MR TIANHENG QIN

Biography

Tianheng is a PGR student at University of Aberdeen and funded by School of Engineering since August 2023. He worked as research assistant at College of environmental and resource sciences, Zhejiang Univeristy, China since March 2022. He has completed his BSc. Applied Chemistry from  University of Reading in 2020 and MSc. Chemistry from Univerisity of Manchester in 2021. His research interests cover chemistry, chemical engineering and environmental engineering, especially pyrolysis-catalysis, hydrogen, plastic waste and hybrid-functional catalyst.

• Qin, T. H., Ji, G., Qu, B., McCue, A. J., Guan, S., Derksen, J., & Zhang, Y. S. (2025). Pyrolysis-catalytic gasification of plastic waste for hydrogen-rich syngas production with hybrid-functional Ni-CaO-Ca2SiO4 catalyst. Carbon Capture Science & Technology, 100382.
• Qu, B., Wang, T., Ji, X., Qin, T., Zhang, Y. S., & Ji, G. (2025). Effect of reduction temperatures of Ni-modified zeolites on the product distribution, catalyst deactivation, and reaction mechanism during polypropylene pyrolysis. Fuel, 384, 133947.
• Qu, B., Ji, X., Qin, T. H., Wang, T., Ji, G., & Zhang, Y. S. (2024). Integrated catalytic gasification and CO2 capture from biomass feedstocks.
• Yan, B., Zhang, S., Zhang, M., Yu, Y., Qin, T., Tang, L., ... & Mei, Q. (2023). Green recycling of waste PET plastic monomers by banana peel extract. Chemical Engineering Journal, 474, 145697.
• Guo, Y., Zhu, Z., Chen, Y., He, H., Li, X., Qin, T., & Wang, Y. (2020). High-performance supercapacitors of ruthenium-based nanohybrid compounds. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 842, 155798.
• Guo, Y., Dai, M., Zhu, Z., Chen, Y., He, H., & Qin, T. (2019). Chitosan modified Cu2O nanoparticles with high catalytic activity for p-nitrophenol reduction. Applied Surface Science, 480, 601-610.