Rate My Professor Baiqian Dai

Associate Professor Baiqian Dai serves in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University, primarily at the Monash Suzhou campus. He obtained a Bachelor of Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology in 2006, a Master of Engineering from University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in 2009, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Monash University in 2017, focusing his doctoral research on co-gasification to improve the efficient utilisation of low-rank fuels such as Victorian brown coal. After completing his PhD, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University from 2017 to 2019. Since January 2020, he has been a Senior Lecturer, where he established his research team, coordinates the Master of Industrial Engineering program at Monash Suzhou, and manages aspects of ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs for Nanoscience-based Construction Material Manufacturing and Energy-Efficient Separation. As Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Energy & Environmental Catalysis, he advances collaborative research with industry partners.

Dai's academic interests centre on clean solid fuel technologies, low-emission combustion, ash slagging and fouling mechanisms, fly ash vitrification and utilisation, pyrolysis, gasification, solid waste management, and energy evaluation for sustainable process design. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers in high-quality journals, achieving more than 2000 citations and an h-index of 15. Key publications include 'Functional carbon from nature: biomass‐derived carbon materials and the recent progress of their applications' (Advanced Science, 2023), 'Ash deposition and slagging behavior of Chinese Xinjiang high-alkali coal in 3 MWth pilot-scale combustion test' (Fuel, 2016), 'Inhibition of lignite ash slagging and fouling upon the use of a silica-based additive in an industrial pulverised coal-fired boiler. Part 1' (Fuel, 2015), and 'Characteristics of ash deposits in a pulverized lignite coal-fired boiler' (Energy & Fuels, 2013). His contributions have earned awards including Chinese Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (2015), Suzhou Industrial Park Young International Discipline Leaders (2021), and Suzhou Industry Park Excellent Teaching Award (2022). He serves on the editorial board of Coal and Biomass Conversion Technologies and holds roles in Monash Suzhou Research Institute committees.