I. Discipline overview
The Environmental Science and Engineering discipline of Zhejiang A&F University stems from the Environment Engineering specialty opened in 2000. It began to recruit undergraduate students majoring in Environment Engineering in 2001 and began to recruit undergraduate students majoring in Environment Science in 2005. Currently, there are 360 students at school. There are 21 teaching and scientific research personnel, including four professors, six associate professors and nine lecturers; 11 personnel with the doctoral degree and 10 personnel with master’s degree. The total area of the laboratory buildings is 646m2, and the total value of fixed equipment is RMB 2.789 million. During the period of "the 11thFive-Year Plan", the discipline undertook one national project, three national project sub-topics, seven important projects at ministerial and provincial level, eight general projects, and more than 50 other projects, with the scientific research funds exceeding RMB 18 million. It won a second and a third prize at the ministerial and provincial level, a first prize, two second prizes and two third prizes at the bureau level. One course was rated as provincial excellent course, three courses were listed as the school-level excellent courses, and it guided students to participate in the provincial competition, winning two third prizes. It has published more than 100 research papers, of which 11 are included in SCI. It has published 11 books and applied for 19 national invention patents, of which 10 were authorized.
II. Main research direction
1. Circular economy and waste resource utilization
Developing a circular economy has become a basic strategic concept in China, and the development of environmental pollution control and resource recycling has become the frontier of scientific research. This research direction is based on the problem that the waste accumulation brought on by rapid development of Zhejiang rural economy seriously pollutes the environment, and is committed to the research and popularization of circular economy technologies. It combines the circulation economy theory with waste resource utilization technology and environmental pollution treatment technology organically. The discipline mainly studies the technology of harmless treatment and resource utilization technology of cultivation waste, safe waste treatment and resource utilization technology for rural domestic refuse and deep processing technology for biogas.
2. Environmental biology and ecological engineering
Environmental bioremediation technology and ecological engineering is a hot topic in the environmental field at home and abroad. This direction gives full attention to the advantages of ecological and biological research in the agriculture and forestry colleges, and uses environmental microorganisms, forest ecology, biological medicine fertilizer and environmental toxicology as its research subjects. The research focuses on the migration and diffusion rules of soluble chemical substances, the surface source pollution control technology of drainage basins, and the recovery and reconstruction of damaged ecosystems.
3. Water pollution control and treatment
Water pollution control and treatment is the current domestic problem needing to be solved urgently and has increasingly become the focus of the government and the public. The country set up the major scientific and technological “Water Pollution Control and Management Project" during the period of "the 10thFive-Year Plan". This research focuses on the biological recovery management of dyestuff waste water, the treatment of black and smelly river water, ecological restoration technology and the treatment of waste water by biological immobilization. It is attempting to develop special strains that efficiently adsorb recycled dyes, and uses bioremediation technologies to treat severely polluted black and odorous river channel water. The clam-grass-algae-bacteria biologically immobilized waste water is used to treat ecological tanks.
III. Academic echelon
There are 21 teaching and scientific research personnel, including four professors, six associate professors and nine lecturers; 11 personnel with doctoral degrees and 10 personnel with master’s degree. At present, the discipline has formed a young teaching and scientific research team with a diverse knowledge and age structure, high quality and an innovative spirit.
Shan Shengdao, professor, is the vice president of Zhejiang A&F University, a doctoral supervisor and leader of the Environmental Science and Engineering discipline. Now he serves as a member of an expert committee on national experimental areas for sustainable development under the Ministry of Science and Technology, director of the China Land Science Society, Vice President of Central Europe Low Carbon Economy Research Promotion Center, Vice President and Secretary-General of the Zhejiang Society of Circular Economy, standing member of the Zhejiang Land Institute, and the director of Circular Economy Technology Research Center of Zhejiang A&F University. He is mainly engaged in the research of environment science and the ecological cycle economy. In recent years, he has hosted more than 20 national high technology program “863” projects, China Postdoctoral Science Fund projects, provincial major science and technology research projects, major bidding projects on provincial Social Science and other projects, won four technology awards at the provincial or ministerial level, and published eight monographs includingCircular Economics,Theory and Practice of Circular Economy,Rural Waste Investigationand more than 120 academic papers in domestic and foreign publications.
