Guibing Zhao, Ph.D.

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Tel. (609) 375 - 7191 Email: zybc6h@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER OBJECTIVE

• Seeking for a challenging opportunity in chemical or energy industries where my professional experience and knowledge can be fully utilized for a progressive organization.

QUALIFICATIONS

• A talented and self-motivated Chemical Engineer with 10+ years experience in both experimentation and mathematical modeling of chemical and physical process.

• Hands on experience in process scale-up, including fluidization technology, waste to fuel conversion technology, fuel cell and battery, plasma technology, Adsorption, Membrane separation, and calorimetry.

• Solid knowledge in applying principles of mass transfer, heat transfer, reaction kinetics and thermodynamics to process engineering.

• Expertise in applied thermodynamics including prediction/correlation of physical properties and phase equilibria.

• Strong background on reaction engineering including kinetic experimentation and kinetic model development, reactor modeling, systems optimization, computer programming, and data analysis and reporting.

• Strong mathematical skill including optimization, PDEs & ODEs analytical or numerical solution, time-series analysis, chaos and wavelet analysis of complex signals, differential algebraic equation systems, probability theory, and stochastic analysis.

• Familiar with analytical methods such as XRD, SEM-EDS, TEM, XPS, porosity and pore size distribution technology, TGA, DSC, FTIR, GC, MS.

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, highly organized, detail-oriented, effective communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Senior Research Engineer

Blacklight Power, Inc. – Cranbury, NJ 08/2006 – 05/2012

• Completed front end engineering and design of scale-up of 1MW thermal power plant.

• Developed and scaled up a water-flow calorimetrical technology and applied to study various energy-release reactions including homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions, and high power blast reactions.

• Developed and demonstrated 10W metal-air battery scaling up from mW-level battery.

• Designed and implemented a fuel cell stack including installation, process experimentation, trouble shooting, and optimization.

• Developed high-efficiency energy-focusing heating and energy-saving technology for high temperature fuel cell and molten salt based metal–air battery.

• Led reactor design and safety test and analysis including pressure vessel design.

• Collected thermodynamic data from extensive literatures, established thermodynamic database for different process calculations.

• Planned and executed engineering validation of reaction and energy system.

Research Scientist

University of Wyoming, – Laramie, WY 09/2002 – 08/2006

• Developed kinetic model of conversion of NOx, CH4 and H2S in nonthermal plasma reactors.

• Conducted experiments, analyzed and interpreted experimental data, prepared reports for funding agencies.

• Designed and developed a new integrated membrane-plasma process to convert CH4 and H2S and recover H2.

• Designed and implemented a pilot-scale non-thermal plasma reactor including installation, process experimentation, trouble shooting, and optimization.

• Investigated supercritical CO2 enhanced oil recovery including both modeling prediction and experimental measurement of minimum miscible pressure.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Kyushu University - Fukuoka, Japan 10/2001 – 09/2002

• Designed, fabricated, assembled, and evaluated a microcatalytic reactor for catalyst testing.

• Developed a hydrogen separation porous membrane.

Adjunct General Engineer

Zhejiang Changhe Photo-Electricity Co., LTD. - Hangzhou, China 03/2000 – 10/2001

• Led a research group working on synthesis of ultra high purity YVO4.

• Designed and scaled up this process, and developed a Crystal-Growth technology that focused on temperature field design and heat transfer process.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Zhejiang University - Hangzhou, China 07/1999 – 10/2001

• Developed a chaotic dynamic model to predict pressure fluctuations of gas-solid fluidized bed reactor.

• Applied acoustic emission measurement technology to diagnose malfunction of fluidized bed reactor.

• Investigated engineering operation and control software of polymerization of ethylene in an industrial-scale fluidized bed catalytic reactor, and upgraded this software for operation at Ultra-Condensed Mode.

• Investigated high temperature pyrolytic reaction mechanism of scrap tyres, designed, developed, and patented an inner-heating moving bed reactor.

