Ho Nam Chang (장호남)

Professor Emeritus with Post-Retirement Service

Education
  • 1963~1967 : Seoul National Univ. (B.S. in Chem. Eng.)
  • 1970~1971 : Stanford Univ. (M.S. in Chem. Eng.)
  • 1971~1975 : Stanford Univ. (Ph.D. in Chem. Eng.)
Employment and Professional Experience
  • 2010 ~ Present : Professor Emeritus with Post-retirement Service , KAIST
  • 1982 ~ 2010 : Professor, KAIST
  • 1990 ~ 2000 : Director, Bioprocess Engineering Research Center, KAIST & KOSEF
  • 1995 ~ 1997 : Member, Presidential Council on Science and Technology, Korea
  • 1980 ~ 1981 : Humboldt Fellow, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany
  • 1976 ~ 1982 : Assistant, Associate Professor of (Biological) & Chemical Engineering, KAIST
Awards and Honors
  • BioChemical Engineering Award, APbioChEC(1997), Beijing, China (1997)
  • Korea Engineering Award, Korea Government (1997)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany (1980-1982)
  • President : Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (1994-1995)
  • Board Member : Biotechnology and Bioengineering (advisory), Biotechnology Letters (editorial)
  • Honorary professor, Nanjng University of Technology
  • Fellow, Korea Academy of Science and Technology
  • Member, Nationel Academy of Engineering Korea
Research interests
  • Biofuels Production from waste organic biomass (ethanol, butanol and biodiesel)
  • Multi-Stage Continuous High Cell Density Culture (MSC-HCDC)
  • High cell density cell culture with High age depth filter system
Selected Publications
  • Multi-stage high cell continuous fermentation for high productivity and titer. Bioprocess and Biosystems Eng. 34, 419-431 (2011).
  • The effect of volatile fatty acids as a sole carbon source on lipid accumulation by Cryptococcus albidus for biodiesel production, BIoresource technology, 102, 2695-2701 (2011)
  • Ethanol production from marine algal hydrolysis using Escherichia coli Ko11, Bioresource technology 102, 7466-7469 (2011)
  • Economic evaluation of off-gas recycle pressure swing adsorption (PSA) in industrial scale poly(3-hydroxy butyrate) fermentation, Biotechnology and bioprocess eng, 15(6) 905-910 (2010)
  • Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of lignocellulosic residues pretreated with phosphoric acid acetone for bioethanol production, Bioresource technology, 100 (13) 3245-3251 (2009)
BioChemical Engineering Laboratory

Biofuels Production from waste organic biomass (ethanol, butanol and biodiesel), Multi-Stage Continuous High Cell Density Culture (MSC-HCDC), High cell density cell culture with High age depth filter system




 

Volatile fatty acids (VFA: acetic acid, propionic and butyric acids) production using mixed culture technology. MSC-HCDC (multi-stage continuous high cell density culture) system for fuels and chemicals production from various biomass resources such as low cost organic wastes and marine biomass. The fuels refer to mixed alcohols of ethanol, propanol, and butanol; biodiesels, and chemicals are organic acids-derived. Catalytic production of hydrogen from VFAs,
Improving bioreactor productivity about 10 times the fed-batch with equivalent fed-batch titer. Enriching fermentation titer from 3% to 10~15% by membrane technology. Production of extracellular products such as ethanol, lactic acid monoclonal antibodies, and intracellular products such as PHB(polyhydroxy butyric acid), microbial lipids for biodiesel, and intracellular biomedical proteins.