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Founding Editor-in-Chief, Carbon Capture Science & Technology
Managing Editor, Biomass and Bioenergy
Research Interests
- Energy/chemicals production from thermo-chemical conversion of renewable and waste resources (biomass, plastics, waste glycerol, food waste etc.)
- Heterogeneous catalyst development and application for hydrogen and syngas production
- CO2 in-situ capture during thermo-chemical processing
- Carbon nanotubes production from waste and renewable hydrocarbons
- CO2 capture using solid sorbents and catalytic conversion of CO2 into chemicals (e.g. CH4)
Achievements
2023 Fundamental understanding of CO2 capture and utilisation using simple CaO and stone-based materials (€15,000)
Funded by henQ Capital Partners 4E BV.
2023-2025 Network for negative emissions to support the capacity building of Ukrainian Biochar Production and Research (£688,798) – Co-Investigator
Advancing research on biochar production and applications with secondments, training and network events. The project is led by University Warwick, and collaborated with University of Leeds, University of Edinburgh, University of Northumbria and Aston University.
2022-2023 AKT/ OXCCU Tech Ltd (S2703CHM)(£30,000) – Coordinator
Developing dual functional materials for direct air capture and CO2 utilisation.
2023-2026 Carbon-neutral pathways of recycling marine plastic waste (CUPOLA) (EP/X038750/1) (£198,215) – PI at QUB
Waste plastic recycling to produce various products. The CUPOLA project includes about 10 partners with a total budget of around £700k.
2021-2022 EPSRC Bioenergy SuperGen Hub grant (£100,000)
Municipal Solid Waste to upgraded bio-oil for direct blending with liquid transport fuels: Addressing the key challenges. The project is led by the University of Leeds, Co-I and PI at QUB
2021-2023 Royal Society International Exchange (£12,000)
Collaborated with Shanghai Jiaotong University for the production and application of carbon nanotubes derived from waste plastics. Principal Investigator.
2021 British Council Researcher Links Workshop Grant (£16,000)
Collaborated with Nanjing Normal University to organise a workshop on the treatment of solid waste and wastewater. Principal Investigator.
2020-2021 Innovate UK (£162,975) (Ref: 29478)
Advanced Battery Thermal Control and Thermal Run-Away Cascading Prevention System Using Thermal Phase Change Materials
2020-2022 Royal Society K.C. Wong International Fellowship (£67,000) (Ref:NIF\R1\191817)
Renewable syngas production with low contents of tar and fine particulates from biomass gasification using metal/ceramic multifunctional catalyst (Host PI at QUB)
2020-2023 EU H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019 (€874,000) (Ref:872102)
Advanced Zeolite Catalysis for Sustainable Biorefinery towards Value-added Chemicals, Co-I (PI at Queen’s University Belfast).
2019-2022 EU H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 (€846,000) (Ref: 823745)
Project Coordinator, Biomass gasification with negative carbon emission through innovative CO2 capture and utilisation and integration with energy storage. The project has 15 partners.
2018 – EPSRC SuperGen Bioenergy Hub (£50, 000)
Novel and integrated low carbon process combining the gasification of waste biomass and plasma-catalytic reforming for the production of sustainable aviation biofuels, Co-I, collaborated with University of Liverpool.
2017 – 2019 EPSRC (£200,000)
Microwave-assisted upgrading of fast pyrolysis bio-oil using structured zeolites on microwave-absorbing foam supports (EP/R000670/1), Co-I, collaborated with University of Manchester
2016 – 2017 International Exchange Scheme - Royal Society, (£7,400)
Upgrading of bio-oil produced from biomass pyrolysis, Principal Investigator, collaborated with Southeast University.
2015 – 2016 EPSRC SuperGen Bioenergy Hub (£19,761)
Catalytic ultrasound pre-treatment of pyrolysis oil, Principal Investigator
2015 – 2017 EPSRC (£911,539)
Novel low energy plasma/catalytic gas cleaning process to deliver high quality syngas from the gasification of waste biomass (EP/M013162/1)
Named Researcher and Principal Investigator in Hull in 2017
2014 – 2018 EU H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014 (€405,000)
Co-processing biomass and plastic wastes (643322), Co-Investigator, collaborated with Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, Sydney, Tsinghua University, Xi’an Jiaotong University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology etc.
2013 – 2014 White Rose Collaboration Fund (£10,500)
Conventional and microwave pyrolysis of biomass, Principal investigator
2011 – 2012 International Exchange Scheme - Royal Society (£6,000)
Catalytic gasification of biomass (IE110273), Principal investigator
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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R6635CCE: Advanced Zeolite Catalysis for Sustainable Biorefinery to Produce Value-added Chemicals
Wu, C., Artioli, N. & Manyar, H.
28/11/2019 → …
Project: Research
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R1560CCE: Pyrolysis-plasma-catalysis of MSW for upgraded biofuels via Aston University
22/11/2021 → 30/09/2022
Project: Research
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Achieving zero CO2 emissions from integrated biomass gasification with CO2 capture and utilization (IGCCU)
Zhu, Y., Li, B., Miao, J., Sun, S., Wang, Y., Zhao, X., Chen, B. & Wu, C., 15 Oct 2023, In: Chemical Engineering Journal. 474, 11 p., 145767.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Biomass-based carbon materials for CO2 capture: A review
Quan, C., Zhou, Y., Wang, J., Wu, C. & Gao, N., Feb 2023, In: Journal of CO2 Utilization. 68, 102373.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Carbon nanotubes production from real-world waste plastics and the pyrolysis behaviour
Zhu, Y., Miao, J., Zhang, Y., Li, C., Wang, Y., Cheng, Y., Long, M., Wang, J. & Wu, C., 01 Jul 2023, In: Waste Management. 166, p. 141-151 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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CO2 capture from H2O and O2 containing flue gas integrating with dry reforming methane using Ni-doping CaO dual functional materials
Sun, S., Zhang, C., Wang, Y., Zhao, X., Sun, H. & Wu, C., 15 Jul 2023, In: Chemical Engineering Journal. 468, 12 p., 143712.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Efficient microwave-assisted mineralization of oxytetracycline driven by persulfate and hypochlorite over Cu-biochar catalyst
Zhang, Q., Sun, Y., Xu, W., Cao, Y., Wu, C., Wang, C-H. & Tsang, D. C. W., Mar 2023, In: Bioresource Technology. 372, 128698.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
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ChemEngDayUK2023
Chunfei Wu (Organiser)
30 Mar 2023 → 31 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Development of integrated CO2 capture and utilisation
Chunfei Wu (Advisor)
22 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
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Conversion of Glycerol for Renewable Hydrogen
Chunfei Wu (Examiner)
26 Aug 2022Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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Design of high performance magnesium-sulfur battery cathode materials and evaluation and realisation of battery safe
Chunfei Wu (Examiner)
18 Aug 2022Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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International Conference on Carbon Capture Science and Technology 2022
Chunfei Wu (Organiser)
21 Jul 2022 → 23 Jul 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference