NGUYEN NGOC THUY

 June 23, 1987  Male

 Hanoi, Vietnam

EDUCATION
ADVANCED MATERIAL AND CHEMICAL KOREA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ENGINEERING (UST)
Sep 2014 - Sep 2019 Master and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING HANOI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sep 2005 - June 2010 (HUST)
Chemical Engineering

WORK EXPERIENCE
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL
Sep. 2019 - now TECHNOLOGY (KRICT)
Department: Petrochemical catalyst research center
Main project: Heavy oil upgrading
- Catalyst development
- Research on steam hydrocracking of vacuum residue

MASTER AND PH.D CANDIDATE KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL

Sep. 2014 - Aug. 2019 TECHNOLOGY (KRICT)
Department: Center for convergent chemical process (CCP)
Main project: Heavy oil upgrading
- Effect of asphaltenes on hydrocracking of vacuum residue
- Aggregation behavior of asphaltenes in hydrocracking of vacuum residue
- The role of slurry-phase Mo catalyst in hydrocracking of vacuum residue
- Upgrading of deasphalted oil (DAO)
- New catalyst development

Project: Research on light olefins production from Naphtha cracking

- Research on catalyst activity in bench-scale fluidized bed catalytic
cracking reactor for ethylene and propylene production from naphtha in the
presence of microsphere-based zeolite catalyst.

Project: Research on production of BTX (Benzene, Toluene, and Xylene)

from PFO (Pyrolysis Fuel Oil)
- Preparation Co-Mo/beta-zeolite catalyst for selectivity ring opening of
PFO to produce BTX using batch reactor under high H2 pressure.

RESEARCHER VIETNAM INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY (VIIC)

Sep. 2011 - Aug. 2014 Department: Key laboratory for petrochemical and refining technologies
(Keylab)
 Add: No 2 Pham Ngu Lao street - Hanoi - Vietnam
Main responsibilities: researcher participate in Vietnam national projects
- Synthesis and characterization of high quality gamma aluminum oxide
- Preparation and characterization of ZnO pellet catalyst with the hardness
simulated commercial catalyst, application in H2S absortion
- Participate in operation of biodiesel production in pilot plant from
waste cooking oil
- Synthesis of catalyst Type I (Mg oxide) and II (Mn oxide) for biodiesel
preparation

SKILLS CERTIFICATIONS
Office TOEIC Certificate with score 760
2014
Autocad, Aspen plus, Hysys
TOPIK (Test of Proficiency in Korean) level 2/6
2018
Analysis method: FT-IR, XRD, XPS, SIMDIS, GC,
TGA,GPC, BET, NMR, NH3-TPD, H2-TPR, ICP, EA,
MCR, SARA, Slurry-phase reactor ... PUBLICATION
1. Ngoc Thuy Nguyen, Ki Hyuk Kang, Duy Van Pham, Pill
Won Seo, Narae Kang, Sunyoung Park*, Catalytic
REFERENCES hydrocracking of vacuum residue: The benefit of low
reaction temperature and comparative reactivity between
Prof. Yong-Ki Park (advisor)
single and two-stage reaction. Fuel (in processing)
Director of CCP Department - KRICT
2022

2. Ngoc Thuy Nguyen, Ki Hyuk Kang, Hai Hung Pham,

Kang Seok Go, Duy Van Pham, Pill Won Seo, Nam Sun
Prof. Chul Wee Lee
Nho, Chul Wee Lee, Sunyoung Park*, Catalytic
Senior Researcher at CCP Department - KRICT
hydrocracking of vacuum residue in a semi-batch reactor:
effect of catalyst concentration on asphaltene conversion and
product distribution. J. Ind. Eng. Chem. 2021; 102: 112-121.
2021
Dr. Sunyoung Park
Senior Researcher at CCP Department - KRICT
3. Ngoc Thuy Nguyen, Ki Hyuk Kang, Pill Won Seo, Narae
Kang, Duy Van Pham, Gyoo Tae Kim, Sunyoung Park*,
Hydrocracking of C5-Deasphalted oil: effect of H2 and
dispersed catalysts. Petroleum chemistry 2021; 61: 172-182.
2021

4. Ngoc Thuy Nguyen, Ki Hyuk Kang, Pill Won Seo, Narae

Kang, Duy Van Pham, Chiwoong Ahn, Gyoo Tae Kim,
Sunyoung Park*, Hydrocracking of C5-isolated asphaltenes
and its fractions in batch and semi-batch reactors. Energies
2020; 13: 4444
2020

5. Ngoc Thuy Nguyen, Ki Hyuk Kang, Chul Wee Lee, Gyoo

Tae Kim, Sunyoung Park*, Yong-Ki Park. Structure
comparison of asphaltene aggregates from thermal and
catalytic hydrocracking of C5-isolated asphaltene. Fuel
2019; 235: 677-686
2019
6. Ngoc Thuy Nguyen, Sunyoung Park, Jinhwan Jung,
Jungmo Cho, Chul Wee Lee*, Yong-Ki Park*. Comparative
reactivity between thermal and catalytic hydrocracking of
vacuum residue: effect of asphaltenes. J. Ind. Eng. Chem
2018; 61: 32-38.
2018

7. Duy Van Pham, Ngoc Thuy Nguyen, Ki Hyuk Kang, Pill

Won Seo, Gyoo Tae Kim, Yong-Ki Park, Sunyoung Park*.
Effect of slurry phase catalyst and H2 pressure on
hydrocracking of SDA (solvent de-asphalting) pitch. Korean
J. Chem. Eng. 2022
2022

8. Ki Hyuk Kang, Ngoc Thuy Nguyen, Duy Van Pham, Pill

Won Seo, Narae Kang, Chul Wee Lee, Min-Chul Chung,
Chee-Hun Kwak, Insoo Ro, Young-Pyo Jeon, Sunyoung
Park*, Ligand structure effect in oil-soluble phosphorus-
containing molybdenum precursors for slurry-phase
hydrocracking of heavy oil. J. cat. 2021; 402: 194-207.
2021

9. Ki Hyuk Kang, Ngoc Thuy Nguyen, Pill Won Seo,

Hwimin Seo, Gyoo Tae Kim, Narae Kang, Chul Wee Lee,
Seung Ju Han, Min-Chul Chung, Sunyoung Park*, Slurry-
phase hydrocracking of heavy oil over Mo precursors: Effect
of triphenylphosphine ligands. J. Catal. 2020; 384: 109-121.
2020

10. Hung Hai Pham, Ngoc Thuy Nguyen, Kang Seok Go*,
Sunyoung Park, Nam SunNho*, Gyoo Tae Kim, Chul Wee
Lee, Guillermo Felix, Kinetic study of thermal and catalytic
hydrocracking of asphaltene. Catal. Today 2019 (In press)
2019

11. Manh Tung Nguyen, Ngoc Thuy Nguyen, Joungmo

Cho, Chulwoo Park,Sunyoung Park, Jinhwan Jung, Chul
Wee Lee*. A review on the oil-soluble dispersed catalyst for
slurry-phase hydrocracking of heavy oil. J. Ind. Eng. Chem
2016; 43:1-12.
2018