APEN-2014 KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Prof. Jinyue Yan, Prof. Klas Engvall

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KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

A. Lead Scientist(s) Prof. Jinyue Yan, Prof. Klas Engvall

Professors: Jinyue Yan has worked as Chair Professor in Mälardalen University & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden since 2005. From 2013, he also becomes director of Future Energy Profile funded by Swedish Knowledge Foundation and companies including ABB with ca 10 million Euro. As the Editor-in-chief of Applied Energy, Elsevier Int. Journal, Yan got award from CAST (China Association of Sci. & Tech.) (2009), Assessor of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2001-), Chang-Jiang Professor of Ministry of Education, China (2000), Thousand Talents Program, Honorary Professor of several universities in China. He has 200+ referred papers incl. a paper in Sciences and feature article in Mechanical Engineering. Editor-in-chief of Applied Energy, Elsevier Int. Journal; Editor-in-chief of Handbook of Clean Energy Systems, Wiley; Associate Editor, Energy, Members of Editorial Board of Int. Journals and Book Series: Energy conversion and management (Elsevier); Int. Journal of Energy Research (Wiley); Energy Science and Engineering (Wiley); Int. Journal of Green Energy (Taylor & Francis); Frontiers of Energy and Power Engineering (Springer); and China Science and Technology Review (J); Sustainable Energy Systems (CRC Press). Guest editor for Int. J. of Green Energy, Int. J. of Energy Conv. & Manag., Int. J. of Energy Research, Applied Energy; Conference Chairman of the 3rd Int. Green Energy Conference, Sweden, 2007; Conf. co-chair of the 4th Int. Green Energy Conf., Beijing, 2008; Conf. chair/Sci. Committee Chair of Int. Conf. on Applied Energy (ICAE) (Hong Kong), ICAE2010 (Singapore), ICAE2011 (Italy), ICAE2012 (China) and ICAE2013(South Africa)..

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Scientific and Advisory Committee members of several int. conferences including IEEES’ 05-07, IGEC’ 06-2011, IGEC’05; ISCU2010, WREC 2011, ICCE-2011 etc. Committee Member of Coal, Biomass and Alternative Fuels Committee, International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI); Electric Power Committee, IGTI; Cycle Innovation Committee, IGTI; Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, International (ASME) Book referee “Principles of Fuel Cells” for Taylor & Francis Books (2004); “PEM Fuel Cells” by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (2003) and other books; Journal Reviewer/referee: IPCC report, Applied Energy, Biomass and Bioenergy, Energy Policy, Chemical Engineering Sciences, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Climate Policy, Int. J. of Hydrogen Energy, Int. J. of Green Energy, J. of Fuel Processing, Fuel, Developments in Heat Transfer Series, Int. J. of Energy Research, J. of Energy Resources Technology, J. of Eng. for Gas Turbines and Power, Energy, Energy Con. & Manag. Int. J.of Appl. Thermal Eng., J. of Propulsion and Power, The Canadian J. of Chemical Eng., Energy and Environment, Energy and Fuels, Int. J. of Greenhouse Gas Control, etc. Professor promotion & Lecturer/association professor evaluator: Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Norway, 2009), Lund University (2005, 2010, 2011, 2012); Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011), Chalmers (2007, 2004, 2012). PhD examiners: Ca 30+. Reviewer/Evaluator: Roster Experts for CDM methodologies, the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) (2005-); New Bioenergy Res. Inst., Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008); Canadian Industrial R&D Program: AUT021 Network of Centers of Excellence (2007, 2009, 2011); China Natural Science Foundation (2007); The “973” Program of The Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST) (2011); The Petroleum Research Fund, the American Chemical Society (2006); IIASA YSSP program (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Young Scientists Summer Program) (2004); Oversea Assessor of Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999-2004). Referee for evaluation of the membership of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2002, 2005); Dutch Technical Foundations (STW) and Research Council of the Technical Sciences; NOW program “Innovational Research Incentives Scheme” (2003); Chinese Key Program Projects for Ministry of Sciences and Technology (2003). Research Grant Council Hong Kong (2010, 2011), Norwegian Research Council (2009). External grants (Larger sums in the last 5 years) Research grants have been successfully attracted from European Commission in the 5th, 6th and 7th Frame Program, and Asia ProEco Program, Swedish Energy Agency, Swedish Strategic Development Foundation, Swedish International Cooperation Agency, and Swedish Research Council, and Swedish Knowledge Foundation etc. Examples of projects in recent years:

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No. Project Title Funding Organization Duration 1 Future Energy Profile The Knowledge

Foundation + 6 industrial partners incl. ABB etc (total funding 83 MSEK=ca 10 MEuro)

2013-2019

2 Thermo physical properties of carbon dioxide mixtures with impurities and their impacts on carbon capture and storage

Swedish Research Council and Swedish Energy Agency

2013-2017

3 Technology transfer and commercialization of PV water pumping in cooperation between Sweden and China

Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth

2013-2014

4 Demonstration and scale up of PV water pumping for grassland and farmland conservation

Swedish International Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

2011-2013

5 Experimental studies on mobilized thermal energy storage (M-TES) system

ÅF forskningsstiftelse 2009-2012

6 Energy storages system design and feasibility study

Swedish District Heating Association

2010-2011

7 Investment in China vs. Climate Effective Growth in EU

Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis

2009-2010

8 CO2 capture and storage: Properties of CO2/H2O with Impurities in Oxyfuel Combustion Process

Swedish Energy Agency with Siemens, and Volvo Aero

2007-2010

9 STOCO2: Support to regulatory activities for carbon capture and storage

European Commission, FP7 2007-2009

10 Biofuel polygeneration integrated into existing CHP plants

Swedish Energy Agency 2006-2009

11 Application of Thermodynamic Properties of CO2 Mixtures with Impurities for Engineering Design and Analysis of CO2 Capture and Transport Processes

