WANG Xiaohan is currently the Director, Professor and Doctoral supervisor of the Combustion and Thermo-fluid Research Group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Energy Research Institute, a member of the Professional Committee of Combustion Credits of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, the executive director of the Ceramic Branch of the Chinese Silicate Society and deputy director of the Professional Committee of Kiln Thermal Engineering, and an expert member of the Guangdong Building Materials Industry Expert Committee. His main research interests include renewable or low-carbon fuel combustion/gasification/pyrolysis kinetics, combustion process enhancement and control, efficient and clean combustion energy systems, etc. Undertook and completed more than 30 national, provincial, and ministerial level vertical projects as well as enterprise commissioned projects, published over 150 papers in well-known academic journals and conferences in the industry (including 58 top journals in the fields of combustion, fluids, energy, and chemical engineering), applied for/authorized 35 national invention patents, registered 12 software copyrights, and won awards such as Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award, Guangdong Achievement Promotion Award, and China Light Industry Federation Science and Technology Progress Award.

Selected Publications

1. Song. Q, Wang. X*, Gu. C, Wang. N, Li. H, Su. H, Huo. J, Qiao. Y, A comprehensive model of biomass char-CO2 gasification reactivity with inorganic element catalysis in the kinetic control zone based on TGA analysis. Chemical Engineering Journal 389 (2020) 125624.

2. Xiaohan Wang*, Qianshi Song, Yong Wu, Xing Li, Tao Li, Xiaojun Zeng. Modelling and numerical simulation of n-heptane pyrolysis coking characteristics in a millimeter-sized tube reactor. Combustion and Flame, 2019, 201: 44-56. 

3. Y. Wu, X. H Wang*, Q. S. Song, L.G. Zhao, H. Su, H. H. Li, X. J. Zeng, D. Q. Zhao, J. Z. Xu. The effect of temperature and pressure on n-heptane thermal cracking in regenerative cooling channel. Combustion and Flame, 2018, 194: 233-244. 

4. Xiaohan Wang*, Xiaojun Zeng, Haolin Yang, Daiqing Zhao. General modeling and numerical simulation of the burning characteristics of porous chars. Combustion and Flame, 2012, 159: 2457-2465. 

5. Wang XH*, Zhao DQ, He LB, et al. Modeling of a coal-fired slagging combustor: Development of a slag sub-model. Combustion and Flame, 2007, 149: 249~260.

· Micro detonation combustion power propulsion system

· Low carbon combustion technology coupled with rare earth functional materials

· Efficient and low-cost smoldering of high moisture solid waste

1. Key Research and Development Program Project of Guangdong Province, 2020B1111360004, Integration and Application Demonstration of New Technologies and Equipment for Source Control of Nitrogen Oxides in Natural Gas Combustion, 2021.01-2023.12, Principal Investigator.

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, 51976219, Construction and Applicability Study of Turbulent Pyrolysis Coking Model for Carbon Hydrogen Fuel Based on Detailed Wall Reaction Mechanism, 2020.01-2023.12, Principal Investigator.

3. Class A strategic leading science and technology project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, XDA21060102, Comprehensive evaluation method for combustion characteristics of bio aviation fuel, 2018.07-2023.06, Principal Investigator.

4. Subtopic task of National Key R&D Program, 2018YFC1901201, Establishment of Prediction Model for Organic Waste Pyrolysis Products, 2018.12-2022.12, Principal Investigator.

5. National Natural Science Foundation of China Major Research Program Cultivation Project, 91441127, Research on Non Catalytic Carbon Deposition Dynamics and Impact Mechanisms in High Temperature Thermal Cracking of Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels, 2015.01-2017.12, Principal Investigator.