I. Introduction to the Roving Station

The Postdoctoral Roving Station of Environmental Science and Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, has a team of high-level doctoral supervisors, who carry out postdoctoral research based on the doctoral station of Level-I disciplines of Environmental Science and Engineering, 2 national bases, 5 provincial bases, and the higher learning based of the Talent Introduction Program 111 in our university. The roving station targets the cutting-edge field of the disciplines of Environmental Science and Technology, faces the material needs of the country, regions, and industries, centers on the construction of ecological civilization, serves the high-quality development of the country, keeps taking regional/basin ecological environmental safety as the goal, and carries out high-level scientific research, technical development, and engineering application in the orientations of Chemical Engineering Process Environmental Pollution Control, Industrial Waste Resource Recycling, Site Pollution Causes and Governance, Chemical Engineering Environmental Risk Evaluation and Management, Joint Improvement Technology for Pollution Reduction and Carbon Content Lowering, etc. for a long time, At present, it has been an important base of high-level scientific research, high-tech achievement transformation, and high-level talent training in China, and it is leading in the field of Resources and Environment.

In recent years, the roving station has received many professional doctors in the fields of environment, chemical engineering, energy, biological engineering, chemistry, materials, etc., to engage in scientific research in the cross-disciplinary field involving environmental disciplines. During that period, the postdoctoral station undertook or participated in plenty of national and provincial research programs and made significant achievements. Many scientific research achievements have been actually applied and made significant environmental, economic and social benefits.

II. Main Research Directions and Domestic and Overseas Influences

(I) Chemical Engineering Process Environmental Pollution Control

Based on the cross-disciplinary advantage and multi-disciplinary characteristics in the context of chemical engineering, the station has focused on the technology of high-concentration, high-salt-content and high-toxic industrial wastewater process emission reduction and high-degree purification and reclamation for 40 consecutive years, and the patented technology of efficient separation and micro-interface driving overcomes the bottleneck of liquid-solid mass transfer. From the 1980s, the station started to conduct research on atmospheric pollution chemistry and controlling technology. At present, it mainly centers on the mechanism of the joint control of PM 2.5 and ozone to carry out research on the vertical observation and regional transmission mechanisms of atmospheric pollutants, VOCs monitoring and scientific governance technology, etc. It established the first united base of captive balloon vertical observation in China together with the Environmental Monitoring Center of Shanghai, which provided a basis for the formulation of policies and measures to help Shanghai win the battle for blue sky conservation. Focusing on the joint control of sulfur dioxide, volatile organic compounds, carbon dioxide, and greenhouse gas, the station developed micro-macro multi-scale joint technology to realize the reclamation and utilization of flue gas desulfurization products and carbon dioxide. It took the lead to found the Alliance of VOCs Governance Industry, Academy, Research, and Application of the Yangtze River Delta, and it developed biotechnology, low-temperature/normal-temperature catalytic technology, VOCs-odor joint removal technology, etc. Centering on the comprehensive utilization of salt lake resources and recycling of urban mineral resources, it developed the technology of complex system separation process strengthening, which overcame the bottleneck of the extraction of potassium, magnesium, lithium, and other resources, supported the economic development of Western China, and realized the international transfer of a whole set of technologies. Centering on the efficient transformation of industrial solid waste of coal chemical engineering, titanium chemical engineering, biomass, etc., the station undertook the important special project of bulk solid waste disposal and reclamation of the Program 863 and the Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology and won 2 National Second Prizes of Scientific and Technological Progress and 3 Provincial First Prizes of Scientific and Technological Progress.

(II) Industrial Waste Resource Recycling

The station gives full play to the fundamental advantage of chemistry and chemical engineering, combines process emission reduction and three-waste joint governance, solves the bottleneck of the transformation and development of heavy-pollution enterprises of chemical engineering, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, etc., es the sustainable development of the chemical engineering industry, and serves the social and economic development of the region. Focusing on the technology of high-concentration, high-salt-content, and high-toxic wastewater process emission reduction, high-degree purification, and reclamation, the station developed the patented technology of efficient separation and micro-interface driving to overcome the bottleneck of liquid-solid mass transfer and realized sewage and waste liquid emission reduction of more than 100 petrochemical devices. It first conducted environment simulation teaching in China and published the first textbook, Environmental Engineering Simulation and Control, in China. Tens of researched and developed patented technologies, including the biotechnology of moderately halophilic bacteria, improved A/O technology, BCB (biology-catalyst-biology), etc., have been successfully applied to the sewage treatment and recycling projects of more than 100 enterprises, such as Gaoqiao Petrochemical Co., Ltd., Lunan Chemicals Co., Ltd., etc., which ed the sustainable development of coal chemical engineering and petroleum chemical engineering. In recent ten years, the station undertook more than 20 tasks of the Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Water Patents of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. and nearly 100 transverse subjects and won more than 10 provincial awards.

