Huge congratulations to Prof. Ni Meng on receiving a grant of around HK$1.2 Million from the National Natural Science Foundation/Research Grant Council (NSFC/RGC) Joint Research Scheme! Prof. Ni's winning project is “Coupling hydrogen production by high temperature electrolysis with iron-and-steel works to recover industrial waste-heat for low-carbon metallurgy”.
The iron-and-steel industry is an extremely important, energy-demanding, and polluting industry due to the use of huge amount of coke for reduction in the blast furnace. In this project, a new integrated system combining the reversible solid oxide cell (RSOC)with the iron-and-steel works and the renewable power is proposed.The RSOC will use the waste heat from the iron-and-steel works and the excess renewable power for hydrogen production, which will be used for direct reduction in the iron-and-steel works.
Prof. Meng Niis currently a Professor and Associate Head (Research) of Department of Building and Real Estate of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.He is a Humboldt Fellow(Germany).His research focuses on high temperature fuel cells, rechargeable metal-air batteries, flow batteries, novel electrochemical cells for low-grade heat harvesting, and energy materials.He is serving as a Senior Editor for Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-energy-technologies-and-assessments(Elsevier) and a former Associate Editor for Science Bulletin (Elsevier). Recently,he was invited to be an Associate Editor for International Journal of Green Energy: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ljge20/current(Taylor & Francis) and International Journal of Energy Research: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1099114x(Wiley).He is also one of the founding editor of Energy and AI: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-and-ai/(Elsevier).
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