Dr Lu Xing

Associate Professor

Department: Mechanical and Construction Engineering

I completed my master and Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering at the Oklahoma State University, the United States between 2008 and 2014. During these 6 years, I worked as a research assistant and participated in projects related to renewable energy systems and were funded by the United States Department of Energy. From 2014 to 2015, I joined ACCENTURE as software engineering at Tampa Florida, performed detailed building energy analyses and delivered energy-saving strategies. Since 2015, I was employed as an assistant professor in the Institute of Energy and Power Engineering and in China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy at the top 10 university in China - Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Being an assistant professor in the energy department in HUST, I had been the principal investigator for several scientific or engineering projects. In 2020, I joined the academic team of the Faculty of Engineering & Environment at Northumbria University to continue research work on hydrogen and fuel cell technology, renewable energy system.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My specialty is investigating the simultaneous interaction of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics physical processes for hydrogen and fuel cell technology, renewable energy systems. My research motivation is the deepen understand of such physical processes through the development of model methodology and applications of innovative solutions methods to optimize the utilization of clean renewable energy.

Key Publications

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Configuration method for medium-deep ground source heat pump system considering renewable energy consumption and smart grid interaction, Li, J., Lu, F., Xu, W., Li, J., Sun, Z., Qiao, B., Sun, Z., Zheng, F., Xiang, Z., Zhang, G., Xing, L., Wang, L. 1 Sep 2024, In: Energy and Buildings
Design of a novel multizone cooling system for performance improvement in proton exchange membrane fuel cell, Liu, Z., Pei, H., Sun, L., Wang, B., Xing, L., Tu, Z., Cai, S. 2 Sep 2024, In: Applied Thermal Engineering
Energy-saving potential benchmarking method of office buildings based on probabilistic forecast, Liu, C., Li, Y., Chen, H., Xing, L., Zhang, S. 15 Oct 2024, In: Journal of Building Engineering
Experimental study on current density distribution characteristics in a novel oxygen recirculation system of dead-ended proton exchange membrane fuel cell, Liu, Z., Pei, H., Sun, L., Wang, B., Xing, L. 1 Oct 2024, In: International Journal of Green Energy
Fe₃Co nanoparticles embedded carbon nanotube complex as effective bifunctional electrocatalysts for rechargeable zinc-air batteries, Dong, J., Pang, Y., Bildan, D., Xing, L., Liu, X., Zhuge, X., Yuan, Z., Ren, Y., Liu, D., Lei, W., Luo, K. 15 Nov 2024, In: Chemical Engineering Journal
Influence of cathode air supply mode on the performance of an open cathode air-cooled proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack, Chen, J., Sun, L., Zhu, W., Pei, H., Xing, L., Tu, Z. 15 Apr 2024, In: Applied Thermal Engineering
Investigation of non-uniform temperature distribution in air-cooled proton exchange membrane fuel cells with multizone temperature measurement, Yu, W., Sun, L., Zhu, W., Li, Y., Pei, H., Xing, L. 8 Aug 2024, In: International Journal of Green Energy
Life cycle techno-economic-environmental optimization for capacity design and operation strategy of grid-connected building distributed multi-energy system, Han, H., Ge, Y., Wang, Q., Yang, Q., Xing, L., Ba, S., Chen, G., Tian, T., Chen, X., Jian, P. 1 Sep 2024, In: Renewable Energy
Visualisation study on water management of cathode dead-ended PEMFC under pressure-swing operation, Pei, H., Xing, L., Chen, J., Wang, B., Sun, L., Liu, Z. 1 Aug 2024, In: Progress in Natural Science: Materials International
A novel building heat pump system semi-supervised fault detection and diagnosis method under small and imbalanced data, Zhang, J., Xu, Y., Chen, H., Xing, L. 1 Aug 2023, In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

PGR Supervision

Joseph Thomas Start Date: 01/10/2022

PGR Supervision

Joseph Thomas Novel eco-designed proton exchange membrane materials for green hydrogen production Start Date: 01/10/2022

Qualifications

Mechanical Engineering PhD October 18 2014
Mechanical Engineering MSc December 08 2010
English BA July 06 2008
EnvironmentalEngineering BSc June 20 2008

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