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Zhihua Jiang

Chemical Engineering

Auburn Pulp and Paper Foundation Associate Professor

Director, Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering

356 Ross Hall

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Education

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, McGill University
M.S. Wood and Pulping Chemistry, Nanjing Forestry University
B.S. Wood and Pulping Chemistry, Nanjing Forestry University

Research Interests

Bioresource engineering
Added-value products from lignin and nanocellulose
Pulping and bleaching
Pulp and paper
Wood chemistry

In The News

Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering provides training opportunity to paper mill engineers

Eleven guests from Georgia-Pacific’s Alabama River Cellulose facility were provided with an overview of the pulp and paper industry, integrated biorefineries, characteristics of wood/wood fibers, chip-handling, and more.

Researchers earn $2.5 million Department of Energy grant to convert polluted waste into aquafeed

Researchers are developing novel technology that converts pulp and paper mill flue gas (carbon emissions) and aquaculture wastewater into algae-based protein for aquafeed pellets.

Multi-disciplinary research team conducting $1.88 million DOE study to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

Zhihua Jiang, director of the Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering, is principal investigator on a $1.88 DOE project designed reduce carbon dioxide emissions from pulp and paper mills.

Auburn Pulp and Paper Foundation Conference offers opportunities for industry engagement

The Auburn Pulp and Paper Foundation plays a critical role in fostering student development and career connections.

Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering prepares today's students to become tomorrow's leaders

Within this program, students learn biosystems engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, process control and optimization, material engineering, mechanical engineering and more.

Researchers in chemical engineering part of NSF-EPSCoR grant to reimagine sustainable development of plastic materials

Symone Alexander, Selen Cremaschi and Zhihua Jiang are part of a four-year, $4 million multi-disciplinary collaborative study with researchers from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Chemical engineering researchers part of $23.8M project to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from paper mills

Selen Cremaschi, the B. Redd & Susan W. Redd Professor and chair of Auburn University’s Department of Chemical Engineering, and Zhihua Jiang, the Auburn Pulp and Paper Associate Professor in chemical engineering, are co-principal investigators of the study funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Three chemical engineering faculty win LAUNCH funding support

Three chemical engineering faculty - Xinyu Zhang, Zhihua Jiang and Burak Aksoy - were awarded a share of more than $100,000 from the LAUNCH Fund for Research and Innovation, a program established by the Auburn University Research and Economic Development Advisory Board.

Auburn Engineering faculty named to 2022 promotion, tenure list

Numerous Auburn Engineering faculty were included on the provost's list of those who were awarded promotion, tenure or both for 2022.

Global technology group to host pulp and paper conference in Auburn

Austrian technology group Andritz, a global leader in the pulp and paper industry, will set up shop at The Hotel at Auburn University & Dixon Conference Center June 24-25 for its 2019 Papermakers Conference.

Auburn Pulp and Paper Foundation receives $1 million in packaging industry endowments

The Auburn Pulp and Paper Foundation recently added four new pulp and paper mills to its list of members and received new scholarship endowments of $1 million from the Packaging Corporation of America, one of the nation's largest producers of containerboard and uncoated freesheet.