美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学Bruce E. Logan院士学术报告的通知

报告人简介：Bruce E. Logan博士是美国工程院院士、水环境联合会会士和国际水协会会士、宾夕法尼亚州立大学环境工程Evan Pugh 教授和Stan & Flora Kappe 教授、能源与环境工程研究中心主任、氢能研究中心主任。Logan 教授是《环境科学与工程》（ES&T）执行副主编和《环境科学与工程通讯》杂志主编，他获得了包括美国国家水研究院（NWRI）最高奖 Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke杰出奖、美国氢能协会最具“领袖和影响力”奖、美国科学研究协会技术突破奖、Paul L. Busch大奖、美国广播新闻网“前50个科学家”奖和《环境科学与技术》（ES&T）杂志“最佳论文”和“卓越综述”奖等奖励。Logan教授致力于生物质能和全球水基础设施能源可持续发展的研究，是微生物电化学废水处理的开创者，在《Science》、《Nature》、《Nature Review》、《PNAS》等国际顶尖杂志发表文章380余篇，论文被引用超过22000次，h-index达81， 出版专著6部。热忱欢迎老师和同学参加！

10月9日下午14:00-15:00，报告题目: “Writing papers and choosing research topics”，

地点：浙江大学玉泉校区热能所205会议室，

10月10日上午10:00-11:30，报告题目:  Microbial Fuel Technologies for Renewable Power and Biofuels Production from Waste Biomass

地点：浙江大学玉泉校区热能所205会议室，
报告摘要：The ability of certain microorganisms to transfer electrons outside the cell has created opportunities for new methods of renewable energy generation based on microbial fuel cells (MFCs) that can be used to produce electrical power, microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) for transforming biologically generated electrical current into transportable fuels such as hydrogen and methane gases, as well as other devices to desalinate water or capture phosphorus. In this presentation I will summarize key findings in the electromicrobiological studies of the exoelectrogenic microorganisms and communities that produce electrical current, and the electrotrophic and methanogenic communities that are used to produce hydrogen and methane gases. Recent advances will be highlighted on materials and architectures that are being developed to make these different types of METs more cost efficient, which are leading to them becoming commercially viable technologies.

10月10日下午14:00-15:300，报告题目:  Energy generation from water: Just add salt

地点：浙江大学玉泉校区热能所205会议室，
报告摘要：The amount of power that could be generated from the salinity difference between river water and seawater is ~2000 GW. The evaporation and condensation of thermal salt solutions, such as ammonium bicarbonate, could also enable the capture of more than 1000 GW of waste heat energy at industries and existing power plants in the US alone. Three technologies are primarily being investigated to capture energy from solutions with high and low salinities: pressure retarded osmosis (PRO), based on creating pressurized solutions that can power turbines; reverse electrodialysis (RED), where electrochemical potential is captured directly as electrical current using stacks of membranes; and capacitive mixing (CapMix) and battery like reactions that are used in cyclical charging and discharging processes to generate net electrical power. In this lecture I primarily focus on RED and Capmix, and show how these salinity gradient energy approaches can be used alone or integrated into different types of microbial electrochemical technologies such as microbial fuel cells. The use of these combined technologies could enable net power generation from wastewater treatment plants located on coastal sites.