Zhibin Yu

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Energy Engineering within the School of Engineering. I joined the School in September 2012 as a Lecturer, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017. Prior to this, I worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Manchester (2006–2011) and the University of Leicester (2011–2012). I received my BEng in Cryogenic and Refrigeration Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) in 2000 and my PhD in Thermal Engineering from Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. Part of my PhD project was carried out at the Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur, CNRS, France (2004–2005). I am a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Member of Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE), and also currently the Research Theme Coordinator for Heat Energy within the Energy Technology Partnership (ETP) of Scotland.

Research Interest

Renewable / low-carbon heating technologies Organic Rankine Cycle and Kalina Cycle power generation technologies Heat pump technologies Thermoacoustic generator, heat pump, refrigerator, and gas liquefier Combined cooling, heat and power (cogeneration and trigeneration) Energy storage technologies My research covers both the fundamental and applied aspects of these energy systems: Advanced modelling techniques for investigating their thermodynamic and fluid dynamic characteristics. Numerical simulation tools for their design and optimisation. Novel concepts for their applications. Experimental study of the complicated unsteady flows and heat transfer within such energy systems.