Zailin Yuan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zailinyuan • ac65uk@r.postjobfree.com • 213-***-****

**** * **** **, *** Angeles, CA, 90007

EDUCATION

M.S., Chemical Engineering Dec.2018

University of Southern California 3.22

B.S., Chemical Engineering June.2016

Qingdao University of Science & Technology 3.04

SKILLS

• Chemical Engineering Skills: CAD, Aspen

• Chemical Lab Skills: Instrument analysis (GC), Chemical Engineering / Chemistry Lab experiences

• Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, MATLAB, R

• Binary Languages: Mandarin, English

ACADEMIC

Undergraduate Thesis May.2015

Project: Synthesis of 3-Cyclohexene-1-methanol-6-methyl methacrylate

• Searched best reaction conditions for synthesizing 3-Cyclohexene-1-methanol-6-methyl methacrylate.

Optimal catalyst and its amount, reaction time, reactant ratio, polymerization inhibitor and its amount, and their best combination to get highest yield of products

• Built a reactive distillation plants coupled with vacuum distillation devices, separated products, by-products

• Tested repeatability of optimistic catalyst, recording its recycling time vs its performance

• Analyzed product’s & byproducts’ purity by GS, characterized product by 1H-NMR, calculated products’ yield

• Academic oral defense

WORK EXPERIENCE

HUAYIHEFENG Specialty Chemicals - 50000 t/y special ester products project Jan.2016-May.2016

• Created and developed chemical process and plants of producing 14 types of esters, drew chemical process flow diagrams using AutoCAD

• Communicated with customers. Adjusted technical details to improve process design according to customer requirement

• Compiled feasible report, product’s instructions and safety specification on all raw chemical materials, products and auxiliaries

COMPETITIONS

Quality Monitoring on Tennessee Eastman Process May.2017

• Used data analyzing method CCCA to project processing data into five subspaces on R. Detecting chemical process fault due to turbulence of input or output streams by visualizing all five data subspaces on MATLAB Chevron-USC Student Design Competition Jan.2017-Feb.2017

• Collaborated work to analyze period of recovering cost of replacing Dimersol process by Difasol process.

• Created new concepts of Period of Cost Recovery and Period of Equal Benefits to solve cost recovery period problem

“Longteng Cup” Experimental Skill Contest Nov.2013

• Led a team of three to design Depropanization Distillation Devices. Designed process framework with lowest energy consumption.

• Performed process simulation on Aspen. Examined reliability of simulation results. Determined column stages, determined plane column/pump/heat exchanger parameters.

• Conducted simulation and animation of plant’s startup/shutdown on Yokogawa CS 3000 system by setting parameters

AWARD

• Second prize in “Chevron Student Design Competition” Feb.2017

• Second prize in “Longteng” Cup Chemical Engineering Design Contest Nov.2013

• Scholarship for Academic Improvement 2013-2014

• Activist in Community Activity 2011-2012

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