User:Carolyn

Education

Candidate for master of Chemical Engineering (Enzyme engineering), Department of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University (China) (September 2005-July 2007)
Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, (China) (September 2001 to June 2005)

Graduate Independent Research: (September 2005 to Present)
- iGem member for Tianjin University 2007
- Separation and purification of extract of Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza using resins
- Applied Fick’s second law for unsteady state diffusion to set up a improved diffusion model for extraction process of Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza and developed Matlab subroutine to evaluate the effective diffusion coefficients
- Applied Response Surface Methodology (RSM) to optimize extraction efficiency with Central Composite Design (CCD) using Design Expert 7.0
- Studied the separation and identification of polyphenolics using HPLC/ESI-MSn as well as accurately determined the their contents respectively in Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza extract
Graduate Cooperative Research: (June 2006 to Present)
- Studied the effects of 16 variables on beta-mannanase production from Bacillus licheniformis TJ-101 and optimized the whole process
- Developed three nonlinear kinetic models for cell growth, enzyme synthesis and the total sugar utilization
Undergraduate research: (September 2003 to June 2005)
- Studied the effects of various parameters on enzyme-assisted extraction (Bachelor’s thesis)
- Studied the preparation of nano ferric oxide red pigment from the waste iron mud in dye factory
- Studied the preparation and characterization of SrFeO3 and LaFeO3, nano-preovskite type oxides with photocatalytic oxidation activity