Dr Zhichao Zhang joined 51 as a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering in 2020. He did his postdoc in Delft University of Technology in Netherlands from 2019 to 2020. He was awarded PhD in Newcastle University, UK, in 2019.
Dr Zhichao Zhang was doing research work on the hydrogen diffusion in turbine blades for the utilisation of hydrogen fuel in Delft. He completed the EPSRC funded project ‘Investigation Into Fuel Pre-treatments For Combustion Improvement On A Compression Ignition Engine’ in Newcastle University. He also conducted the NSFC project ‘Fundamental study of Quasi-hydrous Ethanol and Bio-jet Fuel Blends and their Influence on the Characteristics of Blow Off and Smoking Boundary’, and the BNSF project ‘Establishment of Particulate Emission Index on GDI Engines’ in China.
Dr Zhichao Zhang has published many journal papers in Applied Energy, Fuel, and Energy, and hold a patent for a commercial product.
Liquid fuel spray, combustion, hydrogen diffusion and embrittlement, renewable fuels, pollutant emissions, gas turbines, internal combustion engines
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