“Green” Engineering Research Lab
Richard Horng
Professor
Phone: 886 7 6577711 ext 3420
Fax: 886 7 6578945
[email protected]
Research
Major research interests focus on industrial energy -saving, green process
development of carbon dioxide utilization, phase equilibrium and correlation
development for special chemicals, reactive distillation technology and reaction
kinetics. Various apparatuses have been installed for data measuring over wide
ranges of temperature and pressure. These information is used to form a basis for
developing green chemical processes.
Current research topics
 Carbonates manufacturing in batch and continuous processes at mild
conditions
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Urea derivatives manufacturing in subcritical and supercritical conditions
CO2 + RNH2 + R’NH2 → RNHCOHNR’ + H2O
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Phase equilibrium and reactive distillation for special chemicals, DPCs, and
their related reactions
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Industrial energy saving and intensification technology for distillation process.
Noble metals and glass recovery from environmental wastes.
Selected publication
1. Chen, Hsuan-Jui; Horng, Richard S.; Chiang, Che-Ming; Lee, Shin-Ku,
“A
Narrow-Pitched Crystalline Si-Based Building Integrated Photovoltaics
Module”, Advanced Science Letters, Volume 15, Number 1, August 2012 , pp.
326-331.
2. Hsuan-Jui Chen, Che-Ming Chiang, Richard S. Horng, Shin-Ku Lee, "Thermal
and optical properties of semi-transparent amorphous silicon BIPV for
building application", Advanced Materials Research, vol. 343-344, pp. 199,
2012.01.
3. Hsing-Cheng His, Richard S. Horng, Tai-An Pan, Shin-Ku Lee. Preparation of
Activated Carbons from Raw and Biotreated Agricultural Residues for Removal
of Volatile Organic Compounds. Journal of the Air & Waste Management
Association 2011, 61:543–551.
4. Cheng-Chen Chen, Che-Ming Chiang, Richard S. Horng, Shin-Ku Lee.
Multicriteria evaluation of the selection of green glazing material by using the
analytic hierarchy process (AHP), Advanced Materials Research Vol. 224
(2011) pp 152-158.
5. Shin-Ku Lee, Min-Cheng Teng, Kuan-Hsiung Yang, Richard S. Horng*.
Application of an energy management system in combination with FMCS to
high energy consuming IT industries of Taiwan, Energy Conversion and
Management, Vol. 52, pp 3060-3070 ,2011.
6. Richard S. Horng; Chun-Hsiung Kuei; Wen-Chang Chen, "The enhancement of
aromatic hydrocarbon biodegradation by two Pseudomonas strains isolated
from lake sediment: the effects of cosubstrates and cocultures," Journal of
Environmental Engineering, vol.135, No.9, pp.854, 2009.
7. Horng S. Richard, I-Chin Tseng, "Regeneration of Granular Activated Carbon
Saturated with Acetone and Isopropyl Alcohol via a Recirculation Process
under UV/H2O2 Oxidation," Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol.154, pp.366,
2008.
8. Yu-Nung Hsieh,Richard S. Horng,Wen-Yueh Ho, Ping-Chih Huang,Thou-Jen
Whang,Chun-Hsiung Kuei, "Characterizations for Vinylimidazolium Based Ionic
Liquid Polymer Stationary Phases for Capillary Gas Chromatography,"
Chromatographia, vol.67, no.5/6, pp.413, 2008.
9. Liang-Sun Lee, Horng-Yi Liu a, Shiey-Shiun Horng, "Solubility of ethylene in
2,2,4-trimethylpentane and 1-octene mixture," Journal of the Chinese
Institute of Chemical Engineers, vol.39, pp.49, 2008.
10. Yu-Nung Hsieh, Wen-Yueh Ho, Richard S. Horng, Ping-Chih Huang, Ching-Yun
Hsu,Hong-Hsin Huang, Chun-Hsiung Kuei, "Study of Anion Effects on
Separation Phenomenon for the Vinyloctylimidazolium Based Ionic Liquid
Polymer Stationary Phases in GC," Chromatographia, vol.66, pp.607- 611,
2007.