Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
Byung Hee (Brian) Ko is a motivated Research Engineer with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and extensive experience in technology development and innovation, lab-based experiments, techno-economic analysis, and advanced electrochemical research.
Develop and improve Air Separation Technology.
- Participated in the rotational PhD Career Development Program (CDP), gaining cross-functional experience through three distinct assignments across different departments. Green Hydrogen Product Line: NH3 Dissociator Product (2024-2025) - Developed P&IDs for NH3 dissociator product packages. - Built economic models and conducted cost-risk-schedule analyses for ammonia dissociator products. Standard Plants Technology: Hydrogen for Mobility (H2fM) and Adsorption (2023-2024) - Developed thermodynamic model and conducted experiment for hydrogen trailer vent loss. - Validated novel cycle for O2 vacuum swing adsorption (VSA) through simulation and experiment. Chief Engineer's Office: Technology Risk Management (2022-2023) - Facilitated risk management initiatives including internal risk management tool deployment, NH3 storage tank relief calculation, and alkaline water electrolyzer (AWE) electrolyte purification technology development.
Advisor: Prof. Feng Jiao - Investigated the influence of gaseous SO2 and NOx impurities in electrochemical conversion of CO2 - Demonstrated a room temperature electrochemical NOx removal technology - Studied novel homogeneous copper based bimetallic catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO to high value multi-carbon chemicals - Developed a two-step electrochemical conversion of CO2 technology towards multi-carbon products production at high reaction rates
Advisor: Prof. Yong L. Joo - Synthesized highly loaded sulfur cathodes by air-controlled electrospinning and electrospraying for Li-S batteries - Studied the effect of different carbon inclusions (e.g., GNR and CNT) in silicon anodes for Li-ion batteries