Wenyan Duan
Position: Lecturer
Email:duanwenyan0405@qq.com
Phone: +8618064852987
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside (UCR) 09/2012– 08/2016
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Thesis Advisor: David Jassby
Thesis Title: Enhanced membrane performance through electrochemistry
Major: Chemical and Environmental Engineering GPA: 3.85/4.0
B.S., Capital University of Economics and Business (CUEB) 09/2007 –07/2012
School of Safety and Environmental Engineering
Major: Environmental Engineering GPA: 88/100 or 3.73/4.0
Research Experience
University of California, Riverside (UCR) – Research Scientist 09/2016 -03/2017
Electrochemical reduction of hexavalent chromium using electrical conductive ultrafiltration membrane
University of California, Riverside (UCR) – Graduate Researcher 09/2012 - 08/2016
Developed electrically conductive reverse osmosis, nanofiltration,and ultrafiltration membranes
Improved electrically conductive membranes anodic stability and electrical conductivity
Researched the use of electrical potentials to effectively prevent inorganic scaling and bacterial membrane attachment for synthetic wastewater, organifouling and biofilm formation for industrial wastewater treatment
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (RCEES) – Undergraduate Researcher 09/2011 – 05/2012
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· Conducted literature review of Thiobacillus Denitrificans
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· Isolated T.denitrificans bacteria from active sludge under anaerobic condition
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· Experimentally tested T.denitrificans bacteria’s ability to reduce nitrite
Special Water Group of the Dian Lake,
Yunnan Research Academy of Environmental Sciences – Undergraduate Researcher 07/2011-08/2011
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· Operated and studied a water quality remediation project of the Yuntong river
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· Participated in the management of artificial restoration projects for eutrophication in Dian Lake
Honors and Awards
2012-2014 Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship Award, UCR
2012 Best B.S. Thesis, CUEB
2012 Excellent Undergraduate Student, CUEB
2011-2012 Undergraduate Student’s Research Scholarship, Graduate School of RCEES
2009-2010 First-class People’s Scholarship, CUEB
2008-2010 Second-class People’s Scholarship for two consecutive years, CUEB
2008-2009 Excellent Student Cadre, CUEB
2009 Excellent Student Messenger, CUEB
2007-2008 Third-class People’s Scholarship for two consecutive years, CUEB
Publication
1. Wenyan Duan, Alexander Dudchenko, Elizabeth Mende, Celeste Flyer, Xiaobo Zhu, and David Jassby. "Electrochemical mineral scale prevention and removal on electrically conducting carbonnanotube–polyamide reverse osmosis membranes." EnvironmentalScience: Processes & Impacts 16, no. 6 (2014): 1300-1308.
2. Wenyan Duan, Avner Ronen, Jose Valle de Leon,Alexander Dudchenko, Shiyun Yao, Jose Corbala-Delgado, Alyssa Yan, Mark Matsumoto, David Jassby* “Treating Anaerobic Sequencing Batch Reactor Effluent With Electrically Conducting Ultrafiltration and Nanofiltration Membranes for Fouling Control” Journal of Membrane Science (2016)
3. Wenyan Duan, Avner Ronen, Sharon Walker, DavidJassby* “Polyaniline-CoatedCarbon Nanotube Ultrafiltration Membranes: Enhanced Anodic Stability for InSitu Cleaning and Electro-Oxidation Processes”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2016).
4. Wenyan Duan, Gongde Chen, Chuxiao Chen, RiyaSanghvi, Arptita Iddya, Sharon Walker, Haizhou Liu, Avner Ronen, David Jassby*“Electrochemical removal of hexavalent chromium using electrically conducting carbon nanotube/polymer composite ultrafiltration membranes” Journalof Membrane Science (2016)
5. Avner Ronen, WenyanDuan, Ian Wheeldon, Sharon Walker, David Jassby* “Microbial attachment inhibition through low voltage electrochemical reactions on electrically conducting membranes” Environmental science & technology (2015)
6. Alexander V Dudchenko,Julianne Rolf, Kyle Russell, Wenyan Duan, and David Jassby*"Organic fouling inhibition on electrically conducting carbon nanotube–polyvinyl alcohol composite ultrafiltration membranes." Journalof Membrane Science 468 (2014): 1-10.
