After an incredible 22 years of service at UC Riverside, Dr. Chan Seung Park retired from the university on 6/30/2020. Dr. Chan Seung Park has been bestowed the title of Associate Adjunct Professor Emeritus by Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox under the authority of The Regents and the President of the University of California.

Dr. Park's research has made significant advancement in environmental science and engineering, including vehicle emission measurement, production of liquid and gaseous fuels from renewable resources, alternative energy storage technologies and energy efficiency improvement technology.

Dr. Chan Seung Park joined UCR's CE-CERT in 1988 in research projects related to the development and application of technologies for detecting and analyzing the composition of fuels and emissions. Since then, he has been also involved in other significant projects such as development of electronic controls for on-road, real-time measurement of emissions from heavy-duty trucks and for extremely low emission passenger cars. Until now, he has been a part of over 40 extramural research projects.

In 2002, he added a new dimension for his research to include production of liquid and gaseous fuels from clean, renewable resources. These projects also included economic and life cycle analyses, and application of advanced gasification technologies that led to the development of a novel Steam Hydrogasification Reaction (SHR) process. The SHR process also included a large scale Process Development Unit (PDU) in CE-CERT. This research has led to innovative approaches in of liquid and gaseous fuels, and has generated 9 UCR owned patents. Dr. Park also received the National Innovation Award at TechConnect’s annual convention in Anaheim, 2018.

After his tenure with CE-CERT, he became the lead researcher in the area of the (1) alternative
energy storage technology and (2) energy efficiency improvement technology for Winston Chung Global Energy Center. For the first area, he initiated a new project to evaluate the economics of Power to Gas (P2G) process. The initial phase of the project was on modeling. After completion of this modeling project in 2021, the demonstration of P2G technology using the UCR campus gas pipe network and steam boiler facility is planned. For the second
project in the energy efficiency, Dr. Park is the principal technical contributor to the UC intellectual property with the Natural Gas Fuel Quality (or so-called, Wobbe Index) sensor. This technology, which has been supported by California Energy Commissions, Cummins Inc., and UCOP, brings major recognition to the campus from the industry for the commercialization. The technology has also evolved as the BTU sensing for the propane vehicle, for which funding is being sought. Recently, this technology was highlighted by American Gas Association thru their American Gas Magazine.