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Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

About

Yong Ren TAN joined the CoMo group as a PhD student in Chemical Engineering. His PhD is generously funded by the joint contribution from Fitzwilliam College (Kwok Family-Lee Kuan Yew PhD Scholarship), Trinity College (Trinity-Henry Barlow Scholarship), Cambridge Trust and Cambridge-CARES Studentship Award.

Yong Ren's PhD research topic is focused on the topic of alternative fuels. In particular, he investigates of the effect of low-carbon fuels (oxygenated fuels) in soot formation during combustion. He employs a range of combustion systems to help further understanding the influence of different oxygenated functional groups in the formation of soot during combustion. Some of the combustion systems that he used in his studies are smoke point lamp, coflow diffusion flame burner and compression ignition engine.

Prior to his PhD, he has worked in as a Research Engineer, researching on the sooting tendencies of oxygenated hydrocarbons. He has two years of industry experience working as a Management Associate in the telecommunications sector. He is also a graduate from Imperial College London and is awarded with a first class honours in BSc Chemistry. He has also received the Imperial College London Departmental Prize for Outstanding Overall BSc Performance.

Research profile

ORCID: 0000-0002-8029-9027

Research

Member of the Computational Modelling group, Prof Markus Kraft

Research interests:

  • Sustainability
  • Alternative fuels
  • Clean energy

 

Biography

BSc (Hons.) Chemistry, Imperial College London.

Publications

Key publications: 
  1. Y. R. Tan, Y. Zong, M. Salamanca, J. W. Martin, J. A. H. Dreyer, J. Akroyd, W. Yang, M. Kraft, Investigation on the effect of charge injection from non-thermal plasma on soot formation in laminar coflow diffusion flame, Combustion Science and Technology, 2023. DOI
  2. Y. R. Tan, Q. Zhu, Y. Zong, M. Salamanca, J. Akroyd, W. Yang, M. Kraft, The influence of alcohol, carbonate and polyethers as oxygenated fuels on the soot characteristics from a CI engine, Fuel, Volume 338, 2023, 127296. DOI
  3. Y. R. Tan, M. Salamanca, J. Akroyd, M. Kraft, How do the oxygenated functional groups in ether,carbonate and alcohol affect soot formation in Jet A2 diffusion flames?, Combustion and Flame, Volume 243, 2022, 111849. DOI
  4. Y. R. Tan, M. Salamanca, J. Bai, J. Akroyd, M. Kraft, Structural effects of C3 oxygenated fuels on soot formation in ethylene coflow diffusion flames, Combustion and Flame, Volume 232, 2021, 111512. DOI
  5. Y. R. Tan, M. Salamanca, L. Pascazio, J. Akroyd, M. Kraft, The effect of poly(oxymethylene) dimethyl ethers (PODE3) on soot formation in ethylene/PODE3 laminar coflow diffusion flames, Fuel, Volume 283, 2021, 118769. DOI
  6. Y. R. Tan, M. L. Botero, Y. Sheng, J. A. H. Dreyer, R. Xu, W. Yang, M. Kraft, Sooting characteristics of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ether blends with diesel in a diffusion flame, Fuel, Volume 224, 2018, Pages 499-506. DOI
     

 

Other publications: 
  1. Q. Zhu, Y. Zong, Y. R. Tan, J. Lyu, W. Yu, W. Yang, M. Kraft, Evaluating the effect of n-butanol additive on particulate matter emission in diesel engine, Fuel, Volume 332(1), 2023, 126003. DOI 
  2. X. Han, W. Yao, T. Wang, Y. R. Tan, Z. Yan, J. Kwiatkowski, Y. Lu, Y., Asymmetric Synthesis of Spiropyrazolones through Phosphine‐Catalyzed [4+1] Annulation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, Volume 53, Pages 5643-5647. DOI
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