Fei Wang
Why did you decide to pursue a graduate degree?
I like researching very much and I would like to become a professor in the future. My social value is to try my best to make a contribution to our society and to our earth.
Why did you decide to study at UBC?
Hydrometallurgy is one of the highest priority research areas at the University of British Columbia. The University of British Columbia and the Department of Materials Engineering have a rich history in the field of hydrometallurgy. Furthermore, Professor David Dreisinger is the chair holder of the Industrial Research Chair in Hydrometallurgy at the Department. His research interests lie in the area of technology development and technology transfer in the hydrometallurgy field. He has abundant research experiences and acquainted with hydrometallurgical practice. Therefore, it is possible for me to combine hydrometallurgy and a cutting edge of research in environmental protection together. It allows me to achieve my social value.
Learn more about Fei's research
This project aims to develop a novel economically-feasible mineral carbonation process to sequestrate CO2 for mitigating global warming, which can be used in practical industrial application. The international community has become increasingly concerned that greenhouse gas emissions due to our human’s excessive activities have a potentially adverse effect on global climate conditions. Especially, CO2 has been attributed as the primary causal greenhouse gas (approximately 77%) towards climate change. Except for improving the efficiency of fossil-fuel-fired power plants, the methods to sequester the CO2 emitted from these plants are also necessary. Mineral carbonation, one of the methods of CO2 sequestration, is the only permanent method which can form environmentally benign carbonate minerals stable over geologic time periods. However, mineral carbonation technology remains in relative infancy mainly because of high costs and slow reaction rate as well as low sequestration efficiency. Thus, this project will develop a new and economically feasible process for mineral carbonation to sequestrate waste industrial CO2 and apply it into practical industry.