• Developed a pilot-scale scrap tyre pyrolysis process of 250kg/day based on the patented moving bed reactor design.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering

Dissertation: Chaos Analysis of Pressure Fluctuation of Fluidized Bed

Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 1999

• Master in Chemical Engineering

Nanjing University of Chemical Technology, Nanjing, China 1996

• Bachelor in Chemical Engineering

Nanjing University of Chemical Technology, Nanjing, China 1994

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Second Place of Scientific and Technological Advancement Award of Zhejiang Province, 2002.

Second Place of Excellent New Product and New Technology Award of Hangzhou City, 2002

Second Place of Scientific and Technological Advancement Award of Hangzhou City, 2001

MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER

AIChE Journal

Plasma Processes & Polymers

Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies

International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering

Environmental Science and Technology

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Particulate Science and Technology

PATENTS, PUBLICATIONS AND INVITED TALKS

1. Shuifang Hua; Gui-Bing Zhao; Jun Zhang. “Raw materials synthesis process of rare-earth vanadate crystal”, China Patent, 2002, CN1355139

2. Gui-Bing Zhao, Yongrong Yang, et al. “Internal heating waste tyre thermal degradation reactor”, China Patent, 2001, CN2422285U

3. R.L. Mills, G. Zhao, K. Akhtar, Z. Chang, J. He, X. Hu, G. Wu, J. Lotoski, G. Chu. “Thermally Reversible Hydrino Catalyst Systems as a New Power Source”, International Journal of Green Energy, 2011, 8, 429-473.

4. R. L. Mills, M. Nansteel, W. Good, G. Zhao. “Design for a BlackLight Power multi-cell thermally coupled reactor based on hydrogen catalyst systems”, International Journal of Energy Research, 2011, 35

5. R.L. Mills, J. Lotoski, G. Zhao, K. Akhtar, Z. Chang, J. He, X. Hu, G. Wu, G. Chu, Y. Lu, “Identification of New Hydrogen States”, Phys. Essays, 2011, 24, 95-117

6. Randell L. Mills, Guibing Zhao, William Good, “Continuous hydrino thermal power system”, Applied Energy, 2011, 88, 789–798

7. R.L. Mills, K. Akhtar, G. Zhao, Z. Chang, J. He, X. Hu, G. Chu, “Commercializable Power Source Using Heterogeneous Hydrino Catalysts,” Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 2010, 35, 395-419

8. R.L. Mills, G. Zhao, K. Akhtara, Z. Chang, J. He, Y. Lu, W. Good, G. Chu, B. Dhandapani. “Commercializable power source from forming new states of hydrogen”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2009, 34, 573–614.

9. Gui-Bing Zhao, Sanil John, Ji-Jun Zhang, Jerry C. Hamann, Suresh Mukhnahallipatna, John F. Ackerman, Stanislaw F. Legowski, Morris D. Argyle, “Production of Hydrogen and Sulfur from Hydrogen Sulfide in a Nonthermal-Plasma Pulsed Corona Discharge Reactor”, Chemical Engineering Science, 2007, 62, 2216-2227.

10. Gui-Bing Zhao, Morris D. Argyle, Maciej Radosz, “Optical Emission Study of Nonthermal Plasma Confirms Reaction Mechanisms Involving Neutral Rather than Charged Species”, Journal of Applied Physics, 2007, 101, 033303-1-14

11. Fulin Yang, Gui-Bing Zhao, Hertanto Adidharma, Brian Towler, and Maciej Radosz, “The Effect of Oxygen on Minimum Miscibility Pressure in Carbon Dioxide Flooding”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2006, 46, 1396-1401

12. Gui-Bing Zhao, Hertanto Adidharma, Brian Towler, and Maciej Radosz, “Using a Multiple-Mixing-Cell Model to Study Minimum Miscibility Pressure Controlled by Thermodynamic Equilibrium Tie lines”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2006, 45, 7913-7923

13. Gui-Bing Zhao, Morris D. Argyle, Maciej Radosz, “Effect of CO on Conversion of NO and N2O in Nonthermal Argon Plasma”, Journal of Applied Physics. 2006, 99, 113302-1-14.

