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Ming Sun

Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering

Xi’an, 710069

China

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Scholarly Papers (28)

1.

Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Anisole with Acetic Anhydride Over Single- to Multiple-Layer Mww Zeolites: Catalytic Behavior and Kinetic Mechanism

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Feb 2023
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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MWW, Layered zeolite, Friedel-Crafts acylation, Kinetic, Anisole

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Friedel-Crafts Alkylation of Phenanthrene with Ethanol to Alkyl-Phenanthrenes Over Modified Usy Catalyst

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Dec 2023
Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Xijing University - School of Science and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Phenanthrene, Friedel-Crafts alkylation, USY, Kinetic modeling, Metal ion radius

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The swelling behavior of six typical solvents on low-rank coal at 150 ℃ and their influence on the pyrolysis characteristics of coal

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 Oct 2025
Xijing University - School of Science, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Low-rank coal, Swelling, Pyrolysis kinetic, PY-GC/MS, Pyrolysis characteristics

4.

Multistage  Gradient Extractive Separation and D Irect and Indirect Analysis of Petroleum Ether Insoluble Fractions from Low Temperature Coal Tar

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Sep 2022
Xijing University - School of Science, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Xijing University, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Low temperature coal tar, PE insoluble fractions, Extractive separation, NMR, TG-FTIR, Py-GC/MS

5.

Coal-Oil Co-Refining Oil Cracking to Btex Over Different Morphology Mfi Zeolites:Structure-Activity Relationship Derived by Machine Learning

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Dec 2022
Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Xijing University - School of Science, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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MFI zeolites, Modulation, Coal-oil co-refining products, catalysis, Machine learning

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Temperature-controlled extraction of humic acid from Shendong subbituminous coal and its structure-activity relationship: Pyrolysis characteristics, agricultural applications, and residue pyrolysis recycling

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Nov 2025
Xijing University - School of Science, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Bituminous coal, Humic acid, Extraction temperature, Molecular structure, Wheat plants

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Research on the Air-Aging Modification of Low-Temperature Coal Tar to Produce Needle Coke Based on "Raw Material Composition And Green/Needle Coke Structure"

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 16 Jul 2025
Xijing University - School of Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Coal tar pitch, Air-aging modification, β-resin, Needle coke, Electrochemical Properties

8.

Effective Regulation of Ga Active Species in Mesoporous ZSM-5 for Catalytic Upgrading of Coal Pyrolysis Volatiles

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Dec 2021
Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Yan'an University - School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Coal pyrolysis volatiles, BTEXN, Catalytic upgrading, Ga-incorporated, Mesoporous ZSM-5, Post-treatments of reduction and reoxidation

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Research on the Pyrolysis Characteristics and the Rule of Volatiles Escape from Multistep Pyrolysis of Shendong Coal and its Macerals

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Dec 2023
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Xijing University - School of Science and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Macerals, Coal pyrolysis, Kinetic analysis, Multistep pyrolysis, Volatiles' release pattern

10.

Cracking of Heavy-Inferior Oils with Different Alkane-Aromatic Ratios to Aromatics Over Mfi Zeolites:Structure-Activity Relationship Derived by Machine Learning

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Jul 2023
Xijing University - School of Science, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Heavy-inferior oil, Alkane-aromatic ratio, MFI zeolites, Modulation, machine learning

11.

Prediction of Volatile Composition of Coal Pyrolysis Under Various Swelling and Catalytic Conditions Based on Deep Learning

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Feb 2023
Xijing University - School of Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Xijing University, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Machine learning, RNN, LSTM, Catalytic pyrolysis, Solvent swelling

12.

Thermal Oxidation Degradation Mechanism Under Rust-Catalyzed Condition of Co2 Absorbent Monoethanolamine and its Dft Analysis

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Aug 2024
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Xijing University - School of Science and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Monoethanolamine, Carbon dioxide absorber, Oxidative degradation, Degradation mechanisms, Density Functional Theory

13.

Mechanism of Coal Pyrolysis to Produce Aromatics and Phenols Under H2: Multi-Step Pyrolysis by Py-Gcms and Dft Calculations

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Xijing University - School of Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Coal, H2 atmosphere, Free radical transfer, Directed pyrolysis, Density functional theory calculation

14.

Design Synthesis of Zsm-5 Zeolite with Yolk-Shell Structure by Oswald Ripening for Aromatization of Coal-Oil Co-Refining Oils

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Nov 2023
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University (NPU), Xijing University - School of Science and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Hierarchical HZSM-5, Oswald ripening, Yolk-shell structure, Coal-oil co-refining oil, Catalytic conversion

15.

