近年来随着电动汽车技术的大力开发推广和单位储能密度的不断提高，以太阳能和风能发电为代表的，基于可再生能源的电能大有一统低碳经济市场之势。而燃油（生物燃料和汽柴油）和天然气在驱动大中型商用车辆和船运及空运市场上，至少在以后的三四十年，仍然将起着主导作用。加拿大滑铁卢大学温振宇教授将和大家一起讨论低碳交通技术的开发，现状和未来，并以生物燃油和太阳能应用为例，讲述PM捕捉，温室气体减排和CO2隔离等技术。

 

Prof. John Wen is a faculty member of Waterloo Center for Automotive Research (WatCAR) and the director of the Laboratory for Emerging Energy Research (LEER) at the University of Waterloo. He is an associate professor at the department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and cross-appointed at the department of Chemical Engineering. He graduated from the University of Toronto (MASc& Ph.D.). He has more than two years of post-doctoral research experience at MIT where he worked with the Green group (Prof. Bill Green at ChemEng) and Prof. Vander Sande’s research group (at Material Science and Engineering). He worked as well with Prof. Jack Howard (ChemEng, MIT), Dr. Markus Kraft (ChemEng, University of Cambridge) and Dr. NabihaChaumeix (CNRS, Orleans). Most recently he was a visiting professor at the Institut de Combustion AérothermiqueRéactivitéetEnvironnement, CNRS. Prior to his academic career, he worked over 7 years, as a mechanical engineer, in R&D of marine, automotive and aerospace engines.

At the University of Waterloo, Dr. Wen is affiliated to WIN (Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology) and WISE (Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy). He currently leads a research program dedicated to development of advanced energy, environment and manufacturing technologies using experimental means, materials with new compositions and properties and computer modeling. Some specific research topics are, cost-effective CO2 capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies, energy storage technologies through fabricating nanostructured electrodes and characterizing their thermo-chemo-electrical properties, novel nanothermite (a mixture of aluminum nanoparticles and metallic nanostructures) for developing advanced propellants, micro-propulsion and micro-joining technologies, and nano-catalyst based catalytic combustion technologies for cleaner natural gas, fossil fuel and biofuel combustion.