Presentation title: Hydrogen rich gas based direct reduction behaviours of iron ore pellets
Professor Zhu Deqing, is now Director of Low Carbon and Hydrogen Metallurgy Research Center of Central South University(CSU), and Director of the Vale-CSU International Joint Laboratory of Low Carbon and Hydrogen Metallurgy. He has also been granted the State Council Special Allowance, the first University Young Teachers Award, Key teachers award of the Ministry of Education, and Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award. He is also served as a member of the Technical Standard Subcommittee of Intensive and Economical Utilization of Mineral Resources, Ministry of Natural Resources, member of the Ferroalloy Branch of the Chinese Metal Society, member of the Strategic Alliance of non-blast furnace ironmaking Industry, and editorial member of international journal "Minerals Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
Prof. Zhu has conducted 15 national and provincial major projects, including national industrialization demonstration projects, National Natural Science Foundation innovation group projects, provincial and ministerial projects, as well as nearly 110 international and domestic school-enterprise cooperation projects. He has published more than 130 papers, including more than 120 SCI-indexed papers. Since 2020, he has been selected as a Highly-cited Scholar of Elsevier China (Metallurgical Engineering) for three years. He has also published three monographs and two textbooks. He has been granted nearly 80 invention patents. He has been awarded 2 second prizes of National technological invention/scientific and technological progress, 5 first prizes of provincial and ministerial scientific and technological progress, and 7 second prizes. His main research interests include: Basic theory and new technologies of iron ore sintering and pelletizing, new non-blast furnace ironmaking technologies, basic theory and new technology of complex iron ore resources development and utilization, new technology of bulk solid waste resource utilization, low-carbon ironmaking and hydrogen metallurgy.
