He mainly engages in research related to the control and theoretical calculation of combustion pollutants. By integrating advanced material characterization with VASP calculations, he reveals the structure-performance relationship and elucidates the reaction mechanism, thereby guiding the design of efficient catalysts and the optimization of reaction processes. Previous research mainly focused on the clean combustion of carbon-based fuels such as industrial kilns and the control and treatment of exhaust gas, aiming to achieve clean emissions of combustion pollutants such as unburned CH, CO, NOx, and soot. At present, some phased achievements have been made in the design of non-precious metal catalysts, the preparation and characterization of materials, the utilization of low-carbon fuels and their emission control, the co-degradation of nitrogen oxides, the mechanism of catalytic reactions, theoretical calculations and kinetic studies. He has been published in journals such as Combustion and Flame, Chemical Engineering Journal, Fuel, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Powder Technology and ACS Applied Energy Materials.

Selected Publications

1. Kangwei Xu, Zhenfeng Wang, Haolin Yang, Wei Zhang, Qianshi Song, Lidong Zhang*, Xiaohan Wang*, Unraveling the O2 resistance of promoters in BaO-Y2O3-based catalyst for NO decomposition, Chemical Engineering Journal 505 (2025) 159486

2. Kangwei Xu, Wei Zhang, Yue Ye, Qianshi Song, Lidong Zhang*, Xiaohan Wang*, Unraveling high-temperature mechanism of NO + CO reaction on BaO-Y2O3: An in situ DRIFTS and microkinetic study, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 12 (2024) 114103

3. Kangwei Xu, Chunlan Qin, Runjie Deng, Wei Zhang, Qianshi Song, Lidong Zhang*, Xiaohan Wang*, High-temperature resistant BaO-Y2O3 catalysts with different morphologies for NO decomposition and mechanism study, Fuel 368 (2024) 131638

4. Kangwei Xu, Chunlan Qin, Fan Li, Shanshan Ruan, Chenliang He, Ying Shi, Xiaohan Wang*, Lidong Zhang*, MvK mechanism dominated methane combustion over Ni-CeO2 derived from MOF by flame pyrolysis, Combustion and Flame 252 (2023) 112739

5. Kangwei Xu, Chenliang He, Jiuzheng Yin, Chunlan Qin, Shanshan Ruan, Ying Shi, Yi Liu, Lidong Zhang*, Relevance of soot formation characteristics to equivalence ratio and CO2 addition of acetylene flame, Powder Technology 412 (2022) 117978

6. Kangwei Xu, Zhicheng Wang, Chenliang He, Shanshan Ruan, Fuyi Liu*, Lidong Zhang*, Flame In Situ Synthesis of Metal-Anchored CuO Nanowires for CO Catalytic Oxidation and Kinetic Analysis, ACS Applied Energy Materials 4 (2021) 13226-13238

· Low-zero Carbon Fuel Combustion and Emission Control

· Catalytic Combustion

· Chemical Reaction Kinetics and DFT Calculations