Subject：Underground-coal-gasification and Carbon-capture-and-storage: Coal in the new low-carbon economy

Time：10：00 -11：30 am, Mar.17th, 2014

Address：F207

Speaker：Dr. Yaodong Wang （Newcastle University）

Inviter：Prof. Shangguan Wenfeng（Institute of Internal Combustion Engine）

Abstract：
The presentation gives a brief introduction of the role of coal in the current ‘Carbon Economy’: In the foreseen future, coal will still play an important role as one important energy resource. To control the climate change, Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) combined with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) may be one of the feasible solutions for the UK and the world.

Introduction of Speaker：
Dr. Yaodong Wang is Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) and Director of Postgraduate Studies in the Sir Joseph Swan Centre for Energy Research, Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has experience working on 16 research projects in the last 20 years with 69 papers published on journals and on conference proceedings; invited reviewers for 12 international journals; section chairs for five international conferences; collaborations with some universities and research institutes in China. He has substantial experience of working on multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research projects, including: thermal energy management of processing industries; coal and biomass combustion and gasification; energy systems such as diesel and petrol engines; gas turbines; thermal power plants; CHP and trigeneration fuelled with renewable biofuels; novel concepts such as Miller Cycle; Flameless Oxidation to increase energy utilisation efficiency and to reduce emissions; Sustainable buildings / Sustainable islands; Sustainable industries / Sustainable farms. He is PI of an EPSRC grant Low grade heat driven adsorption-linear-expander cycle for cogeneration of power and refrigeration.He is also Co-I (Co-investigator) of a number of EPSRC grants. He is also the Co-I of 3 EU FP7 projects. His experience also includes EU FP6: EU funded projects of New Burner Technologies for power generation for Biofuels, Innovative In Situ CO2 Capture Technology for Solid Fuel Gasification, and Upgrading of High Moisture Low Rank Coal to Hydrogen and Methane, and EPSRC funded SUPERGEN - Biomass, Biofuels and energy crops consortium. He has experience working with industry on regional (North East England) energy projects, e.g. untreated recycled vegetable oil for energy generation (CHP) with CoRE (Community Renewable Energy, which is a social enterprise in the North East) in a NHS Project in Alnwick, Northumberland, which was visited by the Minister of Energy and Climate Change minister (at the time), Joan Ruddock MP, in the summer of 2009.