The Structural and Pyrolysis Characteristics of Vitrinite and Inertinite from Shendong Coal and the Gasification Performance of Chars

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 24 Dec 2021
Xijing University - Xi’an Key Laboratory of Advanced Photoelectronics Materials and Energy Conversion Device, Shaanxi Yuneng Group Energy and Chemical Industry Research Institute Co., Ltd, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Coal macerals, Vitrinite, Pyrolysis, Gasification, 13C-CP/MAS-NMR, TG-FTIR

16.

Efficient Bimetallic Mo-Ni Catalysts for Deep Catalytic Hydrogenation of Pyrene: Investigation of Structure-Activity Relationship

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Jul 2024
Xijing University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Hirosaki University - Graduate School of Science and Technology and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Bimetallic Mo-Ni catalysts, Defective nanosheet structure, Aromatic compounds, Pyrene, Deep hydrogenation.

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Mechanism of Catalytic Conversion of Kerosene Co-Refining Heavy Oil to Btexn by Py-Gc/Ms Based on "Point-Line-Surface-Body" Step by Step Research Strategy

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 08 Aug 2022
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Xijing University - School of Science, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Kerosene co-refining heavy oil, Catalytic conversion, Model compounds, Six group components, Light aromatics

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A Quantitative Investigation on Pyrolysis Behaviors of Metal Ion-Exchanged Coal Macerals by Interpretable Machine Learning Algorithms

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Jul 2023
Xijing University - School of Science, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Coal pyrolysis, Maceral, Ion-exchange, Machine learning, Symbolic regression

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Efficient Mo-Ni catalysts for deep catalytic hydrogenation of pyrene in coal tar: Investigation of structure-activity relationship

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 Sep 2025
Xijing University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Hirosaki University - Graduate School of Science and Technology
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Nanosheet structured Mo-Ni catalysts, defective, coal tar, DFT, polycyclic aromatic compounds, deep catalytic hydrogenation

20.

Prediction of Volatile Composition of Coal Pyrolysis Under Various Swelling and Catalytic Conditions Based on Recurrent Neural Network

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Jul 2023
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Xijing University - School of Science, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Xijing University, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Machine learning, RNN, LSTM, Catalytic pyrolysis, Solvent swelling

21.

Mechanism of Phenols Evolution During Pyrolysis of Shendong Coal Macerals Swelled with Oxygen-Containing Organic Solvent: Experimental and Dft Study

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Mar 2024
Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Xijing University - School of Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Swelling, Macerals, Pyrolysis behavior, Kinetic parameters, DFT calculation

22.

Catalytic Hydro-Dealkylation of 2-Methylnaphthalene with Different Catalyst Loaded W/La for Conversion to Naphthalene

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Dec 2023
Xijing University - School of Science, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Coal tar, HY zeolite, Dealkylation, 2-Methyl naphthalene, Naphthalene

23.

Modeling the Catalytic Conversion of Anthracene Fraction to Light Aromatics Over Mesoporous HZSM-5

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Dec 2021
Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Xijing University - School of Science, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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coal tar, Mesoporous, HZSM-5, Pyrolysis, Light aromatics

24.

Pyrolysis Characteristics of Low-Rank Coal in Pressurized Fluidized Bed Under Different Atmospheres

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Jan 2025
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Tar-rich coal, High pressure pyrolysis, Fluidized bed, Coal tar, Semi-coke

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Derivation of Coal-Origin Structural Units from O-Containing Species Volatiles in Coal Pyrolysis: Multi-Step Pyrolysis by Py-Gc/Ms and Dft

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Apr 2024
Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Xijing University - School of Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Macerals, Kinetic analysis, Multi-step pyrolysis, Molecular models, Density functional theory calculation

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Research on Pyrolysis Behavior of Injected Oil Slurry (Coal-Solvents Co-Pyrolysis) Based on Simulation and Optimization of Pyrolysis Process of Multi-Solvent and Multi-Temperature Swelling Coals

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 May 2025
Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Xijing University - School of Science, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Coal pyrolysis, High-temperature swelling, Machine learning, Solvent ratio optimization, Continuous reaction

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Divergent swelling and pyrolysis behaviors of coal and its macerals as driven by solvent electrostatic potential recognition

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 31 Jan 2026
Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Xijing University - School of Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Maceral, Swelling, Pyrolysis kinetic, Pyrolysis characteristics, Surface electrostatic potential

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Pyrolysis characteristics and semi-coke evolution of coal swollen by Oxygen-containing solvents: Insights from van der Waals Interactions

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 May 2026
Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, Xijing University - School of Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Northwest University - School of Chemical Engineering
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Maceral, Swelling, Semi-coke, Pyrolysis characteristics, van der Waals force