Mechanical Engineer Engineering

Wei Chen

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Objective: Seek a Mechanical Engineer focusing on gasification, combustion, and emission testing

Education

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

2009 – 2012

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

MS. in Mechanical Engineering

2006 –2008

Suzhou University, Suzhou, China

BS. in Mechanical Engineering

2000 –2004

Research Experience

Coal and Biomass Energy Laboratory (CABEL)

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Graduate Research Assistant

2009 – Present

Dissertation: Gasification of mesquite and juniper biomass fuel

• Designed and built a 10 kW updraft fixed bed reactor for biomass gasification

• Evaluated the fuel properties such as particle size, proximate analysis, and ultimate analysis

• Conducted biomass gasification experiments and measured the gas emission and liquid-oil yield

• Investigated the effects of moisture content, temperature, and equivalence ratio gas and liquid yield

• Analyzed the experimental data and reported findings to advisor, funding agencies, and technical literature

Torrefaction of rice straw biomass

• Built the torrefaction reactor for rice straw torrefaction experiment

• Conducted torrefaction experiments to test the fuel weight loss behaviors

• Evaluated the torrefaction fuel properties

Graduate Research Assistant

2007 –2008

Internal Cooling Technology in a Flow Channel

• Designed and set up flow test channel using heater, insulation, and high conductive materials

• Ran experiments to test the temperature of the flow and press drop in the channel

• Analyzed the data obtained from the experiments and calculated the thermal performs

• Analyzed the effect of the channel geometry on the flow thermal performs

Skills

• Modeling Packages: FTIR,TGA/DSC, Mass Spectrometry, Emission Analyzer

• Design: SolidWorks, AutoCAD

• Software: MATLab, Visual Basic, Aspen plus

Work Experience

Patriot Antenna System, Albion, MI

Mechanical Engineer

2008 –2009

• Designed and developed various components for commercial antenna system such as reflector, truss

• Applied Finite Element Analysis(FEA) tools such COSMOS and ANSYS for engineering analysis

• Modeled bill of materials using SolidWorks and AutoCAD

• Evaluated field installations and recommended design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions

Samsung Electronics, Suzhou, China

Technical support Engineer

2004 –2006

• Introduced the high energy efficient Samsung commercial central air-conditioning system to HAVC designers or

potential clients

• Performed heating and cooling capacity and pressure loss calculations, humidity and air distribution analysis

• Conducted HVAC equipment sizing such as pumps, chillers, fans

• Provided supports to on-site equipment installation and performance test to ensure products and systems

conform to engineering design and client specifications

Publications

1. W Chen, K Annamalai, RJ Ansley, M Mirik. “Updraft Fixed Bed Gasification of Mesquite and Juniper Wood

Samples” Energy, Accepted.

2. W Chen, K Annamalai, RJ Ansley, M Mirik. “Kinetics of pyrolysis of Mesquite and Juniper biomass fuel from

TGA data” Biomass & Bioenergy, under review.

3. W Chen, K Annamalai, RJ Ansley, M Mirik. “Liquid yield from Gasification of Mesquite and Juniper Wood

biomass”. To be submitted to Fuel.

4. W Chen, SS. Thanapal, K Annamalai, RJ Ansley. “Comparative evaluation of CO2-O2 and Air (N2-O2)

Gasification of agriculture biomass fuels”. Proceeding of ASME Turbo Expo 2012, accepted.

5. W Chen, SS, K Annamalai, RJ Ansley.” Updraft gasification of mesquite biomass with coal” To be submitted to

Applied energy

Honor and Awards

Suzhou University Undergraduate Excellent Academic Scholarship

2002-2004

Texas A&M University mechanical engineering fellowship

2006-2008

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