I-Lung Chien, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb 1985) (B.S. National Taiwan University, June 1977) Phone:+886-2-3366-3063 ; Fax:+886-2-2362-3040 E-mail: ilungchien@ntu.edu.tw ………………………………………………………… Professional Experience 1985-1993 1993-1997 1997-1999 1999-2010 2010-present Senior Consulting Engineer, DuPont Engineering Department, Wilmington, Delaware, USA. Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chang Gung College of Medicine and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan. Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Current Research Interests 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Design and control of various distillation systems for separating azeotropes. Design and control of various reactive-distillation processes. Design and control of various coal gasification and chemical looping processes. Design and control of various intensification processes for energy-savings. Design and control of various bio-renewable and bio-refinery processes. Design and control of hybrid extraction/distillation processes. Design and control of hybrid pervaporation/distillation processes. Utilizing ionic liquid in various azeotropic separation processes. Operation policy of various batch azeotropic distillation and batch reactive-distillation systems. 10. Dynamic modeling and control of glucose-insulin regulation for type-1 diabetes mellitus. Recent Academic Activities (2010 - ) 1. Associate Editor, Journal of Process Control. 2. Keynote speaker, 11th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (PSE 2012), Singapore, July 15-19, 2012. 3. Invited speaker in Green Technology and Process Systems Engineering Sessions, 59th Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, Taichung, Taiwan, November 23-24, 2012. 4. Invited speaker, Special honor session for Professor W. L. Luyben, AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 16-21, 2011. 5. Invited Lecturer for the Chemical Process and Plant Design course, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California, February 2-16 (five 70 min classes), 2010. 6. 邀請演講, 講題「共沸物分離製程的操控優化」, 製程工廠智能化應用 論壇, Taipei, Taiwan, March 11, 2014. 7. International Scientific Committee member, PSE-2015/ESCAPE-25, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 31 – June 4, 2015. 8. Program Co-Chair in Area 14: Process Intensification, AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U. S. A., November 3-8, 2013. 9. International Program Committee (IPC) member, 6th International Conference on Process Systems Engineering (PSE Asia 2013), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 25-27, 2013. 10. International Program Committee (IPC) member, 11th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (PSE 2012), Singapore, July 15-19, 2012. 11. Scientific Committee member, Distillation & Absorption International Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 12-15, 2010. 12. International Program Committee (IPC) member, The 5th International Symposium on Design, Operations and Control of Chemical Processes (PSE Asia 2010), Singapore, July 25-28, 2010. 13. Scientific Program Committee member and Area Chair, APCChE 2010 International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, October 5-8, 2010. 14. Research Excellence Award, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, February 2009 – August 2010. 15. Top 10% of reviewers for Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and among the fifteen most frequent reviewers for I&EC Research in 2013. 16. Guest editor, Special topic on Distillation, Chemical Engineering Technology magazine (in Chinese 化工技術), April, 2012. 17. Guest editor, Special topic on Green Process Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering magazine (in Chinese化工會刊), June, 2012. 18. Education Board member, Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers (教育委 員會委員,台灣化學工程學會), September 26, 2011 – December 31, 2014. 19. Publication Board member, Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers (會刊 及叢書委員會編輯委員,台灣化學工程學會), May 1, 2011 – April 30, 2014. 20. 指導三位同學許凱茜、黃志銘、賴時正,獲得100年度(2010-2011)台灣 化學工程學會大學部學生程序設計競賽第一名(李國鼎獎),得獎作品「利 用乙二醇進行萃取蒸餾之分離方法」。 21. 指導三位同學施則孝、李明龍、方鵬傑,獲得101年度(2011-2012)台灣 化學工程學會大學部學生程序設計競賽第一名(李國鼎獎),得獎作品「過 醋酸製程設計」。 22. 指導三位同學陳致安、張智凱、林家名,獲得102年度(2012-2013)台灣 化學工程學會大學部學生程序設計競賽第二名,得獎作品「異丙醇工廠 純化區之程序設計」。 Publications Book: 1. William L. Luyben and I-Lung Chien, Design and Control of Distillation Systems for Separating Azeotropes, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010. 2. Hsiao-Ping Huang, I-Lung Chien, and Hao-Yeh Lee, “Plantwide Control of a Reactive Distillation Process”, in Plantwide Control: Recent Developments and Applications, G. P. Rangaiah and Vinay Kariwala (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. 3. 呂維明、黃孝平、余政靖、錢義隆,「化工程序設計概論」,高立書局, 2011年2月出版。 4. 錢義隆、汪上曉,第三章「蒸餾」「化工單元操作(三)」,高立書局, 2012年5月出版。 Journal Papers: 1. Wu, Yi Chang, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Investigation on the Energy-Saving Design of an Industrial 1,4-Dioxane Dehydration Process with Light Feed Impurity”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., accepted (2014). 2. Wu, Yi Chang, Hao-Yeh Lee, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Energy-Saving Dividing-Wall Column Design and Control for Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Systems”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 53, 1537-1552 (2014). 3. Chen, Bor-Chang, Bor-Yih Yu, Yuan-Lin Lin, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Reactive-Distillation Process for Direct Hydration of Cyclohexene to Produce Cyclohexanol”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 53, 7079-7086 (2014). 4. Hung, Shih-Kai, Chung-Cheng Lee, Hao-Yeh Lee, Chien-Lin Lee, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Triacetin Reactive-Distillation Process for the Utilization of Glycerol”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 53, 11989-12002, (2014). 5. Cheng, Jian-Kai, Chuan-Chen Chao, Jeffrey D. Ward, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and control of a biodiesel production process using sugar catalyst for oil feedstock with different free fatty acid concentrations”, J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Engrs., 45, 76-84 (2014). 6. Liu, Shih-Wei, Hsiao-Ping Huang, Chia-Hung Lin, and I-Lung Chien, “Modified Control Algorithms for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Undergoing Exercise”, J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Engrs., 45, 2081-2095 (2014). 7. Kao, Yu-Lung, Lee, Po-Hsien, Yu-Ti Tseng, I-Lung Chien and Jeffrey D. Ward, “Design, Control and Comparison of Fixed-Bed Methanation Reactor Systems for the Production of Substitute Natural Gas”, J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Engrs., accepted (2014). 8. Liu, Shih-Wei, Hsiao-Ping Huang, Chia-Hung Lin, and I-Lung Chien, “Fuzzy-Logic-Based Supervisor of Insulin Bolus Dilivery for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 52, 1678-1690 (2013). 9. Wu, Yi-Chang, Hao-Yeh Lee, Chen-Yu Tsai, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of a Reactive-distillation Process for Esterification of an Alcohol Mixture Containing Ethanol and n-butanol”, Comput. Chem. Eng. 57, 63-77 (2013). 10. Wu, Yi-Chang, Paul Hen-Chia Hsu, and I-Lung Chien, “Critical Assessment of Energy-Saving Potential of Extractive Dividing-wall Column”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 52, 5384-5399 (2013). 11. Su, Chien-Yuan, Cheng-Ching Yu, I-Lung Chien and Jeffrey D. Ward, “Plant-wide Economic Comparison of Lactic Acid Recovery Processes by Reactive Distillation with Different Alcohols”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 52, 11070-11083 (2013). 12. Wu, Yi-Chang, Hao-Yeh Lee, Chung-Han Lee, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Thermally-Coupled Reactive Distillation System for Esterification of an Alcohol Mixture Containing n-Amyl Alcohol and n-Hexanol”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 52, 17184-17197 (2013). 13. Lee, Hao-Yeh, I-Kuan Lai, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Thermally Coupled Reactive Distillation for the Production of Isopropyl Acetate”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 51, 11753-11763 (2012). 14. Chang, Der-Ming, Tzu-Hsing Wang, I-Lung Chien, and Wen-Song Hwang, “Improved Operating Policy Utilizing Aerobic Operation for Fermentation Process to Product Bio-ethanol”, Biochemical Engineering Journal, Vol. 69, 178-189 (2012). 15. Liu, Shih-Wei, Hsiao-Ping Huang, Chia-Hung Lin, and I-Lung Chien, “A Hybrid Neural Network Model Predictive Control with Zone Penalty Weights for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 51, 9041-9060 (2012). 16. Cheng, Jian Kai, Cheng-Lin Lee, Yong-Tang Jhuang, Jeffrey D. Ward, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of the Glycerol Tertiary Butyl Ethers Process for the Utilization of a Renewable Resource”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 50, No. 22, 12706-12716 (2011). 17. Wei, Hon-Yu, Anisatur Rokhmah, Renanto Handogo, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Reactive-Distillation Process for the Production of Diethyl Carbonate via Two Consecutive Trans-esterification Reactions”, J. Process Control, Vol. 21, No. 8, 1193-1207 (2011). 18. Wu, Yi Chang, C. S. Hsu, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of a Methyl Methacrylate Separation Process with a Middle Decanter”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 50, No. 8, 4595-4617 (2011). 19. Lai, Chia-Hsing, Ching-Lun Lin, Der-Ming Chang, and I-Lung Chien, “Method for Obtaining an Empirical Microbial Growth Model via Chemostat Operation”, J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Eng., Vol. 41, No. 4, 421-433 (2010). 20. Lee, Hao-Yeh, Cheng-Hsun Jan, I-Lung Chien, and Hsiao-Ping Huang, “Feed-Splitting Operating Strategy of a Reactive Distillation Column for Energy-Saving Production of Butyl Propionate”, J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Eng., Vol. 41, No. 4, 403 -413 (2010). 21. Lee, Hao-Yeh, Yi-Chen Lee, I-Lung Chien, and Hsiao-Ping Huang, “Design and Control of a Heat-Integrated Reactive Distillation System for the Hydrolysis of Methyl Acetate”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 49, No. 16, 7398-7411 (2010). 22. Ko, Jordan, Wen-Jun Su, I-Lung Chien, Der-Ming Chang, Sheng-Xin Chou, and Rui-Yu Zhan, “Dynamic Modeling and Anal yses of Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation Process to Produce Bio-ethanol from Rice Straw”, Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 2, 195-205 (2010). 23. Hsu, Kai-Yi, Yuan-Chang Hsiao, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of DMC-MeOH Separation via Extractive Distillation in a Reactive Distillation Process for the Production of Dimethyl Carbonate”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 49, No. 2, 735-749 (2010) 24. Wu, Yi-Chang and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Heterogeneous Azeotropic Column System for the Separation of Pyridine and Water”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 48, No. 23, 10564-10576 (2009) 25. Wu, Yi-Chang, I-Lung Chien, and William L. Luyben, “A Two-Stripper/Decanter Flowsheet for Methanol Recovery in the TAME Reactive-Distillation Process”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 48, No. 23, 10532-10540 (2009). 26. Lee, Hao-Yeh, Ling-Ting Yen, I-Lung Chien, and Hsiao-Ping Huang, “Reactive Distillation for Esterification of an Alcohol Mixture Containing n-Butanol and n-Amyl Alcohol”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 48, No. 15, 7186-7204 (2009). 27. Yang, Tsung-Hua, Hao-Yeh Lee, I-Lung Chien, and Hsiao-Ping Huang, “Grade Transition Using Dynamic Neural Networks for an Industrial High-Pressure Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate (EVA) Copolymerization Process”, Comput. Chem. Engng., Vol. 33, No. 8, 1371-1378 (2009). 28. Arifin, Saiful and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of an Isopropyl Alcohol Dehydration Process via Extractive Distillation Using Dimethyl Sulfoxide as Entrainer”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 47, No. 3, 790-803 (2008). 29. Chien, I-Lung, Kay Chen, and Chien-Lin Kuo, “Overall Control Strategy of a Coupled Reactor/Columns Process for the Production of Ethyl Acrylate”, J. Process Control, Vol. 18, 215-231 (2008). 30. Lee, Hao-Yeh, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Acetic Acid Dehydration Column with p-Xylene or m-Xylene Feed Impurity. 2. Bifurcation Analysis and Control”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 47, No. 9, 3046-3059 (2008). 31. Huang, Han Jie and I-Lung Chien, “Choice of Suitable Entrainer in Batch Heteroazeotropic System for Acetic Acid Dehydration”, J. Chin. Inst. Chem. Engrs., Vol. 39, No. 5, 503-517 (2008). 32. Chien, I-Lung, Tze Wei Kan, and Bo-Shuo Chen, “Dynamic Simulation and Operation of a High Pressure Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate (EVA) Copolymerization Autoclave Reactor”, Comput. Chem. Engng., Vol. 31, No. 3, 233-245 (2007). 33. Arifin, Saiful and I-Lung Chien, “Combined Pre-concentrator/Recovery Column Design for Isoproyl Alcohol Dehydration Process”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 46, No. 8, 2535-2543 (2007). 34. Lee, Hao-Yeh, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Control of Reactive Distillation Process for Production of Ethyl Acetate”, J. Process Control, Vol. 17, No. 4, 363-377 (2007). 35. Huang, Hsiao-Ping, Hao-Yeh Lee, Tang-Kai Gau, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Acetic Acid Dehydration Column with p-Xylene or m-Xylene Feed Impurity. 1. Importance of Feed Tray Location on the Process Design”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 46, No. 2, 505-517 (2007). 36. Yao, Jyun-Yang, Sheng-Yu Lin, and I-Lung Chien, “Operation and Control of Batch Extractive Distillation for the Separation of Mixtures Containing Minimum-Boiling Azeotrope”, J. Chin. Inst. Chem. Engrs., Vol. 38, Nos. 5-6, 371-383 (2007). 37. Lee, Hao-Yeh, Yeong-Tarng Tang, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Bifurcation in the Reactive Distillatin for Ethyl Acetate at Low Murphree Plate Efficiency”, J. Chem. Eng. Japan, Vol. 39, No. 6, 642-651 (2006). 38. Zeng, Kai-Luen, Chien-Lin Kuo, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Butyl Acrylate Reactive Distillation Column System”, Chem. Eng. Sci., Vol. 61, No. 13, 4417-4431 (2006). 39. Chien, I-Lung and Chien-Lin Kuo, “Investigating the Need of a Pre-concentrator Column for Acetic Acid Dyhydration System via Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation”, Chem. Eng. Sci., Vol. 61, No. 2, 569-585 (2006). 40. Chung, Yu-Cheng, I-Lung Chien, and Der-Ming Chang, “Multiple-Model Control Strategy of a Fed-Batch High Cell-Density Culture Process”, J. Process Control, Vol. 16, No. 1, 9-26 (2006). 