Dr Lei Chai
Research Fellow

Research area(s)

• Advanced CO2 power and refrigeration systems: Supercritical power generation system, transcritical refrigeration system, simultaneous heating and cooling system, system modeling and optimization
• Advanced energy storage devices and systems: Supercritical compressed air energy storage system, closed loop thermal energy storage system, packed bed regenerator system, pumped heat electricity storage system, devices and systems modeling and optimization
• Heat transfer enhancement and novel heat exchangers: Numerical heat transfer, condensation and boiling, supercritical fluid thermal-hydraulics, microscale heat transfer, heat exchanger modeling and optimization, advanced liquid cooling technologies
• Hydrogen energy and fuel cell: solid oxide electrolysis and fuel cells, hydrogen production from biomasses, metal hydride heat pump, hydrogen storage and transportation
• Function materials and applications: microfluid, phase change slurry, nanofluid, supercritical fluid, steam-ethanol mixtures, thermal energy material, refrigerant, electrofuels

Research Interests

Experiments and modelling on thermodynamics engineering, thermofluids engineering, heat and mass transfer, multiphase flow dynamics, flow boiling and condensation, heat transfer enhancement in micro-channels, enhanced heat transfer and energy saving, novel heat exchangers, novel energy storage devices and systems, etc