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Best Practices for Technology Transfer First Story
Date
2022-04-08
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Fine Dust Laboratory Park Joo-hyung




Many student researchers at the Korea Institute of Energy Technology write excellent papers and do a lot of studying and research. At the same time, there are student researchers who participate in technology transfer and achieve excellent results to achieve both academic and profit-making.Among them, I visited Park Joo-hyung, a post-doctoral researcher, for the first time in search of the best case of technology transfer.




“Hello, I'm Park Joo-hyung, working as a postdoctoral researcher in the fine dust lab. Since December 2019, our team has been developing low fuel high-latency technology and biomass-formic acid-hydrogen eco-friendly storage/conversion technology.”




Q1. What kind of research did you do to transfer technology?




“Research on technology transfer is a patent and know-how on high-quality fuel production technology using superheated steam for various low-grade fuels. The final purpose is to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollutants by converting low-grade fuels such as low-grade carbon, various biomass, and livestock manure with high-water/low-calorie characteristics into high-quality fuels. Traditional technologies have the problem of over-consumption of energy and cost to lower the high water content of low-grade fuel. Our team developed a technology that sprays superheated steam directly onto the object to be dried and carbonized quickly and efficiently, and produces high-quality fuel with low-water/high-calorie properties. It is considered to be close to commercialization because it can reduce energy usage by 40% compared to existing technologies. In particular, regarding low-grade coal high-quality technology, we are currently promoting demonstration commercialization in Indonesia and China.”




Q2. What kind of process was it go through?




“APL Hi-tech, which received our research team's technology, was interested in improving the eco-friendly energy field and the atmospheric environment, and recently, we are developing post-treatment technology to reduce ultrafine dust, NOx, and SOx generated by power generators and industries. While doing this research, I came across the technology of our research team and showed my willingness to commercialize eco-friendly, high-quality fuel (pre) and post-processing technology at the same time. The person in charge of training conducted the development of high-quality fuelization technology, explanation of high-quality fuelization technology, the signing of technical cooperation with APL Hi-Tech, and technology transfer. I have carried out the application plan of superheated steam for the development of high-quality fuelization technology, calculation of energy use by using superheated steam, and economic evaluation.”







Q3. Have you felt anything since the technology transfer?




“Many technologies and ideas are proposed, but I understand that less than 1% of technologies operate on a commercial scale. This technology transfer is the beginning of the commercialization of high-quality fuel production technology for various low-grade fuels developed by our research team, and we will try to achieve better results.”




Q4. How is your life as a researcher?




“Our research manager cares about the researchers so that they can focus on creative research in an autonomous atmosphere. Through strong communication between researchers, they can unite as a team to solve difficult problems. When researchers have personal problems, they also help each other to solve them. I think our team's organizational culture has created many excellent examples such as technology transfer.”







Q5. What do you want to say to other trainees?




“In 2013, I entered graduate school with the desire to do research on renewable energy, and I had a relationship with the current researcher and the training manager. When you conduct research, you often encounter difficult problems and come up with an easy way to give up. Looking back at this point, I think I have been able to work with my team members, believe that I can do it, perseverance, and effort to study until the end, learning a lot from the researcher's seniors over the past six years. I'd like to teach and give advice to junior researchers.”




Q6. What are your plans for the future?




“The short-term plan is to successfully complete the Sejong Science Fellowship research project, which has been carried out since March 21, at the institute. I would like to help with the hydrogen-related research in Korea by conducting basic research on the conversion of formic acid, a hydrogen storage body, from biomass. Also, if I have a chance, I would like to get a job at the research institute and promote the commercialization of low-grade fuel high-quality technology that I am currently studying with the research team of the current fine dust lab and the training manager.”