41. Chien, I-Lung, Hsiao-Ping Huang, Tang-Kai Gau, and Chun-Hui Wang, “Influence of Feed Impurity on the Design and Operation of an Industrial Acetic Acid Dehydration Column”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 44, No. 10, 3510-3521 (2005). 42. Tang, Yeong-Tarng, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Plant-wide Control of a Complete Ethyl Acetate Reactive Distillation Process”, J. Chem. Eng. Japan, Vol. 38, No. 2, 130-146 (2005). 43. Chien, I-Lung, Yao-Pin Teng, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and Yeong Tarng Tang, “Design and Control of an Ethyl Acetate Process: Coupled Reactor/Column Configuration”, J. Process Control, Vol. 15, No. 4, 435-449 (2005). 44. Chien, I-Lung, Kai-Luen Zeng, Huan-Yi Chao, and Jun Hong Liu, “Design and Control of Acetic Acid Dehydration System via Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation”, Chem. Eng. Sci., Vol. 59, No. 21, 4547-4567 (2004). 45. Huang, Hsiao-Ping, Chih-Ming Tien, Hao-Yeh Lee, and I-Lung Chien, “Switching Controller Design for Fast Set-Point Tracking”, J. Chin. Inst. Chem. Engrs., Vol. 35, No. 3, 317-324 (2004). 46. Chien, I-Lung, Kai-Luen Zeng, Huan-Yi Chao, and Yao-Pin Teng, “Control of Isopropyl Alcohol Dehydration System: Case with Single Temperature Break in Azeotropic Column”, J. Chin. Inst. Chem. Engrs., Vol. 35, No. 3, 267-283 (2004). 47. Chien, I-Lung, Kai-Luen Zeng, and Huan-Yi Chao, “Design and Control of a Complete Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column System”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 43, No. 9, 2160-2174 (2004). 48. Tang, Yeong Tarng, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Design of a Complete Ethyl Acetate Reactive Distillation Sytem”, J. Chem. Eng. Japan, Vol. 36, No. 11, 1352-1363 (2003). 49. Chien, I-Lung, Yu-Cheng Chung, Bo-Shuo Chen, and Cheng-Yuan Chuang, “Simple PID Tuning Method for Processes with Inverse Response plus Deadtime or Large Overshoot Response plus Deadtime”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 42, No. 20, 4461-4477 (2003). 50. Chien, I-Lung, Sheng Chun Peng, and Jun Hong Liu, “Simple Control Method for Integrating Processes with Long Deadtime”, J. Process Control, Vol. 12, No. 3, 391-404 (2002). 51. Chang, Der-Ming, Cheng-Ching Yu, and I-Lung Chien, “Arrangement of Multi-sensor for Spatio-temporal Systems: Application to Sheet-forming Processes”, Chem. Eng. Sci., Vol. 56, No. 20, 5709-5717 (2001). 52. Chien, I-Lung, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and Jen-Chien Yang, “A Simple TITO PI Tuning Method Suitable for Industrial Applications”, Chem. Eng. Comm., Vol. 182, 181-196 (2000). 53. Huang, Hsiao-Ping, Ming-Wei Lee, and I-Lung Chien, “Identification of Transfer Function Models from Relay Feedback Test”, Chem. Eng. Comm., Vol. 180, 231-253 (2000). 54. Chang, Der-Ming, Cheng-Ching Yu, and I-Lung Chien, “Design Sensor Trajactory for Control: Application to Sheet-Forming Processes”, AIChE Journal, Vol. 46, No. 8, 1581-1592 (2000). 55. Chien, I-Lung, Wei-Hung Chen, and Tsun-Sheng Chang, “Operation and Decoupling Control of a Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column”, Comput. Chem. Engng., Vol. 24, Nos. 2-7, 893-899 (2000). 56. Chang, Der-Ming, I-Lung Chien, and Cheng-Ching Yu, “Control Structure Design for Sheet Forming Processes”, J. Chin. Inst. Chem. Engrs., Vol. 31, No. 4, 375-392 (2000). 57. Chien, I-L., C. J. Wang, D. S. H. Wong, C.-H. Lee, S.-H. Cheng, R. F. Shih, W. T. Liu and C. S. Tsai, “Experimental Investigation of Conventional Control Strategies for a Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column”, J. Process Control, Vol. 10, No. 4, 333-340 (2000). 58. Jang, Y.-J. and I-L. Chien, “Temperature Control of an Aromatic Polyamide Batch Reactor System”, J. Chin. Inst. Chem. Engrs., Vol. 30, No. 3, 215-221 (1999) 59. Chien, I-Lung, Hsiao-Ping Huang and Jen-Chien Yang, “A Simple Multiloop Tuning Method for PID Controllers with No Proportional Kick”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 38, No. 4, 1456-1468 (1999). 60. Chien, I-L., C. J. Wang, and D. S. H. Wong, “Dynamics and Control of a Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column: Conventional Control Approach”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 38, No. 2, 468-478 (1999). 61. Hsiao, Feng-Hsiag, Jiing-Ding Hwang, and I-Lung Chien, “Stabilization of Non-linear Large-scaled Systems by Dithers”, Int. J. Control, Vol. 70, No. 2, 203-226 (1998). 62. Huang, Hsiao-Ping, I-Lung Chien, and Yueh-Chung Lee, “A Simple Method for Tuning Cascade Control Systems”, Chem. Eng. Comm., Vol. 165, 89-121 (1998). 63. Chang, Der-Ming, Cheng-Ching Yu, and I-Lung Chien, “Coordinated Control of Blending Systems”, IEEE Trans. Contr. Sys. Tech., Vol. 6, No. 4, 495-506 (1998). 64. Wang, C.J., D.S.H. Wang, I-Lung Chien, R.F. Shih, W. T. Liu and C. S. Tsai, “Critical Reflux, Parametric Sensitivity and Hysteresis in Azeotropic Distillation of Isopropyl Alcohol+Water+Cyclohexane”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 37, No. 7, 2835-2843 (1998). 