Petroleum Engineering
Maohong Fan
Professor
Carrell Family Energy and Petroleum Professor
SER Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Email: mfan@uwyo.edu | Phone: (307) 766-5633
Office Location: EN 4048, Engineering Building
Dept. 3295, 1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
Biography
Dr. Fan has led and worked on many projects in the areas of chemical production, clean energy generation and environmental protection, which have been supported by various domestic and international funding agencies such as NSF, DOE and EPA, USGS and USDA in the US, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in Japan, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and industrial companies such as Siemens and Caterpillar. He has helped various chemical, environmental and energy companies to overcome their technical challenges. He has published over 175 refereed books, book chapters, and papers in different chemical and environmental engineering, energy, and chemistry journals. As an Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member or Advisory Board Member, he has been serving several international chemical and energy as well as environmental journals. He has been supporting and supervising a number of graduate students and postdocs as well as research scientists in his research areas.
Education
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 2003, Osaka University
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, 2000, Iowa State University
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, 1997, Chinese Academy of Sciences Environmental (Eng.)
Recognition
According to Clarivate (Web of Science), he has been a globally highly cited researcher since 2018. The statistics of his research publications are shown here.
Dr. Fan has published his research results in various refereed books, book chapters, and journal papers in different chemical and environmental engineering, energy, and chemistry journals such as Nature Communications. He is one of the winners of “Top 50 Nature Communications chemistry and materials science articles in 2019”.
Research Interests
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Assimilation of various methods and processes including (homogenous, heterogeneous and photo as well as bio) catalysis and separation with sorption and membrane as well as chemical looping pathway for conversion of fossil and renewable resources into value-added chemicals/materials and clean fuels
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Synthesis of new functional materials including ionic liquids, organic frameworks, magnetic materials and catalysts with different methods including supercritical fluids, crystallization, chemical vapor deposition
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Understanding the reaction kinetics and mechanisms associated with generation of chemicals (including petrochemicals) and energy through various theoretical and experimental methods including computation chemistry
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Recovering value-added materials from coal and other mineral utilization by-products and co-produced water in fossil energy industries
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Water and wastewater treatment
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Bioresource production and conversion; carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS)
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Development of renewable energies
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Computations
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Life cycle assessments of material production and energy generation processes
Research Projects
As a PI or Co-PI, he has led various projects in the areas of chemical and clean energy generation and environmental protection, which have been supported by different funding agencies such as NSF, DOE, EPA, USGS, and USDA in the US, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in Japan, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and industrial companies such as Siemens and Caterpillar. He has helped various chemical, environmental, and energy companies to overcome their technical challenges in clean energy production. His NSF projects are related to the development of synergic transformational solar chemical looping and photo-ultrasonic renewable biomass refinery, simultaneous coal and biomass utilization, and application of nanotechnologies in energy production and environmental protection. Additionally, his DOE projects include those in catalysis, mercury removal, CO2 capture and conversion, rare earth extraction, carbon fuel cells, and hydrogen from ethane, catalytic production of near-zero-CH4 syngas, F-T synthesis, catalytic ethylene glycol synthesis.
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