reviewed journals papers. He has been awarded national S&T progress team Awards, Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress and First Prize of Zhejiang Science and Technology Progress.
4:30pm – 4:45pm Registration
4:45pm – 4:50pm Introductory remarks: Prof. Jeffrey Shaman, Dean Columbia Climate School; and Prof. Nickolas Themelis, Founder of Earth Engineering Center.
4:50pm – 5:30pm Presentation of Prof. Huang Qunxing
5:30pm – 6:00pm Q&A session