7. Alexander Dudchenko, JulianneRolf, Lucy Shi, Liana Olivas, Wenyan Duan, David Jassby*, "Coupling Underwater Superoleophobic Membranes with Magnetic Pickering Emulsions for Fouling-Free Separation of Crude Oil/Water Mixtures: An Experimental and Theoretical Study" (2015) ACS Nano (2015)
Conference Presentations
1. Wenyan Duan,Avner Ronen, Sharon Walker, David Jassby* “Enhanced Anodic Stability of Polyaniline-Coated Carbon Nanotube Ultrafiltration Membranes” Oral Presentation(2016), the 251th American Chemical Society National Meeting &Exposition, San Diego, USA
2. Wenyan Duan,Avner Ronen, Sharon Walker, David Jassby* “Enhanced Anodic Stability of Polyaniline-Coated Carbon Nanotube Ultrafiltration Membranes” Poster Presentation(2015), The 8th Sino-US Joint Conference of Chemical Engineering, Shanghai, China
3. Wenyan Duan,Avner Ronen, Jose Valle de Leon, Alexander Dudchenko, Shiyun Yao, JoseCorbala-Delgado, Alyssa Yan, Mark Matsumoto, David Jassby* “Treating AnaerobicSequencing Batch Reactor Effluent With Electrically Conducting Ultrafiltrationand Nanofiltration Membranes for Fouling Control” Oral Presentation (2015),2015 Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Graduate symposium, Riverside, USA
4. Wenyan Duan,Alexander Dudchenko, Elizabeth Mende, Celeste Flyer, Xiaobo Zhu, and DavidJassby. "Electrochemical mineral scale prevention and removal onelectrically conducting carbon nanotube–polyamide reverse osmosis membranes." Oral Presentation (2014), 2014 Department of Chemical andEnvironmental Engineering graduate symposium Riverside, USA
5. Wenyan Duan,Alexander Dudchenko, Elizabeth Mende, Celeste Flyer, Xiaobo Zhu, and DavidJassby. "Electrochemical mineral scale prevention and removal on electrically conducting carbon nanotube–polyamide reverse osmosis membranes." Oral Presentation (2013), the 248th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Francisco, USA
Teaching Experience
Teaching assistant for ENVE160C, Environmental Engineering Laboratory (Undergraduate)
University of California, Riverside, 2013 Winter, Instructor: Dr. J. Miller
Teaching assistant for ENVE 142, Water Quality Engineering (Undergraduate)
University of California, Riverside, 2013 Spring, Instructor: Dr. M. Matsumoto
Students Mentored
Mark Hsu (Undergraduate student, UCR)
Haala Al-Hadithy (Undergraduate student, currently at UCR)
Adam Rodriguez (Undergraduate student, currently at UCR)
Jose Corbala-Delgado (Undergraduate student, currently at UCR)
Shiyun Yao (Undergraduate student, now an M.S. student at University of California, Davis)
Alyssa Yan (Undergraduate student, now working at Environmental Services)
Xiaobo Zhu (Undergraduate student, now a Ph.D. student at University of California, Riverside)
Elizabath Mende (Undergraduate student, now an M.S. student at University of California, Riverside)
Celeste Flyer (Undergraduate student, now working at Intel Corporation)
Technical Skills
Reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membrane fabrication
Electrically conductive membrane modification
Membrane system design and operation
Wastewater system design
Chemical speciation analysis
o Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GCMS)
o High Performance Liquid Chromatography(HPLC)
o Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)
Materials characterization
o Scanning electron microscopy
o Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX)
o Zeta potential analysis
o Dynamic light scattering
o UV-Vis spectroscopy
o Atomic force microscopy
o Streaming potential analysis
o Attenuated total reflection – Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR)
Membrane surface characterization
o Contact angle geometer
Water quality analysis
o Chemical oxygen demand (COD)
o Total organic carbon (TOC) analysis
o Turbidity
o Alkalinity
o X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis
Professional Affiliations
Associate of National Science Foundation Water SENSE IGERT
Member of American Chemistry Society (ACS)
