The main research directions are focused on the behavior of multiphase flow processes at microscale, process intensification technologies, reactor design, flow chemistry, and engineering scale-up, etc.

(1) Research on the flow and transfer mechanisms of multiphase flow at microscale;

(2) Optimization design of new reactor structures based on the characteristics of "three transfers and one reaction" of different types of reactions (such as nitration, oxidation, hydrogenation reactions, etc.) in microchemical systems;

(3) Development of engineering scale-up processes for different types of reaction processes to meet the demand for converting batch reactions to continuous flow processes in industrial production, and to support technological innovation and upgrading of enterprises.

2013-10 - 2018-02  National Institute of Applied Sciences, Toulouse, France  Doctor of Engineering

2011-09 - 2013-09  Tianjin University  Integrated Master's and Doctoral Program

2007-09 - 2011-06  Fuzhou University  Bachelor of Engineering

   

2024 - Present, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Researcher

2019 - 2024, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Researcher

2017 - 2019, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Postdoctoral Fellow

[1] L. Yang, F. Xu, G. Chen, Effective mixing in a passive oscillating micromixer with impinging jets, Chem. Eng. J. 489 (2024) 151329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.151329.

[2] L. Yang, F. Xu, G. Chen, Enhancement of gas-liquid mass transfer and mixing in zigzag microreactor under ultrasonic oscillation, Chem. Eng. Sci. 247 (2022) 117094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2021.117094.

[3] L. Yang, F. Xu, Q. Zhang, Z. Liu, G. Chen, Gas-liquid hydrodynamics and mass transfer in microreactors under ultrasonic oscillation, Chem. Eng. J. 397 (2020) 125411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.125411.

[4] L. Yang, N. Dietrich, K. Loubière, C. Gourdon, G. Hébrard, Visualization and characterization of gas–liquid mass transfer around a Taylor bubble right after the formation stage in microreactors, Chem. Eng. Sci. 143 (2016) 364–368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2016.01.013.

[5] L. Yang, N. Dietrich, G. Hébrard, K. Loubière, C. Gourdon, Optical methods to investigate the enhancement factor of an oxygen‐sensitive colorimetric reaction using microreactors, AIChE J. 63 (2017) 2272–2284. https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.15547.

[6] L. Yang, K. Loubière, N. Dietrich, C. Le Men, C. Gourdon, G. Hébrard, Local investigations on the gas-liquid mass transfer around Taylor bubbles flowing in a meandering millimetric square channel, Chem. Eng. Sci. 165 (2017) 192–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2017.03.007.

[7] F. Xu, L. Yang, G. Chen, Mesoscale enhancement mechanism of gas-liquid mass transfer in ultrasonic microreactor, CIESE J. 73 (2022) 2552–2562. https://doi.org/10.11949/0438-1157.20220087.

[8] F. Xu, L. Yang, Z. Liu, G. Chen, Numerical investigation on the hydrodynamics of Taylor flow in ultrasonically oscillating microreactors, Chem. Eng. Sci. 235 (2021) 116477. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2021.116477.

[9] Q. Zhao, L. Yang, C. Yao, G. Chen, Ultrasonic Enhanced Continuous Crystallization: Induction Time and Process Control, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 62 (2023) 20083–20095. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.3c02950.

[10] X. Liu, L. Yang, R. Chen, M. Han, C. Yao, G. Chen, Continuous alkylation of 1,3,5-trihydroxy-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene in microreactor: Process intensification and reaction kinetics, Chem. Eng. J. 495 (2024) 153544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.153544.

[11] Q. Zhao, H. Ma, Y. Liu, C. Yao, L. Yang, G. Chen, Hydrodynamics and mass transfer of Taylor bubbles flowing in non-Newtonian fluids in a microchannel, Chem. Eng. Sci. 231 (2021) 116299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2020.116299.

[12] K. Peng, F. Xu, L. Yang, C. Yao, G. Chen, Dean instability and vortex-induced mixing for two miscible fluids in T-micromixers, Chem. Eng. Process. - Process Intensif. 176 (2022) 108975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cep.2022.108975.

[13] Y. Liu, C. Yao, L. Yang, M. Yang, G. Chen, A colorimetric technique to characterize mass transfer during liquid-liquid slug flow in circular capillaries, MethodsX. 8 (2021) 101346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2021.101346.