65. Chien, I-Lung, Y. T. Tang, and T. S. Chang, “A Simple Nonlinear Controller for High-Purity Distillation Columns”, AIChE Journal, Vol. 43, No. 11, 3111-3116 (1997). 66. Wang, C.J., D. S. H. Wong, I-Lung Chien, R.-F. Shih, S. J. Wang, “Experimental Verification of Multiple Steady-State in a Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column”, Comput. Chem. Engng., Vol.21, S535-S540 (1997). 67. Chang, Der-Ming, I-Lung Chien, and Cheng-Ching Yu, “Identification and Control of an Overshoot Lead-Lag Plant”, J. Chin. Inst. of Chem. Eng., Vol. 28, No. 2, 79-89 (1997). 68. Chien, I-Lung and B. A. Ogunnaike, “Modeling and Control of a Temperature-Based High-Purity Distillation Column”, Chem. Eng. Comm., Vol. 158, 71-105 (1997). 69. Chien, I-Lung, “Simple Empirical Nonlinear Model for Temperature-Based High-Purity Distillation Columns”, AIChE Journal, Vol. 42, No. 9, 2692-2697 (1996). 70. Rawlings, J.R. and I-Lung Chien, “Gage Control of Film and Sheet Forming Processes”, AIChE Journal, Vol. 42, No. 3, 753-766 (1996). 71. Sriniwas, R., Y. Arkun, I-Lung Chien, and B. A. Ogunnaike, “Nonlinear Identification and Control of High-Purity Distillation Column:A Case Study”, Journal of Process Control, Vol. 5, No. 3, 149-162 (1995). 72. Fruehauf, P. S., I-Lung Chien, and M. D. Lauritsen, “Simplified IMC-PID Tuning Rules”, ISA Trans., Vol. 33, No. 5, 43-59 (1994). 73. Chien, I-Lung and P. S. Fruehauf, “Consider IMC Tuning to Improve Controller Performance”, Chem. Eng. Prog., Vol. 86, No. 10, 33-41 (1990). 74. Chien, I-Lung, D. E. Seborg, and D. A. Mellichamp, “Self-Tuning Control with Decoupling”, AIChE Journal, Vol. 33, No. 7, 1079-1088 (1987). 75. Chien, I-Lung, D. A. Mellichamp, and D. E. Seborg, “Multivariable Self-Tuning Control Strategy for Distillation Columns”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Proc. Des. Dev., Vol. 25, No. 3, 595-600 (1986). 76. Chien, I-Lung, D. E. Seborg, and D. A. Mellichamp, “A Self-Tuning Controller for Systems with Unknown or Varying Time Delays”, Int. J. Control, Vol. 42, No. 4, 949-964 (1985). Conference Papers: 1. Ming-Lung Li, Hao-Yeh Lee, Ming-Wei Lee and I-Lung Chien, “Simulation and Formula Regression of an Air Separation Unit in China Steel Corporation”, 5th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes, May 28-30, Hiroshima, Japan (2014). 2. Chung-Cheng Lee, Hao-Yeh Lee, Shih-Kai Hung and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of a Reactive-Distillation Process for Glycerol Utilization to Produce Triacetin”, 5th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes, May 28-30, Hiroshima, Japan (2014). 3. Kung-Ling Li, I-Lung Chien and Cheng-Liang Chen, “Design and Optimization of Acetic Acid Dehydration Process”, 5th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes, May 28-30, Hiroshima, Japan (2014). 4. Yao-Hsien Chung, Hao-Yeh Lee, I-Lung Chien and Cheng-Liang Chen, “Design and Control of Thermally-Coupled Reactive Distillation for the Production of Methyl Valerate”, 5th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes, May 28-30, Hiroshima, Japan (2014). 5. 邀請演講, 講題「共沸物分離製程的操控優化」, 製程工廠智能化應用論壇, Taipei, Taiwan, March 11, 2014. 6. Yi-Chang Wu, Hao-Yeh Lee and I-Lung Chien, “Energy-Saving Design of a Dividing-Wall Heterogeneous Azeotropic Column for the Separation of Pyridine and Water”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 3-8, San Francisco, CA, U. S. A. (2013). 7. Bor-Yih Yu, Ming-Lung Li, Po-Hsian Lee, Yu-Lung Kao, Chung-Han Wu, Shih-En Hsu, Jeffrey D. Ward, Hao-Yeh Lee, Yih-Hang Chen Sr. and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Coal to Synthesis Natural Gas Process”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 3-8, San Francisco, CA, U. S. A. (2013). 8. B. J. Chen, Y. L. Lin, H. P. Huang, and I. L. Chien, “Reactive-Distillation Process for Direct Hydration of Cyclohexene to Cyclohexanol”, 6th International Conference on Process Systems Engineering (PSE ASIA 2013), June 25-27, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2013). 9. Cheng-Liang Chen, Tzu-Hsuan Peng, I-Lung Chien and Y. H. Chung, “Design and Control of Reactive-Distillation Process for Producing n-Butyl Levulinate”, 6th International Conference on Process Systems Engineering (PSE ASIA 2013), June 25-27, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2013). 10. 錢義隆,”共沸物分離程序之節能設計”,2012 台灣化學工程學會 59 週年年會綠色 化工技術及程序系統工程分組,十一月二十三至二十四日,台中 (2012). (Invited Speaker) 11. Paul Hen-Chia Hsu, Yi-Chang Wu, and I-Lung Chien, “Critical Assessment of Energy-Saving Potential of Extractive Dividing Wall Column”, AIChE Annual Meeting, October 28- November 2, Pittsburgh, PA, U. S. A. (2012). 12. Tzu-Hsuan Peng, Cheng-Liang Chen, and I-Lung Chien, “Design of Reactive Distillation Process for the Production of n-Butyl Levulinate”, AIChE Annual Meeting, October 28November 2, Pittsburgh, PA, U. S. A. (2012). 