Date of Birth

1980．01

Professional Title

Associate Professor

E-mail

newton@njtech.edu.cn

Research Fields

Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heat Pumps

Personal Profile

Xiaofeng Niu, Doctor of Southeast University and Postdoctoral Fellow of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is now Associate Professor and Associate Dean of College of Urban Construction, Nanjing Tech University. He also serves as Deputy Director of Technical Commission on Air-conditioning and Heat Pumps of Jiangsu Association of Refrigeration, Deputy Director of Technical Commission on Green and Low-carbon Development of Jiangsu Association of Refrigeration, member of HVAC Thermal Energy and Power Sub-Committee of Jiangsu Civil Engineering & Architectural Society, and Director of Nanjing Society of Engineering Thermophysics. He has conducted in-depth research on improvement of ammonia-water absorption refrigeration system, preparation and application of microencapsulated phase change materials, as well as simulation and optimization of liquid desiccant systems.

Representative Research Projects / Works / Papers

Projects:

1.Subproject of the National Key R & D Program (2018YFC0704303-04): Research on Error Analysis of Large Datasets (Project Leader)

2．Supported by the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51406076): Effect of Phase Change Micro/ Nano Capsule on Heat and Mass Transfer in Liquid Desiccant Process (Project Leader)

3.Supported by the Young Scientists Fund of the Natural Science Foundation ofJiangsu Province (BK20140942): Effect of Phase Change Micro/ Nano Capsule on Liquid Desiccant and Regeneration Performance (Project Leader)

Papers：

[1]Honglin Dong, Dandan Wang,XiaofengNiu*, Yue Zhang, Xu He, Qing Ke, Zhiheng Lu. Experimental study on the liquid desiccant dehumidification performance ofmicroencapsulatedphase change materials slurry[J]. Energy, 2022, 239: 122212.

[2]XiaofengNiu*, Ruifeng Xia, Honglin Dong, Dandan Wang, DichangDuan,Peng Gao, RistoKosonen. Dispersion stability and thermophysical properties of microencapsulated phasechangematerial slurry for liquid desiccant dehumidification[J]. Energy & Buildings, 2021, 240: 110870.

[3]Dandan Wang,XiaofengNiu*, Yufeng Yan, Peng Gao, DichangDuan. Research on falling film dehumidificationperformanceof microencapsulated phase change materials slurry[J]. Energy & Buildings, 2021, 235: 110750.

[4]Wei Liu, Yanfeng Gong,XiaofengNiu*, Junjie Shen, RistoKosonen. Dynamic modeling of liquid-desiccant regenerator based on a state–space method. Applied Energy, 2019, 240 :744-753.

[5]XiaofengNiu*, Yue Zhang,Xing Li,Yan Tong,Guangli Zhang. Performance analysis of a liquid desiccant system with an adjustable reflux ratio of regeneration solution. Building Services Engineering Research & Technology, 2017, 38(1): 89-103.