Staff profile

About Me

Dr Janie Ling Chin is Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering of Durham University, UK. She was awarded a PhD in 2016 after spending 5 years in her part-time study focussing on life cycle assessment (LCA) of conventional, retrofit and state-of-the-art power systems for cargo ships. In conjunction to her PhD study, she led the research on Environment Safety and Risk Analysis in a FP7 project “INOvative Energy MANagement System for Cargo SHIP (266082; total funding: €3,341,187)”.

Janie’s research areas cover LCA, energy systems integration, hydrogen technology, and thermal management including liquid desiccant technology. She is Researcher Co-Investigator or Co-Investigator in projects currently funded by the UK Research and Innovation, namely UK National Clean Maritime Research Hub (EP/Y024605/1; total funding: £ 21.3 million), Network+ for Hydrogen-fuelled Transportation (EP/S032134/1; total funding: £966,316), Network+ for Heating and Cooling Research (EP/S032134/1; total funding: £1,159,698), and Network+ for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Energy Research Community (EP/W033771/1; total funding: £1,006,946).

Also, she is one of the investigators for current/recent projects that focus on hydrogen, which include Growing Teesside’s Hydrogen Economy and Catalysing a Just Transition to Net Zero (total funding: £11,109,202); The Road to Hydrogen: A Hydrogen Fuel Cell HGV Demonstration Project (10011534; total funding: £411,540); and Overview on Hydrogen Scalability, Transport, Storage and Distribution (total funding: £23,500). These projects are/were funded through Research England Development Fund; Innovate UK; and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult respectively. She leads sustainability and policy research in a Horizon project, Demonstration of a Digitized Energy System Integration across Sectors Enhancing Flexibility and Resilience towards an Efficient, Sustainable, Cost-optimised, Affordable, Secure and Stable Energy Supply (10040861; total funding: €9,621,673).

As a Co-Investigator for the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre project (EP/V027050/1; total funding: £19,903,412), she led and co-led post-doctoral researchers in developing a digital twin and a smart decision modelling tool in two 2-year projects respectively, i.e., An Integrated Energy System Planning Tool for Net Zero Industrial Clusters and A Smart Decision Modelling for Industrial Cluster Decarbonisation, respectively.

She also led a 14-month project, Energy Recovery and Utilisation, which was funded through Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Impact Acceleration Account to develop a mobile thermal battery system using liquid desiccant technology (total funding: £57,983). She is also co-Investigator in other active/recent projects funded by Innovate UK and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Impact Acceleration Account. These include Protected Cultivation of Horticultural Crops: Setting a New Standard (10054907; total funding: £499,947); UK-India Foundation Industries Sustainable Thermal Energy Management Collaboration (10019361; total funding: £79,923); and A Decarbonisation Plan for the Church of England (total funding: £34,165).

Janie has the specialist skills essential to project management, which are built upon her qualification (MSc in Project Management) and strengthened via professional development (PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner certificates in Project Management) and hands-on experience in managing multiple research projects. She has organised and delivered more than 25 national and international stakeholder engagement events, and she is champion for equality, diversity, and inclusion.

• Life cycle assessment
• Decarbonisation
• Hydrogen fuelled transportation
• Hydrogen technology
• Energy systems integration
• Thermal management
• Waste heat recovery
• Sustainability
• Carbon capture, storage and utilisation

Chapter in book

• Ling-Chin, J., Rajendran, K., & Roskilly, A. P. (in press). Energy economics and environment of energy systems. In U. Soytaş, & R. Sarı (Eds.), Handbook of Energy Economics (192-206). Routledge
• Ling-Chin, J., Giampieri, A., Wilks, M., & Roskilly, A. P. (2024). Hydrogen technology and prospective development. In T. M. Letcher (Ed.), Living With Climate Change (559-585). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-443-18515-1.00018-6
• Ling-Chin, J., Turner, B., Abram, S., Giampieri, A., But, B., Abad, A. V., & Roskilly, A. P. (2024). Hydrogen-fueled transportation as a measure for climate change mitigation: Social perspectives. . Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-443-18515-1.00005-8
• Roy, S., Ling-Chin, J., Bohl, T., Giampieri, A., Smallbone, A., & Roskilly, A. P. (2021). Biodiesel: Emissions and Control, Challenges, Potential and Prospects. In T. Letcher (Ed.), Comprehensive Renewable Energy. (2nd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-819727-1.00063-7
• Ling-Chin, J., Bao, H., Ma, Z., Taylor, W., & Roskilly, A. P. (2018). State-of-the-Art Technologies on Low-Grade Heat Recovery and Utilization in Industry. In I. H. Al-Bahadly (Ed.), Energy conversion : current technologies and future trends (55-74). IntechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78701
• Rajendran, K., Ling-Chin, J., & Roskilly, A. P. (2015). Thermal Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes. In J. Yan (Ed.), Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118991978.hces091

