{"570661":{"#nid":"570661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Yulin Deng tapped to give keynote at Green Energy expo","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Yulin Deng, ChBE, has been tapped to deliver the keynote address at the upcoming \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/greenenergy.conferenceseries.com\u0022\u003E2\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E annual International Conference on Green Energy \u0026amp; Expo\u003C\/a\u003E, November 28-30, in Atlanta. His presentation, entitled \u0026ldquo;Low Temperature and High Efficiency Biomass Fuel Cell and Bio-Hydrogen Production,\u0026rdquo; ties into the theme of this year\u0026rsquo;s expo, \u0026ldquo;Renewable Energy for a Sustainable World.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeng\u0026rsquo;s research interests include renewable energy; nanomaterial synthesis and self-assembling; biofuel and biomass materials; colloid and interface science and engineering; polymer synthesis; and papermaking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pwp.gatech.edu\/deng\/\u0022\u003EHis research group\u003C\/a\u003E has reported a novel fuel cell that directly consumes natural polymeric biomasses, such as starch, cellulose, lignin, and even switchgrass and wood powders.\u0026nbsp; This fuel cell combines some features of solar cells, fuel cells, and redox flow batteries. Specifically, the polyoxomatelate forms a charge transfer complex with the biomass by either absorbing solar light or heat energy.\u0026nbsp;The complex releases their electrons to anode.\u0026nbsp;These electrons pass through anode to cathode where oxygen captures the electrons.\u0026nbsp; Unlike most cell technologies that are sensitive to impurities, the cell reported in this study is inert to most organic and inorganic contaminants present in the fuels.\u0026nbsp; The fuel cell is completely noble metal free.\u0026nbsp;The similar system was investigated for low temperature hydrogen production using native biomass directly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the area of biofuel, his group has focused on novel pretreatment of lignocellulose for biofuel production and low temperature catalytic depolymerization of lignin for fuel applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Deng, an \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rbi.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ERBI\u003C\/a\u003E-affiliated faculty member, is an elected Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science, a member of AIChE and TAPPI. \u0026nbsp;He received several awards, including AIChE Forest Bioproducts Division Chase Award, IPST President Research Award.\u0026nbsp; He serves editorial board member for five journals, and associate editor for two journals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGreen Energy- 2016 provides a platform for researchers\/scientists to share and globalize their research work while the participants from industry can promote their products thus felicitating dissemination of knowledge. We anticipate more than 300 participants around the globe with thought provoking keynote lectures, oral and poster presentations. The attending delegates include Editorial Board Members of related journals. The scope of Green Energy -2016 is to bring the advancements in the field of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/greenenergy.conferenceseries.com\/call-for-abstracts.php\u0022\u003Erenewable energy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.conferenceseries.com\/environmental-sciences-meetings\u0022\u003Eenvironmental sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETracks include renewable energy, biofuels, bioenergy, green technology, energy conservation, sustainable energy policies, green economy, energy and environment, nano environmental technologies and bioremediation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Theme for event will be \u0027Renewable Energy for a Sustainable World\u0027"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2016-08-30 12:56:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:30","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"552401":{"id":"552401","type":"image","title":"Yulin Deng","body":null,"created":"1468351200","gmt_created":"2016-07-12 19:20:00","changed":"1475895350","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:50","alt":"Yulin Deng","file":{"fid":"94465","name":"yulin_deng_biomass-fuel-cell.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/yulin_deng_biomass-fuel-cell.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/yulin_deng_biomass-fuel-cell.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":191115,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/yulin_deng_biomass-fuel-cell.jpg?itok=69goRvqN"}}},"media_ids":["552401"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"492","name":"green"},{"id":"93811","name":"RBI"},{"id":"4174","name":"renewable"},{"id":"86571","name":"Yulin Deng"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B. Smith, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kelly.smith@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekelly.smith@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}