þ Master Supervisor

Research Areas:

1. Thermal chemical conversion of fossil and organic solid waste (plastic and biomass) into value-added chemicals/materials and clean fuels, not only including pyrolysis，gasification, but also including chemical looping pathway and photo-thermal- plasma catalysis.

2. Synthesis of new functional materials including organic metal frameworks, porous carbon materials, zeolite and magnetic materials and related catalysts.  

3. Separation and catalytic conversion of CO₂ and CH₄, and hydrogen production from solid fuels and methane, as well as life cycle assessment of material production and renewable energy generation processes.

Publications

1. Bang Xu, Morris D. Argyle, et al. Effect of mixture of CO₂/CH₄ as pyrolysis atmosphere on pine wood pyrolysis products [J]. Renewable Energy, 2020, 162(1):1243- 1254.

2. Bang Xu, Qingxi Cao, et al. Kinetic and mechanism of CO₂ gasification of coal catalyzed by Na₂CO₃, FeCO₃, and Na₂CO₃-FeCO₃ [J]. Journal of the Energy Institute, 2020, 93(3):922-933.

3. Bang Xu, Wenyang Lu, et al. High-quality oil and gas from pyrolysis of Powder River Basin coal catalyzed by an environmentally-friendly, inexpensive composite iron-sodium catalysts [J]. Fuel Processing Technology, 2017, 167: 334-344.

4. Fan Sun, Xueli Xing, Hui Hong, Bang Xu, Yong Hao. Concentrated full-spectrum solar-driven CO₂ reduction with H₂O to solar fuels by Au Nanoparticle-Decorated TiO₂ [J]. Energy and Fuels, 2022, 36(12):6433- 6444.

5. Bingying Jia, Bang Xu, Liujie Bing, Jihong Sun, Shiyang Bai. Fabrication of Functionalized UiO-66 Anchored on Disorderly Layered Clinoptilolite via Surfactant-Assisted Induction for Selective Adsorption of CO₂ and CH₄[J]. Langmuir 2022, 38, 48, 14644-14655.

Personal Statement

Bang Xu, Lecture and master supervisor, got her Ph.D. degree from China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) in 2014. She then worked as a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at University of Wyoming from July. 2015 to July. 2018, and in the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences from Mar. 2019 to Mar. 2021. She moved to Beijing University of Technology in June. 2021.

As a PI or Co-PI, her recent projects cover the areas of production of chemicals, fuels and hydrogen from coal/biomass/plastic, photo-thermal/ plasma catalytic conversion of biogas/lignin/biomass as well as chemical looping pathway, carbon footprint and exergy analysis for hydrogen production from coal and municipal solid waste gasification process.