Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities 

Director of Postgraduate Studies, Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability

Faculty Graduate School Committee  

Qualifications

PhD in Mechanical Engineering

MSc in Mechanical Engineering

Certificate Management in Higher Education

Postgraduate Diploma in Mechanical Engineering

BSc (First Class) in Mechanical Engineering 

Memberships

Chartered Engineer (CEng), Member of The Institute of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE)

Elective Member of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (2002 - 2004) 

Honours and Awards

University fully-funded PhD Scholarship (07/2000 - 02/2004, Staffordshire University)
Royal Academy of Engineering International Travel Grant for attending International Conference on Cryogenics & Refrigeration (2003)
Royal Academy of Engineering International Travel Grant for attending ASME Internal Combustion Engine 2005 Conference
Guest Professor, Guangxi University of Technology (2004 – 2006)
Guest Professor, Guangxi University (2006 – 2010)  

Postgraduate Teaching

SPG8095 Renewable Energy: Resources   (Module Leader, 10 Credits)

MAR8101 Advanced Marine Engineering Design ( 10 Credits)

SPG8095 Renewable Energy: Masters Projects' supervision (60 Credits):

 Projects supervised/supervising

Renewable/Sustainable energy system design and evaluation

• Study of a hybrid wind turbine and solar PV power system for remote telecommunication facility application
• Study of a Hybrid Wind-Diesel Electricity Power Plant for an Island Application - Case Study : Nangalili West Flores
• Analysis of current power generation system and proposal for novel optimised renewable energy generation system on the Isle of Eigg
• Investigating the integration of micro-generation sources into a MicroGrid system for remote area application
• Study of Hybrid Energy System in Redang Island 
• Study of a renewable hybrid system for household energy supply
• Study of a combined system of Trigeneration with desalination

Experimental study on renewable fuels for engine generator, cogeneration/trigeneration to reduce emissions

• Studies on Usage of Straight Vegetable oils as fuel for diesel engines
• Experimental study of Trigeneration using sunflower oil
• Experimental study of Trigeneration using rapeseed oil
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• Experimental Study on the Performance and Emission Characteristics of Diesel Engine Based Small Scale CHP system running on Jatropha Oil and diesel *
• Studies on Cogeneration system using waste vegetable oil for diesel engines *
• Experimental Study on the Performance and Emission Characteristics of a Diesel Engine Based Small-Scale CHP system running on Sunflower Oil and diesel *
• Experimental Study on the Performance and Emission Characteristics of a Diesel Engine Based Small-Scale CHP system running on waste cooking oil and diesel *

* These 4 Reflex MSc students’ projects were parts of the Newcastle City and North East waste oil CHP project with CoRE (a social enterprise in the North East) in Alnwick, Northumberland, which was visited by the Energy and Climate Change minister, Joan Ruddock MP, in the summer of 2009. This project was awarded a £20,000 grant under the Big Green Challenge.

Waste to energy

• An Experimental Study for the Application of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) to Cement Industry
• A study of the utilisation of the bio-wastes to generate biogas to meet the energy demand in the production process of potato crisps
• A study of biogas production from the local bio-wastes and its application to  a combined heat and power system

 Hydrogen generation and application

• Hydrogen Production Using Excess Power from Temburong Hydroelectric Power Station
• An computational study of the use of hydrogen as the fuel to a diesel engine based CHP & Trigeneration

Biomass / solar energy

• A study of biogas production and its application to energy systems
• Design and evaluation of a solar organic Rankine Cycle power plant in Lembata Island
• Biomass gasification integrated with a household trigeneration

Modelling of energy system and power generation

• Study of the Performance and Efficiency of a Trigeneration Based on a Diesel Generator Using Thermodynamic Modelling
• Study of the performance and efficiency of a CHP system based on bio-fuel using thermodynamic modelling
• A study of waste heat from thermal power plant fuelled with fossil fuel oil and renewable nyamplung oil (Calophyllum Inophyllum L) to drive absorption chillers for cooling in East Kalimantan
• Modelling and assessment of electrical energy storage system and the integration with fuel cell system
• Modelling and Assessment of the Application of a Biofuel Trigeneration System to a Three-bedroom House in the UK

Industrial – energy related projects

• NaREC - Wind turbine drive-train test stand heat recovery system design
• Investigation of household electricity consumption in the UK
• Application Study of a Tri-generation System in a Restaurant Fuelled with Waste Cooking Oil and bio-diesel converted from waste Cooling Oil
• Design and analysis of an anaerobic digester to feed a biogs fuelled boiler for a medium sized industrial enterprise
• Energy usage investigation and evaluation of a Brewery
• Design & Analysis of a Biogas Fuelled Trigeneration System for a Brewery
• Integrated study of energy consumption and optimisation in a brewery
• Energy Reduction & Renewable Opportunities for the Newcastle University Kings Gate Building
• Experimental study of an energy storage system for bio-oil trigeneration
• An application study of CHP/trigeneration in a food process industry

