Professor Gu leads a large research team with extensive activities in energy conversions, material synthesis, carbon capture and biorefinery.

Panneerselvam Ranganathan, Sai Gu, Computational fluid dynamics modelling of biomass fast pyrolysis in fluidised bed reactors, focusing different kinetic schemes, Bioresource Technology, doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2016.02.042. Ekanem E. Ekanem, Seyed Ali Nabavia, Goran T. Vladisavljević, Sai Gu, Structured Biodegradable Polymeric Microparticles for Drug Delivery Produced Using Flow Focusing Glass Microfluidic Devices, Applied Materials & Interfaces 2015, 7, 23132−23143. Anjani R.K. Gollakota, Malladi D. Subramanyam, Nanda Kishore and Sai Gu, CFD simulations on the effect of catalysts on the hydrodeoxygenation of bio-oil, RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 41855. Seyed Ali Nabavia, Goran T. Vladisavljević, Sai Gu, Ekanem E. Ekanem, Dynamics of double emulsion break-up in three phase glass capillary microfluidic devices, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 450 (2015) 279–287. Seyed Ali Nabavia, Goran T. Vladisavljević, Sai Gu, Ekanem E. Ekanem, Double emulsion production in glass capillary microfluidic device: Parametric investigation of droplet generation behaviour, Chemical Engineering Science 130 (2015) 183–196. Zihang Zhu, Spyros Kamnis, Sai Gu, Numerical study of molten and semi-molten ceramic impingement by using coupled Eulerian and Lagrangian method, Acta Materialia, 90 (2015) 77–87. Daniel Sebastia-Saeza, Sai Gu, Panneerselvam Ranganathana, Konstantinos Papadikis, Micro-scale CFD modeling of reactive mass transfer in falling liquid films within structured packing materials, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 33 (2015) 40–50. Mobolaji B. Shemfe, Sai Gu, Panneerselvam Ranganathan, Techno-economic performance analysis of biofuel production and miniature electric power generation from biomass fast pyrolysis and bio-oil upgrading, Fuel 143 (2015) 361–372.