13. I-Lung Chien, “Opportunities for Energy Savings in Azeotropic Separation Processes”, 11th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, July 15-19, Singapore (2012). (Keynote Speaker). 14. Yi-Chang Wu, Hao-Yeh Lee, Chung-Han Lee, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of a Reactive Divided Wall Column for Esterification with Mixed n-Amyl Alcohol and n-Hexanol Feed”, 11th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, July 15-19, Singapore (2012). 15. Yi-Chang Wu, Hao-Yeh Lee, Chen-Yu Tsai, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of a Reactive-Distillation Process for Esterification of an Alcohol Mixture Containing Ethanol and n-Butanol”, 11th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, July 15-19, Singapore (2012). 16. Wu, Yi Chang and I-Lung Chien, “Design of Distillation System for Separating Azeotrope: Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation vs. Extractive Distillation”, AIChE Annual Meeting, October 16-21, Minneapolis, MN, U. S. A. (2011). 17. Lee, Hao-Yeh, Yuan-Lin Lin, Hsiao-Ping Huang, Cheng-Liang Chen, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Cyclohexanol Reactive-Distillation Process with Alternative Decanter Configurations”, 4th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes, May 23-26, Hangzhou, PRC (2011). 18. Huang, Hsiao-Ping, Shih-Wei Liu, I-Lung Chien, and Chia-Hung Lin, “A Dynamic Model with Structured Recurrent Neural Network to Predict Glucose-Insulin Regulation of Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus”, 9th International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, July 5-7, Leuven, Belgium (2010). 19. Wei, Hon-Yu, Anisatur Rokhmah, RenantoHandogo, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Diethyl Carbonate Transesterification Process”, The 13th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (APCChE), October 5-8, Taipei, Taiwan (2010). 20. Lee, Hao-Yeh, Chia-Hung Kuo, I-Lung Chien, and Hsiao-Ping Huang, “Evolutional Batch Reactive Distillation Operation Strategy for Esterification of Butyl Acetate Process”, The 13th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (APCChE), October 5-8, Taipei, Taiwan (2010). 21. Wei, Hon-Yu, Anisatur Rokhmah, Renanto Handogo, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Reactive-Distillation Process for the Production of Diethyl Carbonate”, The 5th International Symposium on Design, Operations and Control of Chemical Processes, July 25-28, Singapore (2010). 22. Cheng, J. K., Y. T. Jhuang, J. D. Ward, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of a New Glycerol Tertiary Butyl Ethers Process for the Utilization of Renewable Resource”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 7-12, Salt Lake City, UT, U. S. A. (2010). 23. Hsu, C. S. and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of a Methyl Methacrylate Separation Process with a Middle Decanter”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 7-12, Salt Lake City, UT, U. S. A. (2010). 24. Cheng, J. K., Y. H. Shen, Y. T. Jhuang, C. C. Chao, J. D. Ward, I-Lung Chien, and C. C. Yu, “Plantwide Design and Control of Biodiesel Production Process via Two-Step Syntheses or by Simultaneous Esterification/Transesterification”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 7-12, Salt Lake City, UT, U. S. A. (2010). 25. Wu, Yi-Chang, William L. Luyben, and I-Lung Chien, “A Two-Stripper/Decanter Flowsheet for Methanol Recovery in the TAME Reactive-Distillation Process”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 8-13, Nashville, TN, U. S. A. (2009). 26. Huang, Han Jie, Min Jhong, and I-Lung Chien, “Operating Strategy for Separation of Mixtures in Heteroazeotropic Batch Distillation Systems”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16-21, Philadelphia, PA, U. S. A. (2008). 27. Gunawan, L. and I-Lung Chien, “Design of Ethanol Dehydration Process: Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation vs. Extractive Distillation”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16-21, Philadelphia, PA, U. S. A. (2008). 28. Chien, I-Lung, “Azeotropic Distillation”, Conference on Process System Engineering: Recent Progress and New Applications, July 14, Taipei, Taiwan (2008). 29. Huang, Cheng-Yuan, and I-Lung Chien, “Comparative Study on Operation and Control of Four Batch Distillation Configurations with Various Operating Strategies”, PSE Asia, August 15-18, Xian, PRC (2007). 30. Lee, Yao-Yeh, I-Lung Chien, and Hsiao-Ping Huang, “Bifurcation Phenomena in the Azeotropic Distillation Process for Dehydration of Acetic Acid with Impurity”, PSE Asia, August 15-18, Xian, PRC (2007). 31. Chen, Yung-Lun, Jyh-Cheng Jeng, I-Lung Chien, and Hsiao-Ping Huang, “Optimal Control for Type 1 Diabetes”, PSE Asia, August 15-18, Xian, PRC (2007). 32. Arifin, Saiful, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Ethanol Dehydration Process via Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation”, PSE Asia, August 15-18, Xian, PRC (2007). 