Dr. Wei-Ping Pan
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Western Kentucky University
Director of the Institute for Combustion Science and Environmental Technology
Dr. Wei-Ping Pan, Director of The Institute for Combustion Science and Environmental Technology, received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Chung Yuan University, Taiwan and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Michigan Technological University in 1986.
Dr. Pan has taught at Western Kentucky University since 1986. Dr. Pan was named the Sumpter Professor of Chemistry at Western in 1993 and was named a Fellow of the North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS) in 1997. He served as President-Elect of NATAS in 2000 and as President in 2001. He also received the Distinguished Service Award from NATAS in 2004. Dr. Pan has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers in the last 20 years, the majority of which are related to coal combustion and emissions, and materials characterization. He has pioneered work in the area of clean coal technology, emission control, and thermal analysis involving effluent gas analysis and has used the TG/FTIR/MS technique extensively in the study of many different types of materials. Dr. Pan has been selected to receive the 2006 Distinguished College/University Scientist Superlative Award of the Kentucky Academy of Science.
Dr. Pan has been the project director of more than 70 projects supported by external agencies, including NSF, the US DOD, the US DOE, NASA, US EPA, EPRI, Illinois Clean Coal Institute, and several private industries.