Horst Complex

dr. T. Zhu (Tingting)

Assistant Professor
ET-TFE-HTT
Horst Complex N215
t.zhu@utwente.nl
+31534898823
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I am an assistant professor in the Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering (Thermal Engineering group) at the University of Twente.

From 2019 to 2022, I served as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship /H.C. Ørsted COFUND at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), within the research group led by Professor Brian Elmegaard. My research primarily focused on the application of heat pumps and zeotropic refrigerants in district heating systems. Additionally, I was responsible for the design and development of a multifunctional heat pump testing system for the DTU Thermal Energy Section (TES) Laboratory.

I completed my Ph.D. research on the thermal behavior novel solar thermal collectors based on micro heat pipe arrays (MHPA). During my doctoral studies, I also contributed to projects on high-efficiency phase change thermal storage and the development of solar heating combined thermal storage system.

Expertise

  • Physics

    • Performance
    • Arrays
    • Air
    • Heat Pipe

  • Engineering

    • Micro Heat Pipe
    • Air Collector
    • Thermal Energy Storage
    • Heat Transfer

Organisations

Research fieldsAdvanced Heating and Cooling

  • Heat pump and mixture refrigerant
  • Solar thermal energy/PVT
  • Micro-heat pipe technology
  • Energy storage technologies
  • Energy system integration and optimization 

Publications

2024

Booster heat pump with drop-in zeotropic mixtures applied in ultra-low temperature district heating system (2024)Energy, 305. Article 132292. Zhu, T., Vieren, E., Liang, J., Thorsen, J. E., De Paepe, M., Lecompte, S. & Elmegaard, B.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.132292A comprehensive review of compression high-temperature heat pump steam system: Status and trend (2024)International journal of refrigeration, 164, 218-242. Ma, X., Du, Y., Zhao, T., Zhu, T., Lei, B. & Wu, Y.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2024.04.024Allocation optimization of two-stage compression-absorption heat exchanger (2024)International journal of heat and fluid flow, 107. Article 109396. Hua, J., Wang, J. & Zhu, T.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2024.109396Numerical analysis on thermal behavior of cascaded thermal storage units using multichannel flat tubes (2024)Journal of Energy Storage, 92. Article 112142. Pan, Y., Diao, Y., Liu, Y., Chen, C., Wang, X., Sun, C., Zhao, Y., Wang, T. & Zhu, T.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.112142Performance investigation of a novel flat-plate solar air collector with L-shaped dual micro heat pipe arrays (2024)Applied thermal engineering, 243. Article 122566. Wang, X., Diao, Y., Wang, Z., Zhao, Y., Pan, Y., Zhang, D. & Zhu, T.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.122566Performance of boilers equipped with vapor-pump (BEVP) system equipped with a novel air-flue gas total heat exchanger (2024)International journal of heat and fluid flow, 106. Article 109316. Hua, J., Wang, J. & Zhu, T.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2024.109316Performance evaluation of air-source heat pump based on a pressure drop embedded model (2024)Heliyon, 10(4). Article e24634. Koopman, T., Zhu, T. & Rohlfs, W.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24634An experimental investigation on the heat transfer characteristics of cascaded thermal storage units based on multichannel flat tubes (2024)Journal of Energy Storage, 78. Article 110012. Pan, Y., Diao, Y., Liu, Y., Chen, C., Zhao, Y., Wang, X., Zhang, D. & Zhu, T.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2023.110012

2023

Integration of booster heat pumps in ultra-low temperature district heating network: Prototype demonstration and refrigerant charge investigation (2023)Energy and buildings, 298. Article 113516. Zhu, T., Du, Y., Liang, J., Rohlfs, W., Eric Thorsen, J. & Elmegaard, B.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113516A Numerical Study of Vapor–Liquid Equilibrium in Binary Refrigerant Mixtures Based on 2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoroprop-1-ene (2023)Sustainability (Switzerland), 15(19). Article 14482. Sun, L., Liang, J. & Zhu, T.https://doi.org/10.3390/su151914482

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My vision for education is to teach students 'how to learn' and inspire them to become lifelong learners. 

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2023/2024

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship

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University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room N215
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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