• Industrial experiences in refinery technology development • Technology development for biomass conversion to biofuels and waste to energy.• Profound knowledge of transportation fuels specifications (e.g. gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, marine fuels, etc.) • Design of integrated system to convert renewable sources to fuels and chemical with hybrid conversion technology (e.g. fermentation, catalytic conversion, gas-to-liquid, microbial electrolysis cells, etc.)• Knowledge of crude oil and gas sources evolution and their impact on fuels production and environment• Catalysis and technology of paraffin dehydrogenation to olefins for polymer feedstocks• Process and environmental analysis for conventional and renewable transportation fuels production • Cost and environmental analysis of industrial and renewable hydrogen production • Process and environmental analysis of the non-recycled plastics conversion technology• 3+ year experience in environmental analysis of fuel/chemical production processes • 7+ year experiences in catalysis research and new technology development for refining process• 12+ year research experiences in zeolites, clays, silica, alumina and other porous materialsSKILLS• Techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle analysis (LCA) of various fuels/chemicals production processes • Life cycle analysis model GREET (the Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Transportation model).• Heterogeneous catalysis, porous materials, water adsorption, chemical engineering and materials science• Chemical reaction mechanism and kinetics, catalyst structure-property correlation, reaction engineering• Software GREET model, Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, Minitab, H2A model• Hands-on experience in catalyst synthesis, characterization and reaction tests, zeolite synthesis (crystallization, framework modification, Si/Al variation, ion exchange), XRD, EXAFS, FTIR, TEM, BET physic-sorption, CO / H2 chemisorption, TGA-DSC, calorimetry, GC, etc.
Listed skills include Logic Synthesis, Aspen Hysys, Kinetics, Aspen Plus, and 16 others.