(III) Site Pollution Causes and Governance

Our university is an important supporting unit of the technology of chemical engineering site pollution restoration of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. In the recent 10 years, we centered on the characteristics of soil and groundwater of the sites of petroleum and chemical engineering industries, cooperated with Sinopec to research multiple important subjects, presided over and completed 5 key research and development plans of highly-dangerous and organic pollutant restoration in polluted sites supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, centered on the research on featured pollutants in soil and groundwater in petroleum and chemical engineering sites, innovatively applied chemical engineering techniques to the study of soil and groundwater restoration in polluted industrial sites, and established the project of industrial site soil and groundwater pollution control. The station innovatively applied physical strengthening technology to the technique of oxidation/restoration, developed the green restoration technology and equipment of caisson sinking reactors and the restoration technology and equipment of water-soil integrated oxidation/restoration joint and low-carbon restoration based on plant waste heat reinforcement and solubilization, overcoming the bottleneck of the low-permeability stratum (clay) technology, and applied 5 techniques to actual sites. The achievement, the Key Technology of High-risk Organic Matter Compound Pollution Identification and Restoration in Chemical Engineering Sites and its Application, won the First Prize of Technological Invention of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation in 2014, and the New Technology of Risk Control and Restoration of Organic Matter Pollution in the Groundwater Environment in Industrial Sites won the Second Prize of the Technical Invention Awards of Shanghai.

(IV) Chemical Engineering Environmental Risk Evaluation and Management

The station faces important national and local needs for ecological security and environmental health, centers on the scientific issues of chemical risk control and management, and systematically carries out research on the basic theories and advanced techniques of chemical environmental risk control. It focuses on chemical engineering safety risk evaluation and control, researches and develops the technology of regional and material chemical engineering emergency risk evaluation, the technology of regional and material safety emergency risk source comprehensive safety planning, and the key technology of material safety emergency pre-planning and treatment. Focusing on the joint risks of trace chemical substances and microorganisms and their mechanisms, it carried out the study of the technology of exposure level monitoring and risk prevention and control of permanent pollutants, environmental hormones, and volatile organic compounds in the fields of water environment risk and water quality safety. It formulated plans, governance measures, and emergency pre-plans for material safety emergencies to provide scientific decision-making services for governmental authorities. It actively provides public services. The station once popularized and explained the knowledge related to the explosion in Ruihai International Logistics Company and explained the event of the liquid ammonia leakage to the public. The station becomes an important team of technical support for environmental standard formulation and chemical control and management in China and Shanghai. It was selected by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment as a key laboratory and engineering center.

(V) Joint Improvement Technology for Pollution Reduction and Carbon Content Lowering

Facing the national strategic need for Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality, the station focuses on key techniques, materials, and equipment crucial for energy carbon neutrality, resource carbon neutrality, and information carbon neutrality, and takes the opportunity of the construction of the School of Carbon Neutrality Future Technology, East China University of Science and Technology to e carbon neutrality talent training and technological innovation. It trains compound and high-level talents of carbon neutrality technology, with a cross-disciplinary background, a cutting-edge and international horizon, and the ability to solve actual engineering problems. It takes coal, petroleum coke, residual oil, natural gas, coke-oven gas, biomass, sludge, garbage, etc., as raw materials to develop the process and technology of clean synthetic gas production based on pressurized entrained-flow gasification. It researched and developed new entrained-flow gasification technology, new gasification process systems and key devices, efficient and long-service-life gasification nozzles, gasification technology PDP software packages, etc. It also conducts applied and fundamental research on the process of entrained-flow gasification, including the circulation of jet flows and multi-phase flows that hit jet flows, gas-phase reactions in a high-temperature and high-pressure condition, high-viscosity non-Newtonian fluid atomization, ultra-concentrated gas-solid two-phase circulation, gas-liquid-solid three-phase circulation and thermal mass transfer, slag circulation, phase transformation, and heat transfer, value simulation and system-simulated computation of the gasification process, etc. The station researches the in-depth processing and utilization of synthetic gas. It also researches and develops catalysts, reactors, and processing techniques for in-depth synthetic gas treatment.

(Updated in September 2025)