Professor Yulong Ding is the founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham and founder of Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage. His current research covers both fundamental (multiphase transport phenomena across length scales) and applied (new energy conversion and storage technologies) aspects.
He invented liquid air energy storage technology and led the initial stage of its developments and validation, which is commercialised by Highview Power, a UK engineering company. He developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage and associated large-scale manufacture technologies, leading to large scale commercial applications with a total installation of >1000MW / >8GWh so far. His work on in-process thermochemical splitting of CO2 for industrial decarbonisation has led to a spin-out ‘PeroCycle’ for the commercialisation of the technology.
