Staff profile
Dr Janie Ling-Chin
Assistant Professor (Research)
BEng, MSc, PhD

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Engineering | E268 Higginson | |
Fellow in the Durham Energy Institute |
Biography
About Me
Dr Janie Ling Chin is Assistant Professor and an early career researcher 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 four projects currently funded by the UK Research and Innovation, namely 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), Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (EP/V027050/1; total funding: £19,903,412), and Network+ for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Energy Research Community (EP/W033771/1; total funding: £1,006,946). In the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre project, she leads and co-leads 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 leads a 14-month project, Energy Recovery and Utilisation, which is 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). Also, she is one of the investigators for 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 newly funded 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). She is also co-Investigator in other 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 20 national and international stakeholder engagement events, and she is champion for equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Research interests
- Life cycle assessment
- Thermal management
- Carbon capture, storage and utilisation
- Hydrogen technology
- Health index of electrical energy storage
Publications
Chapter in book
- Roy, Sumit, Ling-Chin, Janie, Bohl, Thomas, Giampieri, Alessandro, Smallbone, Andrew & Roskilly, Anthony Paul (2021). Biodiesel: Emissions and Control, Challenges, Potential and Prospects. In Comprehensive Renewable Energy. Letcher, Trevor Elsevier.
- Ling-Chin, Janie Rajendran, Keerthi & Roskilly, Anthony P (2019). Energy economics and environment of energy systems. In Handbook of Energy Economics. Soytaş, Uğur & Sarı, Ramazan Routledge. 192-206.
- Ling-Chin, Janie, Bao, Huashan, Ma, Zhiwei, Taylor, Wendy & Roskilly, Anthony Paul (2018). State-of-the-Art Technologies on Low-Grade Heat Recovery and Utilization in Industry. In Energy Conversion: Current Technologies and Future Trends. Al-Bahadly, Ibrahim H. IntechOpen. 55-74.
- Rajendran, Keerthi, Ling-Chin, Janie & Roskilly, Anthony P. (2015). Thermal Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes. In Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. Wiley. 1.
Conference Paper
- Jiang, L, Gonzalez-Diaz, A, Ling-Chin, J, Roskilly, AP & Smallbone, AJ (2019), Performance analysis for post-combustion CO2 capture from a natural gas combined cycle power plant using activated carbon, The 5th International Conference Sustainable Thermal Energy Management (SusTEM2019). China.
- Giampieri, A., Ling-Chin, J., Taylor, W., Smallbone, A. & Roskilly, A. P. (2019), Moving towards low-carbon manufacturing in the UK automotive industry, in Yan, J, Yang, HX, Li, H & Chen, X eds, Energy Procedia 158: 3381-3386.
- Ling-Chin, J., Taylor, W., Davidson, P., Reay, D., Tassou, S. & Roskilly, A.P. (2019), UK policies and industrial stakeholder perspectives on building thermal performance, 158: 3375.
Journal Article
- Giampieri, Alessandro, Ling-Chin, Janie & Roskilly, Anthony Paul (2023). Techno-economic assessment of offshore wind-to-hydrogen scenarios: A UK case study. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
- Ling-Chin, Janie, Giampieri, Alessandro, Wilks, Megan, Lau, Shiew Wei, Bacon, Ellie, Sheppard, Imogen, Smallbone, Andrew J. & Roskilly, Anthony P. (2023). Technology roadmap for hydrogen-fuelled transportation in the UK. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
- Giampieri, Alessandro, Ma, Zhiwei, Ling-Chin, Janie, Smallbone, Andrew J. & Roskilly, Anthony Paul (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: 115654.
- Giampieri, Alessandro, Ma, Zhiwei, Ling-Chin, Janie, Bao, Huashan, Smallbone, Andrew J. & Roskilly, Anthony Paul (2022). Liquid Desiccant Dehumidification and Regeneration Process: Advancing Correlations for Moisture and Enthalpy Effectiveness. Applied Energy 314: 118962.
- Giampieri, A., Ma, Z., Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A.P. & Smallbone, A.J. (2022). An overview of solutions for airborne viral transmission reduction related to HVAC systems including liquid desiccant air-scrubbing. Energy 244(Part A): 122709.
- Jiang, L., Gonzalez-Diaz, A., Ling-Chin, J., Malik, A., Roskilly, A. P. & Smallbone, A. J. (2020). PEF plastic synthesized from industrial carbon dioxide and biowaste. Nature Sustainability 3(9): 761-767.
- Giampieri, A., Ling-Chin, J., Ma, Z., Smallbone, A. & Roskilly, A.P. (2020). A review of the current automotive manufacturing practice from an energy perspective. Applied Energy 261: 114074.
- Giampieri, Alessandro, Ma, Zhiwei, Chin, Janie Ling, Smallbone, Andrew, Lyons, Padraig, Khan, Imad, Hemphill, Stephen & Roskilly, Anthony Paul (2019). Techno-economic analysis of the thermal energy saving options for high-voltage direct current interconnectors. Applied Energy 247: 60-77.
- Ling-Chin, J., Taylor, W., Davidson, P., Reay, D., Nazi, W.I., Tassou, S. & Roskilly, A.P. (2019). UK building thermal performance from industrial and governmental perspectives. Applied Energy 237: 270.
- Jiang, L., Gonzalez-Diaz, A., Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A. P. & Smallbone, A. J. (2019). Post-combustion CO2 capture from a natural gas combined cycle power plant using activated carbon adsorption. APPLIED ENERGY 245: 1-15.
- Ling-Chin, J. & Roskilly, A.P. (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.
- Ling-Chin, Janie & Roskilly, Anthony 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.
- Ling-Chin, J., Heidrich, O. & Roskilly, A.P. (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.
- Ling-Chin, Janie & Roskilly, Anthony P. (2016). A comparative life cycle assessment of marine power systems. Energy Conversion and Management 127: 477.
- Chan, C.W., Siqueiros, E., Ling-Chin, J., Royapoor, M. & Roskilly, A.P. (2015). Heat utilisation technologies: A critical review of heat pipes. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 50: 615.
- Chan, C.W., Ling-Chin, J. & Roskilly, A.P. (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.