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Agricultural bioenergy utilization and regional sustainability

Research Seminar Series

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  • Date

    29 Mar 2023

  • Organiser

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, PolyU; Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (RIAM)

  • Time

    14:00 - 15:30

  • Venue

    Online via Zoom  

Speaker

Prof. Junnian Song

Remarks

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Summary

Agricultural residues (ARs) (including straw and crop residues) has a considerable potential to accelerate the realization of China's ambitious goals of carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, as well as to combat global climate change. Simultaneously, large-scale bioenergy production utilizing ARs in multi-paths will trigger combined energy, environmental, economic and social (EEES) impacts, potentially exerting influence on regional sustainability, either positive or negative. An elaborative assessment of these impacts in an integrative way from “net” and “life cycle” perspectives, is in need to link ARs utilization to SDGs. If, how and to what extent multipath bioenergy production utilizing ARs brings contributions and trade-offs to regional sustainability remains unclear. We construct a multi-resource-technology-output integrated system consisting of biomass resource subsystem, bioenergy technology subsystem (four types of bioenergy technologies) and bioenergy output subsystem (four dimensions of impacts) and covering the whole life cycle of bioenergy production utilizing ARs. Based upon the integrated system, the EEES impacts are evaluated and linked to SDGs to explore the sustainability contributions and trade-offs in 31 Chinese provincial regions by 2030 in three scenarios of ARs availability for bioenergy production. The findings are expected to provide decision makers with reference to soundly boosting regional agricultural bioenergy development to consolidate regional sustainability.

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Junnian Song

Prof. Junnian Song

School of Energy and Environment,
 Jilin University, China.

Junnian Song is a professor of College of New Energy and Environment of Jilin University, doctoral supervisor, and honored as Professor Tang Aoqing (Young scholar) and Outstanding Youth of Jilin University (key stage, elite stage), and included in Excellent Youth Cultivation Program of Jilin University. He graduated from the University of Tsukuba, Japan with a master's degree and a doctor's degree subsidized by the scholarship of the Japan’s MEXT. Then, he was recruited as an associate professor by Jilin University as A-Class talent from overseas. His research is focused on construction, evaluation and optimization of renewable energy system, analysis and simulation of energy-environmental-economic complex system, regional sustainable development, etc. He has presided 1 National Natural Science Foundation, 1 Key Research and Development Plan of Jilin Province, 8 projects of Jilin Department of Ecology and Environment, 2 Outstanding Youth Projects of Jilin University, 1 Excellent Youth Cultivation Plan of Jilin University, etc. He has published more than 40 SCI/SSCI papers by First author/Corresponding author, 32 of which were published in the top journals, including Nature Food, Applied Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Resources Conservation & Recycling, etc. Several papers have been listed in ESI Top 1% papers. He is the associate editor of SCI journal Environment, Development and Sustainability, and editorial board member of Frontiers in Sustainability and other 4 journals.

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