From June 5 to 8, the 12th International Congress on Combustion By-Products and Their Health Effects: Combustion Engineering and Global Health in the 21st Century – Issues and Challenges was held at Zhejiang University. It’s the first time the Congress has been held in a developing country. Professor Yan Jianhua of Zhejiang University and Professor Barry Delinger from Louisiana State University co-chaired the Congress.
The objectives of this Congress are to provide an international forum to discuss topics on the origin, fate, and health effects of combustion by-products. The Congress received 81 papers from 12 countries and regions, including 6 plenary lectures, 27 poster presentation and 43 oral reports. Participants included researchers and experts from Louisiana State University, University of Utah, University of California Berkeley, American Electric Power Research Institute, Desert Research Institute USA, British American Tobacco, Hiyoshi Corporation, and a dozen research institutes and universities from both home and abroad.
The topics of the Congress included “Metals, Mercury, and Ash Chemistry”, “Waste Thermal Treatment”, “Impact of Air Pollution on Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Disease”, “Combustion Emissions (Conventional and Alternative Fuels)”, “Characterization and Health Impacts of Coarse, Fine and Ultrafine Ambient Air Particulates”, “Dioxins and Other Organic Air Toxics”, “Clean Coal Technologies & Global Climate Change”, “Advanced diagnostics and measurement technologies”, “Health Effects of Combustion Pollutants in Developing Countries”, “Persistent Free Radicals and Oxidative Stress” and so on.
Vice-President Prof. Wu Zhaohui, Academician Cen Kefa, former Executive Vice-President Ni Mingjiang attended the opening ceremony. Prof. Cen Kefa introduced the Institute of Thermal Engineering Zhejiang University to participants at the conference. Professor Yan Jianhua and Y. C. Tang Chair Professor Alfons Buekens chaired one session respectively.
