Wenbin Zhang
Senior Lecturer
ADMEC at NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
Nottingham, United Kingdom
My organisation
ADMEC at NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
ADMEC at NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
Higher Education (HES)
Nottingham, United Kingdom
About me
Research areas
Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization (CCUS):
‐ Integration of CCUS with power/industrial sectors
‐ Mineralization based CCUS technology
‐ Negative carbon emission technologies such as Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) and Direct Air Capture (DAC)
‐ Solid adsorbents in fluidized bed reactors
Industrial Decarbonization:
‐ Integration of Carbon Capture and Utilization for deep decarbonization
‐ Alternative low carbon energy fuels (Bioenergy, Hydrogen, ammonia)
‐ Improvement in process energy efficiency (Novel Heat Pumps; Waste Heat Recovery and Combined Heat & Power)
‐ Integration of thermal energy storag
Bioenergy Production and Utilization:
‐ Hydrogen production from biomass, industrial and agricultural wastes
‐ High value‐added carbon materials via carbonization and activation
‐ Advanced gasification/combustion technologies utilizing biomass
Computational simulation:
‐ Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
‐ Discrete Element Method (DEM) in multiphase particulate systems
‐ Process simulation of overall thermal efficiency
‐ AI driven smart energy technologies
Interests
- CCUS, bioenergy
- Industrial Decarbonization