Founded in 1995, the Research Institute of Clean Coal Technology of the East China University of Science and Technology has kept developing and prospering for nearly thirty years. Now it has a scientific research team with more than 100 members, including 19 members who have a senior job title, 11 doctoral supervisors, 3 national talents, 1 chief scientist of the Project 973 of China, 1 winner of the Award for Young Scientific and Technological Researchers of China, 1 winner of the National Award for Innovative Pioneer, 4 members included in the Program of Excellent Talents in the New Century of the Ministry of Education, and 14 provincial talents in various classes. The team has been successively selected as the innovative team of the Innovative Team Development Plan of the Ministry of Education and the innovative team of large-scale coal-gasification technology research and development in key fields of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
The Research Institute of Clean Coal Technology is the core team of the unit that undertook the construction of the Key Laboratory of Coal Liquefaction and Gasification and Efficient and Low-carbon Utilization, the National Engineering Research Center of Large-scale Coal Gasification and Coal-based New Materials (Shanghai), the National Center of Energy Coal-gasification Technology Research and Development Engineering, the Engineering Research Center of Carbon-containing Waste Reclamation and Carbon-free Utilization of the Ministry of Education, and the Coal-gasification Engineering Technological Research Center of Shanghai. The institute has high-resolution atomic power microscopes, multi-functional particle size and format analyzers, microscopic laser Raman spectrometers, X-ray powder diffractometers, high-temperature heating stage polarizing microscopes, ultrasound Doppler velocimeters, hyperspectral flame detection systems, and other large-scale and precise instruments and an integral coal quality analysis and evaluation system. It also constructed multiple sets of large-scale cold molds, hot molds, and relevant research devices. The institute's fixed assets are over RMB 50 million.
The Research Institute of Clean Coal Technology has been committed to the fundamental research and application development of the gasification process and technology of entrained flows for a long time. It has undertaken more than 20 key projects/subjects of the Project 973, Project 863, the National Key Research and Development Program, etc., of China, more than 30 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and nearly 300 project entrusted by enterprises. It won 2 National Second Prizes of Scientific and Technological Progress, 3 Provincial Grand Prizes, and 10 Provincial First Prizes. The institute has authorized more than 110 invention patents and more than 120 utility model patents, and published more than 550 papers collected by SCI.
The first multi-nozzle opposed coal-water slurry gasification technology successfully developed by the Research Institute of Clean Coal Technology in China has significance as a milestone in the developmental history of coal gasification of China, and it has been exported to America and Korea. The volume of coal treatment ranks the top in the world, and the technology has been applied to more than 70 projects (more than 200 gasifiers), including the coal-water slurry gasification device with the biggest scale per gasifier in the world, with a daily coal treatment volume of 4000 tons, which continuously leads the development of entrained flow coal-gasification technology. The pulverized coal pressurized gasification technology developed by the institute has been successfully applied to enterprises, such as Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co., Ltd., Zhongan Joint Coal Chemistry, Zhongke Refinery & Petrochemical Co., Ltd., etc. In the set of technologies of synthetic gas production through the oxidation of the non-catalytic part of gaseous hydrocarbon, the institute constructed the device of synthetic gas production through the oxidation of the non-catalytic part of coke-oven gas, with the strongest capacity for single-furnace treatment in the world (75000 Nm3/h). Now the research institute is a research and development organization with a set of technologies to gasify three raw materials, namely coal-water slurry, pulverized coal, and gaseous hydrocarbon, in the world.
As the major team of the grassroots teaching unit, the Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering, the School of Resource and Environmental Engineering (Energy and Power Engineering and Energy Storage Science and Engineering), the Research Institute of Clean Coal Technology sets courses, including Fluid Mechanics, Material Mechanics, Combustion Science, Boiler Principles, Process System Engineering, Mass Transfer Unit Manipulation and Equipment, Energy and Sustainable Development, Science of Green Chemical Processes, Single Carbon Atom Chemical Engineering, Reaction Process Principles, Chemical Process Development, Gasification and Combustion Engineering, etc., for undergraduates and postgraduates. It also guides students to complete teaching links, including experiments, internships, thesis papers, etc.
