Research Overview

  Our research group focuses on water and wastewater treatment, industrial solid waste recycling and reuse. We create advanced technologies, such as heterogeneous catalytic ozonation for pollution removal from water and wastewater, alcohol-water hydrothermal method for gypsum transformation to hemihydrate. We also take interest in inorganic materials, particularly in the synthesis of nano- micro particles through the control of surface and interfacial properties, and probe into the non-classical nucleation theory. The research work is multidisciplinary and targets extensive applications. In collaboration with the professional firms for wastewater treatment, we have designed dozens of sewage plants and wastewater treatment stations for our customers. We have established the first pilot plant for FDG gypsum (flue gas desulphurization gypsum) utilization by production of α-hemihydrate in electrolyte aqueous solution under mild conditions. In addition to Environmental Engineering, our group is actively involved in the Inorganic Materials Science.