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Zhiwu Liang

Zhiwu Liang

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Overview

Zhiwu Liang is a researcher affiliated with Hunan University in China, with a focus on engineering and related scientific disciplines. Their work encompasses a broad range of topics within engineering, particularly mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, alongside significant contributions to materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability, and catalysis.

Liang's main fields of study include:

  • Engineering

The subfields of study of interest are:

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Catalysis

The scientist's research topics cover the following areas:

  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
  • Membrane Separation and Gas Transport
  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Liang has been published extensively in multiple scientific journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Chemical Engineering Science
  • Separation and Purification Technology
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • AIChE Journal
  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Liang are:

  • New insight and evaluation of secondary Amine/N-butanol biphasic solutions for CO2 Capture: Equilibrium Solubility, phase separation Behavior, absorption Rate, desorption Rate, energy consumption and ion species (2021, Chemical Engineering Journal)
  • Efficient photocatalytic toluene selective oxidation over Cs3Bi1.8Sb0.2Br9 Nanosheets: Enhanced charge carriers generation and C-H bond dissociation (2021, Chemical Engineering Science)
  • A highly efficient and stable TiO2@NH2-MIL-125 material for enhanced photocatalytic conversion of CO2 and CH4 (2023, Separation and Purification Technology)
  • A low energy-consuming phase change absorbent of MAE/DGM/H2O for CO2 capture (2023, Chemical Engineering Journal)
  • Development of a Promising Biphasic Absorbent for Postcombustion CO2 Capture: Sulfolane + 2-(Methylamino)ethanol + H2O (2020, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research)

Frequent collaborators in Liang's research include:

  • Hongxia Gao
  • Xiao Luo
  • Yangqiang Huang
  • Bo Jin
  • Teerawat Sema

Best Publications

  • Recent progress and new developments in post-combustion carbon-capture technology with amine based solvents

    Zhiwu (Henry) Liang;Zhiwu (Henry) Liang;Wichitpan Rongwong;Wichitpan Rongwong;Wichitpan Rongwong;Helei Liu;Kaiyun Fu

  • Review on current advances, future challenges and consideration issues for post-combustion CO2 capture using amine-based absorbents

    Zhiwu Liang;Kaiyun Fu;Raphael Idem;Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul

  • The genetic algorithm based back propagation neural network for MMP prediction in CO2-EOR process

    Guangying Chen;Kaiyun Fu;Zhiwu Liang;Teerawat Sema

  • Reduction of energy requirement of CO2 desorption from a rich CO2-loaded MEA solution by using solid acid catalysts

    Xiaowen Zhang;Xin Zhang;Helei Liu;Wensheng Li

  • Analysis of the reduction of energy cost by using MEA-MDEA-PZ solvent for post-combustion carbon dioxide capture (PCC)

    Rui Zhang;Xiaowen Zhang;Qi Yang;Hai Yu

  • A study of structure–activity relationships of commercial tertiary amines for post-combustion CO2 capture

    Min Xiao;Helei Liu;Raphael Idem;Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul

  • Comprehensive mass transfer and reaction kinetics studies of CO2 absorption into aqueous solutions of blended MDEA–MEA

    Teerawat Sema;Teerawat Sema;Abdulaziz Naami;Kaiyun Fu;Mohamed Edali

  • Evaluating CO2 desorption performance in CO2-loaded aqueous tri-solvent blend amines with and without solid acid catalysts

    Xiaowen Zhang;Rui Zhang;Helei Liu;Hongxia Gao

  • Experimental study on the solvent regeneration of a CO2-loaded MEA solution using single and hybrid solid acid catalysts

    Zhiwu Liang;Zhiwu Liang;Raphael Idem;Raphael Idem;Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul;Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul;Fanghui Yu

  • Reducing energy consumption of CO2 desorption in CO2-loaded aqueous amine solution using Al2O3/HZSM-5 bifunctional catalysts

    Xiaowen Zhang;Helei Liu;Zhiwu Liang;Zhiwu Liang;Raphael Idem;Raphael Idem;Raphael Idem

  • CO2 capture with hybrid absorbents of low viscosity imidazolium-based ionic liquids and amine

    Min Xiao;Helei Liu;Hongxia Gao;Wilfred Olson

  • Reducing Energy Penalty of CO2 Capture Using Fe Promoted SO42-/ZrO2/MCM-41 Catalyst.

    Xiaowen Zhang;Zhiqing Zhu;Xiaoyu Sun;Jian Yang

  • Zeolite catalyst-aided tri-solvent blend amine regeneration: An alternative pathway to reduce the energy consumption in amine-based CO2 capture process

    Xiaowen Zhang;Yufei Huang;Hongxia Gao;Xiao Luo

  • New insight and evaluation of secondary Amine/N-butanol biphasic solutions for CO2 Capture: Equilibrium Solubility, phase separation Behavior, absorption Rate, desorption Rate, energy consumption and ion species

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  • Catalytic performance and mechanism of SO42−/ZrO2/SBA-15 catalyst for CO2 desorption in CO2-loaded monoethanolamine solution

    Hongxia Gao;Yufei Huang;Xiaowen Zhang;Zain Ali Saleh Bairq

  • Investigation of CO2 Regeneration in Single and Blended Amine Solvents with and without Catalyst

    Helei Liu;Xin Zhang;Hongxia Gao;Zhiwu Liang

  • Amine-based CO2 capture aided by acid-basic bifunctional catalyst: Advancement of amine regeneration using metal modified MCM-41

    Xiaowen Zhang;Yufei Huang;Jian Yang;Hongxia Gao

  • Solubility, absorption heat and mass transfer studies of CO2 absorption into aqueous solution of 1-dimethylamino-2-propanol

    Yujiao Liang;Helei Liu;Wichitpan Rongwong;Zhiwu Liang

  • Experimental study on mass transfer and prediction using artificial neural network for CO2 absorption into aqueous DETA

    Kaiyun Fu;Guangying Chen;Teerawat Sema;Xu Zhang

  • A Comparative Kinetics Study of CO2 Absorption into Aqueous DEEA/MEA and DMEA/MEA Blended Solutions

    Wusan Jiang;Xiao Luo;Hongxia Gao;Zhiwu Liang

  • Experimental evaluation of highly efficient primary and secondary amines with lower energy by a novel method for post-combustion CO2 capture

    Sen Liu;Hongxia Gao;Chuan He;Zhiwu Liang

  • Investigation of Mass-Transfer Performance for CO2 Absorption into Diethylenetriamine (DETA) in a Randomly Packed Column

    Kaiyun Fu;Teerawat Sema;Zhiwu Liang;Zhiwu Liang;Helei Liu

  • Analysis of CO2 solubility and absorption heat into 1-dimethylamino-2-propanol solution

    Helei Liu;Helei Liu;Hongxia Gao;Raphael Idem;Raphael Idem;Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul;Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul

  • Mass transfer performance and correlations for CO2 absorption into aqueous blended of DEEA/MEA in a random packed column

    Hongxia Gao;Bin Xu;Liang Han;Xiao Luo

Frequent Co-Authors

Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul
Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul University of Regina
Raphael Idem
Raphael Idem University of Regina
Abdelbaki Benamor
Abdelbaki Benamor Qatar University
Paul Feron
Paul Feron Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Christine W. Chan
Christine W. Chan University of Regina
Chuguang Zheng
Chuguang Zheng Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Haibo Zhao
Haibo Zhao Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Shuang-Feng Yin
Shuang-Feng Yin Hunan University
Mingzhe Dong
Mingzhe Dong University of Calgary
Yangang Wang
Yangang Wang University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

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