This resume summarizes the educational and professional experience of Truong Xuan Do. He received a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 2007, a Master's degree also from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 2010, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Biomolecule and Chemical Engineering at Hankyong National University, which he expects to complete in 2015. His research focuses on techno-economic analysis and process design and optimization of chemical processes such as biofuel and bioproduct production. He has worked as a validation engineer and assistant lecturer, and is currently a PhD student and researcher in South Korea.

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RESUME
TRUONG XUAN DO
Full name: Truong Xuan Do
Gender: male
Date of birth: September 10th 1984
Place of birth: Bac Ninh, Vietnam
Nationality: Vietnam
Status: married
ADDRESS
Centre of Sustainable Process Engineering (CoSPE), Department of Chemical
Enginnering, Hankyong National Univiversity Gyeonggi-do, Anseong-si, 327 Chungang-
no, 1st Engineering Building, Room 125. (경기 안성시 석정동 한경대학교 제 1 공학관
125호).
Postal code: 456-749
Mobile: (+82)10 4885 1280
Tel: (+82)31 670 4705
E-mail: xuantruongnil@yahoo.com or xuantruongnil@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Time: September 2002 – June 2007
Place: Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Level: Bachelor of Chemical Engineering
Grade: Excellent
Diploma Project: Study of Dynamic of gas absorption process SO2 by Na2CO3
solution
Time: September 2009 – December 2010
Place: Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Level: Master of Science of Chemical Engineering
Grade: Excellent
Thesis title: “Simulation of Batch Distillation Process”

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Time: March 2012 - June 2015 (plan)
Place: Graduate school of Future convergence technology Hankyong National University
Level: PhD of Biomolecule and chemical engineering
Thesis title: "Economic feasibility evaluation of chemical processes: Methodologies
and applications"
JOB EXPERIENCE
August 2007- September 2008: Validation engineer, Bbraun Pharmaceutical Company,
Hanoi, Vietnam
September 2008- March 2012: Assistant lecture, Department of Chemical Engineering,
School of Chemical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi,
Vietnam.
March 2012-present: PhD student, researcher in CoSPE, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Hankyong National University, Anseong, Gyeonggi, South Korea.
CURRENT RESEARCH FIELD
[1] Techno-economic analysis of the biooil production from palm empty fruit bunch
(EFB) via fast pyrolysis.
[2] Techno-economic analysis of the woodchips power plant via circulating fluidized-bed
gasification.
[3] Techno-economic analysis of the petro-chemical complex (PCC) retrofit with
simulated moving-bed (SMB) unit.
[4] Process design and economics for bioethanol production process from palm empty
fruit bunch (EFB).
[5] Process design and economic analysis of organic solid waste torrefaction-CHP
(combined heat and power) gasification process.
[6] Energy analysis to optimize energy consumption based on Pinch technology.
Global research trend: Process systems engineering (Conceptual process design, multi-
objective optimization, techno-economic analysis, energy analysis, process synthesis
and intensification).
TOOLS
Process simulator (Aspen Plus, Hysys, Pro/II), Aspen Process Economic Analyzer, Aspen
Energy Analyzer, Fluent, Microsoft office, MATLAB.

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TRAVEL HISTORY
Time: May 2011- September 2011
Place: International Centre of Science and High Technology-United nations industrial
development Organization (ICS-UNIDO) – Trieste, Italy
Name of the project: Sustainable industrial development – Process Simulation
Programme - “Simulation the ethanol purification process to produce Vodka”.
Time: October 2012
Place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Goal: Attend the AIChE ( American Institute of Chemical Engineers) annual meeting,
2012 and present a research study of "Economic analysis of bio-oil production process
from empty fruit bunches (EFB) using fluidized-bed.
Time: August 2013
Place: Seoul, Korea.
Goal: The 9th world congress of chemical engineering (WCCE) and present a research
study of "Economic analysis of Simulated-moving bed (SMB) unit with two distillation
columns for naphtha separation".
Time: November 2013
Place: San Francisco, CA
Goal: Attend the AIChE ( American Institute of Chemical Engineers) annual meeting,
2013 and present a research study of "Techno-economic analysis of the petro-chemical
complex (PCC) retrofit with simulated moving-bed (SMB) unit".
Time: June 2014
Place: Budapest., Hungary
Goal: Attend the ESCAPE24 conference and present a research study "Process design and
economics for bioethanol production process from palm empty fruit bunch (EFB)".

