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 Zhun HU

Email: huzhun@mail.xjtu.edu.cn  Tel: +86-187-9281-1158 (Mobile)

Lecturer, Institute of Industrial Catalysis, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology,

Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

EDUCATION                                                                                    

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Ph.D. Student in Chemistry, (September 2008 – January 2014)

Thesis: Nanostructured Low Platinum Lean NOx Storage Catalysts for Lean NOx Abatement

Advisor: Dr. Bo-Qing XU

Huazhong Universtiy Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

B.S. in Applied Chemistry, Department of Chemistry (September 2004 – June 2008)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES                                                            

Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University                                                    November 2015 ~ Now

Project: Design and synthesis of new catalytic materials and their application on energy conversion and environmental protection

l Design and synthesis of manganese composite oxide and their application in low temperature selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3.

l Environmental & Green Catalysis.

Technical Director, Suzhou Automotive Research Institute, Tsinghua University                                                    February 2014 ~ November 2015

Project: Industrialization catalyst reactor for more stringent legislation in diesel engine

l Laboratory scale test and pilot scale test on developing new catalysts for NOx abatement (NOx Selective Catalytic Reduction, SCR) in diesel engine.

l Participated in developing new catalysts (Diesel Oxidation Catalyst, Ammonia Slip Catalyst) for future legislation.

Doctoral Student, Research Assistant, Tsinghua University                                                    September 2008 ~ January 2014

Innovative Catalysis Program, Department of Chemistry

Project: Nanostructured Low Platinum Catalysts for Lean NOx Abatement

Advisor: Prof. Bo-Qing XU

l Design and synthesis of low platinum and/or platinum-free catalyst for lean NOx abatement.

l Study the key factors to the platinum loading in the Pt-BaO NSR catalysts. Addition of transitional metal oxide to lower the precious metal and pervoskite as a substitural material for Lean NOx abatement.

l  Characterizations by N2 physisorption, TG/DTA, Raman, XRD, TPR/TPD, XPS, XAFS, FTIR, MS, GC, TEM, SEM, ICP-AES.

Research Program for Undergraduate, Tsinghua University

March 2008 ~ September 2008

Project: Controllable Synthesis of Uniform Al2O3 Nanoparticles

l  Design and Synthesis of Controllable Pore Size Distribution of Al2O3 Nanoparticles.

l  Structural analysis of these synthesized materials by using N2 physisorption XRD, TEM.

l  Investigation of NOx storage and reduction performance of Pt-BaO/Al2O3 catalysts.

 

HONNERS AND AWARDS                                                                        

2014 Shortage of talents in Wujiang district, Suzhou

2011 Excellent Oral Presentation Award, Forum for Doctoral Candidates of Tsinghua Universtity.

2010 Guanghua Scholarship.

2008 National Motivational Scholarship.

2008 Excellent Graduate Student in Hubei Province.

2007 First-Rank People’s Scholarship, Self-Renewal Scholarship, Merit Student.

2006 First-Rank People’s Scholarship, Self-Renewal Scholarship, Merit Student.

2005 First-Rank People’s Scholarship, Self-Renewal Scholarship, Merit Student.

2004 First-Rank People’s Scholarship.

PUBLICATIONS                                                                           

1.      Zhan-Kun Gao, Yong-Chun Hong, Zhun Hu, Bo-Qing Xu, Transfer hydrogenation of cinnamaldehyde with 2-propanol on Al2O3 and SiO2–Al2O3 catalysts: role of Lewis and Brønsted acidic sites, Catalysis Science & Technology, 2017, 7, 4511.

2.      Jing Hu, Zhun Hu, Jun Zhang, Shijin Shuai, Effects of a Catalyst on the Nanostructure and Reactivity of Soot under an Oxygen Atmosphere, Energy & Fuels, 2016, 30, 2434.

3.      Zhun Hu, Wei-Zhen Li, Ke-Qiang Sun, Bo-Qing Xu, Effect of Support Pre-Calcination on the NOx Storage and Reduction Performance of Pt-BaO/Al2O3 Catalysts, Catalysis Science & Technology, 2013, 3, 2062.

4.      Jin-Liang Jia, Han-Hong Xu, Gui-Rong Zhang, Zhun Hu, Bo-Qing Xu, High quality gold nanorods and nanospheres for surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, Nanotechnology, 2013, 23, 495710-495717.