Scientific Research Achievements
Year | Award | Winner of the Unit | Program Title/Organization |
2024 | The Second Prize of Shanghai Natural Science | Sui Qian, Yu Xia, and Lv Shuguang | The Occurrence Characteristics of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in Sewage and the Reinforced Removal Mechanism |
2024 | The Honorable Mention Award of the Awards for Patents of the Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Industries | Lin Sen, Song Xingfu, and Yu Jianguo | An Aluminum-salt Lithium Adsorbent and its Preparation Methods and Application |
2024 | The Second Prize of the China Coal Industry Science and Technology Award | Guo Qinghua and Yu Guangsuo | General Rules of Coal Type Determination for Coal Type Design and Verification in Modern Coal Chemical Engineering Projects |
2024 | The First Prize of the China Coal Industry Science and Technology Award | Yu Guangsuo, Guo Qinghua, Wang Yifei, et al. | Technical Development and Industrial Demonstration of Ultra-large-scale Coal-water Slurry Gasification with the Volume of Daily Coal Treatment of 4000 Tons Each Furnace |
2023 | The Second Prize of Shanghai Natural Science | Ding Lu, Guo Qinghua, Yu Guangsuo, et al. | The Multi-scale Reaction Mechanism of Coal and Biomass Gasification |
2023 | The Third Prize of Hubei Natural Science | Cai Zhengqing | A Typical and Advanced Oxidation Technology Used to Treat the Active Species Behavior of Organic Pollutants in Water and its Mechanism |
2023 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China | Shen Xiaobo | The Key Technique of Dangerous Chemical Explosion Risk Rating, Evaluation, Prevention, and Control |
2022 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region | Yu Guangsuo, Guo Qinghua, Gong Yan, et al. | Research on the In-situ Diagnosis of the Thermal State of Entrained Flow Coal-water Slurry Gasification and Characteristics of the High-temperature Reaction |
2022 | The Award of Intellectual Property Right Innovation of Shanghai (The First Prize of Patent) | Dai Zhenghua, Wang Fuchen, Liu Haifeng, et al. | A Heat-recyclable Approach of Synthetic Gas Production through the Oxidation of the Non-catalytic Part of Gaseous Hydrocarbon |
2022 | The Award of the Growth Value of the First Shanghai High-value Patent Operation Competition | Dai Zhenghua, Xu Jianliang, Liang Qinfeng, et al. | The Set of Technologies of SE Coal-water (Coke) Slurry Gasification |
2022 | The Second Prize of Anhui Science and Technology | Guo Xiaolei and Xu Jianliang | Integrated Development and Application of the Key Technology of High-ash-fusion-point Coal Efficient Gasification |
2022 | The First Prize of the Scientific and Technological Award of the China National Coal Association | Guo Qinghua, Gong Yan, and Wang Xingjun | Development and Demonstration of the Ultra-large-scale Coal-water Slurry Gasification Technology |
2022 | The Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation Limited | Dai Zhenghua, Guo Xiaolei, Liang Qinfeng, et al. | Large-scale Chemical Engineering Demonstration and Application of the 2000-ton SE Coal Gasification Technology |
2021 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation | Wang Fuchen, Dai Zhenghua, Yu Guangsuo, et al. | The Set of Technologies of High-methane-gas-content Green and Efficient Transformation for Synthetic Gas Production and its Application |
2021 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Chinese Mechanical Industry | Lu Haifeng | The Key Technology of High-pressure and Concentrated-phase Control Valve of the Pulverized Coal Gasification Process and its Application |
2020 | The Honorable Mention Award of the 22nd China Excellent Patent Awards | Yu Guangsuo, Liu Haifeng, Gong Xin, et al. | A Gasifier Nozzle, its Usage, and Gasifiers Containing this Nozzle |
2020 | The First Prize of Natural Science of the Chinese Society of Particuology | Liu Haifeng, Zhao Hui, Li Weifeng, et al. | Research on the Mechanism of Low-Mach-number Airflow Coaxial Atomization of Complex Fluid |
2020 | The First Prize of the China Award for Science and Technology in Construction | Chen Caixia | Research and Development of the Key Technology of Large-scale Domestic Garbage Efficient Cleaning and Incineration and its Industrial Application |
2019 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation | Wu Youqing and Huang Sheng | The Set of Technologies of Graded Biomass Pyrolysis, Gasification and Poly-generation and Key Equipment |
2019 | The First Prize of Environmental Protection Technology and Science | Lin Kuangfei | The Key Technology of Pollutant Exposure, Identification, and Risk Evaluation in Electronic Garbage Disassembly Zones and its Application |
2019 | The Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Cui Changzheng | The Key Technology of Risk Identification and Prevention of Antibiotics in Drinking Water and its Application |
