Jan May

515 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 397 citations indexed

About

Jan May is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan May has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 397 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 4 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Jan May's work include Iron and Steelmaking Processes (5 papers), Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes (5 papers) and Granular flow and fluidized beds (4 papers). Jan May is often cited by papers focused on Iron and Steelmaking Processes (5 papers), Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes (5 papers) and Granular flow and fluidized beds (4 papers). Jan May collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and India. Jan May's co-authors include Bernd Epple, Falah Alobaid, Andreas Richter, Naser Almohammed, Massoud Massoudi Farid, Jochen Ströhle, Jens Peters, Nhut Minh Nguyen, Alexander Stroh and Peter Ohlemüller and has published in prestigious journals such as Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Energy and Fuel.

In The Last Decade

Jan May

11 papers receiving 385 citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Progress in CFD Simulations of Fluidized Beds for Chemical and Energy Process Engineering

2021 163 citations Falah Alobaid, Naser Almohammed et al. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan May Germany	10	203	196	157	82	26	11	397
Simon Grathwohl Germany	6	352 1.7×	208 1.1×	247 1.6×	47 0.6×	46 1.8×	7	570
Akshay Gopan United States	9	213 1.0×	199 1.0×	160 1.0×	48 0.6×	18 0.7×	14	406
Sujeet Yadav India	9	207 1.0×	122 0.6×	233 1.5×	37 0.5×	52 2.0×	17	447
Fang‐Hsien Wu Taiwan	10	178 0.9×	128 0.7×	83 0.5×	22 0.3×	29 1.1×	21	385
Margarita A. Dmitrienko Russia	7	159 0.8×	36 0.2×	245 1.6×	31 0.4×	9 0.3×	15	354
M. Gharebaghi United Kingdom	9	378 1.9×	357 1.8×	272 1.7×	69 0.8×	9 0.3×	14	650
Mads Valentin Bram Denmark	10	68 0.3×	79 0.4×	48 0.3×	86 1.0×	10 0.4×	29	341
Michitaka Ikeda Japan	8	267 1.3×	170 0.9×	80 0.5×	59 0.7×	3 0.1×	15	364
Igor Donskoy Russia	15	163 0.8×	38 0.2×	137 0.9×	51 0.6×	5 0.2×	74	576

Countries citing papers authored by Jan May

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jan May

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan May

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jan May. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jan May based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jan May. Jan May is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Heinze, Christian, et al.. (2022). High Temperature Winkler gasification of Rhenish lignite in an optimized 500 kWth pilot plant. Fuel. 333. 126289–126289. 10 indexed citations

2.

Alobaid, Falah, Naser Almohammed, Massoud Massoudi Farid, et al.. (2021). Progress in CFD Simulations of Fluidized Beds for Chemical and Energy Process Engineering. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. 91. 100930–100930. 163 indexed citations breakdown →

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Peters, Jens, Jan May, Jochen Ströhle, & Bernd Epple. (2020). Flexibility of CFB Combustion: An Investigation of Co-Combustion with Biomass and RDF at Part Load in Pilot Scale. Energies. 13(18). 4665–4665. 17 indexed citations

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May, Jan, et al.. (2020). Euler‐Lagrange‐Modell zur Simulation des Carbonate‐Looping‐Prozesses. Chemie Ingenieur Technik. 92(5). 648–658. 3 indexed citations

5.

Nguyen, Nhut Minh, Falah Alobaid, Jan May, Jens Peters, & Bernd Epple. (2020). Experimental study on steam gasification of torrefied woodchips in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor. Energy. 202. 117744–117744. 61 indexed citations

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Savuto, Elisa, Jan May, Andrea Di Carlo, et al.. (2020). Steam Gasification of Lignite in a Bench-Scale Fluidized-Bed Gasifier Using Olivine as Bed Material. Applied Sciences. 10(8). 2931–2931. 14 indexed citations

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May, Jan, et al.. (2019). Field comparison of dry deposition samplers for collection of atmospheric mineral dust: results from single-particle characterization. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(12). 6647–6665. 25 indexed citations

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Heinze, Christian, Jan May, Jens Peters, Jochen Ströhle, & Bernd Epple. (2019). Techno-economic assessment of polygeneration based on fluidized bed gasification. Fuel. 250. 285–291. 12 indexed citations

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May, Jan, Falah Alobaid, Peter Ohlemüller, et al.. (2018). Reactive two–fluid model for chemical–looping combustion – Simulation of fuel and air reactors. International journal of greenhouse gas control. 76. 175–192. 23 indexed citations

10.

Stroh, Alexander, et al.. (2018). Coarse grain 3D CFD-DEM simulation and validation with capacitance probe measurements in a circulating fluidized bed. Chemical Engineering Science. 196. 37–53. 43 indexed citations

11.

May, Jan, et al.. (2017). Euler-Euler CFD simulation of the fuel reactor of a 1 MWth chemical-looping pilot plant: Influence of the drag models and specularity coefficient. Fuel. 200. 435–446. 26 indexed citations

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