33. Arifin, Saiful, and I-Lung Chien, “Combined Pre-Concentrator/Recovery Column Design for Ethanol Dehydration Process”, AIChE Spring Meeting, April 23-26, Houston, TX, U. S. A. (2007). 34. Arifin, Saiful and I-Lung Chien, “Investigating the Need of a Pre-Concentrator Column for the Isopropyl Alcohol Dehydration Process”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nov. 12-17, San Francisco, CA, U. S. A. (2006). 35. Arifin, Saiful and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Isopropyl Alcohol Dehydration Via Homogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Using Dimethyl Sulfoxide as Extractive Agent”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nov. 12-17, San Francisco, CA, U. S. A. (2006). 36. Lee, Hao-Yeh, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Design and Control of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Ethyl Acetate Reactive Distillation Process”, 9th International Symposium on Process System Engineering, July 9-13, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (2006). 37. Chien, I-Lung, Hao-Yeh Lee, Tang-Kai Gau, and Hsiao-Ping Huang, “Importance of the Selection of Feed Tray Location on the Optimum Design of a Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column with p-Xylene Feed Impurity”, 9th International Symposium on Process System Engineering, July 9-13, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (2006). 38. Chien, I-Lung and Chien-Lin Kuo, “Optimum Design of Ethyl Acrylate Process with Coupled Reactor/Columns Configuration”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Oct. 30 – Nov. 4, Cincinnati, OH, U. S. A. (2005). 39. Chien, I-Lung and Kai-Luen Zeng, “Design and Control of Butyl Acrylate Reactive Distillation Column System”, IFAC World Congress, July 4-8, Prague, Czech Republic. (2005). 40. Chien, I-Lung, Tze Wei Kan, and Bo-Shuo Chen, “Rigorous Modeling of a High Pressure Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate (EVA) Copolymerization Autoclave Reactor”, IFAC World Congress, July 4-8, Prague, Czech Republic. (2005). 41. Chung, Yu-Cheng, I-Lung Chien, and Der-Ming Chang, “Multiple-Model Control Strategy of a Fed-Batch High Cell-Density Culture Process”, Symposium on Process System Engineering, Taichung, Taiwan, December (2004). 42. Chien, I-Lung and Kai-Luen Zeng, “Design and Control of Butyl Acrylate Reactive Distillation Column Systems”, Symposium on Process System Engineering, Taichung, Taiwan, December (2004). 43. Chien, I-Lung, Huan-Yi Chao, and Yao-Pin Teng, “Design and Control of a Complete Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column System”, 8th International Symposium on Process System Engineering, January 2004, Kuming, PRC. (2004). 44. Tang, Yeong-Tarng, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Design of a Complete Ethyl Acetate Reactive Distillation Column System”, 8th International Symposium on Process System Engineering, January 2004, Kuming, PRC. (2004). 45. Chien, I-Lung, Tze Wei Kan, and Bo-Shuo Chen, “Simulation and Zone Temparature Control of an Industrial Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) Copolymerization Autoclave Reactor”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 2003, San Francisco, USA. (2003). 46. Tang, Yeong-Tarng, Hsiao-Ping Huang, and I-Lung Chien, “Overall Control Strategy of an Ethyl Acetate Reactive Distillation Column System”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 2003, San Francisco, USA. (2003). 47. Chien, I-Lung, Huan-Yi Chao, and Yao-Pin Teng, “Design and Control of a Complete Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column System”, PSE Asia 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, December (2002). 48. Chien, I-Lung and Jun-Hong Liu, “Design and Control of Near-Boiling Separation Processes”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp.23-26, Taipei, December (2001). 49. Chien, I-Lung, Sheng Chun Peng, and Jun Hong Liu, “Control of Integrating Processes with Long Deadtime,” PSE Asia 2000 Conference, Kyoto, Japan, December (2000). 50. Chien, I-Lung, Wei-Hung Chen, and Tsun- Sheng Chang, “Operation and Decoupling Control of a Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column”, 7th PSE Symposium, Keystone, Colorado, USA, July (2000). 51. Chien, I-Lung, Wei-Hung Chen, and Tsun-Sheng Chang, “Operation and Decoupling Control of a Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp.227-234, Taipei, December (1999). 52. Chien, I-L., C. J. Wang, D. S. H. Wong, C.-H. Lee, S.-H. Cheng, R. F. Shih, W. T. Liu and C. S. Tsai, “Experimental Investigation of Optimal Conventional Control Strategy for a Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column”, ESCAPE-9, Budapest, Hungary, May (1999). 53. Huang, Hsiao-Ping, I-Lung Chien and Ming-Wei Lee, “Using Relay-Feedback Testing for Model Identification of Multivariable Processes”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp.332-339, Taipei, December (1998). 54. Chien, I-L., H.