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Inter-room pollutant transmission routes in naturally ventilated street canyon buildings (2023)
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Mohammadi, M., Calautit, J. K., Owen, J. S., Gromke, C., Wu, Y., & Liu, H. (2023). Inter-room pollutant transmission routes in naturally ventilated street canyon buildings. Journal of Building Engineering, 79, Article 107510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.107510

Airborne transmission of pollutants is a significant concern in urban areas, especially since the recent pandemic. While previous studies have explored inter-room pollutant crossflow in highrise buildings and isolated scenarios, the ventilation chara... Read More about Inter-room pollutant transmission routes in naturally ventilated street canyon buildings.

Fluidised bed combustion and ash fusibility behaviour of coal and spent coffee grounds blends: CO and NOx emissions, combustion performance and agglomeration tendency (2022)
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Garcia, E., Mejía, M. F., & Liu, H. (2022). Fluidised bed combustion and ash fusibility behaviour of coal and spent coffee grounds blends: CO and NOx emissions, combustion performance and agglomeration tendency. Fuel, 326, Article 125008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2022.125008

The co-combustion of coal and waste biomass is an advantageous option for combined waste biomass disposal and energy production. However, co-firing coal with waste biomass has to overcome various ash-related operational problems, for example, ash agg... Read More about Fluidised bed combustion and ash fusibility behaviour of coal and spent coffee grounds blends: CO and NOx emissions, combustion performance and agglomeration tendency.

The effectiveness of patch repairs to restore the impact properties of carbon-fibre reinforced-plastic composites (2022)
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Hall, Z. E., Liu, J., Brooks, R. A., Liu, H., Crocker, J. W., Joesbury, A. M., …Dear, J. P. (2022). The effectiveness of patch repairs to restore the impact properties of carbon-fibre reinforced-plastic composites. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 270, Article 108570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2022.108570

The present paper studies the low-velocity impact testing of carbon-fibre reinforced-plastic (CFRP) pristine and patch-repair CFRP panels. Firstly, the effect of repeated impacts on the pristine CFRP damage growth is considered at impact energies of... Read More about The effectiveness of patch repairs to restore the impact properties of carbon-fibre reinforced-plastic composites.

Effectiveness of bed additives in abating agglomeration during biomass air/oxy combustion in a fluidised bed combustor (2021)
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Chi, H., Pans, M. A., Sun, C., & Liu, H. (2022). Effectiveness of bed additives in abating agglomeration during biomass air/oxy combustion in a fluidised bed combustor. Renewable Energy, 185, 945-958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.12.072

In this study, molochite (calcined kaolin) and dolomite with particle sizes (ca.1 mm) similar to those of the sand bed materials of industrial-scale fluidised beds, rather than powders which were normally used by previous studies, were investigated a... Read More about Effectiveness of bed additives in abating agglomeration during biomass air/oxy combustion in a fluidised bed combustor.

Ilmenite as alternative bed material for the combustion of coal and biomass blends in a fluidised bed combustor to improve combustion performance and reduce agglomeration tendency (2021)
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Garcia, E., & Liu, H. (2022). Ilmenite as alternative bed material for the combustion of coal and biomass blends in a fluidised bed combustor to improve combustion performance and reduce agglomeration tendency. Energy, 239, Article 121913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.121913

Co-firing coal and biomass has the potential to reduce GHG emissions. However, high levels of alkali and alkaline metals in biomass ash can bring additional issues to the operation of coal-fired boilers. This study investigates the effects of ilmenit... Read More about Ilmenite as alternative bed material for the combustion of coal and biomass blends in a fluidised bed combustor to improve combustion performance and reduce agglomeration tendency.

Coupling the biochemical and thermochemical biorefinery platforms to enhance energy and product recovery from Agave tequilana bagasse (2021)
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Rios-Del Toro, E. E., Chi, H., González-Álvarez, V., Méndez-Acosta, H. O., Arreola-Vargas, J., & Liu, H. (2021). Coupling the biochemical and thermochemical biorefinery platforms to enhance energy and product recovery from Agave tequilana bagasse. Applied Energy, 299, Article 117293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117293

The tequila industry is one of the pillar industries in many regions of Mexico, bringing wealth and economic development to rural areas. However, appropriate disposal and management of the tequila manufacturing residues such as the Agave tequilana ba... Read More about Coupling the biochemical and thermochemical biorefinery platforms to enhance energy and product recovery from Agave tequilana bagasse.

