Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

Industrial Chemistry

Prof. Yongdan Li leads the Research Group of Industrial Chemistry. Our group focuses on teaching and research related to chemical reaction engineering and reactor design.
Research topics Industrial Chemistry made by Yingnan Zhao

Research Focus:

The group of Industrial Chemistry focuses on the principles of chemical convertors and those of the processes based on chemical convertors.

The group is active with two categories of projects:

  1. Improving the performance of existing commercial chemical convertors and the understanding on the governing factors, e.g. the mechanical strength of solid catalyst and the mechanical reliability of the catalytic convertors; improvement of the performance of DeNOx, three-way and hydrogen production catalysts and convertors.
  2. Promoting the commercialization of promising new reactions through revealing the limiting factors, e.g. lignocellulose fractionation and transformation to chemicals and fuels; photo-catalytic water splitting; advanced batteries; solid oxide fuel cells with direct carbon and hydrocarbon fuels; methane catalytic decomposition to hydrogen and nano-carbons and NO direct decomposition.

Teaching tasks:

  • CHEM-E7150 - Reaction Engineering
  • CHEM-E7135 - Reactor Design

Vacancies in the Industrial Chemistry group

Two open vacancies in the Industrial Chemistry group at the moment.

Upcoming Lectures and Events

General Reactor Design Practice in Industry-- Guest lecture given by Dr Lin Li

General Reactor Design Practice in Industry—a lecture related to the design of a reactor in industry.

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Combustion kinetics-- Guest lecture given by Professor Olivier Herbinet

This lecture includes three parts: 1) Phenomena Observed in the Combustion of Hydrocarbons, 2) Generalities about Gas-Phase Kinetics, 3) Modeling of the oxidation of Fuels.

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Undergoing EU projectS

Related content:

Industrial Chemistry Group at the 2021 Fall ACS Meeting

Here are the presentations from Industrial Chemistry Group at the 2021 Fall ACS Meeting.

Renewable fuel made from biorefinery residues

Lignin-based automotive and aviation fuels are one step closer to market as a new EU-funded project aims to develop new production methods for lignin-based transport fuels.

Biorefinery and fuels

Workshop on Catalytic Reactions with Ion Transfer through Interfaces

Welcome to Workshop on Catalytic Reactions with Ion Transfer through Interfaces (ITICAT2019), organized in August 15 - 17, 2019, as a pre-conference of EuropaCat2019. 

ITICAT2019 logo/Yingnan Zhao

Team members:

Ligen Cha

Doctoral Researcher

Hanzhang Gong

Visiting Doctoral Researcher

Gen Li

Research assistant (preparing for doctoral thesis work)

Xiang Li

Visiting Doctoral Researcher

Xiang Li

Visitor Aalto PhD student

Qianyuan Qiu

Visitor Aalto doctoral student

Jiaqi Wang

Doctoral Researcher

Tianyang Wen

Research assistant (preparing for doctoral thesis work)

Mingze Yang

Doctoral Researcher

Penghui Yao

Doctoral Researcher

Latest publications from the Industrial Chemistry group

The latest publications from the Industrial Chemistry research group.

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Latest publications:

Possible use as biofuels of monoaromatic oxygenates produced by lignin catalytic conversion: A review

F. Battin-Leclerc, N. Delort, I. Meziane, O. Herbinet, Y. Sang, Y. Li 2023 Catalysis Today

Catalytic valorization of lignocellulose and its derived feedstocks into fuels and chemicals

Zhaofu Fei, De Chen, Emiel J.M. Hensen, Yongdan Li, Rajenahally V. Jagadeesh 2023 Catalysis Today

SI:Lignocellulose fuels

Zhaofu Fei, De Chen, Emiel J.M. Hensen, Yongdan Li, Rajenahally V. Jagadeesh 2023 Catalysis Today

Redox flow battery as an emerging technology: current status and research trends

Cristina Flox, Cuijuan Zhang, Yongdan Li 2023 Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering

A rational design of highly active and coke-resistant anode for methanol-fueled solid oxide fuel cells with Sn doped Ni-Ce0.8Sm0.2O2−δ

Tian Gan, Hexuan Song, Xinqiang Fan, Ye Liu, Shouqing Liu, Yicheng Zhao, Yongdan Li 2023 Chemical Engineering Journal

Valorization of Exhausted Olive Pomace for the Production of a Fuel for Direct Carbon Fuel Cell

Najla Grioui, Amal Elleuch, Kamel Halouani, Yongdan Li 2023 C - Journal of Carbon Research

Fast formation of thin TiOx layer on titanium surface enabling a broadband light capture and fast charge carrier transfer

Xuelan Hou, Hang Zhang, Ramesh Raju, Yongdan Li, Peter D. Lund 2023 Journal of Power Sources

The effects of potential and solar input on Z-scheme C3N4-TiO2 nanotubes @ Ti electrode in a broad potential window

Xuelan Hou, Yicheng Zhao, Yongdan Li 2023 International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Catalytic ignition of CO over CuCeZr based catalysts: New insights into the support effects and reaction pathways

Running Kang, Zirui Zhang, Feng Bin, Xiaolin Wei, Yongdan Li, Guoxing Chen, Xin Tu 2023 Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Investigating the effectiveness of bifacial mixed metal MOF electrodes for the photoelectro-catalytic treatment of municipal wastewater

Parminder Kaur, Moonis Ali Khan, Yongdan Li, Ahmed A.S. Al-Othman, Zeid Abdullah Alothman, Mika Sillanpää, Ville Kuokkanen, Monzur A. Imteaz, Saleh Al-Farraj 2023 Journal of Cleaner Production
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