2019 | The Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Xiu Guangli | Research, Development and Application of the Key Technology of Industrial Volatile Organic Compound Emission Supervision and Governance |
2019 | The Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Xiu Guangli | The Key Technology of Malodorous Pollution Smart Supervision and Source Tracing in Industrial Parks and its Application |
2019 | The First Prize of the Scientific and Technological Award of the Chinese Non-ferrous Metal Industry | Yu Jianguo | The Packaged Preparation Technology and Industrialization for Metal Lithium Negative Electrodes and Core Raw Materials Specially Used for High-specific-energy Batteries |
2019 | The Award of Excellent Achievements for Scientific Research in Higher Education Institutions | Sui Qian | The Occurrence Law and Removal Mechanism of Typical Pharmaceuticals in the Water Environment |
2018 | The Second Prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Awards | Li Hui | The Prevention and Control Technology of Population Exposure Risk of Regional Environmental Pollution and its Application |
2018 | The Second Prize of the National Technological Invention Awards | Wang Hualin | The Technology and Equipment of Fine Mineral Particle Closed Recycling and Efficient and Energy-saving Utilization |
2017 | The Second Prize of Hebei Scientific and Technological Progress | Yun Jianguo and Sun Yuzhu | Low-cost Seawater Desalination and Integrated Optimization |
2017 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Li Hui | The Key Technology of Soil Pollution Control and Restoration in Redeveloped Sites in Cities and its Application |
2017 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation | Yu Guangsuo, Wang Yifei, Chen Xueli, et al. | The Technology of Clean and Efficient Coal-water Slurry Gasification with A Daily Coal Treatment Volume of 3000 Tons |
2017 | The Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Wang Yifei, Yu Guangsuo, Guo Qinghua, et al. | The New Technology of High-pressure and High-temperature Black Water Efficient Energy Recycling of Large-scale Coal-gasification Systems |
2016 | The First Prize of the Technical Invention Awards of Shanghai | Li Hui | The Technology of Feature Identification, Evaluation, and Risk Control of Regional Environmental Pollution and Health Hazards |
2016 | The Second Prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Awards | Wang Fuchen, Yu Guangsuo, Liu Haifeng, et al. | Key Technical Innovation and Application of the Large-scale and Efficient Coal-water Slurry Gasification Process |
2016 | The Gold Award of the China International Industry Fair | Liu Haifeng, et al. | The Technology of SE Pulverized Coal Pressurized Gasification |
2015 | The Second Prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Awards | Yu Jianguo, Song Xingfu, et al. | The Technology of Efficient Utilization of Low-grade and Hard-to-develop Sylvite in the Salt Lakes of Qinghai |
2015 | The Grand Prize of the Technological Invention Awards of Shanghai | Liu Haifeng, Kang Wanzhong, Gong Xin, et al. | The Development and Application of Key Devices for Single-nozzle Cold-wall Pulverized Coal Gasification |
2015 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Wang Fuchen, Yu Guangsuo, Li Weifeng, et al. | Fundamental Research and Industrial Application of the Multi-phase Movement, Delivery, and Reaction Process of Turbulence in Large-scale Entrained Flow Coal-gasification Furnaces |
2015 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shandong | Yu Guangsuo, Liu Haifeng, Zhou Zhijie, et al. | The Technology of Efficient and Large-scale Coal-water Slurry Gasification |
2015 | The Third Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Zhang Wei | The Key Technology of Aquatic Plants, Community Construction, and their Restoration of Urban Wetlands |
2015 | The First Prize of Environmental Protection Technology and Science | Li Hui | The Technology of Environment Pollutant Health Risk Investigation, Evaluation, and Information Management |
2015 | The Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Wu Shiyong, Wu Youqing, and Huang Sheng | The Technology of HCl and Alkali Metal Removal from High-temperature Gas |
2014 | The Second Prize of the National Technological Invention Awards | Wang Hualin | New Technology Research, Development and Application for Fine-particle Pollutant Emission Reduction in the Working Process of Heavy and Large Chemical Engineering Devices |
2014 | The Second Prize of the Technological Invention Awards of the Ministry of Education | Li Hui and Lin Kuangfei | The Technology of Risk Prevention and Restoration of High-risk Organic Matter Pollution in the Urban Groundwater Environment |
