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School of Engineering | |
Department: Research | |
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Tel: | 011 670 9039
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E-mail: | liux@unisa.ac.za
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Prof Xinying Liu is the head of the XTL/FTS research group in the Institute for Development of Energy for African Sustainability (IDEAS). He currently supervises approximately eleven PhD students, four masters students and two postdoctoral students. He is in charge of the XTL/FTS research and industrial project development group, looking after the research and industrial project development in the area of XTL processes especially middle and small scale XTL (less than 3000 bpd) and process development for renewable energy solutions for off-grid and rural area applications. He is the process leader in the conceptual and basic engineering package development of a commercial demonstration scale gas to liquid (GTL) plant, in charge of the engineering phase (from conceptual to commissioning) of a mini scale waste to liquid (WTL) demonstration plant.
Prof Liu is an expert in the field of catalytic and nano inorganic materials for energy application especially in Fischer Tropsch Synthesis (FTS). He also has over 15 years of industrial experiences in carbonaceous material indirect liquefaction process (XTL process), in pilot scale XTL facility design and operation, and small/medium scale XTL plant design (process modelling, conceptual and basic engineering). He has expanded his research into various other renewable energy solution suitable for off-grid and rural applications especially biomass hybrid with concentrated solar power. He has over 50 publications in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings with an h-index of 17 (google scholar 28-Feb-2019).
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