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

Latest publications from the Industrial Chemistry group

The latest publications from the Industrial Chemistry research group.

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Latest publications:

Improved photoelectrochemical water splitting performance of Sn-doped hematite photoanode with an amorphous cobalt oxide layer

Qiuyang Huang, Yicheng Zhao, Yongdan Li 2024 International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Direct conversion of enzymatic hydrolysis lignin to cycloalkane fuel with hydrotalcite-derived Ni catalyst

Hairui Jiao, Guifeng Xu, Yushuai Sang, Hong Chen, Yongdan Li 2024 Catalysis Today

Support effect and reaction pathway for NO direct decomposition over CuMn/A (A=ZSM-5, Beta, SSZ-13) catalysts

Running Kang, Sufeng An, Xuehai Wang, Gang Wang, Hong Chen, Cuijuan Zhang, Feng Bin, Yongdan Li 2024 Catalysis Today

Innovative application of tomato straw biochar in direct carbon solid oxide fuel cells for power generation

Lin Li, Tingting Han, Yuxi Wu, Jiahao Cheng, Penghui Yao, Fangyong Yu, Jinjin Zhang, Wei Zeng, Naitao Yang, Yongdan Li 2024 Catalysis Today

A cobalt-free Pr6O11–BaCe0.2Fe0.8O3-δ composite cathode for protonic ceramic fuel cells with promising oxygen reduction activity and hydration ability

Xuanlin Lu, Zhi Yang, Jian Zhang, Xin Zhao, Jiaxuan Chen, Wen Liu, Yicheng Zhao, Yongdan Li 2024 Journal of Power Sources

Research progress of Co and Mn-based catalysts for the oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural

Yongqi Tang, Wei Lv, Yao Wang, Hong Chen, Yongdan Li, Can Wang, Guifeng Xu 2024 ChemCatChem

Design of a perovskite oxide cathode for a protonic ceramic fuel cell

Penghui Yao, Jian Zhang, Qianyuan Qiu, Gen Li, Yicheng Zhao, Fangyong Yu, Yongdan Li 2024 Ceramics International

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
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