Name: Du, Pu
Email: pudu@suda.edu.cn
Phone: 0512-65886062
Office Address: Room 908, ICPI
Biography:
He received his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2014 and subsequently worked in the industry for six years. He obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University (USA) in 2025 and joined the ICPI at Soochow University in August 2025. He is responsible for the preparation, procurement, and equipment maintenance of undergraduate medicinal chemistry laboratory courses.
Research Interests:
Reaction engineering and process control; fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of nonlinear systems. Experimental design of automated control systems using MATLAB, LabVIEW, Python, and STM32.
Publications:
Du, P., Wilhite, B., & Kravaris, C. (2025). A Numerical Algorithm for Maximal Admissible Set Calculation and Its Application to Fault-Tolerant Control of Chemical Reactors. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 109162.
Du P, Wilhite B, Kravaris C. Model-based fault diagnosis in closed-loop safety-critical chemical reactors: An experimental study. AIChE Journal. 2025;e18906. doi:10.1002/aic.18906
Pu Du, Nabil M. Abdel Jabbar, Benjamin A. Wilhite, and Costas Kravaris Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2025 64 (11), 6060-6076 DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.4c04042
Du P, Wilhite B, Kravaris C. Model-Based Fault Diagnosis for Safety-Critical Chemical Reactors: An Experimental Study. AIChE Journal, 2024, 70(12):e18565. doi:10.1002/aic.18565
Du, P., Venkidasalapathy, J. A., Venkateswaran, S., Wilhite, B., & Kravaris, C. Model-Based Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control for Safety-Critical Chemical Reactors: A Case Study of an Exothermic Continuous Stirred-Tank Reactor. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2023, 62(34), 13554-13571.
Pu Du, Lexin Song, Juan Xia, Yue Teng and Zhengkun Yang, Construction and Application of alpha-Fe2O3 Nanocubes Dominated by the Composite Interaction between Polyvinyl Chloride and Potassium Ferrocyanide, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 11439-11447.
