Expert Alert: Yong Wang

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PNNL – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (www.pnl.gov) – does a lot of research relevant to the problems of desulfurization. You can browse the PNNL site for experts, but I find it more convenient to Google®. That’s how I found Yong Wang.

How I found him:
Google®: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory +desulfurization

The search led me to his page on the PNNL site. It contains useful information, but one piece was missing … his email address. To find it, I searched his name in the author field on ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), where I found an article with his email address.

Here is some of the information on Dr. Wang’s PNNL page …

Yong Wang
Hydrocarbon Processing
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
Richland, WA 99352
(509) 371-6273
yongwang@pnl.gov

Biography
Dr. Wang joined PNNL in 1994 and was promoted to Laboratory Fellow in 2005. He led the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Team from 2000 to 2007, and has served as the Associate Director of Institute for Interfacial Catalysis since 2008. Most recently, Dr. Wang assumed a joint position at Washington State University and PNNL. In this unique position, he continues to be a Laboratory Fellow at PNNL and is the Voiland Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering at WSU, a full professorship with tenure. Dr. Wang is best known for his leadership in the development of novel catalytic materials and reaction engineering for the conversion of fossil and biomass feedstocks to fuels and chemicals. Dr. Wang has authored more than 130 peer reviewed publications and is the inventor on many catalytic technologies, resulting in more than 150 issued patents (including more than 60 issued U.S. patents).

One of Dr. Wang's publications:
Li L, DL King, J Liu, Q Huo, K Zhu, CM Wang, MA Gerber, DJ Stevens, and Y Wang. 2009. "Stabilization of Metal Nanoparticles in Cubic Mesostructured Silica and Its Application in Regenerable Deep Desulfurization of Warm Syngas." Chemistry of Materials 21(22):5358-5364
source: http://energyenvironment.pnl.gov/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=1555

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