About Him

Dr. Dapeng Liu is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at KAUST and previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at CUHK. He has been awarded the prestigious Bernard Lewis Fellowship at the 39th International Symposium on Combustion (Vancouver, August 2022).He served as a session chair at the 40th Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (Milano, July 2024), and received the SAS-CI Young Talent award as the inaugural awardee (Jeddah, Nov 2024).

Dapeng has developed innovative UV absorption diagnostic for multiple species. Under combustion conditions, where absorption spectra are typically ten times weaker than at room temperature, these diagnostics achieved impressive detection limits (ppm level) with sub-microsecond time resolution. These advancements have significantly enhanced the fidelity of kinetic measurements across various levels.

Species Time-Histories: Serve as validation targets for kinetic models and markers of flame or ignition.
Overall Rate Coefficients: Encompass various reaction types (radical reactions, concerted elimination reactions, unimolecular reactions, and bimolecular reactions), test conditions (oxidation and pyrolysis), and fuel types (conventional, bio-derived, low carbon, and carbon-free fuels).
Branching Ratios: Pioneered three methodologies for measuring branching ratios, including deuterated molecules, isotopic labeling, and key product methods.
Rate Rules: Addressing the challenge of kinetic measurements for large molecules and the needs of automatic kinetic modeling studies, rate rules were measured for three reaction classes using sensitive UV absorption diagnostics. These include OH + alkanes reactions, thermal decomposition of alkenes, and OH + alkenes. These rate rules enhance the predictive accuracy of existing literature models and facilitate automatic modeling studies.

Spectroscopy illustrates the ambiguous pathway of energy conversion:

You can find his CV here.

Publications

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2025

Empirical Rate Rules for Hydroxyl Radical Reactions with Alkenes
Dapeng Liu, Aamir Farooq#
Combustion and Flame, 2025

2024

Thermal decomposition of alkenes: role of allylic C-C bond cleavage
Dapeng Liu, Aamir Farooq#
Combustion and Flame, 2024

Heptanone isomers as a biofuel: Reactivity with OH radicals
Dapeng Liu, Fethi Khaled, Aamir Farooq#
Proceedinngs of the Combustion Institue, 2024

Investigation of Cyclopentene + OH and Cyclopentene Thermal Decomposition Reactions
Dapeng Liu, Fethi Khaled, Wei Ren, Aamir Farooq#
Combustion and Flame, 2024

Allylic-alkylic C-C bond decomposition in 1-butene and 1-pentene
Chengyu Zhou, Dapeng Liu#, Aamir Farooq#
Combustion and Flame, 2024

A theoretical and experimental study of 2-ethylfuran+ OH reaction
Li Fu, Dapeng Liu,… , Hongbo Ning#, Wei Ren#, Aamir Farooq
Combustion and Flame, 2024

2023

Gamma-valerolactone (GVL) as a biofuel: Investigation of GVL thermal decomposition and GVL+ OH reaction
Dapeng Liu, Aamir Farooq
Combustion and Flame, 2023

Reaction kinetics for high pressure hydrogen oxy-combustion in the presence of high levels of H2O and CO2
Ashkan Beigzadeh, … ,Dapeng Liu, …, Aamir Farooq
Combustion and Flame, 2023

Investigation of thermal decomposition of nitrobenzene: An energetic material
Dapeng Liu, Aamir Farooq
Combustion and Flame, 2023

2022

Investigation of cyclohexene thermal decomposition and cyclohexene + OH reactions
Dapeng Liu, Aamir Farooq
Combustion and Flame, 2022

Reaction kinetics of OH radicals with 1, 3, 5-trimethyl benzene: An experimental and theoretical study
Dapeng Liu, Binod R. Giri,Tam V-T. Mai,Lam K. Huynh, Aamir Farooq
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2022

Investigation of the kinetics of conjugated diolefins using UV absorption spectroscopy
Dapeng Liu, Aamir Farooq
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2022

The effect of hydrogen bonding on the reactivity of OH radicals with prenol and isoprenol
Samah Y. Mohamed, M. Monge-Palacio,Binod Giri, Fethi Khaled, Dapeng Liu, Aamir Farooq, S. Mani Sarathy
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022

