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Tsai-Wei Wu 吳采薇 (Assistant Professor)

Tsai-Wei Wu 吳采薇 (Assistant Professor)Image
Tsai-Wei Wu 吳采薇 (Assistant Professor)

#Energy Area

  Office: Room 93908

  Tel: +886-6-2757575 ext. 62666

  Email: twwu@gs.ncku.edu.tw

  Expertise: process systems engineering, covering the entire spectrum from conceptual design and detailed process configuration to practical control strategies. Possess over six years of hands-on industry experience in the chemical engineering sector. Currently focused on developing sustainable strategies for the chemical manufacturing industry.

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   1. Education

  • Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (2018-2022) 
    National Taiwan University (Process Systems Engineering Lab)
  • M.S. in Chemical Engineering (2012-2014)    
    National Tsing Hua University (Separation and Chemical Reaction Engineering Lab)
  • B.S. in Chemical Engineering (2008-2012)    
    National Tsing Hua University

  2. Experience

  • Project Assistant Professor (April 2024 – July 2025)
    Tohoku University (Environmental Green Process Study Lab), Sendai, Japan
  • Postdoctoral Researcher (March 2023 – March 2024)
    Tohoku University (Environmental Green Process Study Lab). Sendai, Japa
  • Process Development Engineer (March 2015 – February 2023)
    Reciprocal Phi Design Inc.

  3. Service

 

  4. Honors and awards

  • 112年國家科學及技術委員會補助博士後赴國外研究(千里馬計畫)
    2023 The Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program, sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan
  • Dean’s Award of College of Engineering - “Environmental and Economic Analysis for Processes of CO2 Conversion to Dimethyl Carbonate, Diethyl Carbonate and Dimethyl Ether”, 2022, National Taiwan University

  5. Teaching

 

  6. Patents

  • 1.    Wu, T. W.; Chien, I. L.; Wang, S. J.; Wong, D. S. H.; Lee, E. K.; Jang, S. S. DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DIMETHYL CARBONATE. US 11,332,431 B2; TW I745931 (licenced), 2021.

  7. Publications

A. Referred Papers

  1. Wu, T. W.; Ohno, H.; Wang, A.; Guzman-Urbina, A.; Shinkai, Y.; Furuhashi, H.;  Umezu, R.; Lin, S. T.; Fukushima, Y., Comparative analysis of CO2-based alternative pathways for diphenyl carbonate production. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 520, 166354. IF: 13.4.
  2. Yagihara, K.; Wu, T. W.; Ohno, H.; & Fukushima, Y., Evaluating the economic potential of membrane technologies for post-combustion in existing combustion systems: Comparison with MEA-based system. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 510, 161588. IF: 13.4; Citation:
  3. Wang, A.; Guzman-Urbina, A.; Wu, T. W.; Ohno, H; Fukushima, Y., Automated hybrid distillation sequence synthesis framework of mixed azeotropes and nonazeotropes. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2024, 209, 26-36. IF: 3.7; Citation: 1.
  4. Wu, T. W.; Hua, H. C., Kuo, C. T., Chien, I. L., Novel process development of hybrid reactive–extractive distillation system for the separation of a cyclohexane/isopropanol/water mixture with different feed compositions. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2022, 62 (5), 2080-2089. IF: 4.2; Citation: 2.
  5. Wu, T. W.; Chien, I. L., Novel control strategy of intensified hybrid reactive- extractive distillation process for the separation of water-containing ternary mixtures. Separation and Purification Technology 2022, 294, 121159. IF: 8.6; Citation: 15.
  6.  Wu, T. W.; Chien, I. L., A novel energy-efficient process of converting CO2 to dimethyl ether with techno-economic and environmental evaluation. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2022, 177, 1-12. IF: 3.7; Citation: 17.
  7. Zhang, Y. R.; Wu, T. W.; Chien, I. L., Intensified hybrid reactive-extractive distillation process for the separation of water-containing ternary mixtures. Separation and Purification Technology 2021, 279, 119712.
  8. Zhang, Y. R.; Wu, T. W.; Chien, I. L., Energy-efficient heterogeneous azeotropic distillation coupling with pressure swing distillation for the separation of IPA/DIPE/Water mixture. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 2022, 130, 103843.
  9. Wu, T. W.; Chien, I. L., CO2 Utilization Feasibility Study: Dimethyl Carbonate Direct Synthesis Process with Dehydration Reactive Distillation. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2020, 59 (3), 1234-1248. IF: 4.2; Citation: 28.

B. Conference papers

  1. Wu, T. W.; Guzman-Urbina, A.; Ohno, H.; Fukushima, Y.; Liang, H. H.; Lin, S. T. Towards Environmentally Sustainable Production of Diphenyl Carbonate: Comparative Analysis of Alternative Pathways, Proceedings of the 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Florence, Italy, 2024.
  2. Wu, T. W.; Chien, I. L. Optimization and Heat Exchanger Network Design of Diethyl Carbonate Two-step Synthesis Process from CO2 and Propylene Oxide, 14th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (PSE 2021+), Kyoto, Japan, 2022.
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