Professor Yansong Shen | UNSW Research

My Expertise

Fields of Research (FoR)

Chemical Engineering, Process Control and Simulation, Heat and Mass Transfer Operations, Powder and Particle Technology, Pyrometallurgy, Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels), Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells, Water Treatment Processes

SEO tags

Basic Iron and Steel Products

Preparation of Brown Coal (Lignite)

Management of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Mineral Resource Activities

Solar-photoelectric

Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments

Recycling

Biography

Yansong Shen is a full Professor (tenured) and ARC Future Fellow (A/Prof, 2019-2021, Senior Lecturer, 2016-2018, UNSW; Lecturer, 2014-2016, Monash). He is the director of a vibrant research lab - Process Modelling and Optimisation of Reactiing Flows "ProMO Lab" (www.promo.unsw.edu.au), with applications to a range of complex reactive flow processes in traditional and emerging industries particularly resource and energy sectors, including process metallurgy, solid fuel preparation/utilization, water treatment, recycling processes of e.g. solar panels, plastic, and renewable energy processes e.g. solar cell/biomass/hydrogen. His research interests range from understanding fundamentals to optimising & developing new, cleaner and more efficient technologies, powered by advanced numerical and experimental approaches. He is the member of the editorial boards of "Advanced Powder Technology" and "Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B".

Please see details and updates in my group website https://www.promo.unsw.edu.au. Below please find some old data before 2020.

Referee for scholarly journals:

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B (Editor)
Advanced Powder Technology (Editor)
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Chemical Engineering Science
Chemical Engineering Journal
Powder Technology
AIChE Journal
Applied Energy
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Minerals Engineering
Fuel
ISIJ International
etc.

Scholarship/RA/TA opportunities

UNSW Scientia PhD scholarship, Tuition fee+50k pa, Please contact Prof. Shen for details. Update: We received two Scientia PhD Scholarships in 2017 (Ms S Song and Mr ZZ Xie). Apply here.
UNSW Scholarship to international/domestic students, Tuition fee+26k pa. Click here. For the key date, click here.
Project Scholarship available in Prof. Shen's Lab, Tuition fee+26k pa. Please contact Prof. Shen for details.
China Scholarship Council (CSC) Joint Scholarship program (中国国家公派出国留学奖学金). For more details, click here. To apply CSC, click here. Extra top-up scholarships will be provided to CSC awardees. It may increase yearly with performance.
UNSW English requirements can be found at UNSW website (click here)

Research Assistant positions are available. Please contact Prof. Shen for details.
Teaching Assistant positions are available.
Postdoc fellow positions are available.

Potential employment opportunities

Iron ore and coal are the two largest exports in Australia. sProMO group has a high reputation for collaboration with industries in iron ore and coal sectors including Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, ACARP, Coal Energy Australia, Baosteel. PhD graduates will readily be exposed to these industries for potential employment. The same applies to our research in the fields of photovoltaics, water, biomass, etc.

My Grants

11 ARC research grants (updated: 2021)

DP220100306 YS Shen, M Sakai and S Pirker, Modelling of polydisperse particle-fluid reacting flows, ARC-Discovery Project, A$390k
LP200100106 YS Shen, Data-driven monitoring of raceway dynamics in ironmaking blast furnaces, ARC-Linkage Project, A$540k
FT190100361"Data-driven modelling of complex reactive flows", ARC Future Fellowship, A$ 878k.
DP180101232 ARC-Discovery Project, A$342k.
LP160101100 ARC-Linkage Project, A$700k.
LP150100112 ARC-Linkage Project, A$1.1M.
LP120200469 ARC-Linkage Project, A$1.3M.
IH140100035 ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub, A$ 10M (250k to UNSW).
DP160103433 ARC-Discovery Project, A$270k.
LP150100911 ARC-Linkage Project, A$510k.

External research grants (updated: 2020)

Y Shen, Evaluation of Australian PCI Coals in the Co-Injection of Hydrogen and Coal into Blast Furnaces, ACARP, A$150k, 2021-2022.
Y Shen and 3CIs, “End-of-Life, Highly efficient, low-cost and eco-friendly recycling technology for silicon photovoltaic panels”, ARENA r5, A1.36M A Zero-Emission Tandem Array for Transforming Waste Biomass into Renewable Hydrogen, ARENA, RND2018/015, (2019-2021), A$1M.
I Byrne, R Dvorak, G Lang, B Hawkett, Y Shen, D Giurco, R Lewis, Better recycling: HDPE 100% recycling by removal of residual adhesive, CRC-P, round 8,
Y Shen, and 2 CIs, Data-driven transient modelling of raceway-tuyere region of blast furnace and tuyere erosion control, BAJC, A$250k
R Amal and CIs, Highly efficient and low cost photovoltaic electrolysis (PVE) system to generate hydrogen by harvesting the full spectrum of sunlight, ARENA, RND2018/014 (2019-2021), A$1.3M.
Y Shen, Australian PCI Coals under Industry Scale Blast Furnace Conditions using 3D Computer Modelling: Stage 2 the Injection of Coal Blends: Ext C26041, ACARP (Australian Coal Association Research Program)(2018), A$100k.
M Green and CIs, Efficient Adamantine Thin-Film on Silicon Tandem Cells: The Next Step in Commercial Cell Evolution, ARENA, (2018-2022), RND2017/011, A$3.2M.
Y Shen, Evaluation of Australian PCI coals under industry-scale conditions of ironmaking blast furnace using 3D computer modelling”, ACARP (Australian Coal Association Research Program)(2017), A$100k.
Y Shen, Detailed investigation of PCI operations for stable and low-cost ironmaking”, Baosteel-Australia Joint Centre(2015-2017), A$250k.

