A diagram exhibits two improvement instructions for next-generation desalination expertise on this file picture. Courtesy of Kookmin University
Professor Lee Sang-ho of Kookmin University cemented his standing as a worldwide chief in water expertise final month, delivering a plenary tackle at a outstanding worldwide convention on desalination. His invitation signifies rising recognition of Korea’s contributions to advancing the sector.
Addressing researchers from world wide at the seventh International Conference on Desalination Science and Technology in Florida, Lee careworn the urgency of growing next-generation applied sciences to beat effectivity and sustainability limits in present desalination techniques. He positioned specific emphasis on the essential need for increasing pilot-scale research — a key bottleneck within the sector — to speed up the trail towards business viability and widespread adoption.
Hosted by Elsevier, a worldwide tutorial writer, the convention is a number one worldwide forum on desalination, bringing collectively researchers, trade leaders and public establishments to debate advances in seawater desalination, water reuse and brine useful resource restoration.
Kookmin University mentioned Lee was invited as a plenary speaker as a consequence of his contributions to worldwide cooperation and expertise dissemination in digital desalination, in addition to his main position in analysis on brine useful resource restoration.
Lee’s work spans next-generation processes equivalent to membrane distillation and industrial water options, starting from primary analysis to large-scale engineering purposes.
He additionally focuses on sensible analysis to scale back power use in seawater desalination and water reuse vegetation, and to optimize operations by way of digital-twin techniques.
During the convention, Lee offered a number of pilot analysis instances, outlined challenges in scaling up new applied sciences and proposed methods to deal with them, drawing robust curiosity from each academia and trade.
Lee earned his Ph.D. in engineering from Seoul National University, labored as a researcher at Northwestern University in Illinois, and later served as a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology.
He now teaches within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Kookmin University.