5.      Zhun Hu, Ke-Qiang Sun, Bo-Qing Xu, NOx Storage-Reduction Catalysis and Structure -Performance Relationship of Pt-BaO/Al2O3, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2011, 32, 17-26.

6.      Zhun Hu, Ke-Qiang Sun, Wei-Zhen Li, Bo-Qing Xu, NOx Storage and Reduction Performance of Pt–CoOx–BaO/Al2O3 Catalysts: Effects of Cobalt Loading and Calcination Temperature, Catalysis Today, 2010, 158, 432-438.

7.      Wei-Zhen Li, Ke-Qiang Sun, Zhun Hu, Bo-Qing Xu, Characteristics of low platinum Pt-BaO catalysts for NOx storage and reduction, Catalysis Today, 2010, 153, 103-110.

8.      Wei-Zhen Li, Ke-Qiang Sun, Zhun Hu, Bo-Qing Xu, Performance improvement of NOx-storage BaO/Al2O3 by using barium peroxide as the precursor of BaO, Catalysis Letters, 2009, 132, 189-196.

PRESENTATIONS                                                        

1.      Zhun Hu, Ke-Qiang Sun, Bo-Qing Xu, Characteristics of perovskite-based BaMO3-Al2O3 (M = Fe, Ce, Zr) catalyst for NOx storage process, the 5th China-Japan Workshop on Environmental Catalysis and Eco-materials, Poster Presentation (P33), November 28-29, 2011, Shanghai, China.

2.      Zhun Hu, Ke-Qiang Sun, Wei-Zhen Li, High Performing NOx Storage and Reduction Pt-BaO/Al2O3 Catalyst: Effects of the Pre-Calcination Temperature of the Support and the Impregnation Sequence for Loading Pt and BaO, 6th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis, ICEC6, Oral Presentation (A-029), September 12-15, 2010, Beijing China.

3.      Zhun Hu, Ke-Qiang Sun, Wei-Zhen Li, Bo-Qing Xu, NOx storage and reduction performance of Pt–CoOx–BaO/Al2O3 catalysts: Effects of cobalt loading and calcination temperature, 7th Asia Pacific Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Technologies, 7th APCSEET”, Poster Presentation (AIR-39), October 15-17, 2009, Qingdao, China.

4.      Wei-Zhen Li, Ke-Qiang Sun, Zhun Hu, Bo-Qing Xu, Effect of pre-calcination temperature of Al2O3 support on the NOx storage and reduction performance of Pt-BaO/Al2O3 catalysts, 15th International Congress on Catalysis, 15th ICC, Poster Presentation (3.02_7632), July 1-6, 2012, Germany.

5.      Yu-Sheng Shi, Ke-Qiang Sun, Yong-Chun Hong, Zhun Hu, Bo-Qing Xu, Pt-Fe catalysts prepared by galvanic replacement of SiO2-supported Fe particles for chemoselecitve hydrogenation catalysis, 15th International Congress on Catalysis, 15th ICC, Poster Presentation (2.05_2001), July 1-6, 2012, Germany.

PATENTS                                                                

1.      Bo-Qing Xu, Ke-Qiang Sun, Zhun Hu, Wei-Zhen Li, A novel preparation method of NOx storage and reduction catalysts, Chinese Patent, ZL201010148603.8.

2.      Bo-Qing Xu, Ke-Qiang Sun, Zhun Hu, Wei-Zhen Li, A novel preparation method of NOx storage and reduction catalysts, Chinese Patent, ZL201010148594.2.

3.      Zhun Hu, Shijing Shuai, Yanguang Zhao, A novel preparation method for Fe-base catalysts on selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3, Chinese Patent, 20140440513.4.

4.      Shijing Shuai, Zhun Hu, A novel preparation method for Cu-base catalysts on Selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3, Chinese Patent, 201410350894.7.

5.      Shijing Shuai, Zhun Hu, A novel preparation method for Vanadium-base catalysts on selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3, Chinese Patent, 201410413182.5.

6.      Shijing Shuai, Zhun Hu, A novel preparation method for CuFe composite catalysts on selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3, Chinese Patent, 201410413182.5.