Prof. De-Yin Hou
National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Wastewater Detoxication and Resource Recovery, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of SciencesSpeech Title:
Biography: Prof. De-Yin Hou is the deputy director of National Engineering Research Center, he obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. Dr. Hou’s research focuses on membrane separation technology, wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Dr. Hou has published more than 100 research articles in international journals and applied for more than 30 invention patents. His research and development in membrane distillation technology has received two science and technology awards. In recent years, Dr. Hou has developed a series of superwetting membrane materials, such as superhydrophobic membranes and superhydrophilic membranes, and has achieved industrial production and application demonstration. Dr. Hou also developed high-efficiency membrane distillation equipment for concentrating high-salinity wastewater, which has been applied in landfill leachate treatment, coal chemical wastewater concentration, and desulfurization wastewater treatment.