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Dr Shaorun Lin 林少润

Postdoc Fellow (2021 - )

Research Centre for Fire Safety Engineering

Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Office: ZS 836

Email: shaorun.lin@outlook.com    flynn.lin@connect.polyu.hk

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Biography:

Dr Shaorun Lin is currently a postdoc fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research fields include fire dynamics, smoldering fire, wildland fire, timber fire, fire ecology, waste management and so on. He is the winner of SFPE Student Research Grant, The Great Bay Area STEM Excellence Award, Tree Grants from Association of Fire Ecology, Top award of HKIE Student Essay Competition and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Outstanding Graduate Award. 

 林少润，香港理工大学建筑环境与能源工程学系、消防安全研究中心博士后。主要研究领域涉及阴燃火灾、森林火、火灾生态、生物质燃烧、火灾防护以及固废处理等。曾获国际消防工程师协会学生研究资助奖、大湾区STEM卓越奖，理大访问奖学金、香港工程师协会学生征文比赛头奖、永旺奖学金、粤港澳土木工程优秀毕业生等奖项。

Education:

  • 2018 - 2021, Ph.D, Research Centre for Fire Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Supervised by Dr. Xinyan Huang (HK PolyU) and Dr. Michael J. Gollner (University of California, Berkeley)

  • 2014 - 2018, B.Eng, Department of Civil Engineering, The Shenzhen University, China. 

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Research Interests:

Ignition and Combustion, Smoldering, Wildland Fire and Fire Ecology, Peat Fire, Timber Fire, Waste management.

 

Prizes and Awards:

  1. 2021 Student Essay Competition Merit Award   (The Hong Kong Institute of Engineering, Fire Division) 

  2. 2021 SFPE Student Research Grant (USD 5000) (SFPE Educational & Scientific Foundation)

  3. 2020 The Great Bay Area STEM Excellence Award  (Hong Kong New Emerging Technology Education Association)

  4. 2020 Travel, Research, and Educational Experience (TREE) Grants(Association of Fire Ecology (AFE))

  5. 2020 Outgoing PolyU Scholarship (HKD 40000) (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  6. 2019 Student Essay Competition 2019 Top Award   (The Hong Kong Institute of Engineering, Fire Division) 

  7. 2018 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Outstanding Graduate Award in Civil Engineering (Guangdong Society of Civil Engineering and Architecture)

  8.  2018 "AEON" Scholarship  (AEON Corporation)

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Publications

Journal Publication (English):​​

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  1. S. Lin, H. Yuan*, X. Huang* (2022) A Computational Study on the Quenching and Near-Extinction Propagation of Smoldering Combustion. Combustion and Flame.

  2. Y. Chen, Z. Liang, S. Lin*, X. Huang* (2022) Limits of Sustaining a Flame above Smoldering Biomass. Combustion Science and Technology.

  3. S. Wang, S. Lin (co-first author), Y. Liu, X. Huang*, M. Gollner (2022) Smoldering Ignition using a Concentrated Solar Irradiation Spot. Fire Safety Journal.

  4. S. Lin, T. Z. Chow, X. Huang* (2021) Smoldering Propagation and Blow-off on Consolidated Fuel under External Airflow. Combustion and Flame.

  5. S. Lin, Y. Liu, X. Huang* (2021) Climate-induced Arctic-Boreal Peatland Fire and Carbon Loss in the 21st Century. Science of the Total Environment.

  6. S. Wang, P. Ding, S. Lin*, J. Gong, X. Huang* (2021) Smoldering and flaming of disc wood particles under external radiation: Auto-ignition and size effect. Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering.

  7. S. Lin, X. Huang*, J. Gao*, J. Ji* (2021) Extinction of wood fire: A near-limit blue flame above hot smoldering surface. Fire Technology.

  8. S. Lin, Y. Liu, X. Huang* (2021) How to build a firebreak to stop smouldering peat fire: insights from laboratory-scale study. International Journal of Wildland Fire.

  9. A. Khan, S. Lin*, X. Huang*, A. Usmani (2021) Facade Fire Hazards of Bench-Scale Aluminum Composite Panel with Flame-Retardant Core. Fire Technology. 

