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Xiaofeng Zheng

Assistant Professor - Building Services, Faculty of Engineering

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Biography

Dr. Zheng obtained his PhD from the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the 糖心原创. He then continued to work at UoN for over 7 years on a number of research projects funded by UK and EU funding bodies. They are mainly related to building energy retrofitting, research and development of the low-pressure Pulse technique for measuring building airtightness, its application in high-integrity enclosures, non-residential and Passivhaus standard buildings. He also worked at Leeds Beckett University as a lecturer in Building Services Engineering for an academic year, delivering lectures on Mechanical Services, Low Carbon Buildings & Renewables, Building Services Systems, Thermofluids and Major Design Project.

He has a diverse engineering background, from HVAC and fire detection on trains that run at high-plateau and high speed, to bionic engineering, thermoelectric applications, building physics, energy efficiency, ventilation and airtightness. He has published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 20 articles in International Conferences. One successful spin-off has been created from the research that he has been closely involved with, which entails the novel Pulse technique, a UK building regulation approved method for measuring building airtightness (The Future Homes Standard).

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Assistant Professor in Building Services Engineering

Research Summary

His main research interests lie in building physics particularly building fabric performance and how it impacts building's thermal and ventilation performance. His research interests also extend to… read more

Recent Publications

  • ZHENG, X. F., HSU, Y. S., PASOS, A. V., SMITH, L. and WOOD, C. J., 2022. Energy and Buildings. 261,
  • YUN-SHENG HSU, XIAOFENG ZHENG, EDWARD COOPER, MARK GILLOTT and CHRISTOPHER WOOD, 2021. Building and Environment. 195,
  • XIAOFENG ZHENG, EDWARD COOPER, MARK GILLOTT and CHRISTOPHER WOOD, 2020. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 132,
  • XIAOFENG ZHENG and CHRISTOPHER WOOD, 2020. Energy and Buildings. 226,

Current Research

His main research interests lie in building physics particularly building fabric performance and how it impacts building's thermal and ventilation performance. His research interests also extend to low carbon buildings, low carbon farming, bionic engineering, heating and cooling technologies.

Past Research

His previous research experience extends to a number of UK and EU-funded research projects which are related to the research and development of the low-pressure Pulse technique for measuring building airtightness and its wider applications in the building sector. His past research experience also covers heating and ventilation in buildings and high speed trains, nature-inspired viscous drag reduction method and domestic thermoelectric cogeneration system for power generation and hot water production.

