Engineering Assistant

Huajun Yuan

Room ***, Chemical Engineering Building Office: 312-***-****

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Chicago, IL 60607 Email: ******@***.***

Education:

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chemical Engineering Department, Ph.D., 2009 (GPA3.93/4.0)

University of Illinois at Chicago, Mathematical Computer Science, M.S., 2008 (Secondary degree)

Zhejiang University, Chemical Engineering Department, M.S., 2004

Zhejiang University of Technology, Chemical Engineering Department, B.S., 1998

Experience:

2008 – 2009 Honeywell Co. Ltd, Consultant.

Estimated gas properties for optimizing hydrogenation process.

Developed new property estimation method and implemented on ASPEN PLUS and UNISIM.

2007 – 2008 Dow Chemicals, Research Collaborator.

Modified inter molecular potential for better prediction of gas solubility in different solvents.

Improved property data at high temperature and high pressure (HTHP) for process calculations.

2005 – 2009 University of Illinois at Chicago, Research Assistant

Rigorous mathematical knowledge with applications of process design packages.

Developed molecule based simulation method for chemical process.

Applied computer modeling to estimate gas properties, worked closely with industrial engineers

(DOW, UOP) to solve real problems in chemical industry.

Carried out estimation of gas solubility in different organic systems, gained insights on diffusion

processes of gas/gas mixture in organic and biological systems.

Advised master students to accomplish Geo thermal project using ASPEN PLUS, collaborate

with students from civil engineering to design an economic efficient geo thermal system.

Certificate: Safety in the Chemical Process Industries, by AIChE, 2008.

2001 – 2004 Zhejiang University, Research Assistant

Prepared rare earth metal catalysts for hydrogen storage media; improved hydrogenation and

dehydrogenation reactions of organic liquids catalyzed by rare earth catalysts.

Developed kinetic model for Toluene hydrogenation; improved functionality of metal alloys.

Hands on experience with laboratory equipments: GC, BET, SEM, XRD, TGA etc.

Research Publications:

1. Huajun Yuan, Sohail Murad, Estimation of Gas Solubility in Heavy Oils by Molecular Dynamics

Simulation Method, in Preparation.

2. Huajun Yuan, Cynthia J. Jameson, Sohail Murad, Exploring Gas Permeability through Lipid

Membranes. Molecular Simulations, 2009 Vol.35, Nos.10 11, 953 961

3. Huajun Yuan, Cynthia J. Jameson, S. K. Gupta, J. D. Olson, Sohail Murad, Prediction of Henry’s

Constant of Xenon in cyclo Alkanes from Molecular Dynamics Simulations,

Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2008, 269: 73 79

4. Huajun Yuan, Sohail Murad, Cynthia J. Jameson, James D. Olson, Molecular dynamics simulation

of Xe chemical shift and solubility in n Alkanes, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2007, 111:

15771 1578

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5. Huajun Yuan, Yue An et al, Hydriding behavior of magnesium based hydrogen storage alloy

modified by mechanical ball milling, Materials chemistry and physics, 2004, 83(2 3): 340 344

6. Huajun Yuan, Guohua Xu, Yu An, Kinetics of liquid phase hydrogenation of toluene catalyzed by

hydrogen storage alloy MlNi5, Journal of Rare Earth, 2004, 22(3): 385 389

7. Huajun Yuan, Yue An, Guohua Xu, Study on performance of nano hydrogen storage alloy

prepared by mechanic ball milling, Preceedings of National Conference on Nano Sciences

and Surface Sciences, Beijing, 2003, 78

Research Presentations (part):

• Study of Gas Permeation through Biological Membrane, May 2009, oral presentation,

Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference, Detroit, Michigan.

• Gas Solubility in Heavy Oil, oral presentation, November 2008, UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL.

• Gas Permeation through Lipid Membranes, oral presentation, November 2008, AIChE Annual

Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

• Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Gas Solubility Using NMR Chemical Shifts Based Potential

Models, John OʹConnell 70th Birthday Celebration II, November 2008, AIChE Annual Meeting,

Philadelphia, PA.

• Developing Intermolecular Potential Models from Molecular Dynamics Simulation of NMR

Chemical Shifts, oral presentation, November 2007, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City,

Utah.

Professional Activities:

Judge:

2009 North Central regional conference ChemE car competition, Feb 2009, IIT, Chicago, IL

2009 UIC Research Forum, April 2009, UIC, Chicago, IL

Student Organizations:

2006 – 2009, President of GRACE (Graduate student Association of Chemical Engineering)

Organized graduate students activities (http://www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/cultures/gsace/)

Student liaison for Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) and graduate Student council (GSC)

Professional Organizations: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Member

American Chemical Society (ACS), Member

Skills & Certifications:

Expertise in UniSim and Aspen Plus, familiar with Statistical Process Control.

Familiar with Fluent 6.3, experienced for fluid flow and heat transfer simulations.

Fluent in Microsoft Office, ChemOffice, AutoCAD, Matlab, Origin.

Excellent knowledge in FORTRAN, C/C++ programming, familiar with Linux and parallel

computing, familiar with LAMMPS simulation package.

Build and maintained lab cluster for computation.

Experience using C#.NET for user interface design and software development, developed own

software tools for molecule visualization.

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