Meihong Wang was born in Dongtai City, Jiangsu Province, China. He moved to the UK in 1999. He is a professor on process systems engineering (PSE) at University of Sheffield, UK.[1] He studies power plants, carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), energy storage and bio-energy through modelling, optimization and control.

Educational and career

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He joined  Nanjing Chemical Engineering Power College (now part of Nanjing Normal University) in 1985. He worked in chemical industry (Ammonia Synthesis) from 1988 to 1992 in Yancheng City, China.  He did MSc on Process Control and Instrumentation at East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai, China. He joined Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) as Lecturer in 1995.[1]

In 1999, he became Research Assistant and Part-time PhD at Centre for Process Systems Engineering (CPSE) between Imperial College London and UCL. From 2002, he continued to be Postdoc Research Fellow at CPSE.  In 2003, he moved to University of Plymouth as Postdoc Research Fellow. In 2004, he joined Alstom Power Technology Centre as Senior Engineer (working on modelling, analysis and monitoring of power plants with carbon capture). In 2006, he moved to Cranfield University as Lecturer on Process Systems Engineering (PSE) and MSc Course Director on Carbon Capture and Transport (CCT). In 2012, he moved to University of Hull as Reader. He was promoted to professor in 2014.  In 2016, he moved to University of Sheffield.[1]

Recognition

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Meihong Wang was elected Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2024 for his research contribution on studying CCUS through PSE techniques.[2]

He was elected Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET).

He was Siemens PSE Model-based Innovation (MBI) Prize Winner 2022[3] for “an excellent work illustrating the use of gPROMS in the modelling, simulation and analysis of a complex process for efficient carbon capture”.[4]

He was joint winner of Nigeria Prize for Science in 2019 “for work on carbon capture, utilization, and biomass gasification and energy storage for power generation”. This is the most important prize in the African Continent.[5][6][7][8]

A research project on applying process intensification techniques for carbon capture led by Prof Wang was runner-up in IChemE Global Award 2019 (Energy Category).[9]

The paper co-authored by Prof Wang on large-scale energy storage (Aneke and Wang, 2016) was given Award for the Most Cited Review Paper in Applied Energy by Elsevier.[1]

He was awarded Ludwig Mond Prize in 2014 by IMechE.[10] The content of this paper was also widely used by a UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) report in 2020 titled “Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) deployment at dispersed sites”.[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Wang, Meihong, Professor". www.sheffield.ac.uk. 2023-06-08. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  2. ^ "Members | European Academy of Sciences and Arts". members.euro-acad.eu. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  3. ^ "Sheffield researchers win Siemens PSE prize for carbon capture research". www.sheffield.ac.uk. 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  4. ^ "SPSE Academic". siemens.com Global Website. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  5. ^ "Prof Meihong Wang". The Nigeria Prizes Website. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  6. ^ 江巍. "Chinese scientist wins Nigeria's top science award". www.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  7. ^ "Researchers honoured with Nigeria's top science award". www.sheffield.ac.uk. 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  8. ^ "Non-Nigerian, Nigerian win 2019 NLNG Science Prize".
  9. ^ "Finalists announced for the IChemE Global Awards 2019 - IChemE". www.icheme.org. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  10. ^ "UK Humber CO2 pipeline design wins award".
  11. ^ "CCS deployment at dispersed industrial sites" (PDF).