Research Interests

Distributed renewable energy systems

Distributed combined heat and power(CHP)/Trigeneration

Low grade heat driven absorption refrigeration

Low grade heat driven cogeneration of power and cooling

Coal/Biomass power plant simulation and evaluation

Biomass/waste to energy

Biogas energy system

Vegetable oil application to diesel engines and CHP

Ethanol/methanol application to petrol engines

Ethanol application to diesel engine

Miller cycle application to reduce NOx emissions from petrol engines

Miller cycle application to reduce NOx emissions from diesel engines

Flameless oxidation to reduce NOx emissions from power plant/gas turbine

Funding and current research projects

1. LH Cogen: Low grade heat driven adsorption-linear-expander cycle for cogeneration of power and refrigeration (EPSRC funded, Principal Investigator, 2011 – 2013)

2. Research into Oxygen Enrichment Systems for Micro-CHP Boiler Units (EU ERDF funded, Principal Investigator, 2010 – 2011)

3. Adsor-Resor Cycle for power and cooling generation (EU Marie Currie Fellowship project, co-investigator,  2010 – 2011)

4. BMT-CES: Biofuel Micro-Trigeneration with Cryogenic Energy Storage (EPSRC funded, co-investigator,  EP/F061978/1, 6 universities involved, 2008 – 2011 ).

5. Thermal Management of Industrial Processes (EPSRC funded, co-investigator,  2009 - 2011)

6. CHP Trigeneration and Energy Storage (EU ERDF funded, co-investigator, 2009 – 2012). 

Postgraduate Supervision

Bio-oil micro-trigeneration system based on diesel generator

Electical energy storage  system for distributed generation

Modelling, prediction and control of the performance and efficiency of a trigeneration system

Low grade heat driven cogeneration of power and refrigeration

Energy consumption prediction & control with distributed renewable cogeneration system for buildings

Solar heat driven cogeneration of power and refrigeration using Organic Rankine Cycle

Esteem Indicators

1. Guest Editor of Special Issue on Thermal Energy Management, Applied Energy.
2. Invited as the reviewers to review papers/articles for a number of international journals including:
      Fuel
      Applied Energy
      Applied Thermal Engineering
      Fuel Processing Technology
      International Journal of Thermal Sciences
      Energy & Fuels
      International Journal of Energy Research
      Energy Conversion and Management
      Chemical Engineering Research and Design
3. Invited by EPSRC to review proposal

Previous research projects 

Projects

• Biofuel Micro-Trigeneration with Cryogenic Energy Storage
  Project Leader(s): Professor Tony Roskilly
• Hydrogen fuelled engines
• Miller Cycle Engines
• The reciprocating Joule cycle engine
  Project Leader(s): Professor Tony Roskilly
• Thermal Management in the Process Industries

