Due to the rapid climate change and environmental problems in recent years, the chemical engineering community is interested in developing eco-friendly and sustainable technologies. It is required for chemical engineering to be converged with various technologies such as reduction and capture of carbon dioxide from industrial processes, development of renewable and environmentally friendly material energy technology, removal of pollutants using biotechnology and collection of bioenergy . The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is a specialization department in the field of environmental energy and has excellent faculty members and researchers.
Research Areas
- Reduction and capture of carbon dioxide
- Energy storage and functional materials
- Development of eco-friendly nanomaterials
- Molecular modeling and utilization
- Bio-energy production process and utilization
- Development of sustainable biomass
- Development of eco-friendly chemical process
Professor
- Dae Won Park : Design and manufacture of eco-friendly chemical catalysts, catalytic conversion of CO2
- Seok Kim : Energy storage and development of functional material
- Jung Rae Kim : Bio-energy production process and utilization
- Sungwook Chung : Eco - friendly nanomaterial technology
- Chung Yongchul Gregory : Carbon dioxide separation/adsorption material design and process development
- You-Kwan Oh : Sustainable biomass utilization technology
- Jungho Jae : Catalytic conversion technologies of biomass and CO2, ECO-friendly chemical processes