Numerical investigation of a smart window system with thermotropic parallel Slat-Transparent Insulation Material for building energy conservation and daylight autonomy (2021)
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Sun, Y., Wilson, R., Liu, H., & Wu, Y. (2021). Numerical investigation of a smart window system with thermotropic parallel Slat-Transparent Insulation Material for building energy conservation and daylight autonomy. Building and Environment, 203, Article 108048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108048

Smart window designs have emerged as a means of providing dynamic regulation of solar energy and daylight, enhancing indoor comfort, and achieving building energy conservation. We evaluated a novel window design that integrated a thermotropic (TT) ma... Read More about Numerical investigation of a smart window system with thermotropic parallel Slat-Transparent Insulation Material for building energy conservation and daylight autonomy.

Energy and daylight performance of a smart window: Window integrated with thermotropic parallel slat-transparent insulation material (2021)
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Sun, Y., Liu, X., Ming, Y., Liu, X., Mahon, D., Wilson, R., …Wu, Y. (2021). Energy and daylight performance of a smart window: Window integrated with thermotropic parallel slat-transparent insulation material. Applied Energy, 293, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116826

With the increasing awareness of building energy efficiency, indoor environment quality for human wellbeing and working efficiency, efforts have intensified in to inventing intelligent building components. This paper provides a first step in developi... Read More about Energy and daylight performance of a smart window: Window integrated with thermotropic parallel slat-transparent insulation material.

Improvement of slagging monitoring and soot-blowing of waterwall in a 650MWe coal-fired utility boiler (2021)
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Xu, L., Huang, Y., Yue, J., Dong, L., Liu, L., Zha, J., …Liu, H. (2021). Improvement of slagging monitoring and soot-blowing of waterwall in a 650MWe coal-fired utility boiler. Journal of the Energy Institute, 96, 106-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joei.2021.02.006

Owing to the lack of direct measurement on the slagging extent of the waterwall, random or empirical soot-blowing strategies practiced in many power plants can result in untimely or excessive soot-blowing operations. In this research, a dynamic slagg... Read More about Improvement of slagging monitoring and soot-blowing of waterwall in a 650MWe coal-fired utility boiler.

Experimental investigations on the chlorine-induced corrosion of HVOF thermal sprayed Stellite-6 and NiAl coatings with fluidised bed biomass/anthracite combustion systems (2020)
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Chi, H., Pans, M. A., Bai, M., Sun, C., Hussain, T., Sun, W., …Liu, H. (2021). Experimental investigations on the chlorine-induced corrosion of HVOF thermal sprayed Stellite-6 and NiAl coatings with fluidised bed biomass/anthracite combustion systems. Fuel, 288, Article 119607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2020.119607

Stellite-6 (Co-based) and NiAl coatings (Ni-based) were deposited via HVOF spraying onto 304 stainless steels and tested in a 20 kWth biomass fired bubbling fluidised bed (BFB) combustor for 20 hours and an industrial scale anthracite fired CFB boile... Read More about Experimental investigations on the chlorine-induced corrosion of HVOF thermal sprayed Stellite-6 and NiAl coatings with fluidised bed biomass/anthracite combustion systems.

Characterisation of the combustion behaviours of individual pulverised coal particles entrained by air using image processing techniques (2020)
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Qian, X., Li, F., Yan, Y., Lu, G., & Liu, H. (2021). Characterisation of the combustion behaviours of individual pulverised coal particles entrained by air using image processing techniques. Measurement Science and Technology, 32(3), Article 034005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/abc2ea

The combustion characteristics of individual coal particles are the basis for a deep understanding of the macroscopic pulverised coal combustion in power plant boilers. This work proposes a quantitative method to characterise the combustion behaviour... Read More about Characterisation of the combustion behaviours of individual pulverised coal particles entrained by air using image processing techniques.

Performance of a silica-polyethyleneimine adsorbent for post-combustion CO2 capture on a 100 kg scale in a fluidized bed continuous unit (2020)
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Kim, J. Y., Woo, J. M., Jo, S. H., Kim, H., Lee, S. Y., Yi, C. K., …Park, Y. C. (2020). Performance of a silica-polyethyleneimine adsorbent for post-combustion CO2 capture on a 100 kg scale in a fluidized bed continuous unit. Chemical Engineering Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.127209

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Polyethyleneimine (PEI)/silica adsorbents have been considered as a promising candidate for post-combustion CO2 capture, but the limited process study has been performed on a pilot-scale unit. Herein we report the 150 h continuou... Read More about Performance of a silica-polyethyleneimine adsorbent for post-combustion CO2 capture on a 100 kg scale in a fluidized bed continuous unit.

Oxy-coal combustion in a 30kWth pressurized fluidized bed: Effect of combustion pressure on combustion performance, pollutant emissions and desulfurization (2020)
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Pang, L., Shao, Y., Zhong, W., & Liu, H. (2020). Oxy-coal combustion in a 30kWth pressurized fluidized bed: Effect of combustion pressure on combustion performance, pollutant emissions and desulfurization. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2020.06.346

Oxy-coal combustion with pressurized fluidized beds has recently emerged as a promising carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology for coal-fired power plants. Although a large number of energy efficiency analyses have shown that an increase in comb... Read More about Oxy-coal combustion in a 30kWth pressurized fluidized bed: Effect of combustion pressure on combustion performance, pollutant emissions and desulfurization.

