Contact Dr Danlei Yang
Background
Dr. Danlei Yang is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Energy Engineering. She holds a PhD in Energy and Power Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University and was a visiting PhD student at University College London in Mechanical Engineering. She has also served as a Research Associate in the Department of Engineering at King's College London. In recent years, Dr. Yang has focused on advancing energy conversion technologies, including floating solar farms, high-power, high-temperature compressed air energy storage, and supercritical carbon dioxide energy storage and power generation systems.
Current activities
Danlei Yang is currently working on the Solar2Wave project, funded by Innovate UK, focusing on floating energy systems. Her research emphasizes developing digital twins for energy systems and AI methodologies for energy performance prediction. She aims to create innovative methodologies and provide evidence to support the implementation of intelligent energy systems.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Huang L, Elzaabalawy H, Sarhaan M, Sherif A, Ding H, .... (2025). Developing reliable floating solar systems on seas: a review. Ocean Engineering, 322
- Lyu X, Mi C, Collions S, Chen W, Yang D, .... (2025). Design and experimental tests for novel shapes of floating OWC wave energy converters with the additional purpose of breakwater. Ocean Engineering, 328
- Li XL, Tang GH, Yang DL & Fan YH. (2024). Performance evaluation of heater and recuperator in Brayton cycles for power and energy storage. Applied Thermal Engineering, 244
- Yang DL, Tang GH, Sheng Q, Li XL, Fan YH, .... (2023). Effects of multiple insufficient charging and discharging on compressed carbon dioxide energy storage. Energy, 278
- Li XL, Yu XY, Liu PT, Fan YH, Yang DL, .... (2023). S-CO2 flow in vertical tubes of large-diameter: Experimental evaluation and numerical exploration for heat transfer deterioration and prevention. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 216
- Fan YH, Tang GH, Sheng Q, Li XL & Yang DL. (2023). S–CO2 cooling heat transfer mechanism based on pseudo-condensation and turbulent field analysis. Energy, 262
- Li XL, Li GX, Tang GH, Fan YH & Yang DL. (2023). A generalized thermal deviation factor to evaluate the comprehensive stress of tubes under non-uniform heating. Energy, 263
- Yang DL, Tang GH, Luo KH, Fan YH, Li XL, .... (2022). Integration and conversion of supercritical carbon dioxide coal-fired power cycle and high-efficiency energy storage cycle: Feasibility analysis based on a three-step strategy. Energy Conversion and Management, 269
- Yang DL, Tang GH, Li XL & Fan YH. (2022). Capacity-dependent configurations of S–CO2 coal-fired boiler by overall analysis with a unified model. Energy, 245
- Fan YH, Yang DL, Tang GH, Sheng Q & Li XL. (2022). Design of S–CO2 coal-fired power system based on the multiscale analysis platform. Energy, 240
- Fan YH, Tang GH, Li XL & Yang DL. (2022). General and unique issues at multiple scales for supercritical carbon dioxide power system: A review on recent advances. Energy Conversion and Management, 268
- Li XL, Tang GH, Fan YH & Yang DL. (2022). A performance recovery coefficient for thermal-hydraulic evaluation of recuperator in supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle. Energy Conversion and Management, 256
- Fan Y, Tang G, Sheng Q, Li X & Yang D. (2022). S-Co2 Cooling Heat Transfer Mechanism Based on Pseudo-Condensation and Turbulent Field Analysis. SSRN Electronic Journal
- Li XL, Tang GH, Yang DL, Fan YH & Xu JL. (2021). Thermal-hydraulic-structural evaluation of S–CO2 cooling wall tubes: A thermal stress evaluating criterion and optimization. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 170
- Li XL, Wang SQ, Yang DL, Tang GH & Wang YC. (2021). Thermal-hydraulic and fouling performances of enhanced double H-type finned tubes for residual heat recovery. Applied Thermal Engineering, 189
- Fan Y, Tang G, Sheng Q, Li X & Yang D. (2021). Heat Transfer Correlations Based on S- Co2 Cooling Mechanism of Pseudo-Condensation and Turbulent Field Analysis. SSRN Electronic Journal
- Yang DL, Tang GH, Fan YH, Li XL & Wang SQ. (2020). Arrangement and three-dimensional analysis of cooling wall in 1000 MW S–CO2 coal-fired boiler. Energy, 197
- Fan YH, Tang GH, Yang DL, Li XL & Wang SQ. (2020). Integration of S-CO2 Brayton cycle and coal-fired boiler: Thermal-hydraulic analysis and design. Energy Conversion and Management, 225
- Fan YH, Tang GH, Li XL, Yang DL & Wang SQ. (2019). Correlation evaluation on circumferentially average heat transfer for supercritical carbon dioxide in non-uniform heating vertical tubes. Energy, 170
- Li XL, Tang GH, Fan YH, Yang DL & Wang SQ. (2019). Numerical Analysis of Slotted Airfoil Fins for Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger in S-CO2 Brayton Cycle. Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science, 5(4)