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Dr Yong Ren TAN

Software Developer

Yong Ren Tan joined the CoMo group as a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His PhD was generously funded by the joint contribution from Fitzwilliam College (Kwok Family-Lee Kuan Yew PhD Scholarship), Trinity College (Trinity-Henry Barlow Scholarship), Cambridge Trust, and Cambridge-CARES Studentship Award.

Yong Ren's PhD research topic was focused on clean combustion. In particular, he investigated the effect of low-carbon fuels (oxygenated fuels) on soot formation during combustion. He employed a range of experimental methods to help further understand the influence of different oxygenated functional groups in the formation of soot during combustion. Some of the experimental techniques that he used in his studies are colour ratio pyrometry and differential mobility spectrometry.

Prior to his PhD, he worked in CARES as a Research Engineer researching the sooting tendencies of oxygenated hydrocarbons. He has two years of industry experience working as a Management Associate in the telecommunications sector. He was also a graduate of Imperial College London awarded with first-class honours in BSc Chemistry and received the Imperial College London Departmental Prize for Outstanding Overall BSc Performance.

Upon completion of his PhD, he now works at CARES as a Software Developer in the C4T programme.

Read: CARES Alumni Series: Tan Yong Ren

Singapore - CARES

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Key Publications

Q. Zhu, Y. Zong, Y. R. Tan, J. Lyu, W. Yu, W. Yang, M. Kraft, Evaluating the effect of n-butanol additive on particulate matter emission in diesel engine, Fuel, 2022, in press.

Y. R. Tan, Y. Zong, M. Salamanca, J. W. Martin, J. A. H. Dreyer, J. Akroyd, W. Yang, M. Kraft, Injection of charge from non-thermal plasma into a soot forming laminar coflow diffusion flame, Technical Report 288, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2022.

Y. R. Tan, M. Salamanca, J. Akroyd, M. Kraft, How do the oxygenated functional groups in ether,carbonate and alcohol affect soot formation in Jet A2 diffusion flames?, Combustion and Flame, 2022.

Y. R. Tan, M. Salamanca, J. Bai, J. Akroyd, M. Kraft, Structural effects of C3 oxygenated fuels on soot formation in ethylene coflow diffusion flames, Combustion and Flame, Volume 232, 2021, 111512.

Y. R. Tan, M. Salamanca, L. Pascazio, J. Akroyd, M. Kraft, The effect of poly(oxymethylene) dimethyl ethers (PODE3) on soot formation in ethylene/PODE3 laminar coflow diffusion flames, Fuel, Volume 283, 2021, 118769.

Y. R. Tan, M. L. Botero, Y. Sheng, J. A. H. Dreyer, R. Xu, W. Yang, M. Kraft, Sooting characteristics of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ether blends with diesel in a diffusion flame, Fuel, Volume 224, 2018, Pages 499-506.

X. Han, W. Yao, T. Wang, Y. R. Tan, Z. Yan, J. Kwiatkowski, Y. Lu, Y., Asymmetric Synthesis of Spiropyrazolones through Phosphine‐Catalyzed [4+1] Annulation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, Volume 53, Pages 5643-5647.

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