MUSTAFA TEKIN DOKUCU

Objective

Attaining a challenging position that involves research about systems engineering including modeling, optimization, and control of chemical processes

 

Personal Information

Address

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of California Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

 

Phone

(805) 708 0384

 

Fax

(805) 893 4731

 

Webpage

http://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu/~mtdokucu

 

e-mail

mtdokucu@engr.ucsb.edu

 

Education

2002- present

 

Ph.D.

Department of Chemical Engineering,

University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Thesis: “Control of Distributions in an Emulsion Polymerization Reactor”

Advisor: Professor Francis J. Doyle III

 

1999-2002

 

M.Sc.

Department of Chemical Engineering,

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Thesis: “Model Predictive Controller Design for an Industrial Distillation Column”

Advisor: Professor Canan Ozgen

 

1995-1999

B.Sc.

Department of Chemical Engineering,

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

 

Research Experience

Research Assistant

University of California

Santa Barbara, CA

·       Control of the endpoint particle size distribution in semibatch emulsion copolymerization by trajectory tracking strategies

·       Model order reduction with statistical methods for the model based control of emulsion polymerization systems

·       Development of a first principles model for the molecular weight distribution in an emulsion polymerization reactor

·       Design of a multi-rate estimator based model predictive controller for emulsion polymerization

 

Resarch Assistant

Middle East Technical University

Ankara, Turkey

·       Design of a multivariable model predictive controller for an industrial distillation column

·       First-principles based modeling of an industrial distillation column

·       Development of a fuzzy-logic based adaptive tuning algorithm for model predictive controllers

 

Publications

·       M. T. Dokucu, M.-J. Park, and F. J. Doyle III,

“Reduced-Order Methodologies for Feedback Control of Particle Size Distribution in Semibatch Emulsion Copolymerization”, submitted to Chem. Eng. Sci.

 

·       M. T. Dokucu, M.-J. Park, and F. J. Doyle III,

“Multi-Rate Model Predictive Control of Particle Size Distribution in a Semibatch Emulsion Copolymerization Reactor”, submitted to J. Process Control.

 

·       M.-J. Park, M. T. Dokucu, and F. J. Doyle III,

“Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis of Particle Size Distribution and Chain-Length Distribution in a Semibatch Emulsion Copolymerization Reactor”, Macromol. Theory Simul., 14, 474-490 (2005).

 

·       M.-J. Park, M. T. Dokucu, and F. J. Doyle III,

“Regulation of Emulsion PSD to an Optimal Trajectory Using PLS Model-Based Predictive Control”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 43, 7227-7237 (2004).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conference Proceedings (* denotes speaker)

·       M.-J. Park*, M. T. Dokucu, and F. J. Doyle III,

“On-Line Particle Size Distribution Control Strategy in an Emulsion Copolymerization Reactor”, Dynamics and Control of Process Systems DYCOPS 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004.

 

·       M.-J. Park, M. T. Dokucu, and F. J. Doyle III*,

 “Regulation of Emulsion PSD to Optimal Trajectory Using PLS Model-Based Predictive Control”, Polymer Reaction Engineering: Modelling, Optimisation and Control, ESCPE-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, 2003.

 

·       N. Gunaydin*, M. T. Dokucu, C. Ozgen,

“Model Predictive Control of a Cascade System”, TOK' 2001 National Conference of Automatic Control, Uludag University, Bursa/Turkey.

 

·       U. Halici, K. Leblebicioglu, C. Ozgen, S. Tuncay, M. T. Dokucu*, “Control of a Steam Heated Agitated Tank with Neural Networks”, TOK' 2000 National Conference of Automatic Control, Hacettepe University, Ankara/Turkey.

Presentations

(*denotes speaker)

·       M. T. Dokucu* and F. J. Doyle III,

“Control of Particle Size Distribution in an Emulsion Copolymerization Reactor via Cascade Regulation of Nucleation and Growth”, AIChE Annual Meeting 2006, San Francisco, California, 2006.

 

·       M. T. Dokucu*, M.-J Park and F. J. Doyle III,

“Modeling and Control of Particle Size Distribution: Application to a Semibatch Emulsion Copolymerization System”, Control of Particulate Processes VII, Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, 2005.

 

·       M. T. Dokucu*, M.-J Park and F. J. Doyle III,

“Multi-Rate Model Predictive Control of Particle Size Distribution in an Emulsion Copolymerization Reactor”, AIChE Annual Meeting 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2005.

 

·       M. T. Dokucu, C. Ozgen*,

“Adaptive Model Predictive Control of an Industrial Distillation Column”, AIChE Annual Meeting 2002, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2002.

 

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

·       Statistical Methods in Chemical Engineering

·       Process Control (Laboratory Experiments)

·       Transport Processes

 

Teaching Assistant, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

·       Process Control

·       Chemical Engineering Laboratory (Process Control and Phase Equilibria Experiments)

·       Chemical Process Calculations

·       Thermodynamics

 

Industrial Experience

June 2005 – September 2005

Summer internship

DuPont Process Dynamics and Control Group

·       Development of an optimization platform for TMODS™

·       Optimization of a semibatch polymerization reactor for DuPont Performance Coatings

 

July 1998 – August 1998

Summer internship

DEWILUX paint and varnish industry

 

 

Computer Skills

Languages: Fortran, Java

 

Platforms: Windows, UNIX

 

Tools: MatLab, Simulink, Honeywell Plantscape, ABB Freelance