14. Gui-Bing Zhao, Sanil John, Ji-Jun Zhang, Linna Wang, Suresh Mukhnahallipatna, Jerry C. Hamann, John F. Ackerman, Morris D. Argyle, Ovid A. Plumb, “Methane Conversion in Pulsed Corona Discharge Reactors”, Chemical Engineering Journal. 2006, 125, 67-79

15. Gui-Bing Zhao, S.V.B.Janardhan Garikipati, Xudong Hu, Morris D. Argyle, Maciej Radosz, “Effect of Oxygen on Nonthermal-Plasma Reactions of Nitrogen Oxides in N2”, AIChE J, 2005, 51, 1800-1812.

16. Gui-Bing Zhao, S.V.B.Janardhan Garikipati, Xudong Hu, Morris D. Argyle, Maciej Radosz, “Effect of Reactor Configuration on Nitric Oxide Conversion in Nitrogen Plasma”, AIChE J, 2005, 51, 1813-1821.

17. Gui-Bing Zhao, S.V.B.Janardhan Garikipati, Xudong Hu, Morris D. Argyle, Maciej Radosz, “The Effect of Gas Pressure on NO Conversion Energy Efficiency in Nonthermal Nitrogen Plasma”, Chemical Engineering Science, 2005, 60, 1927-1937.

18. Gui-Bing Zhao, Xudong Hu, Morris D. Argyle, Maciej Radosz, “Effect of CO2 on Nonthermal-Plasma Reactions of Nitrogen Oxides in N2. Part I: PPM-level Concentrations”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2005, 44, 3925-3934.

19. Gui-Bing Zhao, Xudong Hu, Morris D. Argyle, Maciej Radosz, “Effect of CO2 on Nonthermal-Plasma Reactions of Nitrogen Oxides in N2. Part II: Percent-level Concentrations”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2005, 44, 3935-3946.

20. Xudong Hu, Stanislaw F. Legowski, S.V.B.Janardhan Garikipati, Gui-Bing Zhao, Maciej Radosz, “Effects of synchronization of Laser Induced Fluorescence and Corona Induced Fluorescence in a Pulsed Corona Reactor”, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 2005, 33, 1332-1345

21. Xudong Hu, Gui-Bing Zhao, S.V.B.Janardhan Garikipati, Kim Nicholas, Stanislaw F. Legowski, Maciej Radosz, “Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Probe for in-situ Nitric Oxide Concentration Measurement in a Nonthermal Pulsed Corona Discharge Plasma Reactor”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing. 2005, 25, 351-370

22. Xudong Hu, Gui-Bing Zhao, Stanislaw F. Legowski, Maciej Radosz, “Moisture Effect on NOx Conversion in a Nonthermal Plasma Reactor”, Environmental Engineering Science. 2005, 22, 854-869

23. Gui-Bing Zhao, Hu Xudong, Yeung Man-Chung, Plumb Ovid A., Radosz Maciej. “Nonthermal Plasma Reactions of Dilute Nitrogen Oxide Mixtures: NOx in Nitrogen”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2004, 43, 2315-2323.

24. Gui-Bing Zhao, Xudong Hu, Morris D. Argyle, Maciej Radosz, “N Atom and N2(A3 u+) Found to be Responsible for Nitrogen Oxides Conversion in Non-thermal Nitrogen Plasma”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2004, 43, 5077-5088.

25. Gui-Bing Zhao, Xudong Hu, Ovid A. Plumb, Maciej Radosz, “Energy Consumption and Optimal Reactor Configuration for Nonthermal Plasma Conversion of N2O in Nitrogen and N2O in Argon”, Energy & Fuels. 2004, 18, 1522-1530.

