Yuchun Zhao-先进制造与现代装备技术工程研究院

Name	Yuchun Zhao
Gender	Male
Title/Position	Associate Professor
Supervisor	Not applicable
Discipline	Machinery Design, Manufacturing and Automation
Phone	13906105689
E-mail	yczhao@ujs.edu.cn
Personal Introduction
Yuchun Zhao, Male, Associate Professor, Institute of Advanced Manufacturing, Equipment, Machinery and Technical Engineering of Jiangsu University. Dr Zhao Focus on the applications of thermal engineering, which include solar applications, technologies of energy-saving and reduction of carbon dioxide, heat transfer and dissipation of LED, desalination and power generation using low temperature resource such as solar energy, geothermal energy etc. He also holds four patents in relative fields. Dr Zhao lectures 5 courses for undergraduate students which are “Engineering materials and their forming foundation”, “Engineering materials and Manufacturing foundation”, “Engineering materials and their forming foundation(bilingual)”, “Engineering materials and Manufacturing foundation(bilingual)”,“Engineering )Materials and Their Processing Fundamentals（English）”、”Introduction to Mechanical Engineering （English）”. He is also an instructor of the course of “Manufacturing Technology for Advanced Materials（English）” for oversea PhD students.
Education Background
August 1988—Feb.1991：Master Degree candidate in the field “Friction and Wear” in Institute of Tribology”, China Mine and Technology University (Beijing); Feb2005—Feb2009： PhD candidateat School of Aerospace, Manufacturing and Engineering of RMIT University, Australia; August2011—June2012：Bachelor of Education at School of Education of Lakehead University, Canada.
Work Experience
June1991—August2001：Lecturer, Associate Professor of Jiangsu University； Sept2001—July2002：Visiting scholar at Institute of refrigeration, Shanghai Jiaotong University； August2002—January2005：Associate Professor of Jiangsu University;
Professional affiliations
Member of International Solar Energy Society；Register Senior Teacher of OCT (Ontario College of Teachers).
Research Fields
Solar thermal applications, desalination and power generation using waste low grade energy, renewable energy, technologies of energy-saving and reduction of carbon dioxide, heat transfer and dissipation of LED/
Representative Publications
Zhao, Y, Akbarzadeh, A and Andrews, J 2009, 'Simultaneous desalination and power generation using solar energy', Renewable Energy, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 401-408；招玉春等，一种新型的太阳能海水淡化与发电装置，太阳能学报2012年第四期
Research Projects
August2004—August2008：“Desalination ang power generation using solar engrgy”with fund of A$1.13M providedby Australian national fund and Rio Tinto Group; January1989—January1991: Chinese National “the seventh five year”Project: EP grease application in extreme cold area”; June1991—January1993: Jiangsu Provincial project“Solar water heating technology using heat pipe for multi-story building”.
Honors & Awards
January1992: Chinese National “the seventh five year”Project: EP grease application in extreme cold area” the third grade prize of science and technology progress awarded by Department of Energy of Republic of China; Nov.2009: Project “Desalination ang power generation using solar energy”was awarded silver prize by National Institute of energy in Melbourne University.
Patents
Year 2014:CN201310463250.4 “A controllable heat pipe type gas heat treatment furnace”； Year 2012:CN101975525BA “A separate heat pipe device for high temperature control of solar water heater； Year2010;ZL 2”009 1 0277267.3”A gradient preheating multi-stage evaporation desalination power generation system”.