Dr. Guandong Su is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environment and Food, School of Chemical Engineering, Ocean, and Life Sciences, Dalian University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from National University of Singapore and B.Eng. in Petroleum Engineering from China University of Petroleum-Beijing in 2024 and 2018, respectively.

 

Dr. Su’s research interests lie in the interface of energy and environment, who devotes his interdisciplinary research to advancing sustainable development goals with an emphasis on Goal 7 — affordable and clean energy, which involves sectors of oil & gas, chemicals, food, agriculture, environment, biotechnology, and education. For more information, see ResearchGate and NUS Blog.

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guandong-Su

NUS Blog: https://blog.nus.edu.sg/guandong/

 

Dr. Su has generated more than 20 peer-reviewed publications both in Chinese and English by December 2024. His publications have been cited approximately 400 times with an h-index of 13 and i10-index of 14, based on Google Scholar. Among the publications, the papers published in Renewable Energy highlight the impact of his work. He was also Guest Editor of Energies and Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, and a member of the First Round of Youth Editorial Board for a Chinese journal, Natural Gas Industry.

 

Opportunities

Dr. Guandong Su is accepting international students for intake of September 2025 to be admitted to Master Programs of Dalian University of Technology, one of the best public universities in China with a ranking of 292 and 448 respectively by US News and QS, famous for its Engineering subjects and reputed as one of the Four Leading Engineering Universities in China. Deadline for scholarship application is February 15, 2025. If you are passionate about research in energy and environment, qualified for application, and interested in working with me, please feel free to drop me an email at gsu@dlut.edu.cn. 

For more information, see below.

Programs: https://sie.dlut.edu.cn/English/Admissions/Degree_Programs/Master_Programs1.htm

Scholarships: https://sie.dlut.edu.cn/English/Scholarship1/CSC_Scholarship/Chinese_University_Program.htm

 

 

Career History

Assistant Professor, Department of Environment and Food, School of Chemical Engineering, Ocean, and Life Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, 2024 to date
Research Engineer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2018–2019 

 

Qualifications:

Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2024

B.Eng., Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, 2018

 

Research Interests

1. Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and solid waste valorization (e.g., value-added biochemicals and biofuels from agricultural forestry and food waste recycling, fine food waste management, and acetone-butanol-ethanol co-fermentation)

2. Green and low-carbon oil and gas fields (e.g., oily sludge reduction, waste drilling fluid treatment, green oilfield chemistry, carbon neutrality and environmental sustainability of onshore and offshore oil & gas fields)

3. Bilingual engineering and energy education (e.g., computer-aided education, innovation-oriented education, artificial intelligence-enhanced education)

4. Energy policy and circular economy (e.g. techno-economic analysis, life cycle analysis, big data analysis)

5. Interdisciplinary interface of energy, environment and microbiology (e.g., microbial enhanced oil recovery, microbial mining)

 

Honors & Awards (Selected)

NUS Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore, 2019-2023

IWA Agro 2022 Conference Scholarship, Gdansk University of Technology, 2022

Third Prize in “Challenge Cup” Competition, Beijing Science and Technology Commission, 2017

 

Professional Activities

Guest Editor:

Energies: Enhanced Oil Recovery with the Assistance of Sealaplugology, 2023

Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing: Solid, Fluid, and Thermal Dynamics in the Development of Unconventional Resources, 2023

Youth Editorial Board:

Natural Gas Industry (Chinese Journal), 2019-2022

Peer Reviewer:

Biochemical Engineering Journal, Chemical Engineering Journal, Energy Policy, Gas Science and Engineering, Journal of Hazardous Materials, etc. (Alphabetically), 2019–Now

 

Selected Publications

1.Su, G., Wang, C., Tan, J., Zhang, C., He, J.*, Enhanced butanol production from dough and okara waste through co-fermentation. Renewable Energy, 2024, 234

2.Su, G., Chan, C., He, J.*, Enhanced biobutanol production from starch waste via orange peel doping. Renewable Energy,2022, 193, 576-583

3.Zhang, C., Li, T., Su, G., He, J*, Enhanced Direct Fermentation from Food Waste to Butanol and Hydrogen by An Amylolytic Clostridium, Renewable Energy, 2020, 153: 522-529

 

4.Liu, H., Su, G., Okere, CJ., Li, G., Wang, X., Cai, Y., Wu, T., Zheng L*, Working fluid-induced formation damage evaluation for commingled production of multi-layer natural gas reservoirs with flow rate method, Energy, 2022, 239, 122107

5.Li, Z., Su, G., & Zheng, L.*, Enhancing filter cake removal by engineering parameter optimization for clean development of fossil hydrogen energy: A numerical simulation, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy,2021, 46(24), 12784-12800

6. Zhang, Y., Su, G., Zheng, L., Liu, D., Guo, Z., & Wei, P. (2019). The environmental friendliness of fuzzy-ball drilling fluids during their entire life-cycles for fragile ecosystems in coalbed methane well plants. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 364, 396-405. (*Co-first author)

 

7.Li, Y.*, Su, G.*#, Pan, H., Tan, C., Li, G. (2024). Programming experiment course for innovative and sustainable education: A case study of Java for Millikan Oil-Drop experiment. Journal of Cleaner Production, 141569.

8. Okere, C. J., Su, G., Gu, X., Han, B., & Tan, C. (2021). An integrated numerical visualization teaching approach for an undergraduate course, Flow in Porous Media: An attempt toward sustainable engineering education. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 29(6), 1836-1856.