Name and title: Juan Chen Associate Professor

Overview: Dr Juan Chen specialises in the research related to a broad range of high-efficiency and low-emission clean energy technologies, particularly for the pollutants control during advanced utilization of low-rank coal and solid waste. She has made a number of innovative achievements in the formation and control of heavy metals and particulates. She has also been conducting interdisciplinary research including extraction of valuable elements such as lithium/gallium/cobalt from fly ash and electronic waste. Her research has been supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(General Program and Youth Science Program), Key Technologies R&D Program of Shandong Province, and Talent Introduction Program of Shandong University. Dr Juan Chen was selected into the Future Plan for Young Scholars of Shandong University.

Research Interests:

• Combustion and control of emission, such as SO₂, CO₂, PM_2.5 and trace metals;

• trace metals chemistry; Mechanism of fine particles formation;

• Utilization of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and Sludge

• Production of valuable lithium/gallium/cobalt products from solid waste.

  Qualifications：

  09,2007-03,2013  Dr. Eng., State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Wuhan, China

  05,2010-03,2012  Exchange PhD Student, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

  09,2003- 07, 2007 B. Eng., School of Energy & Power Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China

   

  Work/Research Experiences：

  04, 2016- Associate Professor, School of Energy & Power Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China

  04, 2013-04, 2015 Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Applied Chemistry, Chubu University, Kasugai, Aichi, Japan

  Selected Grants：

1. Simultaneous control of heavy metals and PM_2.5 during combustion of sewage sludge with lignite addition, National Natural Science Foundation of China, (No. 51776112), 2018.01-2021.12

2. Oxidation mechanism and modeling of chromium during lignite O₂/CO₂ combustion, National Natural Science Foundation of China, (No. 51406062), 2015.01-2017.12

3. Key technologies of heavy metals control during sewage sludge combustion, Key Technologies R&D Program of Shandong Province, (2018GGX104019), 2018.01-2019.12

4. Fundamental research on utilization of solid waste, Shandong University Future Plan for Young Scholars, 2018.07-2023.06

5. Cooperative research on highly efficient and clean combustion of western Chinese coal, International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of China (2015DFA60410), 2015.04-2018.03

6. Ecological and Highly Efficient Municipal Solid Waste combustion and Pyrolysis/gasification technologies, Strategic China-Japan Joint Research Program, Natural Science Foundation of China, (No.51161140330), 2011-2014

7. Fundamental research on simultaneous easy CO₂ recovery and multi-pollutant control in oxy-firing of pulverised coal with flue gas and heat recirculations, Strategic China-Japan Joint Research Program, Natural Science Foundation of China, (No.50721140649), 2007.12-2010.11

   Supervision：

   Supervising one PhD student and six master students.

   Selected Publications：

8. Juan Chen, Facun Jiao, Zhongbing Dong, Osamu Niyomura, Tomoaki Namioka, Naoomi Yamada, Yoshihiko Ninomiya, Effect of kaolin on ash partitioning during combustion of a low-rank coal in O2/CO2 atmosphere, fuel, 2018, 222, 538-543.

9. Xiaoyu Li, Hui Dong, Juan Chen,^* Chunmei Lu, Guangqian Luo, Hong Yao,  Transformation of Organically Bound Chromium during Oxy-coal Combustion: the Influence of Steam and Mineral, Energy & Fuels, 2018, 32(2), 1992-1998

10. Juan Chen, Yoshihiko Ninomiya, Hiroshi Naganuma, Yoriaki Sasaki, Manabu Noguchi, Hiromitsu Cho, Yasuaki Ueki, Ryo Yoshiie and Ichiro Naruse. Development of Thermal Spraying Materials through Several Corrosion Tests for Heat-exchanged Tubes of Incinerators. Fuel Processing Technology, 2016, 141: 216-224.

