Biomass Group, Nanjing Agricultural University, PO Box 68, 40 Dianjiangtai Road, Nanjing 210031

Keynote speech on Carbon Capture (CCST 2022)

On July 22, 2022, as invited by Dr Chun-fei Wu (Reader of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Queen’s University Belfast, UK Editor-in-Chief of Carbon Capture Science & Technology), Prof. Zhen Fang attended the International Conference on Carbon Capture Science and Technology 2022 (CCST2022) held in Northern Ireland, UK. Prof. Fang gave a lecture on “Pretreatment and hydrolysis of lignocellulosic Biomass for Biorefineries”. He introduced

1. Hydrolysis

      (i) Pretreatment for enzymatic hydrolysis (e.g., 50 °C)

      (ii) Catalytic hydrolysis (e.g., 180 °C)

      (iii) Hydrothermal Hydrolysis

       near CP (374 °C & 22.1 MPa) without catalyst

2. Microbial and Jatropha biodiesel

     Green production with functional catalysts

3. Liquid biofuels

    (e.g., methyl levulinate, γ-valerolactone, 2,5-dimethylfuran, methylfuran) from carbohydrates (e.g., sugars, cellulose) with nanocatalysts

主旨报告碳捕获主题演讲（CCST 2022）

2022年7月22日，方真教授应吴春飞博士（英国贝尔法斯特女王大学化学和化学工程准教授Reader，《碳捕获科学与技术》主编）邀请，在2022年碳捕集科学与技术国际会议（CCST2022，英国北爱尔兰）上做了题为“预处理和水解木质纤维素生物质-生物炼制”的主旨报告，重点介绍了在木质纤维素的预处理和水解（酶解、催化和快速水解）、糖基生物柴油生产以及化学品和生物燃料的合成等方面的工作。

Excellent Doctorial Dissertations Award

Dr. Song Tang won Excellent Doctorial Dissertations Award of Nanjing Agricultural University supervised by Prof. Zhen Fang with title “Study on microbial lipid production from rice straw pretreated with polyalcohols and chlorides”.

Congratulations!

生物能源组唐松博士获优博论文

南京农业大学生物能源组2017级博士研究生唐松（男）(导师：方老师），毕业论文《多元醇和氯化物预处理水稻秸秆发酵产微生物油脂的研究》获南京农业大学优秀博士论文。

祝贺唐松同学！

Mr. Zhou and Mr. Song successfully defended their Master theses

On June 2 and June 20, 2022, Mr. Xian-jun Zhou supervised by Dr. Lujiang Xu and Mr. Yan-qing Song supervised by Prof. Zhen Fang, successfully defended their theses. The defending committees were composed of Profs. Wen-qing Yin (chair), Hua Li, associate Profs. Yan-yan Ge & Fei Hu from Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) and Prof. Zhi-tang Zhong from Jiangsu Agricultural Machinery Technology Extension Station for Mr. Zhou; as well as Profs. Chun-xia He (chair) and Kun-quan Li from NAU, and Prof. Hai-jun Chen from Nanjing Technology University for Mr. Song.

Mr. Zhou and Mr. Song presented their research results for Master theses, the committee members raised relevant questions. Based on the replies and theses reviewed, the panels agreed that Mr. Zhou and Mr. Song had successfully completed their research and course requirements in mechanical, and agricultural mechanization engineering. Mr. Zhou studied the synergistic effect of co-pyrolysis of polyoxymethylene and cellulose with his thesis entitled “Study on Producing Pyridines via Ammoniated Catalytic Co-pyrolysis of Cellulose and Polyoxymethylene and Design of Two-stage Pyrolysis Device”. Mr. Song studied hydrothermal gasification of agricultural wastes in supercritical water with his thesis entitled “Catalytic Gasification of Cotton Stalk over Ni-La/Spent Bleaching Clay to Produce Hydrogen in Supercritical Water”. Both Mr. Zhou and Mr. Song published one first-authored Journal paper.

After the juries voted by secret ballot, the panels agreed to confer Master of Engineering degree to Mr. Xian-jun Zhou, and Master of Science in Engineering degree to Mr. Yan-qing Song, subjected to the approval by the Academic Degrees Committees of the college and university.

Congratulations to Mr. Zhou and Mr. Song!

Papers published:

XJ Zhou, LQ Jiang, H Zhang, CY Dong, LJ Xu*, Catalytic Co-Pyrolysis of Cellulose and Waste Polyoxymethylene to Improve Producing Pyridines Compounds over Commercial HZSM-5 Zeolites under Ammonia Atmosphere, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 158 (2021), 105275.

YQ Song, S Nanda, WJ Cong, J Sun, GH Dong, A Magdziarz, Zhen Fang*, AK Dalai, JA Kozinski, Hydrogen Production from Cotton Stalk over Ni-La Catalysts Supported on Spent Bleaching Clay via Hydrothermal Gasification, Industrial Crops & Products, 186 (2022) 115228.

