Biofuels, Bioenergy & Bioeconomy

Wennan Zhang received PhD at Chalmers University of Technology in Energy Engineering in 1995. He has been working on bioenergy since 1996 at Mid Sweden University as a Senior Lecturer and Assocoate Professor. His main work is to lead a biomass gasification research group which is turned to be BTL(biomass-to-liquid) group. A BTL laboratory at Mid Sweden University has been built up under his leadership. The central unit of the laboratory is a 150kW biomass dual fluidized bed gasifier developed by him and his colleague for synthetic gas production. He had been the coordinator of a 4th EU frame-work project “Process simulation of CFB with combustion/gasification of biomass”, from 1998 to 2001. He has developed and taught two courses, “Biofuels” and “Bio-automotive fuels”, to engineer education students at Mid Sweden University since 1998. He is also guest professor in Chinese Academy of Science.