Dr. Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul (known as P.T.) is currently Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, the University of Regina, Canada, where he was the Dean from 1999 to 2013. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Dr. PT is the co-founder of Clean Energy Technology Research Institute (previously known as the International Test Centre for CO2 Capture – ITC) in Canada. In 2016, he was inducted as a Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE).
Dr. P.T. is a key international researcher in the area of advanced CO2 capture and separation from industrial gas streams as well as low-carbon energy development. He has provided technical advice to governments and industries nationally and internationally. In 2013. he served as a guest editor of the IEAGHG special issue on “IEA Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project (the world largest CO2 for EOR and CCS program)” in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (IJGGC Elsevier). He and his team have developed a number of Patents (US and International) in the areas of Advanced Carbon Capture Processes and Clean Energy Technologies. Dr. PT’s research team won the most prestigious NSERC Synergy Award for Innovations from Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, in 2006.
Dr. P.T. is currently a member of Editorial Board of IJGGC (Elsevier) and Clean Energy Journal (Oxford Press). In addition, he is serving as the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of PETROLEUM Journal (Elsevier). Recently, Dr. PT. has served as the chief guest editor of (i) a special issue on “Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS): Technological Developments and Future Opportunities for Petroleum Industry” in PETROLEUM (Elsevier) – 2017 and (ii) a special issue on “Recent progress and new developments of applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), and Machine Learning (ML) in the Petroleum Industry“ – 2018. In 2013, Dr. PT. and his research team published two books on CCUS area: (i) “Recent Progress and New Development of Post Combustion Carbon Capture (PCC) Technology Using Reactive Solvents” by Future Science of UK in 2013 and (ii) “Post-combustion CO2 Capture Technology by Using the Amine Based Solvents” by Springer in 2018. In 2020, he was selected as one of “Top Researchers in Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage Technologies (2020)” by Fairforce of Finland. In 2022, with partnership with Entropy, Inc., Hydrocarbon Processing Award on “SUSTAINABILITY”—Modular Carbon Capture & Storage(MCCS™) was awarded.
Dr. P.T. has published extensively in AIChE Journal, Applied Energy, Fuels, Chemical Engineering Science, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Membrane Science, Applied Energy, Petroleum, Chemical Engineering Journal, Carbon Management, Separation & Purification Technology, Petroleum, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. According to Google Scholar, Dr. P.T.’s citations (as of March 2024) are over 18,000 (with h-index of 74 and i10-index of 271).
Google Scholar Citations: http://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=7sB0sckAAAAJ&hl=en
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paitoon-tontiwachwuthikul-aa3610108/
Email: paitoon@uregina.ca and ptonti@gmail.com
