Francis Chukwunta Email & Phone Number

Corvallis, OR, US

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Spearheaded the design and development of digital twin models, integrating chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, and thermodynamics to enhance product functionality, sustainability, and reducing market readiness time.
• Collaborated in development and testing of biomedical device for therapeutic applications via extracorporeal blood processing improving patient treatment.
• Collaborated in the design, fabrication and testing of an integrated modular reactor/heat-exchanger for the direct synthesis of dimethyl ether from syngas to lower reaction driving force and improve reaction conversion.
• Designed and scaled-up microfluidic devices for phase separation and Lithium extraction, resulting in a 10x increase in efficiency and enhanced economic viability for industrial applications.
• Applied Design of Experiments (DoE) and statistical data analysis to optimize parameters for heat and mass transfer processes, resulting in a 20% improvement in model predictive accuracy.
• Conceptualized, designed, and optimized a novel milli/micro multi-material heat exchanger, which enhanced thermodynamic efficiency, reduced entropy, and generated $300,000 in annual energy savings.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Served as a teaching assistant for Mass Transfer (CHE 333), Chemical Plant Design I & II (CHE 431 & CHE 432), Oregon State Engineering+ (ENGR 100) and Graduate Fluid Flow (CHE 514)

Process Intensification (PI) and Modular Chemical Process Intensification (MCPI)Study and training on cutting-edge process intensification and modular chemical process intensification techniques.Collaborated with other RAPID members from industry, academia, non-profit and national labs to advance process intensification research.

Nigeria; Ghana; Ivory-Coast; France; Abu Dhabi

• Led the design and implementation of reservoir characterization processes, ensuring optimal equipment selection and specification to meet project objectives.
• Managed several offshore reservoir characterization projects with budgets above $12M, delivering enhancing reservoir insights and coordinating resource optimization.
• Led digital quality transformation initiatives, ensuring 99% data accuracy and a 10% reduction in post-processing time for reservoir data projects.
• Designed and implemented process workflows with equipment sizing and selection (vessels, pumps, piping, separators) for reservoir surface testing, enhancing operational efficiency and data reliability in offshore.
• Performed real-time reservoir monitoring, remote diagnostic and troubleshooting operations, including emergency response to operational issues.
• Supervised field operations, including selection, preparation, loading, dispatch and unloading of tools and equipment in several field operations in onshore and offshore operations.

Nigeria

• Implemented workflow improvements using lean principles, achieving a 27% increase in product productivity within 4 months.
• Designed and implemented optimal packaging sizing for different stock-keeping units, reducing packaging waste by 8%.
• Developed procedures and equipment configurations to optimize production line performance, equipment availability and production output.
• Led the active ingredient formulation, pilot operations and process integration and troubleshooting of new product development, contributing to successful market launches and portfolio expansion.
• Successfully implemented 5S and TPM, resulting in an average of 6% in OEE across three production plants – reducing downtime and with significant boost in overall productivity.
• Conducted pilot testing and volume scale-up from pilot machine to full-plant production, optimizing production processes which resulted in the successful product release to the market.

Sokoto, Nigeria

Assisted faculty to prepare and present brief lecture to introduce each laboratory procedure; Provided assistance with planning of events;Supervised students in performance of procedures to ensure safety, completeness and accuracy of results; andGathered and analysed laboratory data.

Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Rotaract Club American Institute of Chemical Engineers American Red Cross Society American Society of Heating.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Chemical Engineering, First Class

Activities and Societies: Obafemi Awolowo University Basketball Team Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers (NSChE) Society of Petroleum.