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Team
Dr. Mason Tomson, Dr. Wei Chen, Dr. Amy Kan, Dr. Pedro Alvarez, Dr. Phil Bedient, Dr. C. Herb Ward, Jim Blackburn, Dr. Qilin Li, Dr. Daniel Cohan.
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Dr. Pedro Alvarez
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Background
This project involves a partnership between Nankai University and Rice University which will seek to identify and solve energy and environmental problems important to today's needs and to future developments in China and the United States. Projects will be identified in multiple disciplines including science, engineering, and technology, that will require research. Emphasis will be placed on education at all levels from preschool to professional. Output will include scholarly papers, books, training materials, patents, and technology. A major source of technology exchange will be via visiting scholars and exchange students from both directions. The proposed collaboration will address these principal themes:
•• Reducing the environmental impacts of energy production
•• Water treatment
•• Policy and institutional barriers related to technology development and application
Faculty and administrators from Rice and from Nankai University met for two days in plenary formal presentations and smaller work groups to identify plan-common research. Letters of cooperation, signed by both university presidents, were exchanged and thirteen specific joint research projects were identified.
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Project Update
Faculty from Rice University have partnered with researchers at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. The goal is to identify and solve energy and environmental problems important to today’s needs and to future development in China and the United States. This partnership has formed the China-U.S. Center for Environmental Remediation and Sustainable Development. The Center’s objective is to address environmental issues common to US and Chinese sustainable development, with emphasis in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), the center of the Binhai New Area of Tianjin (BNAT), officially designated as the “New Engine of Growth” in China. The Center will serve as a catalyst for Sino-US governmental, industrial, and academic collaboration. Center participants will interact with Chinese officials, academics, and potential commercial partners active in TEDA on issues of common interest.
Co-directors of the China-U.S. Center for Environmental Remediation and Sustainable Development are Dr. Mason Tomson, Dr. Wei Chen, and Dr. Amy Kan. The Center researchers include Dr. Pedro Alvarez, Dr. Philip Bedient, Dr. Mason Tomson, Dr. C. Herb Ward, Dr. Daniel Cohan, Dr. Qilin Li, Dr. Amy Kan, Dr. Wei Chen and Mr. Jim Blackburn.
Research will be identified in multiple disciplines including science, engineering and technology. Output will include scholarly papers, books, training materials, patents, and technology. A major source of technology exchange will be via visiting scholars and exchange students. Seven areas of research have been identified:
1. Nanotechnology application in environmental protection and cleanup.
2. Drinking water preservation, purification, and protection.
3. Ground water preservation, remediation, and modeling
4. Atmospheric pollution prevention, control and modeling
5. Environmental law, regulation, and policy studies
6. Energy issues related to circular economy and sustainable development
7. Basic science seed projects.
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