Summary
Dr Jian Song is Assistant Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, and Managing Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering.
Dr Jian Song has been acting as the Deputy Group Leader of Clean Energy Processes (CEP) Laboratory at Imperial prior to joining Birmingham in May 2023. Dr Jian Song received his PhD Degree from Tsinghua University in 2018 and has been awarded Zijing Scholar Fellowship, Outstanding PhD Thesis by Chinese Society for Internal Combustion Engines (CSICE), and Wu Zhonghua Outstanding Postgraduate Award. Dr Jian Song visited the Whittle Laboratory at University of Cambridge in 2016 and participated the internship in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in 2015.
Dr Jian Song’s research focuses on clean and sustainable energy technologies, which covers thermal fluids, processes, devices and systems, with an emphasis on multi-scale integrated design and optimisation of energy conversion and storage options, aiming at enhancing energy utilisation efficiency across conventional and renewable resources, and contributing to energy harvesting and sustainability.
Publications
Journals
Zhao Y, Huang J, Song J, et al., 2024, Thermodynamic investigation of a Carnot battery based multi-energy system with cascaded latent thermal (heat and cold) energy stores, Energy, Vol:296, ISSN:0360-5442
He Y, Song J, Guo S, et al., 2024, Profitability analysis and sizing-arbitrage optimisation of retrofitting coal-fired power plants for grid-side energy storage, Journal of Energy Storage, Vol:84, ISSN:2352-152X
Olympios AV, Song J, Ziolkowski A, et al., 2024, Data-driven compressor performance maps and cost correlations for small-scale heat-pumping applications, Energy, Vol:291, ISSN:0360-5442
Fan G, Song J, Zhang J, et al., 2024, Thermo-economic assessment and systematic comparison of combined supercritical CO2 and organic Rankine cycle (SCO2-ORC) systems for solar power tower plants, Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol:236, ISSN:1359-4311
Maghrabi A, Song J, Sapin P, et al., 2023, Electricity demand reduction through waste heat recovery in olefins plants based on a technology-agnostic approach, Energy Conversion and Management: X, Vol:20, ISSN:2590-1745, Pages:1-18