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Murdoch University

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4.08/20/2025

A true role model for academic success.

4.05/21/2025

Inspires students to reach new heights.

4.02/27/2025

Always fair, encouraging, and motivating.

5.02/17/2025

Brings passion and energy to teaching.

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About Xiangpeng

Dr. Xiangpeng Gao serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Energy at Murdoch University, where he is affiliated with the Centre for Water, Energy and Waste in the Harry Butler Institute. His expertise lies in chemical engineering, with a focus on sustainable energy technologies, waste management, and environmental processes. Key research areas include biomass pyrolysis, hydrothermal carbonization, smouldering combustion for sewage sludge treatment, biochar production, coal combustion, particulate matter emissions, mineral transformations during combustion, algal biomass processing, and supercapacitors derived from biomass. Dr. Gao contributes significantly to postgraduate supervision, having guided multiple Doctor of Philosophy theses such as 'Valorisation of cereal straw in Western Australia: Feedstock characterisation and thermochemical conversion optimisation' (2022), 'Process Innovations in Applied Smouldering of Sewage Sludge' (2025), 'Hydrothermal carbonisation of microalgae: Feedstock characterisation, process optimisation and product upgrading' (2020), and 'Treatment of pyrolytic wastewater and adsorption of heavy bio-oil from catalytic pyrolysis of waste plastics' (2023), along with several Masters by Coursework theses on topics including solar power towers, energy modelling, and solar PV farms.