Ching-Chieh Lin

**** * ******* ***, **** Lake City, UT 84108

801-***-****; acrxde@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Qualifications

8+ years of experience in various water treatment research projects. Expertise in water, wastewater and produced water sampling, monitoring, and treatment/purification including physical, chemical, and biological.

3 year experience in applying membrane technology in wastewater treatment for recycling.

Knowledge in solid waste management, storm water management, rainwater harvesting, and LEED.

Experienced in proposal funding, project design and management, and process control. Experience with developing and managing project budgets and schedules.

Fluency with all common commercial software: all Microsoft Office components, Windows, Macintosh OS X, LabView, MATLAB, AutoCAD, and other software titles for graphics, organization & interfacing with hardware.

4 year development algal bioenergy experience from design to application to feasibility evaluation.

Licensure

Engineering-in-Training (Fundamental Engineering)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT December 2014

Dissertation: Harvest and Conversion of Algal Lipid.

Master of Science, Environmental Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan December 2007

Thesis: Using membrane process to treat and reuse the membrane bioreactor effluent.

Bachelor of Science, Environmental Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan June 2005

Experience

Research

Dept. of Environmental Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan

Graduate Research Assistant August 2005 – December 2007

Application of membrane technology for wastewater treatment and recycling included in design, batch and pilot scale experiment, and feasibility evaluation.

Membrane technology for wastewater treatment and recycling funded by Industrial Technology Research Institute

Implement pilot scale membrane units in municipal wastewater treatment and dyeing factory

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, UT

Research Project Leader August 2013 – December 2013

Soil and groundwater remediation research on MTBE contaminated site by physical, chemical and biological treatment included in membrane filtration, GAC adsorption, advanced oxidation process, and biodegradation.

On-site bacteria cultivation and biodegradation efficiency of MTBE

Degradation of MTBE by ozonation

Member of Engineers Without Borders August 2012 – January 2013

Olive mill waste research, Treatment and Recycle of Olive Mill Waste in the West Bank, included in treating wastewater and solid waste and applying in the West Bank and other developing regions of the world, funded by EPA, P3 (People, Prosperity and the Planet).

Integration of sand filtration, trickling filter, and compost unit to treat olive mill waste

Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet

Dept. of Environmental Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

Research Project Leader August 2003 – May 2004

Implementation of biological reactors to treat artificial municipal wastewater included in RBC, trickling filter, and suspended activated sludge reactor.

Cultivation of activated sludge from municipal wastewater treatment plant

Degradation of artificial municipal wastewater by secondary biological reactor

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, UT

Graduate Research Assistant August 2010 - present

Advanced research in renewable energy field included in biogas and biodiesel by incorporating conventional environmental technologies, anaerobic digesters, ozonation, sand filtration, and so on.

Biogas: operated anaerobic digester with inflowing ozonated sludge to investigate the efficiency of sludge reduction and biogas generation

Biodiesel: developed new processing scheme for harvesting algae lipid included sand filtration, ozonation, and biodiesel conversion

Teaching

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, UT

Graduate Teaching Assistant August 2010 - present

Prepared and taught lab class, Water Chemistry and Laboratory Analysis.

Publications

Journal and Thesis

Lin, C.-C., P. K. Hong, Harvest and Conversion of Algal Lipid, (in preparation)

Lin, C.-C., C.-J. Cheng, O. Conroy, A. Y.-C. Lin, C.-F. Lin, and P.K. A. Hong, “From wet algae to biofuel via streamlined cell rupture and transesterification”, Algal Research, (submitted)

Lin, C.-C., and P. K. Hong, “A new processing scheme from algae suspension to collected lipid using sand filtration and ozonation”, Algal Research, vol. 2, pp. 378-384, 2013.

Li, Xi, C.-C. Lin, D. Sweeney, J. Earl and P.K.A. Hong, “Composting and trickling filter for treatment of olive mill waste,” Advances in Environmental Research, vol. 2, pp. 131-141, 2013.

Lin, C.-C., Membrane technology for wastewater treatment and recycling. National Central University, 2007. (M.S. Thesis).

Conferences Presentation

Lin, C.-C., C. J. Cheng, and P. K. Hong, “ Concentrating and rupturing of algae for lipid”, 1st International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels & Bioproducts, organized by ELSEVIER, St Louis, US, 2011.

Juang, L. C., D. H. Tseng, and C.-C. Lin, “Using Reverse Osmosis Separation to Treat and Reuse the Membrane Bioreactor Effluent from Dye Wastewater”, 5th IWA Leading-Edge, Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies, Zurich, Switzerland, 2008.

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