Education

Teaching

• Introduction to Environmental Engineering
• Water Quality Engineering
• Analytical Chemistry
• Environmental Science and Industry Compliance
• Bioengineering lab

Research

Research Activities

• Marine collagen: extraction, purification, characterization, and applications, (UMass Dartmouth)
• Resource recovery from spent lithium-ion batteries, (Massachusetts Clean Energy Canter, UMass Dartmouth Internal Seed Fund)
• Cellulose based material innovations for ocean compostable, (National Science Foundation, Paramount Planet Product, LLC)
• Biogas upgrading by low pH chemical scrubbing, (Massachusetts Clean Energy Canter, Bionomic Industries, Inc)
• Electrochemical ammunition disposal and material recovery, (Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, User-Friendly Recycling, LLC, TWB Designs, Inc)

Research

Research Interests

• Industrial chemical process
• Environmental engineering science
• Biomanufacturing

Select publications

• Chen-Lu Yang, Kumari I. Kaushik, John Enhoffer (2021).
  Process for Hydrogen Sulfide Scrubbing and Method for Ferric Ion Regeneration
  US Patent 11198828
  
• Chen-Lu Yang (2021).
  Method and Apparatus for Electrochemical Ammunition Disposal and Material Recovery.
  US Patent 11150067
  
• Tabish Nawaz, Sukalyan Sengupta, Chen-Lu Yang (2020).
  Silver Recovery from Laundry Washwater as Ag Nanoparticles.
  US Patent 10807085, B2
  
• Chen-Lu Yang (2019).
  Electrochemical Ammunition Disposal and Material Recovery.
  US patent 10514242, B1
  
• Jayashree Chakravarty, Chen-Lu Yang, Jacob Palmer and Christopher Brigham (2018).
  Chitin Extraction from Lobster Shell Waste Using Microbial Culture-based Methods.
  Applied Food Biotechnology, 5
  

External links

• JUSTIA Patents
• Environmental Chemistry Lab
• Biomanufacturing Lab
• Google Scholar