Dr Xiaoli Ma

Xiaoli Ma, Female, BEng. MSc. DPhil., is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Sustainable Energy Technology (CSET), School of Engineering, University of Hull (UK), and has experienced in research in the areas of sustainable building services, renewable energy, and energy efficiency technologies. She has conducted 29 research projects funded from EU, EPSRC (UK), Innovate UK, Carbon Trust (IEEA, UK), Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), National Science and Technology Committee, China and Industry. As an Investigator/co-investigator and chief researcher of most of the projects, she has significant project management experience and established effective links with research partners in the UK, EU and China. As a principle investigator (PI), Dr Ma has recently completed a Carbon Trust (BEIS,UK) research project for field trial and demonstration of a super performance dew point cooler at a Data Centre in Hull City Council, which has led to 90% of energy saving for the Data Centre cooling. Dr Ma has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in high impact scientific Journals and International Conferences, 2 books, 6 book chapters and claimed 2 patents. Dr Ma has 19 successful proposals as a PIs and CIs which attracted research funds from EU, EPSRC, Innovate UK, Carbon Trust (IEEA, UK) and industry, with a total fund value of £7.8M. She has supervised 5 PhD students and 1 Marie-curie research fellows as a first and second supervisor, and has supervised 4 visiting scholars. She is undertaking a MSc teaching course. She has received 2019 UK Rushlight Energy Reduction Award (the highest UK engineering award in the UK) and Energy Efficiency-World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies (WSSET) Innovation Awards 2018. She has been an invited chair, keynote speaker, organising committee member and editor from a number of international conferences. She works or worked as a Guest Editor and Editorial Board member of a number of Pioneer Journals including Energy, Energies, etc. She is a paper reviewer of numerous international Journals including ASHRAE, Renewable Energy and Applied Energy, etc.

Successful proposals and attracted grants:

• A Super Performance Dew Point Cooler for Data Center, Carbon trust (IEEA), Xiaoli Ma, Xudong Zhao and Zishang Zhu, 2019 (18 months), £692, 201

• A Novel Loop-Heat-Pipe (LHP)-based Data Centre Heat Removal and Recovery System Employing the Micro-channels Cold/Hot Plates, EU FP7, Xudong Zhao, Philip Rubini and Xiaoli Ma, 2019 (24 months), €225k

• Low Grade Waste Heat Driven CHP Combined with ejector System for Heating, Cooling and Power Generation in the Drink Supply Chain, Innovate UK Food Supply Chain, S B Riffat and Xiaoli Ma, 2015 (24 months), £663,245.

• High temperature PCM/Brayton cycle energy storage, Innovate UK, Energy Catalyst, S B Riffat and Xiaoli Ma 2014 (24 months), £649,995.

• Solar Collector and PCM Thermal Façade for Low Carbon Buildings, EU FP7 Programme, S B Riffat and Xiaoli Ma, 2014 (24 months) €190,000.

• Photocatalytic Mop Fan Air Cleaning System for Industrial Applications, S B Riffat and Xiaoli Ma, EPSRC, 2010 (18 months), £42,600

• A Novel Solar Façade Hot Water Heating System Using Loop Heat Pipe Technology, Xudong Zhao and Xiaoli Ma, Pikington Energy Efficiency Trust, UK, £5000, 2009 (18 months)

• A super performance dew point cooler for Data Centre achieving 90% energy saving for data Centre cooling.

• Super performance dew point cooling system achieving highest efficiency among the existing similar system (2017).

• 5kW solar driven steam ejector cooling system has been successfully installed in ENIT in Tunis for office cooling (2011).

• Highly efficient mop fan system for air cleaning, 35.4W running power saving 1.3kW heating energy (2011).

• Environmental friendly low grade waste heat (<120oC) power generation system achieving 15% of efficiency (2014).