Photo of Chunfeng Wan

Energy & sustainability

Chunfeng Wan

Developing membrane technologies to convert the osmotic pressure to renewable osmotic energy
Chunfeng Wan

Year Honored
2020

Organization
Meinhardt

Region
Asia Pacific

Hails From
Singapore

Chunfeng is a technical director at Meinhardt. He obtained his Ph.D. from Professor Chung’s membrane research group at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on membrane synthesis, membrane module fabrication, process design, techno-economic analysis, and pilot systems for osmotic energy generation by pressure retarded osmosis (PRO). He has published 20+ articles in the Journal of Membrane Science, Applied Energy, and other leading research journals. He was awarded the AICHE-SLS young researcher and principal investigator award in 2018 and the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia award in 2019.