Vattenfall Research and Development

2006-2008

12 COACH:- Cooperation Action within CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) China-EU

European Commission, FP6 2006-2009

13 Fundamental Study of CO2 capture and Storage Swedish Research Council 2006- 2009 14 Feasibility Study for the Design of an Industrial

Park with very low Energy Consumption and Energy Integration

EU Asia ProEco Program 2005-2007

15 Advanced Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage (AA-CAES)

European Commission, FP5 2003-2007

16 Integrated Sink Enhancement Assessment (INSEA) European Commission, FP6 2004-2006 17 Thermodynamic Properties of CO2 and its

Mixtures Swedish Energy Agency 2003-2006

18 Climate change mitigation by CDM: policy, technology and market impacts for the Sweden-China case

Swedish Energy Agency 2002-2006

Prof Klas Engvall, Klas Engvall has broad experiences of R&D, as researcher and research leader, within the field thermochemical conversion both from the academia and the industry. The activities cover process monitoring techniques for alkali species and tars, fuel flexibility in combustion, agglomeration problems in fluidised bed, gasification of biomass and waste, high temperature corrosion, gas cleaning and upgrading in gasification processes, reforming of tars and bio-oil, as well as catalysis and surface science in general. Klas Engvall is currently responsible for coordinating the R&D in one of the research nodes (three partner universities and 12 industrial partners) in the Swedish Gasification Centre. He is also head of the gasification research group and is today supervising 6 PhD students.

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B. The main research areas • Thermochemical conversion of biomass

and waste • Processes and systems for gas cleaning

and upgrading • End user applications such as synthesis

of motor fuels and fine chemicals C. Industrial partners • Eskilstuna Energi & Miljö, E.ON, • Andritz, Cortus Energy AB, Altimeco, • Verdant Chemical Technologies AB, • Centriair AB, Bestwood, Nynas AB, • Nordkalk AB, Fortum Värme AB, • Scanarc AB, ABB; EEM, Mälarenergi, • Direct Energy, U&We, Solibro, E-on, • Vafab, Vattenfall, Swedco, etc

D. Potential co-funding projects No. Project Title Funding

Organization Duration

1 Swedish Gasification Centre (SFC)

Swedish Energy Agency, industry and academia. The total funding programme period 2: 78 MSEK=ca 9,7 MEuro)

2013-2017

2 Demo-SNG: Demonstration of optimized process for methane production from biomass gasification

EIT, KIC InnoEnergy (EU)

2011-2015

3 BRISK EU FP7 2011-2015 4 DEMITAR EIT, KIC

InnoEnergy (EU) 2011-2014

E. PhD/Post-doc project description The following projects may be issued in cooperation with industrial partners:

• Thermochemical conversion of biomass and waste. Processes to be considered are gasification and pyrolysis mainly in fluidized bed but also other conversion technologies. The work is mainly experimental but can also include process modeling, such as heat and mass transfer, chemical kinetics, etc

• Processes and systems for upgrading and cleaning of raw gas from thermochemical conversion of biomass. Focus areas are tar and bio-oil reforming and tar separation technologies. The work includes both experimental as well as modeling.

The laboratory are equipped with a number of reactors from lab- to pilot-scale, used to characterize and investigate fluid bed gasification processes, pyrolysis processes for bio-oil synthesis, catalytic tar reforming, other gas cleaning and upgrading, gas analysis and sampling, gas adsorption, simultaneous thermogravimetric and catalyst characterization.

• Research will be conducted with closely cooperation with our industrial partners including ABB and other companies in one of the following areas:

• Renewable Energy, in particular on bioenergy and solar energy

• Energy efficiency and emission mitigation: energy efficiency improvement in building and carbon capture and storage (CCS)

• Smarter modeling, optimization and control and management of energy systems: CFD modeling, dynamic and online simulation and control of power plants, industrial process and simulation tool development

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F. Requirements of the PhD/Post doc student The requirement for the PhD candidate is as follows:

• Preferably MSc in engineering with the specialization chemical engineering or energy technology

• The candidate should have emphasized interests in experimental work both at pilot scale and at laboratory scale

• The candidate should willingly address fundamental aspects of importance for the development

• Independency, ability to solve practical problems and self-initiative is considered positive

• good language communication skill in English.

G. Contacts with Chinese universities

• Tsinghua University • Beijing Institute of Technology • Tianjin University • Chinese Academy of Sciences • East China University of Science and Technology • South China University of Science and Technology • Shanghai Jiao Tong University • State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Renewable Laboratory, Dalian, China

Contact Person:

Professor Jinyue Yan Email: jinyue@kth.se Homepage: https://www.kth.se/profile/jinyue/

Professor Klas Engvall

Tel: +46 (0)8 790 89 95 Email: kengvall@kth.se Homepage: http://www.kth.se/en/2.4657/chemical-technology/ke