2014 | The First Prize of Technological Invention of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation | Li Hui and Lin Kuangfei | The Key Technology of High-risk Organic Matter Compound Pollution Identification and Restoration in Chemical Engineering Sites and its Application |
2014 | The Second Prize of the Technical Invention Awards of Shanghai | Li Hui, Lin Kuangfei, Liu Yongdi, et al. | The New Technology of Risk Control and Restoration of Organic Matter Pollution in the Groundwater Environment in Industrial Sites |
2013 | The Third Prize of Contributions to Standard Innovation of China | Xiu Guangli, Zhang Ping, and Zhan Tianzhen | Research on Pollutant Emission Control Standards in the Coating Ink Industry |
2013 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation | Yu Guangsuo | The Technology of Multi-nozzle Opposed Coal-water Slurry Gasification with A Daily Coal Treatment Volume of 2000 Tons |
2013 | The Second Prize of Shandong Scientific and Technological Progress | Yu Guangsuo | Structural Optimization and Industrial Application of Raw Materials and Power of the Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry |
2013 | The Third Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation | Liu Haifeng | Research, Production, and Application of the New-type Gasifier Process Burner |
2013 | The Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Dai Zhenghua, Wang Fuchen, Liu Haifeng, et al. | Research, Development, and Industrial Application of the Inferior Oil-removed Asphalt Gasification Burner |
2013 | The First Prize of the Science and Technology Department of Qinghai Province | Song Xingfu and Yu Jianguo | The Production Integration Technology of High-recovery-rate and High-grade Potassium Chloride |
2013 | The Third Prize of the Technical Innovation Awards of Shanghai | Song Xingfu and Yu Jianguo | Research on the Technology and Equipment of Multi-phase Industrial Potassium Chloride Separation |
2013 | The Third Prize of Contributions to Standard Innovation of China | Xiu Guangli, Zhang Ping, Zhan Tianzhen, et al. | The Standard of Water Pollutant Emission of the Ink Industry |
2012 | The Third Prize of the Scientific and Technological Awards of the Ministry of Environmental Protection | Cao Guomin and Sheng Mei | Chemically Synthesized Pharmaceutical Industrial Wastewater Treatment by Combined Processes of BCB |
2012 | The Third Prize of the Scientific and Technological Progress Awards of the China National Coal Association | Jin Xibiao and Cai Lankun | Research and Application of High-ammonia nitrogen Wastewater Treatment and Recycling Technology |
2011 | The Second Prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Awards | Yu Jianguo, Song Xingfu, Lu Guimin, et al. | The Key Technology of Efficient and Sustainable Development and Utilization of Salt Lakes' Potassium and Magnesium Resources |
2011 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Yao Chonghua | Large-scale Sewage Treatment Plant Energy Saving and Emission Reduction Technology and Engineering Examples |
2011 | The Second Prize of the Scientific and Technological Progress Awards of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation | Gong Xin, Liu Haifeng, Yu Guangsuo, et al. | Research, Development, and Application of the Wear-resistant Coal-water Slurry Gasification Nozzle of Texaco |
2010 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Yu Jianguo, Song Xingfu, et al. | The Key Engineering Technology and Equipment of Efficient Utilization of Potassium and Magnesium in Salt Lakes in the Western Zone |
2010 | The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai | Wang Fuchen | The Technology of Oxidation of the Non-catalyzed Part of Gaseous Hydrocarbon and its Industrial Application |
2009 | The Second Prize of the Scientific and Technological Awards of the Ministry of Environmental Protection | Jin Xibiao, Cai Lankun, et al. | The Technology of Recycling and Integrating Wastewater with Ammonia Nitrogen from Coal-made Nitrogen Fertilizers Based on the Combination of Processes of the Improved A/O Approach and Dual-membrane Approach |
2009 | The Second Prize of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation | Yu Guangsuo | Research and Industrial Application of OMB Gasifier Refractory Brick Testing |
2009 | The Second Prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Awards | Wang Hualin, et al. | The New Technology of Emission Reduction during the Process of Sulfur and Alkali-containing Waste Liquid Production and its Application in the Chemical Engineering Industry |
2007 | The Second Prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Awards | Wang Hualin, et al. | The Set of Technologies of the Closed Separation of the Wastewater Produced by Petroleum Coking and Coke Cooling |
2007 | The Second Prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Awards | Yu Zunhong, Yu Guangsuo, Gong Xin, et al. | The Technology of Multi-nozzle Opposed Coal-water Slurry Gasification |
(Updated in September 2025)