-P. Huang and J.-C. Yang, “A Simple Multiloop PID Tuning Method”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp.326-339, Taipei, December (1998). 55. Chien, I-L., C. J. Wang, D. S. H. Wong, C.-H. Lee, S.-H. Cheng, R. F. Shih, W. T. Liu and C. S. Tsai, “Experimental Investigation of Optimal Conventional Control Strategy for a Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp.107-113, Taipei, December (1998). 56. Chien, I-Lung, Hsiao-Ping Huang and Jen-Chien Yang, “A Simple TITO PI Tuning Method Suitable for Industrial Applications”, IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, pp. 151-155, Hawaii, August (1998). 57. Wang, C. J., D. S. H. Wong and I-Lung Chien, “Control of Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Systems”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp.352-358, Taipei, December (1997). 58. Huang, Hsiao-Ping, I-Lung Chien and Yueh-Chung Lee, “Tuning Method for Cascade Control Systems”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp.61-71, Taipei, December (1997). 59. Jang, Y.-J. and I-L. Chien, “Temperature Control of an Aromatic Polyamide Batch Reactor System”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp.72-79, Taipei, December (1997). 60. Chang, Der-Ming, I-Lung Chien and Cheng-Ching Yu, “Control of Sheet Forming Processes: A Plantwide Control Approach”, Proceedings 2nd Korea-Taiwan-Singapore Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, pp.1-10, Seoul, Korea, December (1997). 61. Wang, C. J., D. S. H. Wong, I-Lung Chien, R.-F. Shih, S. J. Wang, and C.-S. Tsai, "Experimental Verification of Multiple Steady-State in a Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation Column", ESCAPE-7/PSE'97 , Trondheim, Norway (1997). 62. Chien, I-Lung, M. E. Kuo and S. W. Yu , "A Simple TITO PI Tuning Method Suitable for Industrila Applications", Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp.24-35, Taipei, December (1996). 63. Chien, I-Lung, Y. T. Tang and T. S. Chang, "Nonlinear Modeling and Control of High-Purity Distillation Columns”, Proceedings 1st Korea-Taiwan-Singapore Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, pp.98-107, Taipei, December (1996). 64. Chang, Der-Ming, I-Lung Chien and Cheng-Ching Yu , "Identification and Control of an Overshoot Lead-Lag Plant”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp.251-260, Taipei, December (1995). 65. Chien, I-Lung, “Gage Control of Sheet and Paper Processes”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp.11-16, Taipei, December (1995). 66. Chien, I-Lung, “Identification of High-Purity Distillation Columns: Empirical Low-Order Nonlinear Model Development”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp. 134-143, Taipei, December (1994). 67. Chien, I-Lung, “Identification of High-Purity Distillation Columns: Empirical Low-Order Nonlinear Model Development”, AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November (1994). 68. Sriniwas, G. R., Y. Arkun, I-Lung Chien, and B. A. Ogunnaike, “Identification and Control of High-Purity Distillation Columns: A Case Study”, AIChE Spring National Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April (1994). 69. Chien, I-Lung, “Simplified PID Control Tuning Method”, Proceeding Symposium on Computer Process Control, pp. 49-55, Taipei, December (1993). 70. Fruehauf, P. S., I-Lung Chien, and M. D. Lauritsen, “Simplified IMC-PID Tuning Rules”, Proceeding ISA International Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October (1993). 71. Ogunnaike, B. A., I-Lung Chien, and Y. Arkun, “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of High-Purity Distillation Columns Using Polynomial ARMA Models”, Proceeding European Control Conference, Netherland, June (1993). 72. Chien, I-Lung and B. A. Ogunnaike, “Modeing and Control of High-Purity Distillation Columns”, AIChE Topical Conference on Separation Technologies, Paper 2a, Miami Beach, Florida, November (1992). 73. Chien, I-Lung and P. S. Fruehauf, “Industrial Applications of IMC-PID Tuning Rules”, Presented at AIChE Spring National Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March (1990). 74. Chien, I-Lung, “IMC-PID Controller Design - An Extension”, Proceeding IFAC Symposium on Adaptive Control of Chemical Processes, Copenhagen, Denmark, August (1988). 75. Chien, I-Lung, D. A. Mellichamp, and D. E. Seborg, “Self-Tuning Control of a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Process”, Proceeding ISA International Conference, Philadelphia, October (1985). 76. Chien, I-Lung, D. E. Seborg, and D. A. Mellichamp, “Esperimental Evaluation of a Multivariable Self-Tuning Controller”, Proceeding IFAC Symposium on Adaptive Control of Chemical Processes, Frankfurt, Germany, October (1985). 77. Chien, I-Lung, D. A. Mellichamp, and D. E. Seborg, “A MIMO Self-Tuning Controller for Systems Having Unknown or Varying Time Delays”, Proceeding 7th IFAC Symposium on Identification and System Parameter Estimation, York, England, July (1985).