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PUBLICATIONS
1. Truong Xuan Do, Kien T. Trung (2010), Model and Simulation of Batch Distillation
Separation Process of Multicomponent Mixture: Ethanol-water and impurities, Journal
of Science and Technology – Vietnamese Journal, Vol 48 - number 6A.
2. Do Xuan Truong, Tran Trung Kien (2013), Simulation of startup phase of batch
distillation process – application for the alcoholic beverage purification process; the 5th
Regional Conference on Chemical Engineering.
3. Truong Xuan Do, Young-il Lim*, and Heejung Yeo (2014), Economic analysis of bio-
oil production process from empty fruit bunches, Energy Conversion and Management,
80, 525-534.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890414000685#
4. Truong Xuan Do, Young-il Lim*, Heejung Yeo, Uen-do Lee, Young-tai Choi, and Jae-
Hun Song (2014), Techno-economic analysis of power generation plant with fluidized-
bed gasification from woodchips, Energy, 70, 547-560.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544214004617#
5. Truong Xuan Do, Young-il Lim*, Sungsoo Jang, Hwa-Jee Chung, Yong-Wook Lee
(2014), Process Design and Economics for Bioethanol Production Process from Palm
Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB). in: Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, (Eds.) P.S.V.
Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, L. Peng Yen, Vol. Volume 33, Elsevier, pp. 1777-1782.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444634559501318
6. Truong Xuan Do, Young-Il Lim*, Jinsuk Lee, and Woojo Lee (2015), Effect of normal
paraffins separation from naphtha on reaction kinetics for olefins and aromatics
production, Computers and Chemical Engineering. 74, 128–143.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098135415000034
7. Truong Xuan Do, Young-Il Lim*, Jinsuk Lee, and Woojo Lee (2015), Techno-
economic analysis of retrofit petrochemical complex by simulated moving-bed,
Chemical Engineering Research and Design, submitted.
8. Truong Xuan Do, Young-il Lim*, Sungsoo Jang and Hwa-Jee Chung (2015),
Hierarchical economic potential approach for techno-economic evaluation of
bioethanol production from palm empty fruit bunches, Bioresource Technology. 189:
224-35.

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9. Truong Xuan Do and Young-il Lim* (2015), Comparative techno-economic analysis of
three energy conversion pathways from empty fruit bunches, Renewable Energy, in
preparation.
10. Truong Xuan Do, Young-il Lim* (2015), Techno-economic of organic solid waste
torrefaction and combined heat and power gasification process, Renewable Energy, in
preparation.
PHD THESIS
1. Truong X. Do (2015), Economic feasibility evaluation of chemical processes:
Methodologies and applications, PhD dissertation, June 2015, Hankyong National
University.
PROCEEDING
2012
1. Truong X. Do and Young-Il Lim*, Modeling and simulation of empty fruit bunches
(EFB) bio-oil production process, 2012 KIChE Fall meeting, Oct. 24-26, 2012, Busan
Bexco, Korea.
2. Truong Xuan Do, Young-Il Lim*, Young-Tae Choi, Fast pyrolysis of Empty fruit
bunches (EFB) for bio-oil production in fluidized-bed, 2012 AIChE annual meeting,
October 28 - November 2, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
http://www3.aiche.org/proceedings/Abstract.aspx?ConfID=Annual-
2012&GroupID=1682&SessionID=21738&PaperID=269810
2013
1. Truong Xuan Do, Young-Il Lim*, Young-Tai Choi, Uen-Do Lee, Byung-Ho Song, Jae-
Hun Song, Process design and economic analysis for power generation via gasification
from woodchips, 2013 KIChE Spring meeting, Apr. 24-26, 2012, Guangju, Korea.
http://www.kiche.or.kr/sub04/sub01_view.htm?seq=88571
2. Truong Xuan Do, and Young-Il Lim*, Modeling and optimization of the retrofit
petrochemical complex with naphtha simulated-moving bed (SMB) unit, 2013 KIChE
Fall meeting, Oct. 23-25, 2013, Daegu EXCO, Korea.

