Faculty

Research Professor

Deputy Director of the Division of Reactor Thermal Hydraulics

yinhuaqiang@tsinghua.edu.cn

010-80194012-801

Education

PhD, Tsinghua University, INET, 2006

B.Eng., Xi’an Jiaotong University, School of Energy and Power Engineering, 2001

Work Experience

12/2023-present, Research Professor, Division of Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, INET

12/2011-12/2023, Research Associate Professor, Division of Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, INET

08/2006-12/2011, Research Assistant Professor, Division of Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, INET

Social service

Journal Reviewer

Progress in Materials Science, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Journal of Alloys and Metallurgical Systems, Nuclear Materials and Energy, Nuclear Science and Engineering.


Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

Research & Design of HTGR Helium Process,

Corrosion Research of Ni-based Superalloys in HTGR.

Diffusion and Permeation of Gas Molecules in Graphite of HTGR.

HTGR Hydrogen Production.

Selected Academic Achievement

[1] Wei Zheng, Huang Zhang, Bin Du, Haoxiang Li, Huaqiang Yin*, Xuedong He, Tao Ma. Effect of impurity ratios on the high-temperature corrosion of Inconel 617 and Incoloy 800H in impure helium. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 2023 Sep., 189:109836.

[2] Wei Zheng, Haoxiang Li, Bin Du, Huaqiang Yin*, Xuedong He, Tao Ma. High-temperature reaction kinetics of Inconel 617 in impure helium. Nuclear Materials and Energy. 2023 Mar., 34:101409.

[3] Lei Peng, Shen Zhang, Huang Zhang, Yicheng Guo, Wei Zheng, Xudong Yuan, Huaqiang Yin*, Xuedong He, Tao Ma. Study on tortuosity from 3D images of nuclear graphite grades IG-110 by Dijkstra’s algorithm and fast marching algorithm. Powder Technology. 2023 Sep., 427:118698.


[4] Bin Du, Huang Zhang, Wei Zheng, Haoxiang Li, Xuedong He, Tao Ma, Huaqiang Yin*. Carburization and tensile behavior of Alloy 617 in impure helium containing a part-per-million level of CH4 at 950 °C. Corrosion Science. 2024., 227: 111660.


[5] Bin Du, Wei Zheng, Penghui Xiao, Baozhi Wu, Huaqiang Yin*, Huang Zhang, Xuedong He, Tao Ma. New insights into the carburization and tensile behavior of superalloys Inconel 617 and Incoloy 800H in helium containing trace methane at 950°C. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 2025., 605: 155610.