2021

A comprehensive study on low-temperature oxidation chemistry of cyclohexane. II
Jiabiao Zou, Hanfeng Jin, Dapeng Liu,Xiaoyuan Zhang, … Aamir Farooq, Yuyang Li
Combustion and Flame, 2021

Symmetric ethers as bioderived fuels: Reactivity with OH radicals
Myriam Belmekki, Binod Giri, Dapeng Liu, Aamir Farooq
Energy & Fuels , 2021

First aromatic ring formation by the radical-chain reaction of vinylacetylene and propargyl
Hanfeng Jin, Lili Xing, Dapeng Liu, Junyu Hao, Jiuzhong Yang, Aamir Farooq
Combustion and Flame, 2021

On the Redox Reactions between Allyl Radicals and NOx
Dapeng Liu, Milán Szőri, Béla Viskolcz, Et-touhamiEssbar, Binod Giri, Aamir Farooq
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021

Kinetics and Thermochemistry of Cyclichexadienes Reactions with OH Radicals
Dapeng Liu, Milán Szőri, Béla Viskolcz, Lam K. Huynh, Binod Giri, Aamir Farooq
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021

2020

High Temperature Branching Ratio of Acetaldehyde + OH Reaction
Dapeng Liu, Binod Giri, Aamir Farooq
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2020

A high temperature shock tube study of phenyl recombination reaction using laser absorption spectroscopy
Hanfeng Jin, Dapeng Liu, Binod Giri,Aamir Farooq
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2020

Chemical kinetics of hydroxyl reactions with cyclopentadiene and indene
Hanfeng Jin, Dapeng Liu, Jiabiao Zou,Junyu Hao,Can Shao, Mani Sarathy,Aamir Farooq
Combustion and Flame, 2020

QCL-Based Dual-Comb Spectrometer for Multi-Species Measurements at High Temperatures and High Pressures
Guangle Zhang, Raphael Horvath, Dapeng Liu, Markus Geiser, Aamir Farooq
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute , 2020

A mid-infrared diagnostic for benzene using a tunable difference-frequency-generation laser
Mohammad Khaled Shakfa, Mhanna Mhanna, Hanfeng Jin, Dapeng Liu,Khalil Djebbi,Marco Marangoni, Aamir Farooq
Sensors , 2020

2019

Cyclic Ketones as Future Fuels: Reactivity with OH Radicals (journal cover paper)
Dapeng Liu, Binod Giri, Aamir Farooq
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A , 2019

Insights into the Reactions of Hydroxyl Radical with Diolefins from Atmospheric to Combustion Environments
Fethi Khaled, Binod Giri, Dapeng Liu, Emmanuel Assaf, Christa Fittschen, Aamir Farooq
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2019

2018

A shock tube kinetic study on the branching ratio of methanol+ OH reaction
Dapeng Liu, Binod Giri, Aamir Farooq
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2018

A theoretical and shock tube kinetic study on hydrogen abstraction from phenyl formate
Hongbo Ning, Dapeng Liu, Junjun Wu, Liuhao Ma, Wei Ren, Aamir Farooq
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018

2017

H-Abstraction by OH From Large Branched Alkanes: Overall Rate Measurements and Site-Specific Tertiary Rate Calculations
Dapeng Liu, Fethi Khaled, Binod Giri, Emmanuel Assaf, Christa Fittschen, Aamir Farooq
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2017

Education

KAUST, Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC)
Ph.D,Mechanical Engineering
Supervised by Prof. Aamir Farooq
Aug 2015 - Nov 2021, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU)
Bachelor, Energy and Power Engineering School
Aug 2010 - Jun 2014, Xi’An, China

Work Experience

Advanced Laser Diagnostics Laboratory,CUHK
Postdoc Research Associate
with Prof. Wei Ren
Sep 2022 - present, HKSAR

Alfa Laval (Jiangyin) Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Production Engineer
Sep 2014 - Jun 2015, Wuxi, China

Contact

4th floor, Al-Kindi West Block, KAUST, KSA
+966 056-701-0084
“dapeng.liu” AT “kaust.edu.sa”