Environmental Engineering Professional Go Back Letter to Employers: Environmental Engineering Professional with three years of experiences in design, engineering, and process development in environmental engineering and process industries. Name: Bintuan Zhu Contact Information E-mail: zhubt@hotmail.com Phone Number: 7137991831 Target Work Locations: #1 - Houston, TX #2 - , CA Willing to Relocate? Yes Date Available: 9/1/2004 Resume: BINTUAN ZHU, Ph.D., EIT (713) 7991831 bzhu@mail.uh.edu Environmental Engineering Professional with three years of experiences in design, engineering, and process development in environmental engineering and process industries. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, University of Houston (5/2004) M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University (3/1997) B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University (7/1994) WORK EXPERIENCE Research Assistant (Ph.D. Research) Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Houston (1/2000 - Present) Studied on chemical coagulation-microfiltration for virus and NOM removal from drinking water. Developed a novel electrocoagulation-microfiltration process for virus and NOM removal. Investigated the effect of coagulation on membrane fouling reduction. Associate Engineer Beijing Institute of Nuclear Engineering (3/1997 - 8/1999) Projects: QinShan Second Phase Power Plant: process design, equipment and pipeline layout design, on-site technical support. Beijing 4th Pharmaceutical Factory: wastewater treatment process design. Shenzhen Solid Waste Incineration Factory: initial process design and document preparation including project proposal, environmental impact assessments report and budget-level cost estimation report. Research Assistant Department of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University (1/1994 - 3/1997) Preparation and analysis of two kinds of defluorinants: Activated alumina-lanthanum/silica gel defluorinant and inorganic nonstoichiometric compound defluorinant. Preparation and properties analysis of non-stoichiometric compound for lead removal in water. AWARD American Chemical Society Award of Excellence for Research at ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA. (2002) PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Air, Wastewater and Drinking Water Management Environment Site Assessments (Phase I & Phase II) Environmental Remediation Membrane Technology Process Design Equipment and Pipeline Layout HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS (Water Resources) MIKE NET (Water Distribution) AutoCAD, GIS, Arcview, C, Fortran CERTIFICATE Environmental Impact Assessments Certificate issued by EPA of CHINA (1997) PUBLICATIONS: Zhu, B., Clifford, D., "The Study of Virus Removal by Electrocoagualtion-Microfiltration". Texas Section AWWA annual meeting, Arlington, TX, April 5-8, 2004 Zhu, B., Clifford, D., Chellam, S. "Virus Removal by Iron Coagulation-Microfiltraton", Submitted to Water Research, March, 2004 Zhu, B., Clifford, D., Chellam, S. "Virus and NOM Removal by Electrocoagulation-Microfiltration", Membrane Technology Conference, Atlanta, GE, March, 2003 Zhu, B., Clifford, D., "Virus removal by Electrocoagulation-Microfiltration", 224th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August, 2002, Volume 42, No.2, 550-554 (Included in SCI) Zhu, B., Yang, X., Wang, R. "Preparation and properties of non-stoichiometric compound for removal of lead in water", Progress in natural science, April 1998,Vol.8 No.2. (Included in EI) Yang, X., Zhu, B., Wang, R. "The study of surface diffusion of ion on solid adsorbent", Chinese Science Bulletin, Sept. 1997, V42, No.18. (In Chinese) Huang, X., Cong, P., Zhu, B., Wang, R. "The coordination hydrolysis behavior of Palladium (II) in chloride media", Journal of Nuclear and Radiochemistry, Nov. 1998, Vol.20 No.4 (Included in EI) (In Chinese) Wang, L., Zhu, B., Wang, R. "The study on the distribution behavior of Pd(II)in choleric solution", the 5th Conference of Nuclear and Radiochemistry Society(CNRCS'97), P.R.China, 1997. (In Chinese) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Water Works Association (AWWA) American Chemical Society (ACS) International Water Association (IWA) REFERENCE Available upon request