Xu Chao,

Professor, 

doctoral supervisor

TEL：010-61773934

E-mail：mechxu@ncepu.edu.cn

Educational experience:

1998 Bachelor degree in Engineering Thermophysics, Xi 'an Jiaotong University;

2004 PhD from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,

Work Experience:

2008-2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Connecticut, USA

Associate Professor, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences,

Since 2013, he has been a professor at North China Electric Power University.

Academic part-time:

At present, he is a member of the Youth Working Committee of the Heat and Mass Transfer Branch of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, a member of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Society of Renewable Energy, and a member of the National Solar thermal Power Generation Standardization Technical Committee. He is an associate editor of the SCI journals Science Bulletin and IET Renewable Power Generation. The editorial board members of SCI journal Energies and EI core journal Frontiers in Heat and Ass Transfer won the honor of outstanding Associate Editor of Science Bulletin in 2016.

Research direction:

Solar thermal utilization, heat storage, electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen, thermochemical to produce hydrogen

Main scientific research projects:

[1] The project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the relationship between the strengthening mechanism of the thermochemical heat storage performance of hydrated salt composite materials and the law of multi-scale heat and mass transfer, 2019-01 to 2022-12, 600,000 yuan

[2] Innovation Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Core Backbone), Energy Transfer Transformation and Efficient Power System, 2018-01 to 2023-12, 12 million yuan

[3] Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, ** Youth ** Project, 2018-01 to 2020-12, 1.7 million yuan

[4] Key research and development plan sub-project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, R&D and demonstration of 10MW advanced compressed air energy storage technology, 2017-07 to 2021-06, 1.01 million yuan

[5] National Natural Science Foundation of China ** project, multi-field coupled thermal mass transmission, 2016-01 to 2018-12, 1.5 million yuan

[6] Youth Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research on the Flow and Heat Exchange Process and Their Coupling Mechanism in the Mixed Heat Storage System of Molten Salt Oblique Thermolayer, 2012-01 to 2014-12, 260,000 yuan

[7] Chinese Academy of Sciences, Talent Project of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, 2012-01 to 2013-05, 200,000 yuan

[8] Ministry of Education, scientific research start-up fund for overseas returnees, research on heat transfer characteristics of molten salt oblique temperature layer mixed heat storage system using phase transformation to fill particles, 2012-06 to 2015-12, 30,000 yuan

[9] Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China 973 project, large-scale solar thermal power generation system integration and regulation strategy, 2010-01 to 2014-08, 6.03 million yuan

Paper:

2020

[1] Tieying Wang; Tianying Zhang; Guizhi Xu; Chao Xu*; Zhirong Liao; Feng Ye; A new low-cost high-temperature shape-stable phase change material based on coal fly ash and K2CO3, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2020, 206: 0-110328. (SCI)

[2] Feng Ye; Zhiming Wang; Chao Xu*; Mengdi Yuan; Peng Liu; Woochul Yang;Guicheng Liu*; Mechanism and kinetic study of pulse electrodeposition processof Pt/C catalysts for fuel cells, Renewable Energy, 2020, 145: 514-520. (SCI)

[3] Mostafa M. Abd El-Samie; Xing Ju*; Zheyang Zhang; Saad AbdueljabbarAdam; Xinyu Pan; Chao Xu; Three-dimensional numerical investigation of a hybridlow concentrated photovoltaic/thermal system, Energy, 2020, 190: 0-116436. (SCI)

2019

[4] Quan Wang; Yunyun Xie; Bo Ding; Guoliang Yu; Feng Ye; Chao Xu*; Structure and hydration state characterizations of MgSO4-zeolite 13x compositematerials for long-term thermochemical heat storage, Solar Energy Materialsand Solar Cells, 2019, 200: 0-110047. (SCI)

[5] Yuan, Mengdi; Ren, Yunxiu; Xu, Chao*; Ye, Feng; Du, Xiaoze; Characterization and stability study of a form-stable erythritol/expanded graphitecomposite phase change material for thermal energy storage, Renewable Energy,2019, 136: 211-222. (SCI)

[6] Han, Xue; Pan, Xinyu; Yang, Hao; Xu, Chao*; Ju, Xing; Du, Xiaoze; Dynamic output characteristics of a photovoltaic-wind-concentrating solar powerhybrid system integrating an electric heating device, Energy Conversion andManagement, 2019, 193: 86-98. (SCI)

[7] Ju, Xing; Pan, Xinyu; Zhang, Zheyang; Xu, Chao*; Wei, Gaosheng; Thermal and electrical performance of the dense-array concentrating photovoltaic(DA-CPV) system under non-uniform illumination, Applied Energy, 2019, 250:904-915. (SCI)

[8] Ren, Yunxiu; Li, Pengda; Yuan, Mengdi; Ye, Feng; Xu, Chao*; Liu,Zhijian; Effect of the fabrication process on the thermophysical properties ofCa(NO3)2–NaNO3/expanded graphite phase change material composites , SolarEnergy Materials and Solar Cells, 2019, 200: 0-110005. (SCI)