11. Juan Chen, Facun Jiao, Lian Zhang, Hong Yao and Yoshihiko Ninomiya. Elucidating the Mechanism of Cr(VI) Formation upon the Interaction with Metal Oxides during Coal Oxy-fuel Combustion. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2013, 261: 260-268. (IF: 4.331)

12. Juan Chen, Hong Yao and Lian Zhang. A Study on The Calcinations and Sulphation Behavior of Limestone during Oxy-fuel Combustion. Fuel, 2012, 102: 386-395. (IF: 3.406)

13. Juan Chen, Facun Jiao, Lian Zhang, Hong Yao and Yoshihiko Ninomiya. Use of Synchrotron XANES and Cr-doped Coal to Further Confirm the Vaporization of Organically Bound Cr and the Formation of Chromium(VI) During Coal Oxy-Fuel Combustion. Environmental Science & Technology, 2012, 46: 3567-3573.  (IF: 5.481)

14. Juan Chen, Baiqian Dai, Fiona Low and Lian Zhang. XANES Investigation on Sulfur Evolution during Victorian Brown Coal Char Gasification in Oxy-fuel Combustion Mode. Energy & Fuels, 2012, 26: 4775-4782. (IF: 2.733)

15. Juan Chen, Hong Yao, Pingan Zhang, Li Xiao, Guangqian Luo, Minghou Xu. Control of PM₁ by Kaolin or Limestone during O₂/CO₂ Pulverized Coal Combustion. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2011, 33: 2837-2843. (IF: 3.828)

16. Iman Ja'baz, Juan Chen, Barbara Etschmann, Yoshihiko Ninomiya, Lian Zhang. Effect of silica additive on the high-temperature fireside tube corrosion during the air-firing and oxy-firing of lignite (Xinjiang coal)-Characteristics of bulk and cross-sectional surfaces for the tubes. Fuel, 2017, 187: 68-83. (IF: 3.611)

17. Facun Jiao, Juan Chen, Lian Zhang, Yajuan Wei, Yoshihiko Ninomiya, Sankar Bhattacharya, Hong Yao. Ash Partitioning during the Oxy-fuel Combustion of Lignite and Its Dependence on The Recirculation of Flue Gas Impurities (H₂O, HCl and SO₂). Fuel, 2011, 90: 2207-2216. (IF: 3.406)

18. Hongyun Hu, Huan Liu, Juan Chen, Aijun Li, Hong Yao, Fiona Low, Lian Zhang. Speciation transformation of arsenic during municipal solid waste incineration. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2015, 35: 2883-2890. (IF: 3.828)

19. Bi Zhang, Xiaobo Zeng, Ping Xu, Juan Chen, Yang Xu, Guangqian Luo, Hong Yao. Using the Novel Method of Nonthermal Plasma To Add Cl Active Sites on Activated Carbon for Removal of Mercury from Flue Gas. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2016, DOI:10.1021/acs.est.6b01919. (IF: 5.393)

20. Yuan Fang, Renjie Zou, Guangqian Luo, Juan Chen, Zehua Li etc. Kinetic Study on Coal Char Combustion in a Micro-Fluidized Bed. Energy & Fuels, 2017, 31 (3), 3243–3252.

21. Qian Wang, Juan Chen,  Kuihua Han, Chunmei Lu, Influence of BaCO₃ on chlorine fixation, combustion characteristics and KCl conversion during biomass combustion. Fuel, 2017, 208: 82-90.

22. Xiaoyu Li, Hui Dong, Xiaoping Zhao, Juan Chen,^* Chunmei Lu, Hong Yao, Study on the influence of steam on chromium retention by minerals under oxy-fuel combustion. Journal of Chemical Industry and Engineering, 2018, 69(6): 2714-2721.

23. Mengya Shi, Juan Chen,^* Guangqian Luo, Hong Yao, Investigation of Chromium Speciation in Western Low-rank Coal and Vaporization Characteristics During Combustion. Journal of Engineering Thermophysics, 2017, 38 (6): 1344-1350.

24. Hui Dong, Juan Chen,^* Xiaoyu Li, Li Shao, The effect of activator on lithium extraction from Xinjiang fly ash. Chemical Industry and Engineering Progress, 2019,38(3).

25. Juan Chen, Guangqian Luo, Minghou Xu, Hong Yao. Control of PM₁ by Sorbents under O₂/N₂ and O₂/CO₂ Coal Combustion. Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (the Edition of Natural Science). 2010, 38 (2), 125-128.

26. Juan Chen, Guangqian Luo, Pingan Zhang et al. Investigation on Control of PM₁ by Kaolin or Limestone during O₂/CO₂ Pulverized Coal Combustion. Power Engineering, 2009, 29, 1148-1154.

    Contact：

    E-mail: juanchen@sdu.edu.cn

    Tel: 0531-88399372

    Office: Room 608

    Address: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Shandong University, 17923 Jingshi Road, Jinan 250061, Shandong Province, China