Biography

Prof. Lei Xing finished the EPSRC funded program and got his PhD degree at Newcastle University in the UK in 2014, supervised by Prof. Keith Scott in the school of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials. The title of his PhD thesis was “Modelling and simulation of the laboratory low temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell and direct methanol fuel cell”. After that, he was employed as a postdoc research fellow at University of Birmingham between Oct. 2014 to Sep. 2016, involved in a TSB project and collaborated with P&G. His work was to develop a novel coating process using water soluble materials to improve the physical and chemical stability, as well as the controlled release, of soft and cohesive powder. Before he came to the UK, he spent 3 years between Sep. 2005 to Jul. 2008 for his MEng degree in Taiyuan University of Technology in China, supervised by Prof.Yanping Sun and accomplished the thesis entitled “Modelling the macro-kinetics of methanol oxidation in a porous Pt-Ru anode of DMFCs”. Between Sep. 2008 to Jul. 2010, he was a lecturer in Inner Mongolia University of Technology, delivered two courses at the undergraduate level. On July 2016, Lei Xing joined Jiangsu University as a professor, working at Institute of Green Chemistry and Chemical Technology.

Fields of research:proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, CO₂ capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), photocatalysis, data-driven machine learning, numerical modelling.

Granted Projects:

1. Mechanisms of construction and regulation of the triple-phase boundaries and the functional graded design of the porous electrodes of PEM fuel cells. No. 21978118, National Natural Science Foundation of China.

2. Multi-scale modelling of carbon-based porous electrode of PEM fuel cells. No. BK20170530, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China.

Location:Room 418, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University

Email: xinglei@ujs.edu.cn

Main Publications:

1. Lei. Xing*, Y. Xu, Z. Penga, Q. Xu, H. Su, W. Shi*, F. Barbir. A novel flow field with controllable pressure gradient to enhance mass transport and water removal of PEM fuel cells. AIChE Journal, 2020, e16957

2. Lei Xing*, W. Shi*, P.K. Das, Q. Xu, H. Su, K. Scott*. Membrane electrode assemblies for PEM fuel cells: A review on functional graded design and optimization. Energy, 2019, 177: 445-464.

3. Lei Xing, Y. Xu, P.K. Das, B. Mao, Q. Xu, H. Su, W. Shi*. Numerical matching of anisotropic transport processes in porous electrodes of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Chemical Engineering Science, 2019, 195: 127-140.

4. Lei Xing, Y. Li, T. Li*. Local concentrating, not shear stress, that may lead to possible instability of protein molecules during syringe injection: a fluid dynamic study with two-phase flow model. PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, 2019, 73: 260-275.

5. Lei Xing*, Y. Wang, P.K. Das, K. Scott, W. Shi*. Homogenization of current density of PEM fuel cells by in-plane graded distributions of platinum loading and GDL porosity. Chemical Engineering Science, 2018, 192: 699-713.

6. Lei Xing*. An agglomerate model for PEM fuel cells operated with non-precious carbon-based ORR catalysts. Chemical Engineering Science, 2018, 179: 198-213.

7. Lei Xing*, P. K. Das, K. Scott, W. Shi*. Inhomogeneous spatial distribution of platinum and ionomer in porous electrode to maximize the performance of a PEM fuel cell. AIChE Journal, 2017, 63: 4895-4910.

8. Lei Xing, B. Zhuo, S. Bakalis, J. Castro, Z. Zhang*. Coating of sodium percarbonateparticels using water soluble materials in a fluidized bed to achieve delayed release in aqueous environment. Cogent Engineering, 2017, 4: 1372730.

9. Lei Xing*, Q. Cai, X. Liu, C. Liu*, K. Scott, Y. Yan. Anode partial flooding modelling of proton exchange membrane fuel cells: optimisation of electrode properties and channel geometries. Chemical Engineering Science, 2016, 146: 88-103.

10. Lei Xing*, S. Du, R. Chen, M. Mamlouk, K. Scott. Anode partial flooding modelling of proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Model development and validation. Energy, 2016, 96: 80-95.

11. Lei Xing*, Q. Cai, C. Xu, C. Liu*, K. Scott, Y. Yan. Numerical study of the effect of relative humidity and stoichiometric flow ratio on PEM fuel cell performance with various channel lengths: An anode partial flooding modelling. Energy, 2016, 106: 631-645.

12. Lei Xing, P. K. Das, X. Song*, M. Mamlouk, K. Scott. Numerical analysis of the optimum membrane/ionomer water content of PEMFCs: The interaction of Nafion^Ò ionomer content and cathode relative humidity. Applied Energy, 2015, 138: 242-257.

Information of postgraduate supervision:

MSc: Xin Gao, Yuanxiang Xu, Gaojian Chen