Professor Yulong Ding
Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering,
University of Birmingham
Interests:
Thermal energy conversion and storage and liquid air energy storage, as well as integration of these technologies for multi-energy-vector provision including ammonia and hydrogen
Biography:
Yulong is the founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham and director of the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage. He’s also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a chartered chemical engineer.
He invented liquid air energy storage technology and led the initial stage of the technology development and validation, which is commercialised by Highview Power. He developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage and associated large-scale manufacture technologies, leading to large scale commercial applications with a total installation of 300+ MW / 1.2+ GWh so far.
His work on the passive cooling container technology for cold chain transportation has started commercial demonstration with 100+ tons cold storage materials used in demonstration. His expertise related to ammonia lies in process engineering (unit operation and system integration and optimisation) of ammonia synthesis (including hydrogen production), ammonia cracking, and the fuelling process.
Email: y.ding@bham.ac.uk