UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA ENGINEERING CAMPUS SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINERING
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		DR. TYE CHING THIAN   Senior Lecturer   B.Eng. (Chemical Engineering), Universiti Sains Malaysia MSc. (Chemical Engineering), Universiti Sains Malaysia   PhD. (Chemical Engineering), University of British Columbia, Canada.   Contact:   Tel : 04-5996471   Email : chcttye@eng.usm.my
		Specialization: Catalysis, heavy oil processing, reaction modeling and simulation
	RESEARCH INTERESTS The primary interest is in catalysis and kinetics of hydroprocessing. In the area of hydroprocessing catalysis, current studies are focused on the development of mesoporous material as catalyst support for heavy oil upgrading, hydrotreating process and also in biofuel upgrading. Various metal carbide catalyst are being investigated in heavy oil hydroprocessing reactions. In these works, catalyst activity measurements are combined with catalyst characterization in an attempt to better understand the catalytic chemistry of metal carbide supported on mesoporous material. The research outcome will contribute to better understand the relationships between catalyst properties, reaction kinetics and reaction mechanisms which can help in the design of better catalysts in the development of new catalytic processes. Another research interest is the reactor and reaction kinetic modeling and simulation as well as parameter estimation in chemical engineering using various numerical methods.
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	RESEARCH GRANTS Hydrocracking and Hydrotreating of Residual Oils Using Mesoporous Metal Carbide Catalysts Co-researcher: Prof. Subhash Bhatia, Prof. Abdul Rahman Hydrotreating Reaction Study Over Mesoporous Molybdenum Carbide Catalyst Co-researchers: Prof. Subhash Bhatia, Prof. Abdul Rahman Development of Hydrocracking Catalyst for the Production of Fuel from Palm Oil: Catalyst Synthesis and Characterization Co-researcher: Prof. Subhash Bhatia
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	SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Journals & Proceedings Wee, S.-L., Tye, C.-T. and Bhatia, S. (2008) Membrane separation process- Pervaporation through zeolite membrane. Sep. Purif. Technol., 63(3):500-516. Yang, Y.Q., Tye, C.T., Smith, K.J. Influence of MoS2 catalyst morphology on the hydrodeoxygenation of phenols, Catalysis Communications, 9, 1364-1368, 2008. Tye, C.T. and Smith, K.J. Catalytic Activity of Exfoliated MoS2 in Hydroprocessing Reactions, Topics in catalysis, 37 (2-4): 129-135, APR 2006. Tye, C.T. and Smith, K.J. Cold Lake Bitumen Upgrading Using Exfoliated MoS2, Catalysis Letters, 95 (3-4): 203- 209, Jun 2004. Tye, C.T. and Smith, K.J. Hydrodesulfurization of Dibenzothiophene over Exfoliated MoS2 Catalyst, Catalysis Today, 116 (4): 461-468, Sept 2006. Tye, C.T., Mohamed AR and Bhatia S. Oxidative coupling of methane in a catalytic bed reactor and amembrane reactor: Modeling and simulation. J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 10 (5):834 - 844, Sep 2004. Tye, C.T., Mohamed, AR and Bhatia, S. Modeling of Catalytic Reactor for Oxidative Coupling of Methane Using La2O3/CaO Catalyst. Chemical Engineering Journal, 87: 49 - 59, 2002. Tye, C.T., Mohamed, AR and Bhatia, S. Simulation of Fixed Bed Catalytic Reactor for Oxidative Coupling of Methane: Mass Transfer Effects. Proc. of the 15th Symp. of Malaysia Chemical Engineers (SOMChE 2001), 2001. Tye, C.T., Mohamed, AR and Bhatia, S. Simulation of Fixed Bed Catalytic Reactor for Production of Ethylene from Oxidative Coupling Methane. Proc. of the 14th Symp. of Malaysia Chemical Engineers (SOMChE 2000), 2000.
	Presentations Looi, P.Y., Mohamed, A.R., Tye, C.T. 2009. Mesoporous Molybdenum Catalyst for Hydrocracking of Heavy Oil. International Symposium on Catalysis and Fine Chemicals 2009, Seoul, Korea. December 13-17, 2009 Wee, S. L., Tye, C. T. and Bhatia, S. Zeolite membrane based pervaporation process for the removal of water from alcohol-water azetropic mixture. 15th Regional Symposium on Chemical Engineering, in conjunction with 22nd Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers, 2-3 December 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tye, C.T. and Smith , K.J. Exfoliated MoS2 as Catalyst for Hydrodesulfurization. 19th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, May 22 - 27, 2005. Tye, C.T. and Smith , K.J. Catalytic Hydrocracking Activity of Exfoliated MoS2. 18th Canadian Symp. on Catalysis, Montreal, May 16 - 19, 2004. Tye, C.T. and Smith , K.J. Hydroconversion of Heavy Oil Using Unsupported Two-Dimension MoS2. 53rd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE/PRES'03), Hamilton, Ontario, Oct 26 - 29, 2003. Tye, C.T. and Smith , K.J. Heavy Oil Upgrading Using Two-Dimensional Dispersed Catalyst. Proceedings of poster program, 18th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, Jun 1 - 6, 2003, p79 - 80.
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	SUPERVISIONS Postgraduate: Looi Phaik Yee- Hydrocracking of Heavy Residual using Mesoporous Catalyst (M.Sc. student) Liu Wei Wen - Effect of Catalyst on the Growth Mechanism of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes Produced from Disintegration of Methane Molecules (PhD candidate, co-supervisor)
	Undergraduate Final Year Project (2006/2007) Nurshahida Binti Azman - Analysis of Liquid Biowaste From Pyrolysis of Palmwood Kong Wooi Kun - Reaction Parameters study in Hydrocracking of Palm Oil Nor Diana Binti Shaari - Effect of Temperature and Feed Concentration on the Pervaporation of Ethanol-Water Using Ceramic Membrane Lim Daw Tyng - Estimation of rate constant on hydrodesulfurization of dibenzothiophene over MoS2 Catalysts.
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	TEACHING EKC 483 Petroleum and Gas Processing Engineering EKC 336 Chemical Reaction Engineering EKC 245 Computational method in Chemical Engineering
	Project Supervision: SHE 101 Ethnic Relations EKC 451 Process Design & Analysis EKC 453 Plant Design & Economics
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