Li Huiquan has been a Professor of the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) since 2008. He is State Department special allowance experts for the contribution to the development of green chemical engineering and circular economy technology process industry. He is deputy director of National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology,  Director of Resource and Environmental Research Department of IPE and Circular Economy Technology Center of IPE. He is also the chairman of Professional Committee of Solid Waste in Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China. His main research interests include green catalysis and high-valued conversion of CO2, hydrometallurgical clean technology and material engineering, high value-added utilization and pollution control of industry solid residua, strategic metal refinement utilization of urban mineral resources, system integration and ecological industry in chemical or metallurgical industry. He proposed the method of mild separation of active components and coordinated control of mineral structure, and formed the research direction of basic research, application and industrialization. 

His researches supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Science and Technology Service Network Initiative Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Key R&D Program of China, and so on. He has more than 150 papers published and 100 patents filed, several demonstration projects have been completed that service for the sustainable development on circulation economy and energy saving and emission reduction of process industry. He was awarded for the National Technological Innovation of China in 2005, honored with Distinguished Young Scholars of CAS in 2009, and winners of Ten Thousand Talent Program in 2018.

1. Aolei Gao, Xinjuan Hou, Zhenhua Sun, Shaopeng Li, Huiquan Li, Jianbo Zhang, Lithium-desorption mechanism in LiMn2O4, Li1.33Mn1.67O4，and Li1.6Mn1.6O4 according to precisely controlled acid treatment and density functional theory calculations, Journal of Material Chemistry A, 2019, 7, 20878-20890

2. Ziheng Meng, Chenye Wang, Xingrui Wang, Yan Chen, Wenfen Wu, Huiquan Li, Simultaneous removal of SO2 and NOx from flue gas using (NH4)2S2O3/steel slag slurry combined with ozone oxidation, Fuel, 2019, 255, 115760.

3. Jianbo Zhang, Huiquan Li, Shaopeng Li, Pengpeng Hu, Wenfen Wu, Qisheng Wu, Xinguo Xi, Mechanism of mechanical-chemical synergistic activation for preparation of mullite ceramics from high-alumina coal fly ash, Ceramics International, 2018, 44,3884-3892

4. Pengpeng Hu, Xin-Juan Hou, Jianbo Zhang, Shaopeng Li, Hao Wu, Anne Juul Dam？c, Huiquan Li, Qisheng Wu, Xinguo Xi, Distribution and occurrence of lithium in high-alumina-coal fly ash,International Journal of Coal Geology, 2018, 189,27-34.

5. Chanjuan Zhang, Liguo Wang, Jiaju Liu, Yanmi Yang, Peng He, Yan Cao, Jiaqiang Chen, Huiquan Li. Facile Fabrication of Ultrasmall Copper Species Confined in Mesoporous Silica for Chemo-Selective and Stable Hydrogenation Ethylene Carbonate Derived from CO2, ChemCatChem. 2018, 10, 4617– 4628.

6. Ziheng Meng, Chenye Wang, Xingrui Wang, Yan Chen, Huiquan Li, Simultaneous removal of SO2 and NOx from coal-fired flue gas using steel slag slurry, Energy & Fuels, 2018, 32(2), 2028-2036.

7. Fengjiao Li, Liguo Wang, Xiao Han, Yan Cao, Peng He, Huiquan Li, Selective hydrogenation of ethylene carbonate to methanol and ethylene glycol over Cu/SiO2 catalysts prepared by ammonia evaporation method, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2017, 42(4), 2144-2156.

8. Weijun Bao, Hongtao Zhao, Huiquan Li, Songgeng Li, Weigang Lin. Process simulation of mineral carbonation of phosphogypsum with ammonia under increased CO2 pressure. Journal of CO2 Utilization, 2017, 17: 125–136.

9. Dehua Xu, Huiquan Li, Weijun Bao, Chenye Wang. A new process of extracting alumina from high-alumina coal fly ash in NH4HSO4 + H2SO4 mixed solution. Hydrometallurgy, 2016, 165, 336-344. 

10. Ganyu Zhu, Huiquan Li, Xingrui Wang, Shaopeng Li, Xinjuan Hou, Wenfen Wu, Qing Tang, Synthesis of Calcium Silicate Hydrate in Highly Alkaline System, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2016, 99(8), 2778-2785.