WCETC Annual General Meeting Plenary speaker

Prof. Guangwen Xu

Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, China

Prof. Guangwen Xu, President/Chair professor of Shenyang University of Chemical Technology (SYUCT). He has been recognized by the election to Royal Academy of Engineering (2022). He has dedicated himself to thermochemical sciences and technologies for more than 30 years and inaugurated the new interdiscipline of Engineering Thermochemistry. He has undertaken tens of national, international and industrial grant projects for scientific researches and technical developments. By far, he has published more than 550 journal articles and two monographs, with a personal h-index of 66 (Scopus). He has granted more than 130 patents including 50 international patents authorized by oversea countries. Innovative technologies developed in his team have widely deployed in more than 15 provincial regions of China and some in Korea, Canada and France for more than 300 industrial installations and research instruments and/or facilities. Up to now, the total economic revenue generated from the technology applications has reached 16 billion RMB, while the technology applications significantly contributed to high-efficiency and clean production of a totally annual economic value about 1000 billion RMB.