Chen Group

Principal Investigator

Dr. Chen — Dr. Chau-Chyun Chen

Jack Maddox Distinguished Engineering Chair in Sustainable Energy and Professor

Research Interests

Molecular thermodynamics, Thermophysical properties and fluid phase equilibria, Process modeling and simulation
Petroleum crude characterization, Hydraulic fracturing and flow-back fluids
CO₂ capture systems, Energy storage systems
Pharmaceutical solubility modeling

Education

Sc. D., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (1980)
M. S., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (1977)
B. S., Chemistry, National Taiwan University, (1973)

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Sanjoy — Sanjoy Bhattacharia

Email: sanjoy.bhattacharia@ttu.edu

Research Interest: Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials

Ph.D. Students
Md Islam Email: md.islam@ttu.edu Research Interest: Thermo physical properties and fluid phase equilibria, Petroleum crude characterization, Pharmaceutical solubility modeling, Process modeling and simulation MS in Chemical Engineering, Lamar University, Texas, 2011 BS in Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh, 2005	Sheik Tanveer Email: sheik.tanveer@ttu.edu Research Interest: Thermodynamic modeling of electrolytes, Pharmaceutical solubility modeling, swelling of hydrogels BS in Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh, 2011
Ashwin Ravichandran Email: ashwin.ravichandran@ttu.edu BS in Chemical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India, 2011 Research Interest: Molecular simulations of polymeric systems	Yue Yu Email: yue.yu@ttu.edu BS in Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, China, 2013 Research Interest: Energy storage, flow cell, thermodynamic modeling of electrolytes.
Yifan Hao Email: yifan.hao@ttu.edu	Sina Hassanjani Email: sina.hassanjani@ttu.edu BSc in Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran MSc in Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran Research Interest: Thermodynamic modeling of electrolyte solutions as applied to: Desalination processes Wastewater treatment Hydraulic fracturing
Meng Wang Email: meng.wang@ttu.edu BS in Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, China, 2009 MS in Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, US, 2012 Research Interest: Thermodynamics of mixed solvents electrolytes and weak electrolytes; solubility of petroleum constituents; NRTL-SAC; ENRTL	Nazir Hossain Email: n.hossain@ttu.edu BS in Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh, 2011 Research Interest: Thermodynamic modeling of aqueous electrolyte system, Investigation of temperature dependency of Electrolyte non-random two liquid theory (eNRTL) model parameters
Toni Kirkes Email: toni.cowan@ttu.edu BS in Chemistry and Mathematics, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas, 2014	Harnoor Kaur Email: harnoorkaur.fnu@ttu.edu BS in Chemical Engineering, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, 2013 Research Interest: Process, Modeling and Simulation, Hydraulic Fracturing and back-flow fluids, Carbon capture and sequestration
Hla Tun Email:hla.tun@ttu.edu BS in Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh, 2011 MS in Chemical Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, USA, 2015	Yuan Li Email: yuan2015.li@ttu.edu BS in Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, China, 2012 BS in Chemistry, Nankai University, China, 2012 MS in Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, China, 2015
MS Students
Nguyen Nguyen Email: nguyen.h.nguyen@ttu.edu BS/MS degree in Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, May 2014/ Dec 2014 Research Interest: Predict density of multicomponent electrolyte solutions using correlations	Jieying Wu Email: jieying.wu@ttu.edu BS in Applied Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, 2012
BS Students
Matt Kovalski Email: matt.kovalski@ttu.edu BS in Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, May 2016(expected) Research Interest: Modeling of viscosity of electrolytes in solution	Matthew Hansen Email: matthew.hansen@ttu.edu BS in Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, May 2016(expected) Research interest: Improvement of thermodynamic solubility models, particularly the Non-Random Two Liquid Segment Activity Coefficient Model