Sustainable futures
Converting wastes into value-added products
The novel method, developed by the Provincial Key Laboratory for Carbonaceous Waste Processing and Process Intensification Research, has helped waste treatment and disposal service providers solve this problem successfully.
"The traditional method for pharmaceutical sludge treatment requires high levels of energy consumption and causes air pollution."
The lab’s innovative technology cannot only reduce the amount of energy consumption and hazardous air emissions, but it can turn residue left over from the treatment process into concrete blocks.
Under Professor Tao Wu’s leadership, the Provincial Key Lab focuses on industrial waste treatment and clean energy conversion technologies. Their inventions have been awarded multiple patents, with commercial applications at home and abroad.
Tao Wu
Tao Wu is a professor in Chemical and Environmental Engineering actively researching clean energy technologies and Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC). He is also involved with the China Beacons Institute, Advanced Energy and Environmental Materials & Technologies Research Group and the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. His current interests focus on clean energy conversion technologies, energy saving, wastewater treatment, air pollution control, etc. He serves as a committee member on several national and regional professional bodies and is currently leading the Municipal Key Laboratory on Clean Energy Conversion Technologies at the UNNC.
More information is available from Tao Wu, Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Tao.Wu@nottingham.edu.cn