26. Xudong Hu, Gui-Bing Zhao, Ji-Jun Zhang, Linna Wang, Maciej Radosz “Nonthermal-Plasma Reactions of Dilute Nitrogen Oxide Mixtures: NOx-in-Argon and NOx+CO-in-Argon”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2004, 43, 7456-7464.

27. Gui-Bing Zhao, and Yongrong Yang. “Multiscale Resolution of Fluidized-Bed Pressure Fluctuations”, AIChE. J., 2003, 49, 869-882.

28. Ken-Ichiro Sotowa, Daigo Miyagawa, Guibing Zhao, Katsuki Kusakabe, Shigeharu Morooka, and Koji Takahashi. “Fabrication of a Microevaporator Equipped with a Piezoelectrically-Driven Diaphragm Pump”, Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, 2003, 36, 7-13.

29. Katsuki Kusakabe, Fumio Shibao, Guibing Zhao, Ken-Ichi Sotowa, Kensuke Watanabe and Tomonari Saito. “Surface modification of silica membranes in a tubular-type module”, Journal of Membrane Science, 2003, 215, 321-326.

30. Gui-Bing Zhao, Jizhong Chen and Yongrong Yang. “Study on Decomposition of Pressure Fluctuations Using a Series of Daubechies Wavelets in a Fluidized Bed”, Journal of Chemical Engineering of Chinese Universities, 2003, 17(3):272-278.

31. Gui-Bing Zhao and Yongrong Yang. “Multi-scale and Fractal Characteristics of Pressure Signals in a Fluidized Bed”, Journal of Chemical Engineering of Chinese Universities, 2003, 17(6):648-654.

32. Katsuki KUSAKABE, Keisuke TOKUNAGA, Guibing Zhao, Ken-Ichi SOTOWA and Shigeharu MOROOKA. “Fabrication of parallel microchannel reactors for use in catalyst testing”, Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, 2002, 35(9): 914-917.

33. Gui-Bing Zhao and Yanfu Shi. “Analyzing the Power-law Decay of Power Spectrum Intensity and Behavior of Intermittent Chaos of Pressure Fluctuations in a Gas-Solid Fluidized Bed”, The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering, 2002, 2(2): 101-106.

34. Gui-Bing Zhao, Jizhong Chen and Yongrong Yang. “Chaotic Nature of Pressure fluctuation in Fluidized Bed”, Journal of Chemical Industry and Engineering, 2002, 53(6): 655-659.

35. Gui-Bing Zhao, Jizhong Chen and Yongrong Yang. “Study on Delay Correlation of Time of Pressure Fluctuations in a Bubbling Fluidized Bed”, Journal of Chemical Industry and Engineering, 53(12),1281-1287.

36. Gui-Bing Zhao, Jizhong Chen, Yongrong Yang. “Study on the Nature of Pressure Signals in a Bubbling Fluidized Bed”, Journal of Zhejiang University, 2002, 3(4): 435-439

37. Gui-Bing Zhao, Ji-Zhong Chen, Yong-Rong Yang. “Predictive Model and Deterministic Mechanism in a Bubbling Fluidized Bed”, AIChE. J., 2001, 47, 1524-1532.

38. Gui-Bing Zhao, Tianduo Li, Fengyan Wang, Yongrong Yang. “Study on decomposition of pressure signals in gas-solid two-phase flow”, China Powder Science and Technology, 2001, 7(3): 6-10.

39. Gui-Bing Zhao, Yongrong Yang and Linxi Hou. “Mechanism of Acoustic Emissions and its Application on Diagnosis of Malfunction in fluidization”, Journal of Chemical Industry and Engineering, 2001, 52(11): 941-943.

40. Gui-Bing Zhao, Yanfu Shi,, Guoqing Guan, Yong Zhou and Huarui Yu. “Impact of Periodic Signal on Delay Time of Reconstructed Dynamic in Fluidized Bed”, Journal of Chemical Industry and Engineering, 2000, 51(3): 331-337.

41. Gui-Bing Zhao, Lili Gu, Yanfu Shi, Huarui Yu. “Distinguishing between Particulate and Aggregative Fluidization Using Chaos Theory”, Journal of Chemical Industry and Engineering, 2000, 51(4): 468-474.

