Net-zero emissions become a global trend Zhi-Hong Zhou talks about environmental sustainability
Mar 03, 2023
Net-zero emissions have become a common vision worldwide, with countries announcing their goals to achieve carbon neutrality around 2050. Following the international wave of energy conservation and emission reduction, Taiwan's manufacturing industry is now embracing green supply chains, energy conservation, consumption reduction, and net-zero carbon emissions as its future. The importance of this shift within the next 10 to 15 years cannot be ignored. In light of this, Chung Cheng University's General Education Center is organizing the "Chiang Cheng Lecture," where Professor Zhou Zhihong from Feng Chia University's Department of Mechanical and Computer-Aided Engineering will share the latest trends on net zero emissions, carbon emission inventory, sustainable value chains, and technology research and development, encouraging students to pay attention to environmental sustainability issues.
In the first half of 2022, the European Parliament formally passed the "Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism" bill, while members of the U.S. Senate proposed the draft "Clean Competition Act." At least 136 countries worldwide have announced net-zero emissions targets, emphasizing that net-zero emissions are not only an urgent environmental issue but also critical for international competitiveness. Chung Cheng University's Center for General Studies, under the theme "Net Zero Sustainability," has invited Professor Zhou Zhihong to introduce and share how to use green manufacturing and optimize carbon capture technology to achieve overall energy management optimization, high efficiency, energy savings, and reduction of carbon emissions.
The future development of the manufacturing industry will focus on "green manufacturing," aiming to utilize new materials, technologies, and methods while ensuring product performance, quality, and cost, thereby achieving material and energy savings and reducing various carbon emissions that harm the ecological environment. This approach also addresses high emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, by optimizing resource and energy consumption.
According to Zhou Zhihong, solving a problem results in two aspects: "know-how" and "know-why." The industry typically focuses on knowing how to solve industrial problems, while academic publications explore the why. To cater to practical needs, his research team's papers have been favored by top-tier journals, earning him various prestigious awards, including the Outstanding Engineering Professor Award of the Chinese Society of Engineers, the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, the Outstanding Engineering Professor Award of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, Outstanding Research Award of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Zhongshan Academic Works Award, IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, and many others.
Zhou Zhihong's expertise lies in system power and control, robust optimization technology, and automation system integration. He has served as the convener of the automation department of the Engineering Technology Research and Development Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology from 2013 to 2015. Additionally, he held positions such as director of the Mechanical Department at Yunlin University of Science and Technology, First Vice President and Acting President of Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, and Vice President of Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences. Chung Cheng University's General Studies Center warmly welcomes teachers, students, and the public interested in environmental sustainability issues to attend the lecture at Lecture Hall 106 of the Common Classroom Building of Chung Cheng University on the 7th, starting at 4:10 pm, to explore the latest trends in net-zero sustainability.
