About

Environmental engineering across biology, energy, materials, and data.

BERL is a research laboratory in the Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering at Hanyang University. Our research focuses on developing sustainable technologies for energy production, resource recovery, and environmental management. Key research areas include bioenergy, environmental remediation, microbial and biogeochemical processes, circular materials, critical and valuable metal recovery from secondary resources such as spent batteries and brines, biomass conversion, and data-driven environmental engineering.

Our work integrates fundamental understanding of environmental and biological processes with advanced physicochemical treatment, separation and recovery technologies, process engineering, and computational approaches. We investigate the sustainable conversion of waste and renewable resources into energy and value-added products, while developing efficient strategies for resource recovery, environmental remediation, and process optimization. Through these interdisciplinary approaches, BERL aims to advance circular resource utilization and sustainable environmental and energy systems.