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http://www.kiche.or.kr/sub04/sub01_view.htm?seq=100195
3. 1. Truong X. Do, and Young-il Lim*, Techno-economic analysis of naphtha SMB unit
in petro-chemical complex, The 9th world congress of chemical engineering (WCCE),
August 18-23, 2013, COEX Seoul, Korea.
4. 2. Truong Xuan Do, Young-Il Lim*, and Heejung Yeo, Economic analysis of
Simulated-moving bed (SMB) unit with two distillation columns for naphtha separation,
The 9th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE9), 21-24 April 2013, The
Hague, The Netherlands.
http://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/publicAbstractView.do?id=206865&congressId=6293
5. 3. Young-Il Lim*, and Truong Xuan Do, Simulated-moving bed (SMB) unit with two
distillation columns for naphtha separation, The 7th International Conference on
Separation Science and Technology (ICSST 2013), July 2-4, 2013, Chengdu, Sichuan,
China.
http://www.cnki.net/KCMS/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=IPFD&dbname=ipfd2013&filen
ame=cdhg201307001135&urlid=&yx=&v=MjA0ODViRzRIOUxNcUk5Rlplb01DUk5
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6. 4. Truong Xuan Do, Young-Il Lim*, and Heejung Yeo, Techno-economic analysis of
the petro-chemical complex (PCC) retrofit with simulated moving-bed (SMB) unit,
2013 AIChE annual meeting, Nov. 3-8, 2013, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, CA,
USA.
http://www3.aiche.org/proceedings/Abstract.aspx?ConfID=Annual-
2013&GroupID=1786&SessionID=25987&PaperID=320895
2014
1. Truong Xuan Do, and Young-Il Lim, Reaction kinetics models of naphtha thermal
cracking and catalytic reforming applied to retrofit petrochemical complex with
simulated moving bed, 2014 KIChE Spring meeting, Apr. 23-25, 2014, Changwon,
Korea.
2. Truong Xuan Do, Young-il Lim, Comparative techno-economic analysis of palm empty
fruit bunch (EFB) to fuels, 2014 KIChE Fall meeting, Oct. 22-24, 2014, Daejon DCC,
Korea.
http://www.kiche.or.kr/sub04/sub01_view.htm?seq=115710

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3. Truong Xuan Do, Young-il Lim, Bio-solid production from sewage sludge by fry-drying
and torrefaction, 2014 KSIEC Fall meeting, Nov. 13-14, 2014 Deagu, Korea.
4. Truong Xuan Do, Young-il Lim*, Sungsoo Jang, and Hwa-Jee Chung, Process design
and economics for bioethanol production process from palm empty fruit bunch (EFB),
European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering 24th (ESCAPE24), June
15-18, 2014, Budapest, Hungary.
5. Young-Il Lim*, and Truong Xuan Do, Application of simulated-moving bed (SMB) to
conventional petrochemical plants 10th International Conference on Separation Science
and Technology (ICSST14), 30 October -1 November, 2014, Nara, Japan.
2015
1. Truong Xuan Do, and Young-Il Lim, Process design and economic analysis of organic
solid waste torrefaction-CHP (combined heat and power) gasification process, 2015
KIChE Spring meeting, submitted.
PROJECTS
2012
1. Young-Il Lim and Truong Xuan Do, Economic analysis of bio-oil production process
from empty fruit bunches (EFB) using fluidized-bed, 1st-year report, Daekyong Esco,
2012. 07-2013. 06 (1 year).
2013
1. Young-Il Lim and Truong Xuan Do, Modeling of power plant from biomass gasification
in a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB), 1st-year report (March 2013), Hansol SeenTec,
2012. 05 - 2014. 04 (2 years).
2. Young-Il Lim, Truong Xuan Do, and Dongjun Lee, SMB process design and
construction, 1st-year report (May 2013), SMBA, 2012. 06-2014. 05 (2 years).
2014

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1. Young-Il Lim and Truong Xuan Do, Modeling of power plant from biomass gasification
in a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB), 1st-year report (March 2014), Hansol SeenTec,
2012. 05 - 2014. 04 (2 years).
2. Young-Il Lim, Truong Xuan Do, and Jaewhan Yoo, SMB process design and
construction, Final technical report (May 2014), 2012. 06-2014. 05 (2 years).
3. Young-Il Lim, Truong Xuan Do, and JaeHwan Yoo, Techno-economic analysis of bio-
ethanol production plant from empty fruit bunches (EFB), Technical report (September
2014), Gendocs, 2013. 12 - 2014.12 (1 year).
2015
1. Young-Il Lim and Truong Xuan Do, Process design and economics of organic solid
waste torrefaction and combined heat and power gasification process, Technical report
(August 2015).

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REFERENCE
 Professor Young-il Lim, Centre of Sustainable Process Engineering (CoSPE),
Department of Chemical Engineering, Hankyong National University. Tel: +82 31 670
5207, fax: +82 31 670 5209, email: limyi@hknu.ac.kr.
 Professor Byung-Hwan Um, Renewable Bioproducts Energy Lab, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Hankyong National University. Tel: +82-31-670-5208, Fax: +82-
31-678-4876, email: bhum11@hknu.ac.kr
 Associated Professor Tran Trung Kien, Head of Department of Chemical
Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (+84)4
38680121, email: kien.trantrung1@hust.edu.vn.