Conference Paper

• Jiang, L., Gonzalez-Diaz, A., Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A., & Smallbone, A. (2019, May). Performance analysis for post-combustion CO2 capture from a natural gas combined cycle power plant using activated carbon. Paper presented at The 5th International Conference Sustainable Thermal Energy Management (SusTEM2019), Hangzhou, China
• Ling-Chin, J., Taylor, W., Davidson, P., Reay, D., Tassou, S., & Roskilly, A. (2019, August). UK policies and industrial stakeholder perspectives on building thermal performance. Presented at 10th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE2018), 22-25 August 2018, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong
• Giampieri, A., Ling-Chin, J., Taylor, W., Smallbone, A., & Roskilly, A. Moving towards low-carbon manufacturing in the UK automotive industry

Journal Article

• Ling-Chin, J., Giampieri, A., Wilks, M., Lau, S. W., Bacon, E., Sheppard, I., Smallbone, A. J., & Roskilly, A. P. (online). Technology roadmap for hydrogen-fuelled transportation in the UK. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.04.131
• Griffiths, I., Wang, R., Ling-Chin, J., & Paul Roskilly, A. (2024). Solid oxide fuel cells with integrated direct air carbon capture: A techno-economic study. Energy Conversion and Management, 315, Article 118739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2024.118739
• Jiang, D., Giampieri, A., Ling-Chin, J., & Roskilly, A. P. (2024). Experimental investigation of a mixed desiccant solution of potassium formate and ionic liquid. Green Energy and Sustainability, 4(2), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.47248/ges2404020002
• Roy, D., Zhu, S., Wang, R., Mondal, P., Ling-Chin, J., & Roskilly, A. P. (2024). Techno-economic and environmental analyses of hybrid renewable energy systems for a remote location employing machine learning models. Applied Energy, 361, Article 122884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.122884
• Ogwumike, C., Akponeware, A., Oyewole, A., Dawood, H., Pinedo-Cuenca, R., Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A. P., & Dawood, N. (2024). Transitioning or tinkering at a net-zero economy? Introducing an assessment framework for industrial cluster decarbonisation in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science, 110, Article 103459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103459
• Ling-Chin, J., Simpson, R., Cairns, A., Wu, D., Xie, Y., Song, D., Kashkarov, S., Molkov, V., Moutzouris, I., Wright, L., Tricoli, P., Dansoh, C., Panesar, A., Chong, K., Liu, P., Roy, D., Wang, Y., Smallbone, A., & Roskilly, A. P. (2024). Research and innovation identified to decarbonise the maritime sector. Green Energy and Sustainability, 4(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.47248/ges2404010001
• Slavin, B., Wang, R., Roy, D., Ling-Chin, J., & Roskilly, A. P. (2024). Techno-economic analysis of direct air carbon capture and hydrogen production integrated with a small modular reactor. Applied Energy, 356, 122407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.122407
• Giampieri, A., Ling-Chin, J., & Roskilly, A. P. (2024). Techno-economic assessment of offshore wind-to-hydrogen scenarios: A UK case study. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 52(Part B), 589-617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.01.346
• Ngwaka, U., Khalid, Y., Ling-Chin, J., Counsell, J., Siddiqui, F., Pinedo-Cuenca, R., Dawood, H., Smallbone, A., Dawood, N., & Roskilly, A. P. (2023). Industrial cluster energy systems integration and management tool. Energy Conversion and Management, 297, 117731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117731
• Khalid, Y., Ngwaka, U., Papworth, J., Ling-Chin, J., & Smallbone, A. (2023). Evaluation of decarbonisation options for heritage church buildings. Journal of Building Engineering, 77, Article 107462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.107462
• Wilks, M., Wang, C., Ling-Chin, J., Wang, X., & Bao, H. (2023). Thermochemical energy storage for cabin heating in battery powered electric vehicles. Energy Conversion and Management, 291, Article 117325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117325
