Fields of Research (FoR)
Water Treatment Processes, Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells), Mechanical Engineering, Computational Heat Transfer, Catalytic Process Engineering, Carbon Capture Engineering (excl. Sequestration)SEO tags
Biography
Dr. Qiyuan Li is a Lecturer in the Particle and Catalysis Research Group. He has received a Ph.D. degree from the school of mechanical engineering, UNSW in 2016. He worked in the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology from 2016 to 2019 and joined PartCat in 2019. His research focused on developing solar powered catalytic module/system for water treatment, hydrogen production, CO2 capture and utilization.
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Dr. Qiyuan Li is a Lecturer in the Particle and Catalysis Research Group. He has received a Ph.D. degree from the school of mechanical engineering, UNSW in 2016. He worked in the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology from 2016 to 2019 and joined PartCat in 2019. His research focused on developing solar powered catalytic module/system for water treatment, hydrogen production, CO2 capture and utilization.
He has successfully supervised/co-supervised 3 PhD students and 20+ undergraduate/master students in the field of solar energy and desalination. Currently he co-supervises 2 PhD students and 1 Taste of Research student. He has published 40 journal papers, 3 book chapters and 10 conference publications in the field of energy and environmental (e.g. Energy & Environmental Science, Applied Energy, Water Research). He is one of inventors of 3 granted Chinese patents and 1 European patent. When he was a Ph.D. student, he has received ‘Winner of UNSW Student Innovator of the Year 2014’, ‘UNSW Innovation Awards 2014’.
My Grants
UNSW 2024 Research Infrastructure Scheme (2024), “Harnessing and utilizing renewable energy at a demonstration scale for research, teaching and outreach”, Amal, R, Scott, J, ...., Li, Q, et al. (AU $183,000)
NSW Department of Planning and Environment (2023), “NSW Evaporative Cooling Roadmap”, Taylor, R, Omar, A, Li, Q, Leslie, GL. (AU$ 95,179)
NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) / Circular Solar Trials Grants Program. (2022-2025) “Highly efficient and flexible recycling technology for end-of-life silicon photovoltaic panels towards NSW circular economy: from reactors design to system optimisation”, Shen, Y, Green, M, Amal, R, Leslie, GL, Hao, X, Bao, J, Sun, K, Liu, Z, Chang, N, Deng, R, Li, Q, Zhuo, Y. (AU$ 1,000,000)
My Awards
Finalist of Academic Sharp Brain, 2017, Melbourne
Winner of UNSW Innovation Awards 2014 - UNSW Student Innovator of the Year Award
Winner of UNSW Innovation Awards 2014 - Early Stage Innovation Awards
Winner of The New Employee Award, Foxconn Technology Group 2007
My Research Activities
Solar reforming of waste organics for clean hydrogen Production.
Development of a solar-driven system for producing CO by Reverse Water–Gas Shift (RWGS).
A sustainable carbon dioxide capture and utilization approach: Waste heat-powered CO2 capture and in situ hydrogenation to green fuels.
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Design engineering (computer aided design, simulation and manufacturing);
Renewable Energy (solar PV-Thermal, biomass, hydrogen production);
Chemical engineering (wastewater treatment, desalination, CO2 capture and utilization, and catalyst development).
Currently supervising
Mr. Takuto Komatsu, Taste of Research project, Producing renewable hydrogen from sunlight and wastewater (unsw.edu.au);
Mrs. Sumaya Sarmin (PhD candidate), Transforming sugar containing wastewater to renewable hydrogen;
Mr. Che Jiang (PhD candidate), Development of a solar-driven calcination system to convert bauxite ore into alumina.
My Teaching
CEIC2007 Chemical Engineering Lab A (Demonstrator)
MMAN1130 Design and Manufacturing (Guest Lecturer)
GSOE9111 Energy Storage (Guest Lecturer)
ENGG3600 Vertically Integrated Projects (supervisor of ‘Sun to H2O’ project)
MECH9720 Solar Thermal Energy Design (Tutor)
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9883-9100