Director of the Research Institute: Qin Jin

The research team at Central South University is one of the earliest in China to systematically conduct research on railway refrigerated transportation. Its research findings have laid the theoretical foundation for China’s modern railway cold chain transportation technologies, been widely applied in industrial practices, and driven the formulation of industrial standards and technical specifications.

The core research features of the team focus on the following aspects:

(1) Optimization technologies for intelligent organization of railway cold chain transportation

(2) Optimization technologies for loading schemes of railway cold chain cargo

(3) Intelligent temperature control and energy-saving technologies for railway cold chain transportation

(4) R&D of refrigeration technologies and equipment for railway rolling stock

(5) System planning, policies and standards