Chemical Process Engineer

NAN QI

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AREAS of STRENGth

. Separation by adsorption: process development, design, theory,

simulation, experimentation.

. Process engineering: design, scale-up, simulation, operation support,

PSM assistance (PHA, HAZOP, MOC), SOP.

. Excellent experimental skills. Proficient in designing, building and

troubleshooting experimental apparatuses. Experienced in laboratory

automation.

. Innovative in theory, model and algorithm development. Experienced in

numerical simulation and optimization.

. Programming (UniSim extension development, Fortran, VB, VBA, C

Simulation (UniSim, Aspen Plus, Aspen Adsorption), Application

software (LabVIEW, MATLAB, Mathematica, AutoCAD, HP ChemStation, Igor

Pro).

. Fine chemicals (e.g. surfactants, dyes, drugs, emulsions): analysis,

purification, synthesis, and application.

. Expert of gas chromatograph (GC) and HPLC. Experienced in MS, CGE.

. Fluent in English and Chinese.

EXPERIENCE

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER, PROJECT MANAGER, R&D, ELEVANCE RENEWABLE

SCIENCES, WOODRIDGE, IL 05/12 - 02/14

Designed, built and operated a high pressure continuous reaction system

with two stages of separations and a recycle stream. It is a miniature of

commercial plant. This reaction system enabled the study of different

impurities and operation conditions on natural oils and olefin metathesis

reaction. Directed writing SOP.

Sr. Chemical Engineer, Adsorption and Gas Processing, R&D, UOP LLC, Des

Plaines, IL 06/06 - 09/11

Developed the design software as UniSim extension for UOP MemguardTM

technology, a Temperature Swing Adsorption (TSA) process to remove water

and heavy hydrocarbons from natural gas. Developed the new bed sizing

model that greatly improved UOP's design methodology used for 40+ years.

Developed the novel rating model which can predict product breakthrough

composition for existing adsorbers with mixture feed without solving

PDEs. The rating model dramatically improved the computation speed and

robustness, and enabled integration into design program and flow sheet

simulation (UniSim).

Led the revamp of a TSA pilot plant. Identified critical problems and

developed solutions to improve process design, control and automation.

Revamp greatly improved the accuracy of adsorption dynamics measurement

and enabled the water vapor breakthrough measurement for the first time

at the plant.

Participated project to reduce capital cost of UOP MemguardTM process

(TSA) by 11%.

Research Associate, Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

11/03 - 07/05

Project: "Structural study of Deoxyguanosine Adducts of trans-4-

hydroxynonenal (HNE) in DNA using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and

Molecular Dynamic Simulations", funded by National Institutes of Health

(NIH).

Separated DNA strands using liquid chromatography.

Identified DNA interstrand cross-link induced by HNE using HPLC, MALDI-

TOF, CGE, NMR (COSY, NOESY).

Research Assistant, Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,

TN 08/97 - 11/03

Ph.D. Dissertation: "Adsorption of Organic Compounds and Water Vapor on

Activated Carbon: Equilibria and Fixed-Bed Humidity Steps," funded by NASA,

joint program with NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

. Developed the Virial Excess Mixing Coefficient (VEMC) model, a

multicomponent adsorption equilibrium model that is for both non-ideal

and ideal system descriptions and thermodynamically consistent.

. Developed a Type V adsorption isotherm model and extended it for

multiple temperatures. It is Henry's law consistent, mathematically

simple, and much more accurate than other models published to date.

. Built and automated a volumetric apparatus for adsorption equilibrium

measurement over a wide range of pressures and temperatures. Measured

and modeled adsorption equilibria of organics and water vapor as pure

and mixtures on activated carbon.

. Designed, constructed and automated a fixed-bed apparatus that enabled

breakthrough studies of gas mixtures at extremely low concentrations

(< 1 ppm). Measured and investigated the breakthrough behavior of

hydrophilic and hydrophobic organics as pure and mixtures with

humidity steps.

. Examined water vapor adsorption kinetics on activated carbon.

Developed the first analytical model for the adsorbed-phase mass

transfer coefficient of water as a function of loading.

. Developed a software package to simulate fixed-bed adsorption dynamics

for non-ideal multicomponent systems. The simulation is in good

agreement with experiments.

Chemical Process Engineer, Beijing Consulting and Engineering Corp. for

Light Industry, Beijing, China 08/93 - 05/97

. Led and participated process design projects on building new detergent

plants.

Research Assistant, Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology,

China 08/90 - 07/93

M.S. Thesis: "Schiff Base Organic Nonlinear Optical Material Study"

. Established a new research direction on schiff base structure

materials and nitro-aniline derivatives.

. Synthesized 47 schiff bases. Thirteen of these bases showed second

harmonic generation (SHG) activity. One showed stronger SHG activity

than MNBA, the highest record in the world up to 1993.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Vanderbilt University,

Nashville, TN

M.S. Chemical Engineering Dalian University of

Technology, Dalian, China

B.S. Chemical Engineering Dalian University of

Technology, Dalian, China

ARTICLEs

1. Huang, H., Wang, H., Qi, N., Rizzo, C. J., Stone, M. P., et al,

"Rearrangement of the (6S,8R,11S) and (6R,8S,11R) Exocyclic 1,N2-

deoxyguanosine Adducts of trans-4-Hydroxynonenal to n2-Deoxyguanosine

Cyclic Hemiacetal Adducts When Placed Complementary to Cytosine in

Duplex DNA", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 108**-*****.

