KIM Kek Seong
Ir.
About Me
Ir. Kim Kek Seong has more than 20 years of hands-on experience in various mechanical and chemical process engineering improvements as well as personal safety and industrial hygiene management. Started as a plant engineer in oils and fats gaining hands-on experience, then to an Engineering, Procurement, Construction & Comissioning (EPCC) company. Ir. Kim moved on to technical sales-oriented role under Occupational Health and Environmental Safety aspect managing the product business of personal protective equipment (PPE). The first international experience started with a technology transfer project from Netherland to China. Upon completion of the project, he returned to Malaysia managing an engineering product trading business focusing on automotive, aviation and oil & gas market.
- Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Hons), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, 1999
- ASEAN Charted Professional Engineer (ACPE), 2021 - present
- Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM): Professional Engineer with Practicing Certificate (PEPC), 2005 – present
- Member of Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2005 - present
- APEC Engineer Register
- IntPE Engineer Register
- Honorary Member, ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organization (AFEO), 2016
Research Interest
Solving industrial safety problem through fundamental research:
- Industrial Safety problem through Computational Fluid Dynamic
- Palm oil derivative conversion through catalytic reaction
Research Project(s)
- Bi-Functional Catalysts for Hydroisomerization of Palm Fatty Acid Distillate (PFAD) and Palm Oil into Biojet Fuel
Current Courses Taught
- CME440 – Capstone Project I
- CME441 – Capstone Project II
International Grant
Lithium recovery from brines using the lithium aluminium layered double hydroxide chloride
Journal(s)
- Ley Boon Sim, Kek Seong Kim, Jile Fu, Binghui Chen (2022). The Promoting Effect of Ti on the Catalytic Performance of V-Ti-HMS Catalysts in the Selective Oxidation of Methanol. Catalysts. 7:221"
- Wei Jian Tan, Zhen Hong Ban*, Binghui Chen, Kek Seong Kim, Parthiban Siwayanan, Thomas S. Y. Choong, and Kok Keong Lau. (2022). Enhanced Mitigation of Fire and Explosion Risks due to Hydrogen Leakage Using Targeted Nitrogen Nozzle Spray Approach. ACS Chemical Health Safety, 29, 3, 309–318.
- H.L. Yu, B.H. Chen, K.S. Kim, P. Siwayanan, S.Y. Thomas Choong, Z.H. Ban. (2022) Source localization for illegal plastic burning in Malaysia via CFD-ANN approach. Digital Chemical Engineering, 3, 100029
- Sajid Ali, Wenting Xiong, Zefeng Liao, Muhammad Junaid Aslam, Chenhong Zhou, Kim Kek Seong, Peipei Zhang, Nuowei Zhang, Jingbao Zheng, Jile Fu, Binghui Chen*. (2021). Noble Metal Free Catalyst with High Activity and Stability for Catalytic Wet Air Oxidation of N, N-dimethylformamide. Applied Catalysis A: General 620 (2021) 118172