• Wang YD, Huang Y, Chiremba E, Roskilly AP, Hewitt N, Ding YL, Wu DW, Yu HD, Chen XP, Li YP, Huang JC, Wang RZ, Wu JY, Xia ZZ, Tan CQ. An investigation of a household size trigeneration running with hydrogen. Applied Energy 2011, 88(6), 2176-2182.
• Wang Y, Huang Y, Roskilly AP. Trigeneration integrated with absorption enhanced reforming of lignite and biomass. Fuel 2009, 88(10), 2004-2010.
• Huang JC, Wang YD, Li SD, Roskilly AP, Yu HD, Li HF. Experimental investigation on the performance and emissions of a diesel engine fuelled with ethanol-diesel blends. Applied Thermal Engineering 2009, 29(11-12), 2484-2490.
• Wang Y, Lin L, Zeng S, Huang J, Roskilly AP, He Y, Huang X, Li S. Application of the Miller cycle to reduce NOx emissions from petrol engines. Applied Energy 2008, 85(6), 463-474.
• Wang YD, Huang Y, Roskilly AP, Ding YL, Hewitt N. Trigeneration running with raw jatropha oil. Fuel Processing Technology 2010, 91(3), 348-353.
• Roskilly AP, Nanda SK, Wang YD, Chirkowski J. The performance and the gaseous emissions of two small marine craft diesel engines fuelled with biodiesel. Applied Thermal Engineering 2008, 28(8-9), 872-880.
• Huang JC, Lin L, Wang YD, Qin JB, Roskilly AP, Li LL, Ouyang TC, Yu YH. Experimental study of the performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine using direct and indirect injection systems and different fuels. Fuel Processing Technology 2011, 92(7), 1380-1386.
• Huang Y, Wang YD, Rezvani S, McIlveen-Wright DR, Anderson M, Hewitt NJ. Biomass fuelled trigeneration system in selected buildings. Energy Conversion and Management 2011, 52(6), 2448-2454.
• Huang JC, Wang YD, Qin JB, Roskilly AP. Comparative study of performance and emissions of a diesel engine using Chinese pistache and jatropha biodiesel. Fuel Processing Technology 2010,91 11 1761-1767.
• Mikalsen R, Wang YD, Roskilly AP. A comparison of Miller and Otto cycle natural gas engines for small scale CHP applications. Applied Energy 2009, 86(6), 922-927.
• McIlveen-Wright DR, Huang Y, Rezvani S, Wang YD. A technical and environmental analysis of co-combustion of coal and biomass in fluidised bed technologies. Fuel 2007, 86(14), 2032-2042.
• Rezvani S, Huang Y, McIlveen-Wright D, Hewitt N, Wang YD. Comparative assessment of sub-critical versus advanced super-critical oxyfuel fired PF boilers with CO₂ sequestration facilities. Fuel 2007, 86(14), 2134-2143.
• Wang Y, Lin L, Roskilly AP, Zeng S, Huang J, He Y, Huang X, Huang H, Wei H, Li S, Yang J. An analytic study of applying Miller cycle to reduce NOx emission from petrol engine. Applied Thermal Engineering 2007, 27(11-12), 1779-1789.
• Wang YD, McIlveen-Wright D, Huang Y, Hewitt N, Eames P, Rezvani S, McMullan J, Roskilly AP. The application of FLOX/COSTAIR technologies to reduce NOx emissions from coal/biomass fired power plant: A technical assessment based on computational simulation. Fuel 2007, 86(14), 2101-2108.
• Wang YD, Huang Y, McIlveen-Wright D, McMullan J, Hewitt N, Eames P, Rezvani S. A techno-economic analysis of the application of continuous staged-combustion and flameless oxidation to the combustor design in gas turbines. Fuel Processing Technology 2006, 87(8), 727-736.
• Wang YD, Huang Y, McMullan J, Hewitt N, Eames P, McIlveen-Wright D, Rezvani S. Absorption enhanced reforming of lignite integrated with molten carbonate fuel cell. Fuel 2006, 85(14-15), 2133-2140.
• Wang YD, Al-Shemmeri T, Eames P, McMullan J, Hewitt N, Huang Y, Rezvani S. An experimental investigation of the performance and gaseous exhaust emissions of a diesel engine using blends of a vegetable oil. Applied Thermal Engineering 2006, 26(14-15), 1684-1691.
• Lin L, Wang YD, Al-Shemmeri T, Zeng S, Huang J, He Y, Huang X, Li S, Yang J. Characteristics of a diffusion absorption refrigerator driven by the waste heat from engine exhaust. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering 2006, 220(3), 139-149.
• Huang Y, McIlveen-Wright D, Rezvani S, Wang YD, Hewitt N, Williams BC. Biomass co-firing in a pressurized fluidized bed combustion (PFBC) combined cycle power plant: A techno-environmental assessment based on computational simulations. Fuel Processing Technology 2006, 87(10), 927-934.
• Wang YD, Zeng S, Huang J, He Y, Huang X, Lin L, Li S. Experimental investigation of applying Miller cycle to reduce NOx emission from diesel engine. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy 2005, 219(8), 631-638.
• Wang Y, Roskilly AP, Huang Y. Trigeneration Integrated with Absorption Enhanced Reforming of Lignite and Biomass. In: 7th European Conference on Coal Research & Its Applications. 2008, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
• Wang YD, McIlveen-Wright D, Huang Y, Rezvani S, Hewitt N, Eames P, McMullan J. An Investigation of a Sustainable Biomass Fuelled Household Size Trigeneration. In: 2nd International Conference of Renewable Energy in Maritime Island Climates (REMIC 2).2006,Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
• Wang YD, Ruxton T. An Experimental Investigation of NOx Emission Reduction from Automotive Engine using the Miller Cycle. In: Fall Technical Conference of the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division. 2004, Long Beach, California, USA: ASME.
• Al-Shemmeri T, Wang YD. A Computational model of Ammonia-water Absorption Refrigeration System. In: International Conference on Cryogenics & Refrigeration. 2003, Hangzhou, China.
• Wang YD, Al-Shemmeri T. A Theoretical and an Experimental Investigation of A Small Scale Trigeneration System: A comparison between trigeneration and separate generation systems. In: Proceedings of the Fall Technical Conference of ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division. 2003, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA: ASME.
• Al-Shemmeri T, Wang YD. Theoretical Investigation and Parametric Study of A Diffusion Absorption Refrigeration System. In: International Congress of Refrigeration. 2003, Washington DC, USA.
• Al-Shemmeri T, Wang YD. Engine Exhaust heat utilisation - A Diesel Generator-set based Trigeneration. In: International Conference Proceedings on Marine Science and Technology and Sustainability (ENSUS). 2002, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• Roskilly AP, Wang Y. Special issue: Sustainable thermal energy management in the process industries conference (SusTEM2010). Applied Energy 2012, 89(1), 1-2.
• Sturm B, Butcher M, Wang YD, Huang Y, Roskilly AP. The feasibility of the sustainable energy supply from bio wastes for a small brewery - A case study. Applied Thermal Engineering 2012, 39, 45-52.