2. Huang, H., Wang, H., Qi, N.; Lloyd, R. S., Rizzo, C. J., Stone, M. P.,

"The Stereochemistry of trans-4-Hydroxynonenal-Derived Exocyclic 1,N2-

2'-Deoxyguanosine Adducts Modulates Formation of Interstrand Cross-

Links in the 5'-CpG-3'sequence", Biochemistry, 2008, 47(44), 11457-

11472.

3. Qi, N., Appel, W. S., LeVan, M. D., and Finn, J. E., "Adsorption

Dynamics of Organic Compounds and Water Vapor in Activated Carbon

Beds," Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2006, 45, 2303-2314.

4. Qi, N., and LeVan, M. D., "Coadsorption of Organic Compounds and Water

Vapor on BPL Activated Carbon. 5. Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Methyl Isobutyl

Ketone, Toluene and Modeling," Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2005, 44, 3733-

3741.

5. Qi, N., and LeVan, M. D., "Virial Excess Mixing Coefficient

Corrections for the Adsorbed Solution Theory," Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.,

2005, 44, 3726-3732.

6. Qi, N., and LeVan, M. D., "Adsorption Equilibrium Modeling for Water

on Activated Carbons," Carbon, 2005, 43(11), 2258-2263.

7. Ye, X., Qi, N., and LeVan, M. D., "Prediction of Adsorption

Equilibrium Using a Modified D-R Equation: Organic-Water Vapor

Mixtures on BPL Carbon," Carbon, 2003, 41(13), 2519-2525.

8. Ye, X., Qi, N., Ding, Y., and LeVan, M. D., "Prediction of Adsorption

Equilibrium Using a Modified D-R Equation: Pure Organic Compounds on

BPL Carbon," Carbon, 2003, 41(4), 681-686.

9. Qi, N., LeVan, M. D., Cho, S. Y., Constantinescu, I. C., and Finn, J.

E., "Regeneration of a Carbon Adsorber via Humidity Swing

Displacement," International Conference on Environmental Systems

(ICES), CD format, Paper No. 200*-**-****, 2003, 4 pp. (refereed).

10. Qi, N., Chen, X., and Cheng, L., "Condensation of Aromatic Amines with

Benzaldehydes and Determination of SHG Effect of the Products," Fine

Chemicals, 1997, 14 (1), 21-24.

11. Qi, N., Chen, X., and Cheng, L., "Preparation and Purification of

Schiff Bases and Determination of SHG Effect," Fine Chemicals, 1996,

13(6), 23-27.

12. Chen, X., Qi, N., and Cheng, L., "Synthesis of Schiff Base Organic

Compounds and Investigation of SHG Activity," Journal of Dalian

University of Technology, 1994, 34(1), 31-37.

13. Qi, N., Chen, X., and Cheng, L., "Development of Organic Nonlinear

Optical Material," Fine Chemicals, 1994, 11(1), 20-28.

PRESENTATIONS

1. Qi, N., "New MemguardTM Design and UniSim Extension," UOP TCO

Symposium, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, Sep. 2009.

2. Qi, N., Dunne, S. R., "New MemguardTM Design and Improvements for UOP

TS Design Methodology," UOP TCO Symposium, Argonne National

Laboratory, IL, Sep. 2009.

3. Qi, N., Murray, R. C., Coughlin P. K., "Design Improvement of Pilot

Plant 1010," UOP TCO Symposium, Fontana, WI, Oct. 2008.

4. Stone, M. P., Huang, H., Wang, H., Qi, N., Rizzo, C. J., "Site-

Specific DNA Adducts of Trans-4-Hydroxynonenal," 59th Southeastern

Regional Meeting of American Chemical Society (SERMACS), Greenville,

SC, Oct. 2007.

5. Qi, N., LeVan, M. D., Cho, S. Y., Constantinescu, I. C., and Finn, J.

E., "Regeneration of a Carbon Adsorber via Humidity Swing

Displacement," 33rd International Conference on Environmental Systems

(ICES), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Jul. 2003.

6. LeVan, M. D., Qi, N., Finn, J. E., et al, "Regenerable Incinerator

Exhaust Purification and Trace Contaminant Control System,"

Bioastronautics Investigators' Workshop, Galveston, TX, Jan. 2003.

7. Qi, N., Finn, J. E., and LeVan, M. D., "Cooperative and Competitive

Humidity Effects in Adsorption Beds for Trace Contaminant Control,"

Symposium on Adsorption in Environmental Processes, AIChE Annual

Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, Nov. 2002.

8. Constantinescu, I. C., Finn, J. E., Qi, N., and LeVan, M. D.,

"Regenerable Air Purification System (RAPS) for Gas-Phase Contaminant

Control," Fourth International Conference on Life Support and

Biosphere Science, Baltimore, MD, Aug. 2000.

STATUS

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