  10. S. Wang, P. Ding, S. Lin, X. Huang*, A. Usmani (2021) Deformation of Wood Slice in Fire: Interactions between Heterogeneous Chemistry and Thermomechanical Stress. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 

  11. S. Lin and X. Huang* (2021) Quenching of Smoldering: Effect of Wall Cooling on Extinction. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

  12. Y. Liu, P. Sun, S. Lin, H. Niu* and X. Huang* (2020) Self-heating ignition of open-circuit cylindrical Li-ion battery pile: Towards fire-safe storage and transport. Journal of Energy Storage. 

  13. S. Lin and X. Huang* (2020) An Experimental Method to Investigate the Water-based Suppression of Smoldering Peat Fire. MethodsX 100934.

  14. P. Sun, S. Lin and X. Huang* (2020) Ignition of Thin Fuel by Thermoplastic Drips: An Experimental Study for the Dripping Ignition Theory. Fire Safey Journal 103006.

  15. S. Lin, Y.K. Chueng, Y. Xiao and X. Huang* (2020) Can Rain Suppress Smoldering Peat Fire? Science of the Total Environment 138468.

  16. Q. Xie*, Z. Zhang, S. Lin*, Y. Qu and X. Huang* (2020) Smoldering Fire of High-Density Cotton Bale under Concurrent Wind, Fire Technology.

  17. S. Lin, X. Huang*, J. Urban, S. McAllister, C. Fernandez-Pello (2019) Piloted Ignition of Cylindrical Wildland Fuel under Irradiation, Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering 5 (54).

  18. S. Lin, P. Sun and X. Huang* (2019) Can Peat Soil Support a Flaming Wildfire? International Journal of Wildland Fire 28 (8) 601-613.

  19. X. Chen, S. Lin and S. Kou* (2018) Effect of Composite Photo-catalysts Prepared with Recycled Clay Brick Sands and Nano-TiO2 on Methyl Orange and NOx Removal, Construction and Building Materials 171 (2018) 152-160. 

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Journal Publication (Chinese):

  1. 林少润，黄鑫炎*（2021）探索泥炭林火的小尺度实验方法。燃烧科学与技术（已接收）

  2. 林少润，黄鑫炎*（2021）木材的近极限火焰和熄火极限。工程热物理学报（已接收）

  3. 黄鑫炎*，林少润，刘乃安 （2021）林火中的阴燃现象：研究前沿与展望。工程热物理学报，42:02.

  4. 孙培艺，林少润，黄鑫炎*（2020）滴落点火的实验研究。工程热物理学报，41:10. 

 

 

​Conference Paper:

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  1. S. Lin, X. Huang. Firebreak for Smouldering Wildfires: from Combustion Theory to Firefighting Application, 12th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology, Queensland, Australia, 7-9 Dec 2021. [Oral]

  2. S. Wang, S. Lin, X. Huang. Fire hazards of concentrated sunlight: smouldering ignition of thin fuels, 12th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology, Queensland, Australia, 7-9 Dec 2021. [Oral]

  3. S. Lin, Y. Liu, X. Huang. Estimation of carbon loss from arctic peatland fire in 21st century, 16th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit and 6th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Virtual Conference, 24-27 May 2021. [Oral]

  4. S. Wang, S. Lin, X. Huang. Capability of concentrated sunlight on the smoldering ignition of wildland fuels, 16th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit and 6th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Virtual Conference, 24-27 May 2021. [Oral]

  5. Y. Liu, P. Sun, S. Lin, H. Niu, X. Huang, Can self-ignition theory explain the mysterious fire in Li-ion battery pile, 38th International Symposium on Combustion, Adelaide, Australia, 24-29 Jan 2021. [Poster]

  6. S. Lin, X. Huang, Extinction of Wood Fuels: A Near-limit Blue Flame Sustained above the Hot Smoldering Surface, 38th International Symposium on Combustion, Adelaide, Australia, 24-29 Jan 2021. [Poster]