周贤君同志和宋彦庆同志顺利通过硕士论文答辩

2022年6月2日，6月20日，南京农业大学生物能源组2019级工学硕士研究生周贤君和宋彦庆毕业答辩会在南京农业大学浦口校区举行。南京农业大学的尹文庆教授担任周贤君同志的答辩评委会主席，李骅教授、葛艳艳副教授和胡飞副教授以及来自江苏省农业机械技术推广站钟志堂研究员担任评审委员。南京农业大学何春霞教授担任宋彦庆同志的答辩评委会主席，李坤权教授和南京工业大学的何海军教授担任评审委员。

答辩会上，周贤君同志和宋彦庆同志对其在校期间的学术论文进行汇报，同时答辩委员会主席和各位评委提出了相关问题。根据周贤君同志和宋彦庆同志的问题回答以及学位论文的评阅意见，评委会经过评审决议，一致认为周贤君同志和宋彦庆同志完成了机械，和农业机械化工程的研究和课程要求。周贤君同志在毕业论文《氨化催化共热解纤维素和聚甲醛制吡啶碱研究及双段热解装置设计》中研究了聚甲醛和纤维素热解的协同效应。宋彦庆同志在毕业论文《超临界水中Ni-La/废白土催化棉花秸秆气化产氢的研究》中研究了Ni-La/废白土催化气化棉杆制氢的课题，实现了棉花秸秆的高效制氢。周贤君和宋彦庆同志均以第一作者各发表论文一篇。

经评委会无记名投票表决，一致同意周贤君同志和宋彦庆同志通过硕士学位论文答辩，建议授予周贤君同志专业工程硕士学位，宋彦庆同志工学硕士学位。

祝贺周贤君同志和宋彦庆同志！

发表的论文：

XJ Zhou, LQ Jiang, H Zhang, CY Dong, LJ Xu*, Catalytic Co-Pyrolysis of Cellulose and Waste Polyoxymethylene to Improve Producing Pyridines Compounds over Commercial HZSM-5 Zeolites under Ammonia Atmosphere, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 158 (2021), 105275.

YQ Song, S Nanda, WJ Cong, J Sun, GH Dong, A Magdziarz, Zhen Fang*, AK Dalai, JA Kozinski, Hydrogen Production from Cotton Stalk over Ni-La Catalysts Supported on Spent Bleaching Clay via Hydrothermal Gasification, Industrial Crops & Products, 186 (2022) 115228.

演讲Three Invited Lectures by Prof. Zhen Fang

Recently, Prof. Zhen Fang gave three invited lectures in Biorefineries.

On June 1, 2022, Prof. Fang gave a lecture entitled “Biorefineries” to undergraduate students at Nanjing Agricultural University (NJAU).

The talk included 6 parts:

• Bioresources and biorefineries
• Hydrolysis (i) Fast hydrolysis, (ii) Catalytic hydrolysis (iii) Enzymatic hydrolysis
• Sugars via chemical routes
• Sugars via biological routes
• Biodiesel
• Conclusions

After lecture, Prof. Zhen Fang was invited as Special Supervisor by vice-President Weichun Dong of NJAU.

On December 28, 2021, Prof. Zhen Fang went to Guangzhou, attending the Innovation and Development Forum by Guangdong Academy of Sciences and gave an invited lecture on biorefineries. In the afternoon, Prof. Fang gave a lecture on the Famous Teachers’ Forum for Light Chemical Engineering as invited by President Xueqing Qiu, and met President Qiu for further collaborations.

特邀演讲

最近，方真教授做了三次演讲。

2022年6月1日，方老师受南京农业大学董维春副校长要求，在金善宝大讲堂给本科生做了近1小时的生物炼制报告。

演讲包括6个部分：

一 生物质资源和生物炼制

二 水解 1.快速水解 2.催化水解 3.酶解

三 化学转化糖

四 生物转化糖

五 生物柴油

六 结论

讲座结束后，董维春副校长给方老师颁发了金善宝特聘导师证书。

另外，2021年12月28日，方老师在广州出席了广东省科学院创新发展论坛，并作了特邀报告。下午，应广东工业大学邱学青校长之邀，在轻化名师讲坛（一百七十六）作了特邀报告。会后，会见邱学青校长。

会议报告Plenary/keynote speeches

Recently, Prof. Zhen Fang gave two talks.

On April 9, 2022, Prof. Fang gave a Plenary Talk entitled “Green Production of Biodiesel with Recyclable Bifunctional Catalysts” in the 7^th Int’l Conf. on Biomass Energy (ICBE2022, Xiamen, Fujian).

The talk included 7 parts:

• Raw oils
• Ultrasound and microwave
• Solid acid
• Solid base
• Bifunctional acid-base catalyst
• Magnetized catalysts
• Conclusions

On May 15-18, 2022, PhD student Mr. Pei-dong Wu and Prof. Fang attended the 26^th  Canadian Symposium on Catalysis (CSC 2022) held in in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada invited by Prof. Charles Xu. Prof. Fang gave a keynote speech entitled “One-Step Production of Jatropha Biodiesel by Magnetic Acid-Base Bifunctional Catalysts” to introduce green production of biodiesel via magnetic acid-base bifunctional nanocatalyst. Mr. Wu gave an oral speech entitled “Synergistic Catalysis of Co-Zr/Cn_x Bimetallic Nanoparticles Enables Reductive Amination of Bio-Based Levulinic Acid”.

国际会议大会报告/主题演讲

最近，方真教授做了两次演讲。

2022年4月9日，方教授在第七届国际生物质能大会（ICBE2022，福建厦门）上发表了题为“利用可回收双功能催化剂绿色生产生物柴油”的大会演讲。

演讲包括7个部分：

• 原料油
• 超声波和微波
• 固体酸
• 固体碱
• 双功能酸碱催化剂
• 磁化催化剂
• 结论

2022年5月15-18日，由加拿大化学研究所催化部主办的第26届加拿大催化研讨会（The 26^th Canadian Symposium on Catalysis）在加拿大西部城市温哥华举行。方真教授受邀作为主旨演讲人作了题为：“磁性酸碱双功能催化剂一步法生产小桐子生物柴油”的主旨报告。演讲内容主要包括磁性酸碱双功能纳米催化剂合成及在绿色转化生产生物柴油中的应用。博士生吴培栋作了《具有协同作用的Co-Zr/CN_x双金属纳米颗粒催化还原胺化生物质基乙酰丙酸》的口头报告。