题目：Process Integration for Carbon-Constrained Energy Planning

报告人：Professor Ir. Dr. Dominic Foo

时间：2025年12月18日（周四）12：15 -13：15

地点：欧宝app官方网站下载中英国际低碳学院432会议室

邀请人：张振东 副教授

Biography

Professor Ir. Dr. Dominic Foo is a Professor of Process Design and Integration at the University of Nottingham Malaysia, and is the Founding Director for the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies.  He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the Engineering Council UK, Professional Engineer (PEng) with the Board of Engineer Malaysia (BEM), ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineers (ACPE), as well as the Past President for the Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE).  He is top 2% world-renowned scientist according to Stanford List, working in process integration for resource conservation and CO2 reduction.  He collaborates with more than 50 research scholars and industrial practitioners over Asia, Europe, North America and Africa.  Professor Foo is an active author, with 11 books, more than 230 journal papers and made more than 270 conference presentations, with over 45 keynote/plenary speeches.  He served as International Scientific Committees for many important international conferences (CHISA/PRES, FOCAPD, ESCAPE, PSE, SDEWES, etc.).  Professor Foo is the Editor-in-Chief for Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability (Springer Nature), Subject Editor for Process Safety & Environmental Protection (Elsevier), and editorial board members for several other renowned journals.  He is the winners of the Innovator of the Year Award 2009 of IChemE, Young Engineer Award 2010 of IEM, Outstanding Young Malaysian Award 2012 of Junior Chamber International (JCI), Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer 2013 (Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan), Vice-Chancellor’s Achievement Award 2014 (University of Nottingham) and Top Research Scientist Malaysia 2016 (ASM).  He has conducted more than 100 professional workshops to academics and industrial practitioners worldwide, and examined more than 40 PhD thesis in 10 countries.

Abstract

Power generation sector is the main CO2 emitter globally. In year 2022, this sector accounts for 40% of total CO2 emissions. In year 2023, energy-related CO2 emissions from power generation sector was reported to rise to 37.4 Gt, i.e. an increase of 1.1%. Despite the commitments of reducing greenhouse gas emissions made in the Paris Agreement, most countries face challenges in meeting these targets due to their rising energy demands. These statistics show the importance of a sustainable energy system in reducing CO2 emissions. Unfortunately, there is no single silver bullet to make a sustainable energy system. The global community will have to make use of a series of decarbonisation technology wedges in achieving such goal; these include the use of renewables, efficiency improvement, carbon capture and storage (CCS), etc. 

Since 1970s, some systematic process system engineering tools have been developed in the chemical process industry. Among them, process integration techniques are among the promising tools that have gained good attention among the academic and practitioners in the optimal use of energy resources. In the beginning of this century, process integration tools were extended into regional energy planning problem. By including constraints of CO2 emissions, the problem calls for the optimal matching of energy sources and demands. The latter can be cities or countries, where their energy requirements are to be fulfilled, while subject to the maximum limit of CO2 emissions. Process integration tool such as carbon emission pinch diagram may be used for such optimal planning problem, where the optimal use of zero or low-carbon renewable energy is identified. The tool is also extended for the optimal deployment of CCS and negative emission technologies, etc. Some of these recent advancements of process integration techniques in addressing sustainable energy planning problems will be discussed in this talk.