42. Gui-Bing Zhao, Yanfu Shi, Huarui Yu. “Study on Chaos Prediction of Pressure Fluctuations in Fluidized Bed”, Journal of Chemical Industry and Engineering, 2000, 51(5): 660-665.

43. Gui-Bing Zhao, Yanfu Shi. “Study on the Lyapunov Exponents Spectrum of Pressure Fluctuation in Gas-Solid Fluidized Bed”, Journal of Chemical Engineering of Chinese Universities, 2000, 14(6): 558-562.

44. Gui-Bing Zhao, Yanfu Shi, Wenfeng Duan, Huarui Yu. “Computing Fractal Dimension and the Kolmogorov Entropy from Chaotic Time Series”, Chinese Journal of Computational Physics, 1999, 16(3): 309-315.

45. Gui-Bing Zhao, Huqing Yao. “Dynamic Character for the Reaction Between H2S and K2CO3 in the Pellet”, Journal of Chemical Engineering of Chinese Universities, 1998, 12(2): 162-167.

46. Gui-Bing Zhao, Sanil John, Jerry C. Hamann, Suresh S. Muknahallipatna, Stanislaw Legowski, John F. Ackerman, and Morris D. Argyle, “Decomposition of Hydrogen Sulfide in a Nonthermal-Plasma Pulsed Corona Discharge Reactor”, AIChE Annual meeting, November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA

47. Gui-Bing Zhao, Fulin Yang, Hertanto Adidharma, Brian Towler, and Maciej Radosz, “A New Approach for Calculation of Minimum Miscibility Pressure Based on a Multiple-Mixing-Cell Model”, AIChE Annual meeting, November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA

48. Gui-Bing Zhao, Brian Towler, Maciej Radosz, Hertanto Adidharma, “Minimum Miscibility Pressure Prediction Using Statistical Associating Fluid Theory: Two- and Three-Phase Systems”, 2006 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE), 24-SEP-06 to 27-SEP-06 in San Antonio, TX, USA.

49. Gui-Bing Zhao, Morris D. Argyle, and Maciej Radosz, “Charge Transfer Reactions Have a Negligible Contribution on NOx Conversion in Nonthermal Plasma Reactor”, AIChE Annual meeting, Oct 30 – Nov 3, 2005, Cincinnati, OH, USA

50. Gui-Bing Zhao, Sanil John, Ji-Jun Zhang, Morris D. Argyle, Jerry C. Hamann, Suresh S. Muknahallipatna and Stanislaw Legowski, “Production of Hydrogen and Sulfur from Hydrogen Sulfide in a Nonthermal-Plasma Pulsed Corona Discharge Reactor”, AIChE Annual meeting, Oct 30 – Nov 3, 2005, Cincinnati, OH, USA

51. Gui-Bing Zhao, “Nonthermal Plasma Conversion of NOx: Mechanism and Kinetics”, Seminar of Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Feb 26, 2004, Engineering Building, Room 4045, Laramie, WY, USA

52. Gui-Bing Zhao, Xudong Hu, and Maciej Radosz, “Kinetic Modeling of Nontehrmal-plasna Reactions of Dilute Nitrogen Oxide Mixtures: NOx-in-nitrogen”, Nov 16 – Nov 23, 2003, AIChE Annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA

53. Gui-Bing Zhao, Yanfu Shi, Guoqing Guan, and Huarui Yu, “Chaotic Method for Distinguishing between Particulate and Aggregative Fluidization” Fluidization X, Proceedings of the Engineering Foundation Conference on Fluidization, 10th, May 20-25, 2001, Beijing, China

54. G. B. Zhao, J. Z. CHEN, Y. R. YANG. “Mechanism of Deterministic Dynamic Underlying Pressure Fluctuations in a Bubbling Fluidized Bed”, Proceedings of CUCHE-3(Beijing), 2000: 120**-*****

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