Dr.Xin Tu from the University of Liverpool visited our Institute and made an academic speech about plasma catalysis and gas purification on April 1, 2015. Dr. Tao Shao presided over this lecture, and more than thirty research staff members and graduate students coming from IEE CAS, Peking University and Tsinghua University took participate in the lecture.
In his lecture, Dr. Tu first introduced pollution of the global environment and the shortage of energy, and then he introduced his research on plasma catalysis and its unique advantages in the fields of gas purification, greenhouse gas, hydrocarbon reforming and solid waste treatment in detail. Taking advantage of the combination of plasma and catalysis, it can improve activation of the catalyst at low temperature. Furthermore, the pollution gas such as NOx can achieve a variety of deep oxidation and the efficiency of pollutant degradation increase greatly by high selectivity of the catalyst. Finally, Dr. Tu showed the experimental results of the gliding arc discharge plasma and carbon nanomaterials. After the lecture, Dr.Tu discussed with several research staff members. This lecture provided our research staff a precious opportunity for academic communication and broadened our minds on. At the same time, it makes the relevant researches have a more profound understanding in the areas of chemical and energy applications.
Dr. Tu is a Lecturer in Technological Plasma in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool. His research has been largely focused on the development and characterisation of novel plasma processes for gas purification, greenhouse gas and hydrocarbon reforming and solid waste treatment. He has received funding as PI and Co-I from the UK EPSRC (EP/K031511/1, EP/M013162/1), the Royal Society (RG120591), the Royal Academy of Engineering (12/13RECI051), and industry. He has published over 40 papers in leading academic journals and has given over 15 invited/keynote talks in leading international conferences. He has received a prestigious B. Eliasson Award from International Symposium on Plasmas for Catalysts and Energy Materials to recognise his contributions to plasmacatalysis with emphasis on the fundamental understanding of the synergy of plasma-catalysis and nanomaterial formation in plasma.
