Presentation title:  Production of renewable hydrogen from biomass - a green path towards net zero carbon emission in metallurgical industry

Dr. Charles Xu is full Professor of Chemical/Biochemical Engineering at Western University, Fellow of Engioneering Institute of Canada (FEIC) and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). He was the NSERC/FPInnovations Industrial Research Chair in Forest Biorefinery (2011-2016), acquiring an international reputation in conversion of forestry/agricultural residues or other organic wastes into bioenergy, biofuels and bio-based chemicals/materials, e.g., biocrude production and upgrading, renewable hydrogen production, bio-based polymers and composites production and applications, etc. He has authored/edited 3 books on biorefinery, and published 20+ book chapters and 290+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, having received total citations of over 16,000 with an H-index of 69 to date, and is recipient of the 2011 Syncrude Canada Innovation Award and the 2019 Award in Design and Industrial Practice from Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (IJCRE).