Fan, Xiaolei - University of Manchester - School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science

个人简介

Xiaolei received his bachelor's degree (BEng) in Environmental Engineering from Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, China in 2003. In 2006, he obtained the master’s degree (MRes) in Chemical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). At EUST, he focused on investigating the coal gasification kinetics and developing kinetic models for designing coal gasification reactors. In September 2006, Xiaolei joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Bath as a PhD candidate, funded by ORSAS and University of Bath. During his PhD projects, Xiaolei worked with Prof. Alexei A. Lapkin and Dr.Pawel K. Plucinski to design structured multifunctional reactors and novel carbon-based catalysts for continuous-flow heterogeneous catalysis. After his PhD, from May 2010 to September 2013, Xiaolei worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Engineering at University of Warwick and then in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at University of Cambridge. During this period, He was contracted by EC FP7 projects with Prof. Alexei. A. Lapkin as project supervisor and focused on developing nanomaterial-based catalysts and multi-scale modeling of catalytic multiphase reactions in structured reactors. In October 2013, Xiaolei joined The University of Manchester as the Lecturer in Chemical Engineering in the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science.

研究领域

I am an interdisciplinary chemical engineer with general research interests in catalysis, porous materials, chemical reaction engineering and structured reactors/catalysts. Current research projects in my group include (i) engineering microporous materials (MOFs) for carbon dioxide capture, (ii) hierarchical catalytic structures based on open-cell SiC foams for water treatment, (iii) bimetallic nano-structures for catalytic upgrading of bio-oils, (iv) mechanistic kinetic modelling of catalytic reactions and (v) catalysts based on MOFs and polymers.

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Ou, X., Xu, S., Wamett, J., Holmes, S., Zaheer, A., Garforth, A., ... Fan, X. (2017). Creating hierarchies promptly: microwave-accelerated synthesis of ZSM-5 zeolites on macrocellular silicon carbide (SiC) foams. Chemical Engineering Journal, 312, 1-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2016.11.116. Publication link: ed9c8a85-006f-420d-8808-da5c07d00ed1 Asuquo, E., Martin, A., Nzerem, P., Siperstein, F., & Fan, X. (2017). Adsorption of Cd(II) and Pb(II) ions from aqueous solutions using mesoporous activated carbon adsorbent: Equilibrium, kinetics and characterisation studies. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 5, 679-698. DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2016.12.043. Publication link: 20c2eb22-12bb-49a7-aa38-5d4bfa674c7a Ou, X., Zhang, X., Lowe, T., Blanc, R., Norouzi Rad, M., Wang, Y., ... Fan, X. (2017). X-ray micro computed tomography characterization of cellular SiC foams for their applications in chemical engineering. Materials Characterization, 123 , 20-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2016.11.013. Publication link: 157f57ea-a244-47b0-a53f-7365157f9fec Al-Janabi, N., Deng, H., Borges, J., Liu, X., Garforth, A., Siperstein, F., & Fan, X. (2016). A facile post-synthetic modification method to improve hydrothermal stability and CO2 selectivity of CuBTC metal-organic framework. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.5b04217. Publication link: 75afb2b0-7b5b-4d86-bfef-7c3405cca884 Fan, X., Sans, V., Sharma, S., Plucinski, P., Zaikovskii, V. A., Wilson, K., ... Lapkin, A. A. (2016). Pd/C catalysts based on synthetic carbons with bi- and tri-modal pore-size distribution: applications in flow chemistry. Catalysis Science & Technology, 6, 2387-2395. DOI: 10.1039/C5CY01401H. Publication link: 5ac08cb4-ba0f-4f77-9b12-a2598bd036b1 Fan, X., Ou, X., Xing, F., Turley, G. A., Denissenko, P., Williams, M. A., ... Lapkin, A. A. (2016). Microtomography-based numerical simulations of heat transfer and fluid flow through β-SiC open-cell foams for catalysis. Catalysis Today, 278(2), 350. DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2015.12.012. Publication link: 91c8e341-d97d-4e69-a87a-5ff4571ed85a Hester, P., Xu, S., Liang, W., Al-Janabi, N., Vakili, R., Hill, P., ... Fan, X. (2016). On thermal stability and catalytic reactivity of Zr-metal-organic framework (UiO-67) encapsulated Pt catalysts. Journal of Catalysis, 340, 85-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2016.05.003. Publication link: 9dc76ca6-878b-4dae-aaa8-a4947f4ebee6 Al-Janabi, N., Alfutimie, A., Siperstein, F., & Fan, X. (2016). Underlying mechanism of the hydrothermal instability of Cu3(BTC)2 metal-organic framework. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 10(1), 103-107. DOI: 10.1007/s11705-015-1552-0. Publication link: b9efa5e0-1ef9-4a90-8a64-2fc7f65259d9 Al-Janabi, N., Fan, X., & Siperstein, F. (2016). Assessment of MOF’s Quality: Quantifying Defects Content in Crystalline Porous Materials. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 7(8), 1490-1494. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00297. Publication link: d28dea8c-bd61-4d8b-96a1-235c09b2eff9