5th International Conference on
Advanced Materials and Material Science

Xinying Liu

Head of the XTL/FTS research group

WITS University

South Africa

Biography

Prof Xinying Liu is the head of the XTL/FTS research group in the Institute for Development of Energy for African Sustainability (IDEAS). He currently supervises approximately eleven PhD students, four masters students and two postdoctoral students. He is in charge of the XTL/FTS research and industrial project development group, looking after the research and industrial project development in the area of XTL processes especially middle and small scale XTL (less than 3000 bpd) and process development for renewable energy solutions for off-grid and rural area applications. He is the process leader in the conceptual and basic engineering package development of a commercial demonstration scale gas to liquid (GTL) plant, in charge of the engineering phase (from conceptual to commissioning) of a mini scale waste to liquid (WTL) demonstration plant.

Research Area

Materials science