Yi (Lewis) Lu
Engineering Consultant
Process and Greenhouse
Melbourne
Professional Background
Lewis completed his Master of Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Lewis has 3 years’ experience in engineering consulting. The primary focuses of Lewis are bench-scale chemical testing, process engineering modelling, and data analytics. Lewis is passionate about data-driven approaches to understanding equipment and plant performance.
Areas of Expertise
- Conducting laboratory experiments
- Data analytics
- Process and equipment modelling
Relevant Project Experience
PROJECT | CFD Model of a telecommunication shelter
- Implemented meteorological conditions and solar radiation of the modelled site into dynamic boundary conditions of the CFD model via customised code.
- The modelling outcomes helped client understanding temperature distribution of the internal under various meteorological conditions.
PROJECT | CFD Model of venturi flow meter
- The goal of this project was to design a venturi air flow meter for a coal-to-natural gas boiler conversion.
- Different venturi geometries were screened with CFD, and the performance curve of the optimal design was obtained with CFD case studies.
- After the venturi flow meters were commissioned, conducted pitot traverses onsite to calibrate the actual performance curves.
PROJECT | CFD Model of a regenerative thermal oxidiser
- The model helped client understanding the thermal performance of the full-size thermal oxidiser in early stage of front-end engineering design.
- An initial model was developed and calibrated against pilot plant data to obtain empirical correlations, then applied onto modelling of a full-size equipment.
- Dynamics of flow cycling in the full-size equipment was simulated via customised code.
PROJECT | Extraction of oil and valuable metals from an oil shale
- Designed and conducted bench-scale testings of oil and metal extraction experiments.
- Carried out risk assessments of experiments.
- Operated a scale-up pilot plant to demonstrate feasibility of shale oil extraction.
PROJECT | Testing of thermal properties of liquid samples for various clients.
- Measured thermal conductivity and specific heat of highly viscous liquid samples.
- Measured freezing point depression of an electrolyte solution.
- Carried out risk assessments of tasks.
Data analytics of various projects
- Used data analytics to gain insights on equipment and plant performance in various projects, such as boiler combustion tuning, investigating degradation of turbine performance, loss of output in a solar farm due to cloud coverage, and HRSG thermal efficiency optimisation.
- Integration of different data sources, such as DCS, EuFlame, and MCDA.
- Developed a pipeline of Python + MySQL + MongoDb for data clean-up, ingestion, dynamic query, computing, and visualisation.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science (Chemical Engineering) - University of Texas at Austin, 2017
- Master of Chemical Engineering - University of Melbourne, 2019
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