SONG, Hyung Keun

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (University of Alberta)

e-mail: hksong@kist.re.kr
phone: +82-2-958-5241
home page: http://pccp.kist.re.kr

Dr. Song has been the principal research scientist of the CleanTechnologyCenter at KIST since 1985 and is currently leading the National Research laboratory on the low temperature plasma for chemical reactions. The main focus of the research is to use low temperature plasmas to break or to activate the stable compounds such as methane or carbon dioxide in order to have valuable products from them as well as to handle the environmental pollution. The plasma gives enough energy to break up the chemically strong bonds but the selectivity is hard to control to get the certain valuable compounds. As the petroleum resources are depleting the methane could be the next generation chemical feedstock obtained by this reaction. However, some technical problems remain to be solved for the real application. He has published about 150 papers in international journals and 15 patents.

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