Zhang Miaoxian, professor, is the post-doctor, master supervisor and leader of the Environmental Science and Engineering discipline. She was the post doctor of Institute of Soil Science，Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1999 to 2001. She was a researcher at the Center for Agricultural Resources Research Center, IGDB, and CAS from 2001 to 2003. She is mainly engaged in the research of water resources planning and evaluation, soil erosion and soil and water conservation, soil pollution and restoration, water source pollution and control, and other related topics. She has hosted or participated in more than 20 national, provincial and local research projects, worked in various provinces and regions, and completed a number of production planning and design projects. She has thorough research of shallow groundwater resources management, soil pollution and remediation, soil solute transport and other such aspects. She has published more than 50 academic papers, and many of them are included in core journals like SCI, EI and ISTP.
Zhou Shan, professor, is the master supervisor. She graduated from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Hunan University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Engineering. She graduated from the College of Environment Science and Environment Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a Master of Science in 2004. He is mainly engaged in environmental chemistry, chemical waste water treatment, and agricultural waste resource utilization. She has hosted six projects, such as the Science Technology Department of Zhejiang Province project, the Hangzhou Technology Bureau project and the Department of Education of Zhejiang Province project. She has participated in the national "863" plan project, national Natural Science Fund project, major projects in the Zhejiang Philosophy and Social Sciences planning bidding, and the key project of the Science Technology Department of Zhejiang Province. More than 30 of her papers have been published in domestic and foreign journals, and many of them are included in SCI, EI, ISTP and CA.
Chen Yafeiis the professor level senior engineer and a member of the Communist Party of China. She graduated from the College of Energy Engineering of Zhejiang University, majoring in Thermal Power Engineering in 1994, and graduated from Zhejiang University, majoring in Thermal Physics, and received a doctor's degree in 1999. She passed the International Project Management Professional (IPMP) and International Project Manager Professional (ICPM) and is the member of the first committee of the Atmospheric Environment Branch of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences. She is mainly engaged in the research and engineering application of fluid gas desulfurization, dedusting control and refuse landfill settlement. She hosted and attended 18 scientific research projects, and her engineering work includes key projects in Zhejiang, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Zhejiang province successively, and has published 63 papers, of which 13 are included in SCI, EI, 16 first-level journals, and nine papers received the Excellent Paper Award of Chinese Society of Power Engineering, Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering and the Excellent Paper Award of Zhejiang natural science. She co-edited one textbook. She won the 4thYouth Science Award from the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences.
Xiao Jibo, associate professor, is a PhD and master supervisor. He graduated from the College of Papermaking and Environmental Engineering of South China University of Technology in 2004, majoring in Environmental Engineering and received his Doctor of Engineering. He is mainly engaged in the research and development of high concentration organic waste water treatment, sewage treatment equipment and medicament, small watershed management and environmental microorganism technology. He hosted the key science and technology project of Zhejiang, a social development project for the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Lin’an science and technology development projects and multiple transverse key projects successively, participated in more than 10 national "863" projects, worked with the National Natural Science Fund, the Provincial Natural Science Fund, provincial key science and research projects, and has published more than 20 papers. He successfully developed an integrated water quality purification vessel, aquatic plants, biological floating bed, bio-band, dominant indigenous microbial agents, ECR electric catalytic oxidation reactor, bio-band contact oxidation waste water treatment technology and other products and technologies with distinctive characteristics in the fields of water pollution treatment and industrial waste water treatment.
Luo Xiping,associate professor, master supervisor, member of the Communist Party of China, deputy director of the Technology Department of Zhejiang A&F University. He graduated from Zhejiang University of Technology with a master's degree in engineering in 2001 and went to Japan to attend JICA training in February 2006. He is mainly engaged in the development and research of environmentally friendly catalysts, the research of air harmful gas prevention and control and management research and research of organic pollutants photocatalyst degradation, participated in and completed national natural fund projects, national “863” plan projects, and multiple provincial projects. He’s published more than 20 papers in domestic and foreign journals and applied for four invention patents. Currently, he directs and undertakes five projects, including Zhejiang Natural Science Fund projects and the Zhejiang Major Scientific and Technological Projects.
Zhang Jin, associate professor, PhD, and member of the Communist Party of China. He graduated from the College of Environment & Resources Sciences at Zhejiang University in 2007. He was a post doctor and visiting scholar at University Kiel in 2010. The main direction of his research is soil pollution ecological restoration and utilization and disposal of rural waste resources. At present, he participates in one project for the Provincial Department of Science and Technology and one project for the Provincial Natural Fund and directs one school-level talents startup project. In the past five years, he has published more than 20 research papers in the core journal or above, of which five are included in SCI and applied for two patents for invention.
