Yikang Peng

• Team leader of catalyst application on gas capture and conversion project, ensured protocols and documentation updates, filed weekly reports collaborated with cross functional teams for presentation. • Designed and built a lab-scale packed-bed flow reactor, allowing short response time and liquid-phase chemical injection for catalyst treatments, characterization and reaction kinetic testing • Synthesize metal oxides with controls over the structures, morphologies and compositions in heterogeneous catalytic application, including Cu/ZnO with well- defined shapes and colloidal oxide nanoparticles • Developed and synthesized organic polymer PEI in adsorption performance of CO2 at relative low pressure and temperature. Characterized structure, mor- phologies and thermal properties with SEM, NMR, Raman, FTIR and DSC. • Characterized the properties of Ni-Ga catalyst using XRD, BET, UV-Vis, XPS, TPD and H2-TPR, identified that amorphous Ga shell can promote to better selectivity for Methanol Synthesis reaction. • Help estimation of techno-economic analysis (TEA) on gas flow process to lower cost by 22 % by using ASPEN Plus.

-Prepared/Graded quizzes undergraduate level transport process course and provide student feedback on course materials with professors. -Assisted faulty grading homework and exams in petroleum refining process class.

• Developed metal-zeolite tandem catalysts for improving the selectivity of car- bon oxide hydrogenation to light olefins • Implemented hydro-thermal synthesis method to improve the efficiency of metal encapsulation within metal-zeolite core-shell catalysts determined by TEM, BET, XRD and SEM. • Designed experiments and improved Fischer-Tropsch catalyst selectivity to olefins from 23 to 55% without compromising its activity through optimizing the catalyst compositions. • Generated and maintained chemical inventory, logs and safety documentation including material safety data sheets, standard operating procedures (SOP), and master chemical list for chemicals in lab. • Supervised safety in lab and hazardous chemical waste disposal. Leading HAZOP study in the lab with group mates. Routinely safety check in the group

• Collaborated with professors on design of experiment (DOE) and optimization of distillation, extraction tower and unit control. • Facilitated students designing single-pass counter-flow heat exchanger on energy balance, temperature profile, fluid profile and efficiency. • Supervised 20 students each week executing the operations and evaluated the performance and results with feedback of improvement.

• Contributed engineering department developing process design package, improved the safety of existing manufacturing installation on products such as acrylic polyurethane and epoxy zinc rich primer. • Learned and established process flow diagram (PFDs), process instrument diagram (P&IDs) and keep the process documents up-to-date. Studied basic knowledge of AutoCAD and SPC principle. • Applied safety and quality standards to each process under senior engineers. Checked process compliance to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and others. • Organized general meetings and received visitors from foreign companies.

• Developed value-added graphene quantum dots (GQDs) performed as Fe3+ sensor from low-value biomass, rice husks. • Characterized size and morphology of GQDs with TEM and AFM. • Water purification, impurities detection in residues and sample separation along with HPLC.