About

Prof. Dr. Kan Kan is an associate professor with School of Electrical and Power Engineering of Hohai University, China. He is the director of Research Institute of Pumped Storage Technology. He earned a Ph.D. in Engineering (Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering) in 2019 and a Bachelor of Engineering (Thermal Energy and Power Engineering) in 2012, both from Hohai University in China. As a visiting Ph.D. student, he visited the Department of Mechanical Engineering and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA, from 2016 to 2018. Dr. Kan specializes in performance analysis of hydraulic machinery for pumped-storage power stations, hydropower stations, and pump stations. He has secured two research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and led scientific projects for major Chinese hydropower companies, including the China Three Gorges Corporation and China Huadian Corporation. With a publication record of over 100 papers, six of which have been recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers (Clarivate Analytics). His work has been cited more than 1,400 times on Google Scholar. Dr. Kan was honored as one of the World's Top 2% Scientists by Elsevier. Additionally, he was selected for the Jiangsu Association for Science and Technology's Youth Science and Technology Talent Support Program in 2023. Dr. Kan has received three provincial/ministerial-level awards, including being a key contributor (second-ranked) to the 2024 China Electric Power Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class). Dr. Kan has developed a CFD-based method for the transient process of pumped storage units, which accelerates the conversion rate while ensuring hydraulic stability, such as controlling pressure pulsations and runner forces during the transient process.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Design and intelligent optimization of fluid machinery Flow stability and control of fluid machinery Fluid mechanics in fluid machinery Computational Fluid Dynamics method in fluid machinery

Major Achievements:

1453 Times Google Scholar Citation of my publications with H-index 20 (source: Google Scholar, by Feb. 2025) and 6 ESI highly cited paper (Clarivate Analytics) Around 110 technical papers including more than 20 High Impact Factor (IF>8) Journal papers Selected as 2024 World's Top 2% Scientists (Elsevier) Selected for the Youth Science and Technology Talent Support Program (Jiangsu Association for Science and Technology) 2024 China Electric Power Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class, second-ranked) 2022 China Invention Association Invention Entrepreneurship and Achievement Award (Second Class, six-ranked) Excellent Doctoral Dissertations Award (Hohai University) Young professionals of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) Fellow of Jiangsu Renewable Energy Society (JSRES) Academic Editor of ESCI journal Water Science and Engineering (IF: 3.7) Youth Editor of ESCI journal International Journal of Hydromechatronics (IF: 5.3) Guest Associate Editor of SCI Journal Frontiers in Energy Research (IF: 2.6), Processes (IF: 2.8), Water(IF: 3)