Yu Fangbo, associate professor, PhD, and member of the Communist Party of China. He graduated from the Department of Microbiology of Nanjing Agricultural University with a Doctor of Science in Microbiology in 2007, and now serves as a teaching supervisor in the College of Environmental Science and Technology at Zhejiang A&F University, and is the director of the Environmental Engineering Lab. He is mainly engaged in related research on environmental microbiology and functional genes of agricultural microbiology, hosted and participated in multiple national high technology research and development programs, the National Natural Science Fund, major projects for the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, major projects and general projects for the Zhejiang Natural Science Fund. He published six SCI and EI papers as the first author and obtained one national authorized invention patent. He obtained the honorary titles of Outstanding Class Teacher in the College of Environmental Science and Technology in the Zhejiang Forestry College, Outstanding Communist Party Member at Zhejiang A&F University, respectfully, and the second prize in the Youth Teacher's Teaching Skill Competition.
Sun Liping, associate professor, PhD, and member of the Communist Party of China. She graduated from Wuhan University with a Doctor of Science in Environment Science in June 2006. She is mainly engaged in the research of environmental pollution monitoring and control technology, and research on the relationship between development and utilization and construction effects on natural macromolecules and agricultural and forestry residues. At present, she directs a general project for the Department of Education of Zhejiang Province, a Scientific Research Foundation project at Zhejiang A&F University and a general education reform project for the Provincial Department of Science and Technology. She participates in multiple major projects for the National Fund and Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and several provincial fund projects. She has published more than 20 related academic papers, including five SCI papers as the first author, and obtained a national invention patent.
Li Song,associate professor, PhD. He graduated from the College of Environment & Resources Sciences of Zhejiang University, with a Doctor of Engineering in Environmental Engineering in 2009. He is mainly engaged in soil pollution remediation, sewage treatment scheme design, waste disposal and resource management and other related research work. In recent years, he has hosted or participated in national “973” projects, national “863” plan projects, National Natural Fund projects, major projects for the Provincial Science and Technology plan, projects for the Provincial Department of Education and other projects, and more than 10 enterprise horizontal projects. At present, he has undertaken two National Water Special Project sub-topics, one school talents startup project, has published more than 10 papers in academic journals at home, abroad, or at international conferences, of which three papers are included in SCI, EI, and won three national invention patents as the first or the second inventor.
IV. Supporting conditions
The discipline uses the Environment Engineering Laboratory as its main support platform, which consists of six branches of the Environmental Monitoring and Analysis, Water Treatment, Air Pollution and Control, Precision Instruments, Solid Waste Pollution and Control Room and The Principles of Chemical Engineering. The existing area of the laboratory building is 646m2, the total value of fixed equipment is RMB 2.789 million, relevant scientific experiments can be carried out, and it has the basic conditions for undertaking any national projects.
V. Scientific achievements
During the period of "11thFive-Year Plan", the discipline undertook one national project, three national project sub-topics, seven major projects and eight general projects at ministerial and provincial levels, 50 other projects, and the scientific research funds exceeded RMB 18 million yuan. It won a second prize and a third prize at the ministerial and provincial level, a first prize, two second prizes and two third prizes at the bureau level; one course was rated as a provincial excellent course, three courses were listed as the school-level excellent courses, and students were guided to win two third prizes at provincial competitions. It published more than 100 research papers, of which 11 papers were included in SCI and published 11 works. It applied for 19 national invention patents, 10 of which were authorized.
VI. Talent training and foreign exchange
The discipline opens more than 30 courses for Environment Engineering, Environment Science, Resources Environment and the Management of Urban and Rural Planning, Geographic Information System, Landscape Planning, Civil Engineering, Food Engineering and other undergraduate programs, and undertakes the task of teaching about 30 classes every year. In the past five years, more than 500 undergraduates have been trained. Nearly 40 students’ innovation projects were guided and 8 postgraduate students are trained.
The discipline focuses on academic exchanges and cooperation with universities and research institutions at home and abroad. In the past five years, it has attended more than 60 academic conferences at home and abroad and has two person/time cooperative research projects with other units.