My Qualifications

BEng School of Materials and Metallurgy (Top Student Class)

1996-2001 Northeastern University, Shenyang, China

MEng School of Materials and Metallurgy

2001-2003 Northeastern University, Shenyang, China

PhD School of Materials Science and Engineering

2004-2009 The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

My Awards

2019 ARC Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 2019-2024.

2017 Best Presentation Award, 19th International conference on oil, gas and coal, Zurich, Switzerland, 2017 June.

2015 Korea-Australia Emerging Researchers Exchange Award, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).

2014 Best Poster Award, The 2nd Australia-China Joint Symposium on Minerals and Metallurgy, Sydney.

2012 ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 2012-2015.

2012 Emerging Future Leaders in Low Emission Coal Technology Fellowship, ATSE-JCG.

2011 Silver Star Award, A$35k, UNSW.

2011 Best Poster Award, Poster Competition, UNSW.

2010 Best Oral Presentation Award, Chemeca 2010, Adelaide.

My Research Activities

Please see details in group website: http://www.promo.unsw.edu.au/

My Research Supervision

Areas of supervision

Research interests

Process modelling and design
Reacting flow in complex reactors
Multiscale simulations
Process metallurgy
Coal preparation, upgrade and utilization
Combustion of solid fuel (blends): e.g. biomass, plastic, coal
Water treatment
Recycling
Renewable energy generation/storage processes: e.g. photovoltaics solar cells, biomass, hydrogen generation/storage.

Currently supervising

Current members (updated 2020)

Prof. YS Shen	Group leader
Dr S Wang	RA	CFD-DEM modelling of reacting flows
Dr WY LI	RA	Data-driven fault analysis
Dr R Chandratilleke	RA	DEM modelling of particle mixing
Dr YT Zhuo	PhD 16s1 / RA	Low-rank coal pyrolysis; Hydrogen generation
Dr YR Liu	PhD 17s1 / RA	Biomass combustion and gasification
Ms JX Cui (graduated)	PhD 17s1	Phase diagram modelling of PV materials
Dr XB Yu	PhD 17s1 / RA	Carbon composite briquette charging in a BF
Dr YH Yue	PhD 17s1 / RA	Spout deflection in a spouted bed
Dr SY Li	PhD 17s2 / RA	Chemical looping combustion
Mr X Jin	PhD 18s1	Particle flow in a U-shape mixer for future food manufacturing
Ms S Song (Scientia PhD)	PhD 18s1	Water treatment
Mr Z Xie (Scientia PhD)	PhD 18s2	Water treatment
Ms XY Wong	PhD 19t2	Electrolyser design for hydrogen generation
Mr ZG Zhao	PhD 20t2	blast furnace modelling

Mr XX Tang	PhD 21t1	TBA
Mr D Xu	PhD 21t2	TBA
Mr MJ Gan	PhD 21t2	TBA
Ms HM Mohsin	PhD 21t2	TBA
Mr E Farajzadeh	PhD 21t2	TBA

Master students

Xiangyu Han	Master	2016 S1/S2
Run Geng	Master	2016 S2 / 2017 S1
Boheng Zhu	Master	2016 S2 / 2017 S1
Bowen Zhang	Master	2016 S2 / 2017 S1
Kedi Huang	Master	2017 S1/S2
DongtingSong	Master	2017 S2 / 2018 S1
Hongyang Li	Master	2017 S2 / 2018 S1
Nan Wang	Master	2017 Summer / 2018 S1
Mohamad Naim Amir Khairul Amar	Honours	2017 Summer / 2018 S1
Changyoung Jung	Honours	2017 S2 / 2018 S1
Min Kim	Honours	2017 S2 / 2018 S1
Muhammad Nazmi Bin Mohd Nazim	Honours	2018 S1/S2
Muhammad Amir Firdaus Bin Mohd Zainol	Honours	2018 S1/S2
Ziguang Zhao	Master	2019
Haoran Xu	Honours	2019
Peiyu Wang	Honours	2019
Athit Pinthong	Master	2019
Siying Pan	Honours	2019
Muhammad Hanif Najmi Bin Norsham	Honours	2019
Muhammad Fakhrulghazi Bin Mohd Fouad	Honours	2019
Simon Liu	Honours	2019
Rongjie Li	Master	2019
Shipeng Guo	Master	2019