The Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process of Ministry of Education (the lab) formerly known as Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization Technology for Chemical Processes of Ministry of Education. It was approved for establishment in 2008 and verified in 2011. In 2018, it passed the MOE expert evaluation with distinguished result. Supported by National 211 Project, the 985 Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform, and the First Class Discipline Construction Program, the lab has been focusing its research on smart and green manufacturing, developing basic theories, application foundations, and key technologies for operational optimization and system integration in the process of production and management for the process industry, especially for energy chemical industry, contributing to the digital transformation and high-quality development of China’s process industry and the achievement of the national strategic goal of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality”. Through multidisciplinary and industry-education-research cooperation, the lab has formed a unique and advantageous research direction and has become a leading base for talent training, scientific research, and technology application in in energy chemical industry.

Supported by its strength in “Control Theory and Control Engineering”, which is a national and shanghai key discipline, the lab has been committed to researches that may cater to the needs of national development and solve the urgent problems for industry and enterprises. The lab has won 6 Second Prizes of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award, 18 first prizes of Provincial and Ministerial Level Scientific and Technological Award, 3 Chinese outstanding patent awards and 2 first prizes of teaching achievements in Shanghai and so on.

The lab has an innovation team in key areas of the Ministry of science and technology. It currently has 70 long term scientific researchers, including 32 professors, 32 associate professors, and 28 doctoral supervisors. Research backbones under the age of 40 accounts for 47% of the total personnel, and all researchers have doctoral degree.

The lab currently has more than 5,000 square meters of floor space, equipped with a variety of advanced instruments, equipment, and a sizable experimental platform. Total value of those instruments and equipment is worth over 50 million RMB yuan.