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Overview

Rui Xiao is affiliated with Southeast University in China and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in engineering and materials science. Their work spans a wide range of topics, including chemical looping, catalysis, thermochemical biomass conversion, and energy conversion technologies.

Their recent publications cover subjects related to sustainable energy, biomass conversion, and photoelectrochemical processes. Notable papers include:

  • Photocatalytic Conversion of Plastic Waste: From Photodegradation to Photosynthesis (2022) in Advanced Energy Materials
  • Ammonia as a green energy carrier: Electrochemical synthesis and direct ammonia fuel cell - a comprehensive review (2022) in Fuel Processing Technology
  • Agricultural waste-derived moisture-absorber for all-weather atmospheric water collection and electricity generation (2020) in Nano Energy
  • Renewable formate from sunlight, biomass and carbon dioxide in a photoelectrochemical cell (2023) in Nature Communications
  • Biomass directional pyrolysis based on element economy to produce high-quality fuels, chemicals, carbon materials - A review (2023) in Biotechnology Advances

Rui Xiao collaborates frequently with several researchers in their field. Their most common coauthors are:

  • Dewang Zeng
  • Huiyan Zhang
  • Feng Gong
  • Shiliang Wu
  • Yuyang Fan

The researcher publishes regularly in several scientific journals, with the most frequent venues including:

  • Energy & Fuels
  • Fuel Processing Technology
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Bioresource Technology
  • Sustainable Energy & Fuels

Their main fields of study are Engineering and Materials Science, with focused subfields in Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Key topics in their research portfolio are:

  • Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
  • Lignin and Wood Chemistry
  • Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalysis for Biomass Conversion

The scope of Rui Xiao's work involves exploring sustainable and renewable energy solutions, with particular attention to the chemical and catalytic processes underlying biomass and plastic waste conversion as well as energy carrier development.

Best Publications

  • Renewable Chemical Commodity Feedstocks from Integrated Catalytic Processing of Pyrolysis Oils

    Tushar P. Vispute;Huiyan Zhang;Huiyan Zhang;Aimaro Sanna;Aimaro Sanna;Rui Xiao

  • Comparison of non-catalytic and catalytic fast pyrolysis of corncob in a fluidized bed reactor

    Huiyan Zhang;Rui Xiao;He Huang;Gang Xiao

  • Catalytic conversion of biomass-derived feedstocks into olefins and aromatics with ZSM-5: the hydrogen to carbon effective ratio

    Huiyan Zhang;Huiyan Zhang;Yu-Ting Cheng;Tushar P. Vispute;Rui Xiao

  • Adsorption of Cd(II) from aqueous solutions by rape straw biochar derived from different modification processes.

    Bing Li;Lan Yang;Chang-Quan Wang;Qing-Pei Zhang

  • The comparison of two activation techniques to prepare activated carbon from corn cob

    Min Song;Baosheng Jin;Rui Xiao;Li Yang

  • Thermal degradation of softwood lignin and hardwood lignin by TG-FTIR and Py-GC/MS

    Jing Zhao;Wang Xiuwen;Jun Hu;Qian Liu

  • Chemical-Looping Combustion of Biomass in a 10 kWth Reactor with Iron Oxide As an Oxygen Carrier

    Laihong Shen;Jiahua Wu;Jun Xiao;Qilei Song

  • Biomass fast pyrolysis in a fluidized bed reactor under N2, CO2, CO, CH4 and H2 atmospheres.

    Huiyan Zhang;Rui Xiao;Denghui Wang;Guangying He

  • An overview on fast pyrolysis of the main constituents in lignocellulosic biomass to valued-added chemicals: Structures, pathways and interactions

    Dekui Shen;Wei Jin;Jun Hu;Rui Xiao

  • Catalytic oxidation of lignin to valuable biomass-based platform chemicals: A review

    Chao Liu;Shiliang Wu;Huiyan Zhang;Rui Xiao

  • Thermal conversion of lignin to phenols: Relevance between chemical structure and pyrolysis behaviors

    Chao Liu;Jun Hu;Huiyan Zhang;Rui Xiao

  • Catalytic fast pyrolysis of wood and alcohol mixtures in a fluidized bed reactor

    Huiyan Zhang;Huiyan Zhang;Torren R. Carlson;Rui Xiao;George W. Huber

  • Air gasification of polypropylene plastic waste in fluidized bed gasifier

    Rui Xiao;Baosheng Jin;Hongcang Zhou;Zhaoping Zhong

  • Comparison of catalytic pyrolysis of biomass with MCM-41 and CaO catalysts by using TGA–FTIR analysis

    Denghui Wang;Rui Xiao;Huiyan Zhang;Guangying He

  • Characterization of Coke Deposition in the Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass Derivates

    Huiyan Zhang;Shanshan Shao;Rui Xiao;Dekui Shen

  • Removal of Pb(II) from water by the activated carbon modified by nitric acid under microwave heating.

    Shuheng Yao;Jiajun Zhang;Dekui Shen;Rui Xiao

  • Evaluation of the co-pyrolysis of lignin with plastic polymers by TG-FTIR and Py-GC/MS

    Wei Jin;Dekui Shen;Qian Liu;Rui Xiao

  • High-temperature air/steam-blown gasification of coal in a pressurized spout-fluid bed

    Rui Xiao;Mingyao Zhang;Baosheng Jin;Yaji Huang

  • Enhanced hydrogen production performance through controllable redox exsolution within CoFeAlOx spinel oxygen carrier materials

    Dewang Zeng;Yu Qiu;Song Peng;Chao Chen

  • A bioplastic with high strength constructed from a cellulose hydrogel by changing the aggregated structure

    Qiyang Wang;Jie Cai;Lina Zhang;Min Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Huiyan Zhang
Huiyan Zhang Southeast University
Baosheng Jin
Baosheng Jin Southeast University
Wenqi Zhong
Wenqi Zhong Southeast University
Guomin Xiao
Guomin Xiao Southeast University
Laihong Shen
Laihong Shen Southeast University
Sai Gu
Sai Gu University of Warwick
Sankar Bhattacharya
Sankar Bhattacharya Monash University
Zhongmin Liu
Zhongmin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Longlong Ma
Longlong Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mingjiang Ni
Mingjiang Ni Zhejiang University

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