Institute of Green Products
Research Field
Andrew, Chen-Yeon CHU (朱正永) Ph.D.
- Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering/Master's Program of Green Energy Science and Technology, Feng Chia University
- Director, Institute of Green Products, Feng Chia University
- Executive Secretary, APEC Research Center for Advanced Biohydrogen Technology
- Associated Researcher, Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (IIA), CNR, Italy
He used to be a Principal Investigator in National Energy Phase II Project which granted by Ministry of Science and Technology. He designed and implemented two HyMeTek advanced biogas pilot plants in Manado City, Indonesia, and Khon Kaen University, Thailand. He also developed commercial large-scale (15,000 pigs) and small-scale (1,500 pigs) HyMeTek biogas plants in Central Taiwan. The shooting process was included in the "Brown is the New Green" program on National Geographic Channel. He serves as the secretaries of World Bio-HyLinks since 2006, IAHE-Taiwan Chapter since 2009 and CEO for Green Chemistry Bionet Asia Pacific Association since 2016.
The Institute of Green Products is under the college of engineering and science, Feng Chia University at central Taiwan. The mission is drive into product manufacturing process and social green transformation. The goal of the IGP-FCU is apply biomass resources instead of fossil fuel to reduce CO2, and to produce green energy or biomaterials for the environmental protection and energy security to empower the local community for sustainable. IGP aims to develop industrialization technology and prospective products for green products and cleaning processes; to develop technology in collaboration between industry and academia; to expand the industry-academic cooperation program on green products and clean process technology; to promote the integration of inter-university, institutions, departments and degree programmes; to promote industry, government and industry cooperation projects to implement the IGP's technologies to achieve sustainable development.
Our Core Technology is from Biowaste to Bioenergy to Bioeconomy. The biohydrogen and biomethane production technology (HyMeTek) converts the biowaste to the bioenergy or biorefinery, and finally reaches the green growth by the social awareness and acceptance. We used to host a National Energy Phase II Project which granted by Ministry of Science and Technology. We designed and implemented two HyMeTek advanced biogas pilot plants in Manado City, Indonesia, and Khon Kaen University, Thailand. We also developed commercial large-scale (15,000 pigs) and small-scale (1,500 pigs) HyMeTek biogas plants in Central Taiwan. The shooting process was included in the “Brown is the New Green” program on National Geographic Channel. The HyMeTek was applications in food industry wastewater. We also delivered a Green Synergy Solutions for Rural Area Revitalization project and setup bio-H2 gas-fuel station and mini-fuel cell car in Feng Chia University.
- Fermentative biohydrogen technology
- Fluidized bed engineering
- Green hydrogen technology and economy
- Green energy demonstration system intergration
- Hydrodynamic and kinetics study
- Bioreactor design and scale up
- PHA production technology
- LCA for environmental impacts analysis
Prof. Dr. Chen-Yeon Chu owns some of the academic awards e.g. Best Award in The 2013 International Capstone Design Contest on Renewable Energy Technology (CORE2013), Korea (2013/01); FCU Excellent Research Awards (2010-2022); Best Paper Awards of Junior Session in International Conference of Young Scientists on Energy Issues (CYSEI-2011), Lithuania. (2011/05); Best Paper Award of Taiwan Society of Environmental Engineering in Wastewater Treatment Division (2008). With over 100 refereed journal papers and 16 patens, 3357+ citations, an h-index 34, i10-index 71, and 100+ led research and industry projects. He also serves on editorial boards of several scientific journals and provides academic service as a reviewer, keynote speaker, external examiner, and scientific committee member.
Prof. CY Chu received his Ph.D. degree in 2005 from Chemical Engineering, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
Job Description
- To do the experiments related to the enhancement technologies on the bioH2 and bioCH4 productions. Enhance the biogas production by applying the magnetic fields (MF) and metal nanoparticles (MNPs)
- To do the PHA production experiments in the lab from the organic wastewater.
Preferred Intern Educational Level
Based on the requirements, the master and PhD students are welcomed.
Skill sets or Qualities
The students having backgrounds of dark/photo fermentation and bioenergy technologies are welcomed.
The students having experience in LCA analysis and social return of investment (SROI) are also welcomed.
Job Description
- Controlling and monitoring in Lab-scale of two-stage continuous biohydrogen and biomethane reactors.
- To do the experiments by using a continue system in two-stage biogas production system
- Implement the optimum anaerobic digester operation in a pilot-scale located in Taiwan
Preferred Intern Educational Level
Based on the requirements, the master and PhD students are welcomed.
Skill sets or Qualities
The students having backgrounds of dark/photo fermentation and bioenergy technologies are welcomed.
The students having experience in LCA analysis and social return of investment (SROI) are also welcomed.