Dr Hyungwoong Ahn

Senior Lecturer

Email: 

H.Ahn@ed.ac.uk

Telephone: 

+44(0)131 6505891

Location: 

1.139 Sanderson Building

Engineering Discipline: 

  • Chemical Engineering

Research Institute: 

  • Materials and Processes

Research Theme: 

  • Carbon Capture and Separation Processes

Research Publications

Biography: 

  • Intenational Exchange Coordinator - Chemical Engineering

Academic Qualifications: 

Professional Qualifications and Memberships: 

     Career

  • KOFST Brain Pool Fellow, 2018.
  • Senior Research Engineer, SK Energy R&D Center, Korea, 2005 - 2009.
  • KOSEF/Research Fellow, University College London, 2003 - 2005

Editorial Service

Teaching: 

Currently, I am teaching

  • Advanced Chemical Engineering Design 5/MSc: course organiser (2022 – date)
  • Separation Processes 5/MSc: course organiser (2014 – date)
  • Separation Processes for Carbon Capture 5/MSc: course organiser (2010 – date)
  • Engineering Mathematics 2B: tutor (2019 – date)
  • MSc project/Study project 4/Research project 5/Industrial project 5: project supervisor

In the past, I had taught

  • Interdisciplinary Group Design Project: Power Station with Carbon Capture and Storage for chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering students: course organiser and project leader (2020 – 2022)
  • Chemical Engineering Design 3: tutorials on chemical process design using UniSim (2015 – 2020)
  • Chemical Engineering Design Project 4 (2014 – 2020, course organiser 2016 – 2017): the lead of the reactor design exercise using Matlab, heat exchanger design exercise, design group supervisor
  • Chemistry and Processes 2: plant visit supervision.
  • Chemical Engineering in Practice 3 (2014 – 2015)
  • Thermodynamics 2 Laboratory (2014)

 

Specialities: 

  • Separation Processes (absorption, adsorption, circulating fluidized beds, etc.)
  • Chemical process design, configuration and optimisation by process simulation
  • Carbon capture processes (chemical and physical absorption, adsorption, Ca-looping, etc.)
  • PSA/TSA - simulation and experiment

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