Professor Chung-Hwan Jeon

Mechanical Engineering

Pusan National University

Professor Chung-Hwan Jeon is a leading researcher in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Pusan National University. In this role he has established the Pusan Clean Coal Centre (PCCC) with the support of the Korean government in 2007. Professor Chung-Hwan has held various positions which include General Director of Korean Society of Combustion (KOSCO), Korean Society of Mechanical Engineering (KSME), and Head of Department of Thermal Power Combustion Engineering for Korea Electric Power Co. (KEPCO). In this role with KEPCO Professor Chung-Hwan established PNU-KOSPO CFB Research Centre in collaboration with Korea Southern Power Company (KOSPO).
Appointed as a POSCO Affiliated Professor in recognition of his research in steel technologies in 2015, Professor Chung-Hwan is also the technical advisor to multiple Korean energy companies. Professor Chung-Hwan has contributed to many national key projects on coal combustion and gasification, oxy-fuel, IGCC as well as the major project involving the upgrading coal project with the Korean Institute for Energy and Resources (KIER), the Korean Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI) and fossil fuel specialists Doosan Babcock. Possessing a strong academic background, Professor Chung-Hwan has published over 300 technical papers in SCI(E) journals and other academic Korean publications.

Professor Jianglong Yu

Chemical Engineering

University of Newcastle

Jianglong Yu obtained his PhD degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Newcastle in 2003. In the following two years, he worked in Monash University as a postdoc research fellow. He was offered an academic position in 2005 in Shenyang Aerospace University and acted the director of Thermal Energy Research Centre. During 2007-2008, he worked with Prof Terry Wall at the University of Newcastle as a research fellow during which he was involved in a number of international collaborative projects. In 2010, he was offered the position as the director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Coal and Coking Technology of Liaoning Province at the University of Science and Technology Liaoning (USTL). In the same year, he was awarded the Excellent Researchers of Shenyang City and won the grant support of the University Talents Program of Liaoning Province. Since March 2011, he has acted as the head of the School of Chemical Engineering at USTL. He is also a member of the PPCC (People’s Political Consultative Conference) of Liaoning Province. Since 2014, he took the academic position as an Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle and is acting as the deputy director of the PRC for Frontier Technology for Energy and Utilization.
In recent years, his major research interest has been focused on R&D of clean utilization technology for coal and biomass. He has undertaken a number of national projects, more than 15 state level projects, international collaborative projects and industrial projects. He has been involved in organizing international conferences including International Symposium on Gas Cleaning at High Temperatures, International Conference on Clean Technology for Coal and Biomass Utilization (co-chair of the organizing committee).