Tu, Xin - University of Liverpool - Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics

个人简介

Dr. Xin Tu received PhD in Physics from CORIA CNRS UMR 6614 (Université de Rouen), France and PhD in Thermal Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 2007. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, from 2008 to 2009. In September 2009, he joined the University of Manchester (UK), working as a Postdoc Research Associate in the School of Chemistry. He was appointed as a Lecturer in technological plasmas in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool in 2012, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015 and Reader in 2017.

研究领域

Dr. Tu has been working for many years on interdisciplinary research at the interface of plasma science and chemical engineering directed towards environmental clean-up, fuel production, chemical synthesis, waste treatment, energy conversion and storage. His research has been largely focused on the development, deployment, characterisation, simulation and optimisation of novel atmospheric pressure plasma systems and processes for gas cleaning, greenhouse gas and hydrocarbon conversion, ammonia synthesis, waste-to-energy, nuclear waste treatment and synthesis of carbon nanomaterials and novel catalysts. Significant efforts have been devoted to plasma-catalysis where the combination of non-thermal plasma and catalysis has been used as a promising low temperature process for the oxidation of gas pollutants (e.g. VOCs and PAHs) in high volume waste gas streams and for the conversion of carbon resources (e.g. CH4, CO2, tars from biomass gasification and heavy oils) into value-added fuels and chemicals such as hydrogen, olefins, liquid fuels and chemicals and carbon nanomaterials.

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L. Wang, Y. Yi, H. Guo, X. Tu*, Atmospheric pressure and room temperature synthesis of methanol through plasma-catalytic hydrogenation of CO2, ACS Catalysis, 2018, 8, 90-100. Y. X. Zeng, L. Wang, C. F. Wu, J. Q. Wang, B. X. Shen, X. Tu*, Low temperature reforming of biogas over K-, Mg- and Ce-promoted Ni/Al2O3 catalysts for the production of hydrogen rich syngas: Understanding plasma-catalytic synergy, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2018, 224, 469-478. L. Wang, Y. Yi, C. Wu, H. Guo, X. Tu*, One-step reforming of CO2 and CH4 to high-value liquid chemicals and fuels at room temperature by plasma-driven catalysis, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017, 56, 13679-13683. X. Zhu, S. Zhang, Y. Yang, C. Zheng, J. Zhou, X. Gao, X. Tu*, Enhanced performance for plasma-catalytic oxidation of ethyl acetate over La1-xCexCoO3+δ catalysts, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2017, 213, 97-105. S. Liu, D. Mei, L. Wang, X. Tu*, Steam reforming of toluene as biomass tar model compound in a gliding arc discharge reactor, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017, 307, 793-802. L. Wang, S. Y. Liu, C. Xu, X. Tu*, Direct conversion of methanol to n-C4H10 and H2 in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor, Green Chemistry, 2016, 18, 5658-5666. D. Mei, X. Zhu, C. Wu, B. Ashford, P. T. Williams, X. Tu*, Plasma-photocatalytic conversion of CO2 at low temperatures: Understanding the synergistic effect of plasma-catalysis, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2016, 182, 525-532. X. Zhu, S. Liu, X. Gao, C. Zheng, X. Tu*, Post-plasma catalytic removal of methanol over Mn-Ce catalysts in an atmospheric dielectric barrier discharge, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2016, 183, 124-132. X. Zhu, X. Gao, R. Qin, R. Qu, C. Zheng, X. Tu*, Plasma-catalytic removal of formaldehyde over Cu-Ce catalysts in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2015, 170-171, 293-300. X. Tu, J. C. Whitehead, Plasma-catalytic dry reforming of methane in an atmospheric dielectric barrier discharge: understanding the synergistic effect at low temperature, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2012, 125, 439-448.