Xu Xiaoyun
Personal Particulars
Research Associate
4 Engineering Drive 4, E5-B12, Singapore 117585
Phone: (65)86473470
Email: xy.xu@nus.edu.sg

Employment History

• 01 Mar 2021–Present, Research Associate (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), National University of Singapore
• 23 Oct 2020‒28 Feb 2021, Research Associate (NERI), National University of Singapore
• May 2014‒April 2017, Project Manager (Design Center), Shanghai Electric Wind Energy Co., Ltd.
• Aug 2012–April 2014, Project Engineer (Design Center), Siemens Wind Power Turbines (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
• Jul 2010–Jul 2012, System Engineer (Technology Department), Shanghai Electric Wind Power Equipment Co., Ltd.

Education

• M.Eng., (Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering), Hohai University, China, 2010
• B.Eng., (Thermal Power Engineering), Hohai University, China, 2007

Research Interests

• Physics-and-AI based modelling and optimization for multi-energy systems
• Hydrodynamics and thermal engineering applied to the renewable energy sector
• Aerodynamics engineering science applied to wind energy

Research Highlight

Aug 2021–present A*STAR SINGAPORE FOOD STORY R&D PROGRAMME INDUSTRY ALIGNMENT FUND-PREPOSITIONING (IAF-PP) ON THEME 2 – FUTURE FOODS: ALTERNATIVE PROTEINS (AME DOMAIN)

• Design, fabrication, and commissioning of a 2-module photobioreactor system for the laboratory-scale micro-algae cultivation.
• Designed the heat exchanger and cooling system inside the micro-algae photobioreactor for controlling the cultivation temperature of the outdoor demonstration-scale photobioreactors.
• Completed the outdoor test by using a LDPE-bag based experimental setup.

Figure 1: Water temperature and ambient temperature as functions of the global solar irradiance in Singapore’s outdoor environment.

Nov 2021–present  A CIRCULAR ECONOMY APPROACH IN PHYTOREMEDIATION

• Research on the biochar production from gasification of water hyacinth for a circular economy