(1.)Basic Information

Wanlong Cai

Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

Xi'an Jiaotong University

(7.)Contact

E-mail:  wanlongcai@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Address：

Building No. 19, iHarbour,

St. Gaoqiao, Chang'an District,

Xi'an, Shaanxi Province

ResearchGate:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wanlong-Cai

Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Q4_uU9YAAAAJ&hl=en

(5.)Scientific Research

  • Deep borehole heat exchanger heating system
  • Shallow borehole heat exchanger array system
  • Underground energy storage (ATES/BTES)
  • Geothermal power plant (ORC)
  • Building energy system

(3.)Education

  • 2023.01~Now: Xi'an Jiaotong University, Department of Civil Engineering, Assitant Professor (Supported by 'Young and Excellent Talents Program')
  • 2019.10~2020.10: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Environmental Informatics, CSC visiting PhD student (Supervised by Prof. Olaf Kolditz and Dr. Haibing Shao)
  • 2016.09~2022.12: Xi'an Jiaotong University, Earth and Built Environmental Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Supervised by Prof. Fenghao Wang)
  • 2012.09~2016.06: Xi'an Jiaotong University, HVAC, Bachelor of Engineering (Supervised by Prof. Fenghao Wang)

(6.)Teaching

  1. Wanlong Cai, Fenghao Wang*, Shuang Chen, Chaofan Chen, Jun Liu, Jiewen Deng, Olaf Kolditz, Haibing Shao*. "Analysis of heat extraction performance and long-term sustainability for multiple deep borehole heat exchanger array: A project-based study." Applied Energy 289 (2021): 116590.
  2. Wanlong Cai, Fenghao Wang*, Jun Liu, Zhihua Wang, Zhenjun Ma. "Experimental and numerical investigation of heat transfer performance and sustainability of deep borehole heat exchangers coupled with ground source heat pump systems." Applied Thermal Engineering 149 (2019): 975-986.
  3. Wanlong Cai, Fenghao Wang*, Shuang Chen, Chaofan Chen, Jun Liu, Zhanli Ren, Haibing Shao*. "Long-term performance evaluation for deep borehole heat exchanger array under different soil thermal properties and system layouts." Energy (2021): 122937.
  4. Wanlong Cai, Fenghao Wang*, Shuang Chen, Chaofan Chen, Yuping Zhang, Olaf Kolditz, Haibing Shao*. "Importance of long-term ground-loop temperature variation in performance optimization of Ground Source Heat Pump system." Applied Thermal Engineering (2022): 117945.
  5. Wanlong Cai, Fenghao Wang*, Zeyuan Wang, Jinghua Jiang, Jun Liu, Chaofan Chen*. " Long-term performance evaluation and economic analysis for deep borehole heat exchanger heating system in Weihe Basin." Frontiers in Earth Science 10 (2022): 806416.