Education

  • Doctorate – Michigan State University 1988
  • Bachelors – National Taiwan University 1980

Experiences

  • Professor – Chang Gung University (2001 – Present)
  • Visiting Professor – Rice University, USA (2006 – 2007)
    Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
  • Professor and chairman–Chang Gung University (2001 – 2006)
  • Associate Professor – Chang Gung University (1991 – 2001)
  • Associate Researcher–Development center for biotechnology
    (1990 – 1991)
  • Post-Doctorate – Rutgers University, USA (1987 – 1988)

Research Areas

  • Crystallization fundamentals and applications
  • Crystallization growth and nucleation kinetics
  • Mixing behavior and crystallizer design 
  • Distillative freezing
  • Modeling of polymerization and biomedical reactions


Phone: (03)-2118800 Ext 5291

shiau@mail.cgu.edu.tw

Crystallization Technology Lab.



Select Publications

  1. Shiau, L. D.*, “Purification of m-xylene from the mixed xylenes by stripping crystallization,” Sep. Purif. Technol., 2021, 255(1):117688.
  2. Shiau, L. D.*, Wu, D. R., “Effect of L-valine impurity on the nucleation parameters of aqueous L-glutamic acid solutions from metastable zone width data,” Journal of Crystal Growth, 2020, 546, 125790.
  3. Hsu, Y. C., Lin, Y. H., Shiau, L. D.*,” Effects of Various Inhibitors on the Nucleation of Calcium Oxalate in Synthetic Urine,” Crystals 2020, 10(4), 333.
  4. Shiau, L. D.*,” A Linear Regression Model for Determining the Pre-Exponential Factor and Interfacial Energy Based on the Metastable Zone Width Data,” Crystals 2020, 10(2), 103.
  5. Shiau, L. D.*,” The Dependence of Effective Distribution Coefficient on Growth Rate and Mass Transfer Coefficient for P-Xylene in Solid-Layer Melt Crystallization,” Processes 2020, 8(2), 175.
  6. Shiau, L. D.*,” Product Yield, Purity, and Effective Distribution Coefficient in Stripping Crystallization of R-2-Amino-1-phenylethanol from the Enantiomer Mixture,” Cryst. Growth Des. 2020, 20, 2, 1328–1336.
  7. Shiau, L. D.*,” Investigations into the Influence of Solvents on the Nucleation Kinetics for Isonicotinamide, Lovastatin, and Phenacetin,” ACS Omega 2019, 4, 17, 17352–17358.
  8. Shiau,L.D. ; Wu, H.Y.; Ward, J.D.*,” Modeling and design of a semi-continuous fluidized bed pellet reactor,” Desalination and Water Treatment 2019, 150, 58–72.
  9. Shiau, L. D.*,” Modelling of the Polymorph Nucleation Based on Classical Nucleation Theory,” Crystals 2019, 9(2), 69.
  10. Shiau, L. D.*,” Chiral separation of the phenylglycinol enantiomers by stripping crystallization, Lovastatin, and Phenacetin,” Molecules 2018, 23(11), 2901.


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