Yong Ren Tan
Research Student

Biography
Yong Ren TAN joined the CoMo group as a PhD student in Chemical Engineering. His PhD is generously funded by the joint contribution from Fitzwilliam College (Kwok Family-Lee Kuan Yew PhD Scholarship), Trinity College (Trinity-Henry Barlow Scholarship), Cambridge Trust and Cambridge-CARES Studentship Award.
Yong Ren's PhD research topic is focused on the topic of clean combustion. In particular, he investigates of the effect of low-carbon fuels (oxygenated fuels) in soot formation during combustion. He employs a range of experimental methods to help further understanding the influence of different oxygenated functional groups in the formation of soot during combustion. Some of the experimental techniques that he used in his studies are colour ratio pyrometry and differential mobility spectrometry.
Prior to his PhD, he has worked in Cambridge CARES Ltd as a Research Engineer, researching on the sooting tendencies of oxygenated fuels. He has two years of industry experience working as a Management Associate in the telecommunications sector. He is also a graduate from Imperial College London and is awarded with a first class honours in BSc Chemistry. He has also received the Imperial College London Departmental Prize for Outstanding Overall BSc Performance.
Research profileORCID: 0000-0002-8029-9027
Research Themes



Recent Preprints
288: Injection of charge from non-thermal plasma into a soot forming laminar coflow diffusion flame
Yong Ren Tan, Yichen Zong, Maurin Salamanca, Jacob W. Martin, Jochen Dreyer, Jethro Akroyd, Wenming Yang, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 288, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2022.
274: How does blending oxygenated fuels affect soot formation from Jet A2 diffusion flames?
Yong Ren Tan, Maurin Salamanca, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 274, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2021.
261: Structural effects of C3 oxygenated fuels on soot formation in ethylene coflow diffusion flames
Yong Ren Tan, Maurin Salamanca, Jiaru Bai, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 261, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2020.
Yong Ren Tan, Maurin Salamanca, Laura Pascazio, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 255, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2020.
Recent Publications
Yong Ren Tan, Maurin Salamanca, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Combustion and Flame 236, 111849, (2022).
Structural effects of C3 oxygenated fuels on soot formation in ethylene coflow diffusion flames
Yong Ren Tan, Maurin Salamanca, Jiaru Bai, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Combustion and Flame 232, 111512, (2021).
Yong Ren Tan, Maurin Salamanca, Laura Pascazio, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Fuel 283, 118769, (2021).
Sooting characteristics of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ether blends with diesel in a diffusion flame
Yong Ren Tan, Maria Botero, Yuan Sheng, Jochen Dreyer, Rong Xu, Wenming Yang, and Markus Kraft, Fuel 224, 499-506, (2018).
Contact Details
Email: | yrt23@cam.ac.uk_delete_this_bit |
Address: | Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology University of Cambridge West Cambridge Site Philippa Fawcett Drive Cambridge CB3 0AS United Kingdom |
Website: | Personal Homepage |