On November 1, the inception-cum-seminar of “Key Technologies for Efficient Recovery of Ion Resources by the Self-electricity Regeneration Type Integrated Electronically Controlled Ion Exchange System”, a key special China-Japan intergovernmental science and technology innovation cooperation project included in the list of national key R&D programs of Ministry of Science and Technology and undertaken by Hao Xiaogang, a professor of the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of TYUT, was held in Conference Room 601 of Yifu Building at TYUT. Vice President Liang Weiguo attended the meeting.
Liang Weiguo stated in his address that the project is the first key special international cooperation project of the national key R&D programs undertaken by TYUT and has an important demonstration significance. He hoped that the cooperation and collaboration units could further strengthen their international cooperation and exchanges; complement each other’s strengths; break through technical bottlenecks; integrate closely their production, education and research; continuously make new progress, breakthroughs and achievements; work hard towards the successful completion of the national key R&D program; and lead the development of China’s electronically controlled ion separation technology.
After listening to the introduction by the project leader on the status and major issues of the project, the participating experts commented that China and Japan enjoy a good foundation for cooperation on scientific research and talent training programs. And the integrated system proposed in this project is a common key technology developed for the recovery and utilization of high value-added ion resources in low-concentration solutions, which is of great significance to China’s energy environment and resource security.
Since 2011, TYUT and Hirosaki University of Japan have carried out extensive and pragmatic cooperation on the research and development of electronically controlled ion separation technology, efficient development of renewable energy, and clean utilization of traditional energy, and in ways such as joint application for international scientific and technological cooperation projects, joint publication of papers, exchange of visiting scholars, joint training of graduate students, and participation in the China-Japan “Youth Science and Technology Program“ etc.
Attending the project inception-cum-seminar were also Zhang Yu, deputy director of the International Cooperation Division of Shanxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology; Prof. Guan Guoqing from Hirosaki University, Japan, the project cooperation university; and participants from the collaboration units, including Ma Guozhang, dean of the Shanxi Institute of Applied Chemistry; Li Baoan, an expert from the School of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University; Yang Yanzhao, dean of the Institute of Applied Chemistry, Shandong University; and Li Nanwen, a researcher at the Shanxi Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