Cyclic performance evaluation of a polyethylenimine/silica adsorbent with steam regeneration using simulated NGCC flue gas and actual flue gas of a gas-fired boiler in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor (2020)
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Zhang, W., Sun, C., Snape, C. E., Sun, X., & Liu, H. (2020). Cyclic performance evaluation of a polyethylenimine/silica adsorbent with steam regeneration using simulated NGCC flue gas and actual flue gas of a gas-fired boiler in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 95, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2020.102975

To accelerate the deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) based on the solid amine adsorbents towards a practical scale application relevant to Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) power plants, this study has evaluated the cyclic performance of... Read More about Cyclic performance evaluation of a polyethylenimine/silica adsorbent with steam regeneration using simulated NGCC flue gas and actual flue gas of a gas-fired boiler in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor.

Experimental study of SO2 emissions and desulfurization of oxy-coal combustion in a 30 kWth pressurized fluidized bed combustor (2019)
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Pang, L., Shao, Y., Zhong, W., & Liu, H. (2020). Experimental study of SO2 emissions and desulfurization of oxy-coal combustion in a 30 kWth pressurized fluidized bed combustor. Fuel, 264, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.116795

Pressurized oxy-fuel combustion (POFC) has attracted wide attention due to its potentials of high efficiency and low cost in CO2 capture. Compared with numerical simulation and system analysis, there are few experimental studies about POFC. In order... Read More about Experimental study of SO2 emissions and desulfurization of oxy-coal combustion in a 30 kWth pressurized fluidized bed combustor.

Experimental study of NOx emissions in a 30 kWth pressurized oxy-coal fluidized bed combustor (2019)
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Pang, L., Shao, Y., Zhong, W., Gong, Z., & Liu, H. (2020). Experimental study of NOx emissions in a 30 kWth pressurized oxy-coal fluidized bed combustor. Energy, 194, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.116756

© 2019 As one of the most promising carbon capture technologies for coal-fired power plants, oxy-coal combustion has attracted wide interests during the last two decades. In comparison to atmospheric oxy-fuel combustion, pressurized oxy-fuel combusti... Read More about Experimental study of NOx emissions in a 30 kWth pressurized oxy-coal fluidized bed combustor.

Mesocellular silica foam supported polyamine adsorbents for dry CO2 scrubbing: Performance of single versus blended polyamines for impregnation (2019)
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Liu, X., Zhou, K., Farndon, M., Meier, E., Stevens, L., Liu, H., & Sun, C. (2019). Mesocellular silica foam supported polyamine adsorbents for dry CO2 scrubbing: Performance of single versus blended polyamines for impregnation. Applied Energy, 255, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113643

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Siliceous foams with three-dimensional mesoporous structures were synthesised and used to prepare polyethyleneimine (PEI) and tetraethylenepentamine (TEPA)-functionalised sorbent materials for CO2 capture, with a particular focus... Read More about Mesocellular silica foam supported polyamine adsorbents for dry CO2 scrubbing: Performance of single versus blended polyamines for impregnation.

Assessment of biomass energy potential for SRC willow woodchips in a pilot scale bubbling fluidized bed gasifier (2019)
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Ul Hai, I., Sher, F., Yaqoob, A., & Liu, H. (2019). Assessment of biomass energy potential for SRC willow woodchips in a pilot scale bubbling fluidized bed gasifier. Fuel, 258, Article 116143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.116143

The current study investigates the short rotation coppice (SRC) gasification in a bubbling fluidized bed gasifier (BFBG) with air as gasifying medium. The thermochemical processes during combustion were studied to get better control over the air gasi... Read More about Assessment of biomass energy potential for SRC willow woodchips in a pilot scale bubbling fluidized bed gasifier.

Experimental investigation of tar arresting techniques and their evaluation for product syngas cleaning from bubbling fluidized bed gasifier (2019)
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Hai, I. U., Sher, F., Zarren, G., & Liu, H. (2019). Experimental investigation of tar arresting techniques and their evaluation for product syngas cleaning from bubbling fluidized bed gasifier. Journal of Cleaner Production, 240, Article 118239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118239

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Hazardous waste products along with the syngas produced from biomass gasification are one of the major problems of today world. Tar and other solid contaminants removal from syngas are necessary as it is widely used for the produc... Read More about Experimental investigation of tar arresting techniques and their evaluation for product syngas cleaning from bubbling fluidized bed gasifier.