  • ZHENG, X. F., HSU, Y. S., PASOS, A. V., SMITH, L. and WOOD, C. J., 2022. Energy and Buildings. 261,
  • YUN-SHENG HSU, XIAOFENG ZHENG, EDWARD COOPER, MARK GILLOTT and CHRISTOPHER WOOD, 2021. Building and Environment. 195,
  • XIAOFENG ZHENG, EDWARD COOPER, MARK GILLOTT and CHRISTOPHER WOOD, 2020. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 132,
  • XIAOFENG ZHENG and CHRISTOPHER WOOD, 2020. Energy and Buildings. 226,
  • ALAN VEGA PASOS, XIAOFENG ZHENG, LUKE SMITH and CHRISTOPHER WOOD, 2020. Building and Environment. 185,
  • YIJIANG WANG, JINYI JIANG, JO DARKWA, ZEYUAN XU, XIAOFENG ZHENG and GUOQING ZHOU, 2020. Renewable Energy. 160, 803-816
  • XIAOFENG ZHENG, EDWARD COOPER, JOE MAZZON, IAN WALLIS and CHRISTOPHER J WOOD, 2019. Building and Environment.
  • XIAOFENG ZHENG, EDWARD COOPER, YINGQING ZU, MARK GILLOTT, DAVID TETLOW, SAFFA RIFFAT and CHRISTOPHER J WOOD, 2019. Future Cities and Environment.
  • XIAOFENG ZHENG, JOE MAZZON, IAN WALLIS and CHRISTOPHER J WOOD, 2018. Experimental study of enclosure airtightness of an outdoor chamber using the pulse technique and blower door method under various leakage and wind conditions In: 39th AIVC - 7th TightVent & 5th venticool Conference, 18-19 September 2018, Antibes Juan-Les-Pins. 352-362
  • CHRISTOPHER J WOOD, XIAOFENG ZHENG, ALAN VEGA PASOS, YUNSHENG HSU and LUKE SMITH, 2018. An extended pressure range comparison of the blower door and novel pulse method for measuring the airtightness of two outdoor chambers with different levels of airtightness In: 39th AIVC - 7th TightVent & 5th venticool Conference, 18-19 September 2018, Antibes Juan-Les-Pins. 915-925
  • ALAN VEGA PASOS, XIAOFENG ZHENG, VASILEIOS SOUGKAKIS, MARK GILLOTT, JOHANN MEULEMANS, OLIVIER SAMIN, FLORENT ALZETTO and LUKE SMITH, 2018. Experimental study on the measurement of Building Infiltration and Air Leakage rates (at 4 and 50 Pa) by means of Tracer Gas methods, Blower Door and the novel Pulse technique in a Detached UK Home In: 39th AIVC - 7th TightVent & 5th venticool Conference, 18-19 September 2018, Antibes Juan-Les-Pins. 972-981
  • ALAN VEGA PASOS, XIAOFENG ZHENG, VASILEIOS SOUGKAKIS, MARK GILLOTT, JOHANN MEULEMANS, OLIVIER SAMIN, FLORENT ALZETTO, LUKE SMITH, STEPHEN JACKSON and CHRISTOPHER J WOOD, 2018. Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Environmental Conditions on the Measurement of Building Infiltration, and its correlation with Airtightness In: 39th AIVC - 7th TightVent & 5th venticool Conference, 18-19 September 2018, Antibes Juan-Les-Pins.
  • XIAOFENG ZHENG, EDWARD COOPER, YINGQING ZU, MARK GILLOTT, DAVID TETLOW, SAFFA RIFFAT and CHRISTOPHER J WOOD, 2018. Experimental studies of a pulse pressurisation technique for measuring building airtightness In: 17th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology, 21-23 August 2018, Wuhan, China.
  • SHIN-KU LEE, BENSON LAU, XIAOFENG ZHENG and SHUO-YAN CHOU, 2018. Investigation of thermal transmittance of building integrated photovoltaic system In: 17th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology, 21-23 August 2018, Wuhan, China.
  • XIAOFENG ZHENG, EDWARD COOPER, JOE MAZZON, IAN WALLIS and CHRISTOPHER J WOOD, 2017. A comparison study of the blower door and novel pulse technique on measuring enclosure airtightness in a controlled environment In: 38th AIVC conference, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 13-14 September 2017.
  • COOPER, E., ZHENG, X., WOOD, C., GILLOT, M., TETLOW, D., RIFFAT, S. and DE SIMON, L., 2016. International Journal of Ventilation. 1-18
  • LIU, C., PAN, X., ZHENG, X., YAN, Y. and LI, W., 2016. Journal of the Energy Institute. 89(2), 271-281
  • ED COOPER, XIAOFENG ZHENG, CHRISTOPHER WOOD, MARK GILLOTT, DAVID TETLOW, SAFFA RIFFAT and LIA DE SIMON, 2016. International Journal of Ventilation.
  • COOPER, E., ZHENG, X.F., GILLOTT, M., RIFFAT, S., TETLOW, D. and DE-SIMON, L., 2015. In: 36th AIVC Conference " Effective ventilation in high performance buildings", Madrid, Spain, 23-24 September 2015..
  • X.F. ZHENG, C.X. LIU, R. BOUKHANOUF, Y.Y. YAN*, W.Z. LI, 2014. Applied Thermal Engineering. 62(1), 69-79
  • X.F. ZHENG, C.X. LIU, Y.Y. YAN*, Q. WANG, 2014. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 32, 486-503
  • COOPER, E., ZHENG, X.F., GILLOTT, M., RIFFAT, S. and ZU, Y.Q., 2014. In: 35th AIVC Conference " Ventilation and airtightness in transforming the building stock to high performance", Pozna艅, Poland, 24-25 September 2014.
  • ZHENG, X. F., LIU, C. X., YAN, Y. Y. and WANG, Q., 2014. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 32, 486-503
  • X.F. ZHENG, Y.Y. YAN*, K. SIMPSON, 2013. Applied Thermal Engineering. 53(2), 305-311
  • ZHENG, X.F., LIU, C.X., BOUKHANOUF, R., YAN*, Y. and LI, W.Z., 2013. Applied Thermal Engineering. 1(62), 69-79
  • X.F. ZHENG, C.X. LIU and Y.Y. YAN, 2012. In: EUROTHERM.
  • X.F. ZHENG, Y.Y. YAN, 2010. Advances in Natural Science. 3(2), 139-151
  • N. GAO, Y.Y. YAN, X.Y. CHEN, X.F. ZHENG, 2010. Journal of Bionic Engineering. 7(Suppl.), 59-66

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