  7. S. Wang, S. Lin, X. Huang, Smoldering Ignition of Thin Paper by Concentrated Sunlight, 38th International Symposium on Combustion, Adelaide, Australia, 24-29 Jan 2021. [Poster]

  8. S. Lin, Y.K. Cheung, Y. Xiao, X. Huang (2020) Critical rainfall to extinguish peat fires, 16th International Peatland Congress (IPC) 2020, Tallinn, Estonia. [Oral]

  9. X. Huang, S. Lin, G. Rein (2020) Laboratory experimental framework to study peat fire, 16th International Peatland Congress (IPC) 2020, Tallinn, Estonia. [Oral]

  10. P. Sun, S. Lin, X. Huang, Experimental study on the dripping ignition of thin fuel, 13th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Waterloo, Canada, 27 April – 1 May 2020. [Poster]

  11. S. Wang, S. Lin, X. Huang, A. Usmani, Deformation of smoldering wood particle under external radiation, 13th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Waterloo, Canada, 27 April – 1 May 2020. [Poster]

  12. S. Lin, X. Huang, Near-Limit Timber Fire Behavior under External Radiation, 13th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Waterloo, Canada, 27 April – 1 May 2020. [Poster]

  13. S. Lin, X. Huang, What is the Rainfall Limit to Extinguish the Smoldering Peat Fire? 13th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Waterloo, Canada, 27 April – 1 May 2020. [Poster]

  14. S. Lin, X. Huang, Suppression of peat fire by rain: the effect of rainfall with different intensities on the carbon emission flux from peat fire, 3 rd International Smoke Symposium, CA, USA, 20-24 April 2020. [Oral]

  15. S. Lin, P. Sun, X. Huang, Can peat soil support a flaming wildfire? 3 rd International Smoke Symposium, CA, USA, 20-24 April 2020. [Oral]

  16. P. Sun, S. Lin, X. Huang, Fire Hazard and Ignition Mechanism of Thermoplastic Drips, 1st Asia-Pacific Combustion Institute Summer School, Viña del Mar, Chile, 10-16 Nov 2019. [Poster]

  17. S. Lin and X. Huang, Near-limit burning of timber material under iiradiation-assisted smoldering, 11st International Conference on Structure in Fire (SIF 2020), Australia, 24-26 Jun 2019 [Oral]​

  18. S. Lin and X. Huang, Quenching of smoldering: effect of wall cooling and oxygen supply, 1st Asia-Pacific Combustion Institute Combustion Summer School, Chile, 10-15 Nov 2019 [Poster]​

  19. S. Lin, J. Gao and X. Huang, Near-limit flame and extinction limit of timber materials, Chinese National Combustion Meeting, Tianjin, China, 24-28 Oct 2019 [Oral]

  20. S. Lin, J. Gao and X. Huang, The Near Extinction Flame Behaviour of Charring Materials, 12th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, 1st-5th, Jul, 2019, Fukuoka, Japan.[Oral]

  21. P. Sun, S. Lin and X. Huang, Experimental Study of Dripping Flames Ignition, 12th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, 1st-5th, Jul, 2019, Fukuoka, Japan.[Oral]

  22. P. Sun, S. Lin and X. Huang, How dripping flames ignite a thin fuel, 27th International Colloquium on the Dynamics on Explosions and Reactive systems, 28th, Jul -2nd Aug, 2019, Beijing, China.[Oral]

  23. S. Lin, P. Sun and X. Huang, Critical Conditions for Flaming Peat Fire in Wildland, 6th Fire  Behaviour and Fuels Conference, Sydney, Australia, April 29-May 3, 2019.[Oral]

  24. S. Lin, H. Li, Y. Xiao and X. Huang, Effect of Fire on the Drying Process of Soil, 6th Fire  Behaviour and Fuels Conference, Sydney, Australia, April 29-May 3, 2019.[Poster]​

  25. S. Lin, P. Sun, X. Huang. Three-Stage Combustion of Peat under External Radiation, 8th East Asia Mechanical Engineering Workshop, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 1-3 Dec 2018, Hong Kong, China.[Oral]

  

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