A delegation from Shanxi Coking Coal Group visited Shanxi University on April 11, for negotiations on furthering an important partnership.

SXU started early to rapidly develop its environmental engineering disciplines -- with superior technical levels subsequently established in coal-based solid waste utilization, coking wastewater treatment, coal-fired pollution control and coal-based catalysts.

Huang Guitian, president of Shanxi University, said at the seminar that the coal chemical departments in the university would conduct business matching with related industrial clusters, in order to serve the technological development of the coal chemicals sector.

The coal chemicals industry focuses on the conversion of coal into gas, liquids, solid fuels as well as chemicals – after chemical processing with coal as a raw material.

Huang Wei, general manager of Shanxi Coking Coal Group, echoed Shanxi University’s desire for an expanded partnership in the field of coal chemicals.

The coal-rich province of Shanxi is at a critical moment in its treatment of solid waste. Through through business-university partnerships, more methods are expected to put forward in order to solve problems in solid waste treatment and advance the environmental protection industry, according to Sun Pengcheng, director of the division for solid waste and chemicals at the Shanxi Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment.

The business delegation visited the university’s State-regional Coal Chemicals Industrial Waste Comprehensive Utilization Technology Engineering Laboratory after the seminar.