Field of Expertise
Energy Storage, Power Generation and Heat Recovery Techologies
Expertise
Dr. Liang Li joined the School of Engineering and Technology at University of Hertfordshire as a Lecturer since 19th March 2018. This is his first university lecturing position. He received his PhD in mechanical engineering since 2017, which was founded and supervised by Brunel University London, UK. His PhD thesis focuses on Investigation of power cycles for low-grade heat to power energy conversion. His main research areas of interest and expertise include heat pump system, power generation system, heat exchangers, combustion modules and system design and optimisation. From 2017-2018, he was employed as a post-doctoral research fellow funded by RCUK Centre for Sustainable Energy use in Food Chains (CSEF) at Brunel University London, UK. During his past research experiences, he has successfully designed, constructed and tested four test rigs different projects, such as solar domestic hot water system with heat pump unit, small scale organic Rankine Cycles with turbo expander and scroll expander for industry waste heat recovery, CO2 transcritical Rankine cycles and CO2 supercritical power generation system from biomass energy. He has authored and co-authored over 23 publications in various journals and refereed international conference proceedings. His most recent funded projects as a PI is from UKFN (Design and Experimental Investigation of Phase Changer Materials for energy storage systems) in 2018 and Royal Society (Design and experimental investigation of R32 heat pump with microchannel heat exchanger) in 2019.