Education

Ph.D. Xi’an JiaotongUniversity,2007

B.S.  Xi’anJiaotongUniversity,2001

Research Interests
—Supercritical Water Gasification

— Flow and heat transfer in supercritical water fluidized bed

—Water and CO₂ splitting by solar thermochemical cycles

—Multiphase flow，heat and mass transfer 

Book Chapter
[1]Lu YJ*, Li S, Guo LJ. Catalysis in Supercritical Water Gasification of Biomass: Status and Prospects. Near-critical and Supercritical Water and Their Applications for Biorefineries, Fang Z, Xu C(Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2014.
[2]Guo LJ, Cao CQ, Lu YJ. Supercritical water gasification of biomass and organic wastes. Source: Biomass, Book edited by: Maggie Momba and Faizal Bux, ISBN 978-953-307-113-8, pp. 202-220, September 2010, InTech .

Selected Publications

[1] Li G, Lu Y*, Qi S. Investigation of hydrogen oxidation in supercritical H₂O/CO₂ mixtures using ReaxFF molecular dynamics simulation. The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2020,155: 104661.

[2] Huang J, Lu Y*, Jia L. An experimental study on the two-phase flow structure in a supercritical water fluidized bed. Ind Eng Chem Res, 2019, 58: 20099-20108  

[3] Huang J, Lu Y*, Wang H. Fluidization of Particles in Supercritical Water: a Comprehensive Study on Bubble Hydrodynamics. Ind Eng Chem Res, 2019, 58:2036–2051

[4] Wang H, Lu Y*. Numerical simulation of the bubble behavior in a quasi-2D fluidized bed using a bubble-based EMMS model. Particuology, 2019, 46:40-54

[5] Lu Y*, Zhu L, Vieten J, Agrafiotis C*, Roeb M, Sattler C. Solar fuels production: Two-step thermochemical cycle with cerium-based oxides. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2019, 75:100785

[6] Li G, Wang H, Lu Y*. Kinetic study on hydrogen oxidation in supercritical H₂O/CO₂ mixture. Fuel Processing Technology, 2019, 193: 123-130

[7] Huang J, Lu Y*, Wang H. Minimum bubbling fluidization velocity in a supercritical water fluidized bed acquired by the dual-capacitance probe method. Chemical Engineering Science, 2019, 199:359-370

[8] Zhao L, Lu Y*. Hydrogen production by biomass gasification in a supercritical water fluidized bed reactor: a CFD-DEM study. The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2018, 131: 26-36

[9] Zhang T, Lu Y*, Yao L. Experimental study of wall-to-bed heat transfer in supercritical water fluidized bed. Int J Multiphase Flow, 2018, 109:26-34.

[10] Zhu L, Lu Y*. Reactivity and efficiency of ceria-based oxides for solar CO₂ splitting via isothermal and near-isothermal thermochemical cycles. Energy & Fuels, 2018,32: 736-746

[11] Huang J, Lu Y*, Wang H. A new quantitative measurement method for mixing and segregation of binary-mixture fluidized bed by capacitance probe. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017,326:99-108

[12] Wei L, Lu Y*.Fluidization behavior in high-pressure water at temperature from ambient to supercritical, Powder Technology,2016,304:89-100.

[13] Zhu L, Lu Y*, Shen SH. Solar fuel production at high temperatures using ceria as a dense membrane. Energy, 2016, 104:53-63 

[14] Lu Y*, Huang J, Zheng P, Jing D. Flow structure and bubble dynamics in supercritical water fluidized bed and gas fluidized bed: A comparative study. Int J Multiphase Flow, 2015, 73:130-141. 

[15] Lu Y*, Huang J, Zheng P. A CFD-DEM study of bubble dynamics in fluidized bed using flood fill method. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2015, 274:123-131.