Basic Information

 

Suxin Qian, Ph.D.

Professor

Department of Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering

School of Power and Energy Engineering

Professional Experiences

2023 ~          Professor                  Xi'an Jiaotong University

2018 ~ 2023 Associate Professor  Xi'an Jiaotong University

2016 ~ 2018 Assistant Professor   Xi'an Jiaotong University

2019 ~          Junior Member         Internation Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) Commission B1

Contact

No. 28, Xianning West Road 

Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710049, P.R.China
Email: qiansuxin@xjtu.edu.cn

Department Office: East 3rd Building, Room 246

Education

2011 ~ 2015              Ph.D.     University of Maryland, College Park  

2007 ~ 2011              B.S.       Tsinghua University, Beijing      

          

Research Areas

Novel solid-state cooling technologies: elastocaloric; magnetocaloric

Simulation technologies for vapor compression refrigeration and heat pump systems

Efficiency improvement for refrigeration, air-conditioning, and heat pump equipment

Honors

2022

Second Prize, Shandong Science and Technology Award

2021

Second Prize, Science and Technology Medal of Tsingtao

2020

Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program, China Association for Science and Technology

2019

Nominee, Excellent Young Scholar of Energy and Built Environment 2019

2016

Post-Doc Fellowship for Overseas PhDs

2015

Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland

2014

GDF – Suez Chuck Edwards Memorial Fellowship

Selected Publications

S. Qian#, D. Catalini, J. Muehlbauer, B. Liu, H. Mevada, H. Hou, et al. High-performance multimode elastocaloric cooling system. Science. 2023, 380: 722-727.

S. Qian*. Thermodynamics of elastocaloric cooling and heat pump cycles. Applied Thermal Engineering. 2023, 219: 119540.

Y. Chen#, Y. Wang, W. Sun, S. Qian*, J. Liu*. A compact elastocaloric refrigerator. The Innovation. 2022, 3, 100205.

H. Hou#, S. Qian#, I. Takeuchi*. Materials, physics, and systems for multicaloric cooling. Nature Reviews Materials. 2022, 7: 633-652.

S. Qian#*, Y. Wang, S. Xu, Y. Chen, L. Yuan, J. Yu. Cascade utilization of low-grade thermal energy by coupled elastocaloric power and cooling cycle. Applied Energy. 2021, 298, 117269.

S. Qian#*, Y. Wang, L. Yuan, J. Yu. A heat driven elastocaloric cooling system. Energy. 2019, 182:881-899.

S. Qian#*, L. Yuan, J. Yu, G. Yan. Numerical modeling of an active elastocaloric regenerator refrigerator with phase transformation kinetics and the matching principle for materials selection. Energy. 2017, 141, 744-756.

S. Qian#*, L. Yuan, J. Yu, G. Yan. The mechanism of ∆T variation in coupled heat transfer and phase transformation for elastocaloric materials and its application in materials characterization. Applied Physics Letters. 2017, 111, 223902.

S. Qian#, D. Nasuta, A. Rhoads, Y. Wang, Y. Geng, Y. Hwang*, et al. Not-in-kind cooling technologies: a quantitative comparison of refrigerants and system performance. International Journal of Refrigeration. 2016, 62, 177-192.

S. Qian#, J. Ling, Y. Hwang*, R. Radermacher, I. Takeuchi. Thermodynamic cycle analysis and numerical modeling of thermoelastic cooling systems, Int. J. Refrig., 56: 65-80.