Introduction by biodiesel industry professionals

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Academician Min Enze—Min Enze, the advocate of biodiesel in China, is an expert in petrochemical catalysis. He was born on February 4, 1924 in Chengdu, Sichuan. Graduated from the Chemical Engineering Department of Central University in 1946. In 1951, he received a doctorate in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University. After returning to China in 1955, he began to engage in the research and development of this type of industrial catalyst. From 1955 to 1965, we were engaged in the research and development of diatomite phosphate composite catalysts, pellet silica-alumina cracking catalysts, microsphere silica-alumina cracking catalysts and platinum reforming catalysts that were urgently needed for industrial production in our country. We built factories and put them into production, laying the foundation for the production and manufacturing of petroleum refining catalysts in our country. From 1965 to 1980, he led the research and development of molecular sieve cracking catalysts, bimetallic reforming catalysts, molybdenum-nickel-phosphorus hydrorefining catalysts, carbon monoxide combustion accelerants, etc., making the petroleum refining catalyst products produced by the factory reach the world's advanced level. When China's patent law was implemented in 1985, he began to explore the path to innovation in catalysts and process technology. In the past ten years, he has guided basic research and pioneering exploration on catalytic materials such as framework amorphous alloys, supported heteropolyacids, and nanomolecular sieve composites, as well as magnetically stable fluidized bed and suspended bed catalytic distillation reaction engineering. More than 40 patents have been applied for, among which skeleton amorphous alloys, nano-molecular sieve composite materials, and magnetically stable fluidized beds have been applied in industry, forming my country's unique and advanced new catalysts and new processes. In 1985, he presided over the consulting project "Green Chemistry and Technology - Ways to Promote the Sustainable Development of Chemical Production" for academicians of the Department of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and began to enter the field of green chemistry. Hosted * * The implementation of the major basic research project "Environmentally Friendly Petrochemical Catalytic Chemistry and Chemical Reaction Engineering" jointly funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China and Sinopec Group Corporation during the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" has played a good role in promoting the development of green chemistry and technology in my country. Among the outstanding achievements are the development of a complete set of green manufacturing technologies for caprolactam, including * * Ammonia oxidation manufacturing * * The new "atom economy" process of oxime and the new process of caprolactam hydrogenation and refining in the magnetically stable fluidized bed of skeleton amorphous nickel alloy have brought about leap-forward technological progress and produced huge economic and social benefits. Utilizing inexhaustible agricultural and forestry biomass to produce transportation fuels and bulk chemical products is an important research direction in green chemistry. Since 2003, he has entered this new field and engaged in the research and development of biodiesel. The organization has developed a high-pressure alcoholysis process based on supercritical technology, and is conducting a 2000t/a industrial test at Shijiazhuang Refining and Chemical Plant. He has made many conference reports on biodiesel and published articles in many magazines such as Science and Technology Herald, Journal of Chemical Engineering, and Chemical Progress, actively advocating the development of biodiesel in China. Professor Andy Lau Professor Andy Lau, Director of the Institute of Applied Chemistry, Tsinghua University, PhD in Engineering, Ph.D. Personal profile: Andy Lau, male, was born in Yuanjiang, Hunan in 1962. He received his bachelor's degree in applied chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University in 1986, and his PhD in chemical engineering from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University in 1991. From April 1991 to April 1999, he worked at the Institute of Chemistry and Metallurgy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. During this period, from October 1994 to July 1995, he engaged in collaborative research at the Renewable Resources Engineering Laboratory of Purdue University in the United States. He was employed as an associate researcher and researcher in September 1993 and September 1997 respectively, and as a doctoral supervisor in 1998. Served * * Executive deputy director of the Biochemical Engineering Technology Research Center (Beijing), deputy director of the Biochemical Engineering Research Department of the Institute of Chemical Industry and Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In May 1995, he was transferred to the position of deputy director, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Applied Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University. From September 2001 to the present, he has served as the director of the Institute of Applied Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University. Professor Andy Lau's main research areas include renewable resource utilization, bioenergy engineering, fermentation engineering and technology, bioreactors and metabolic engineering, etc. Participated in and hosted many * * Research, "863", "973",“ * * Key Industrial Tests” and“ * * High-tech Industrialization Demonstration Project" project, and has conducted extensive exchanges and cooperation with many international counterparts and experts in Europe, the United States, and Japan. So far, more than 150 papers have been published, including more than 30 papers included in SCI ； Applied for more than 20 patents, 7 of which have been authorized. Professor Andy Lau researched and developed biological enzymes to catalyze transesterification to produce biodiesel, using methyl acetate instead of methanol to reduce or even eliminate the toxic effect of methanol on enzymes. Application has been made * * Patented and authorized article.