• Giampieri, A., Machado, Y., Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A. P., & Ma, Z. (2023). A techno-economic investigation of conventional and innovative desiccant solutions based on moisture sorption analysis. Heliyon, 9(8), Article e18825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18825
• Giampieri, A., Ma, Z., Ling-Chin, J., Smallbone, A. J., & Roskilly, A. P. (2022). A techno-economic evaluation of low-grade excess heat recovery and liquid desiccant-based temperature and humidity control in automotive paint shops. Energy Conversion and Management, 261, Article 115654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2022.115654
• Giampieri, A., Ma, Z., Ling-Chin, J., Bao, H., Smallbone, A. J., & Roskilly, A. P. (2022). Liquid Desiccant Dehumidification and Regeneration Process: Advancing Correlations for Moisture and Enthalpy Effectiveness. Applied Energy, 314, Article 118962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.118962
• Giampieri, A., Ma, Z., Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A., & Smallbone, A. (2022). An overview of solutions for airborne viral transmission reduction related to HVAC systems including liquid desiccant air-scrubbing. Energy, 244(Part A), Article 122709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.122709
• Jiang, L., Gonzalez-Diaz, A., Ling-Chin, J., Malik, A., Roskilly, A., & Smallbone, A. (2020). PEF plastic synthesized from industrial carbon dioxide and biowaste. Nature Sustainability, 3(9), 761-767. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0549-y
• Giampieri, A., Ling-Chin, J., Ma, Z., Smallbone, A., & Roskilly, A. (2020). A review of the current automotive manufacturing practice from an energy perspective. Applied Energy, 261, Article 114074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114074
• Giampieri, A., Ma, Z., Chin, J. L., Smallbone, A., Lyons, P., Khan, I., Hemphill, S., Roskilly, A. P., & Bao, H. (2019). Techno-economic analysis of the thermal energy saving options for high-voltage direct current interconnectors. Applied Energy, 247, 60-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.003
• Ling-Chin, J., Taylor, W., Davidson, P., Reay, D., Nazi, W., Tassou, S., & Roskilly, A. (2019). UK building thermal performance from industrial and governmental perspectives. Applied Energy, 237, 270-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.12.077
• Jiang, L., Gonzalez-Diaz, A., Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A., & Smallbone, A. (2019). Post-combustion CO2 capture from a natural gas combined cycle power plant using activated carbon adsorption. Applied Energy, 245, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.006
• Ling-Chin, J., & Roskilly, A. P. (2016). A comparative life cycle assessment of marine power systems. Energy Conversion and Management, 127, 477-493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2016.09.012
• Ling-Chin, J., & Roskilly, A. P. (2016). Investigating the implications of a new-build hybrid power system for Roll-on/Roll-off cargo ships from a sustainability perspective – A life cycle assessment case study. Applied Energy, 181, 416-434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.065
• Ling-Chin, J., Heidrich, O., & Roskilly, A. (2016). Life cycle assessment (LCA) – from analysing methodology development to introducing an LCA framework for marine photovoltaic (PV) systems. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 59, 352-378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.058
• Ling-Chin, J., & Roskilly, A. (2016). Investigating a conventional and retrofit power plant on-board a Roll-on/Roll-off cargo ship from a sustainability perspective – A life cycle assessment case study. Energy Conversion and Management, 117, 305-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2016.03.032
• Chan, C., Siqueiros, E., Ling-Chin, J., Royapoor, M., & Roskilly, A. (2015). Heat utilisation technologies: A critical review of heat pipes. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 50, 615-627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.05.028
• Chan, C., Ling-Chin, J., & Roskilly, A. (2013). A review of chemical heat pumps, thermodynamic cycles and thermal energy storage technologies for low grade heat utilisation. Applied Thermal Engineering, 50(1), 1257-1273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.06.041