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Ching Lik Hii

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering

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Biography

Industrial Experience: Senior Research Officer (1997-2007), Malaysian Cocoa Board

Academic Experience: Phd Candidate/Research Assistant (2007-2010), University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus;

Assistant Professor (2010-present), University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus

Expertise Summary

Cocoa and Chocolate Processing; Drying & Dehydration; Product Development & Quality

Teaching Summary

Heat and Mass Transfer; Chemical Product Design; Particle Mechanics; Industrial Dehydration

Research Summary

Modelling Heat & Mass Transfer Processes of Cocoa Beans using FEM; Drying of Meat Products; Drying of Star Fruit Slices; Cocoa Roasting

Selected Publications

Past Research

Heat Pump Drying of Cocoa Beans; Direct Solar Drying of Cocoa Beans; General Cocoa Fermentation & Drying

  • CHING LIK HII, CHUNG LIM LAW and SUZANNAH SHARIF, 2012. Drying kinetics of the individual layer of cocoa beans during heat pump drying Journal of Food Engineering. 108(2), 276-282
  • CHING LIK HII, CHUNG LIM LAW, MICHAEL CLOKE and SUZANNAH SHARIF, 2011. Improving Malaysian cocoa quality through the use of dehumidified air under mild drying conditions Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 91(2), 239-246
  • SZE PHENG ONG, CHUNG LIM LAW and CHING LIK HII, 2011. Effect of pre-treatment and drying method on colour degradation kinetics of dried salak fruit during storage Food and Bioprocess Technology.
  • OMAR, S, DOMINIC, C.Y. FOO, HII, C.L. and LAW, C.L., 2011. Process simulation and debottlenecking for an industrial cocoa manufacturing process Food and Bioproducts Processing. 89(4), 528-536
  • C.L. HII, S.P. ONG and C.L. LAW, 2011. Drying studies of tropical fruits cultivated in Malaysia: A review Journal of Applied Sciences. 11(24), 3815-3820
  • C.L. HII and J.R. OGUGO, 2011. Effect of pre-treatment on the drying kinetics and product quality of star fruit In: ICCEIB -SOMChE 2011.
  • C.L. HII, S.P. ONG and C.L. LAW, 2011. Drying studies of tropical fruits in Malaysia In: The 7th Asian Pacific drying Conference, Tian Jin, China..
  • C.L. HII, 2011. Cocoa processing In: International Symposium of Processing and Drying of Fruits, Vegetable and fruits, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia..
  • HII, C.L. and LAW, C.L., 2010. Product quality evolution during drying of foods, vegetables and fruit. In: Drying of Foods, Vegetables and Fruits, Vol. 1 1. NUS.
  • C.L. HII and C.L. LAW, 2010. Heat pump drying of cocoa beans In: The 13th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress, Taipei, Taiwan..
  • CHING LIK HII, CHUNG LIM LAW, MICHAEL CLOKE and SUZANNAH SHARIF, 2009. Thin layer drying kinetics of cocoa and product quality Biosystems Engineering. 102(2), 153-161
  • CHING LIK HII, CHUNG LIM LAW and MICHAEL CLOKE, 2009. Modeling using a new thin layer drying model and product quality of cocoa Journal of Food Engineering. 90(2), 191-198
  • CHING LIK HII, CHUNG LIM LAW, SUZANNAH SHARIF, MISNAWI and MICHAEL CLOKE, 2009. Polyphenols in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) Asian Journal of Food and Agro-industry. 2(4), 702-722
  • CHING LIK HII, CHUNG LIM LAW and MICHAEL CLOKE, 2009. Determination of effective diffusivity of cocoa beans using variable diffusivity model Journal of Applied Sciences. 9(17), 3116-3120
  • C.L. HII, S.P. ONG and C.L. LAW, 2009. Antioxidants in dried food products In: Proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference (ADC2009), ed. S. Devahastin. 411-419
  • C.L. HII, C.L. LAW and M. CLOKE, 2009. Shrinkage of cocoa beans during hot air drying In: Proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference (ADC2009), ed. S. Devahastin. 359-362
  • C.L. HII, C.L. LAW and M. CLOKE, 2009. Shrinkage of bean dimensions during hot air drying of cocoa In: The 12th Polish Drying Symposium.
  • HII, C.L., LAW, C.L. and CLOKE, M., 2009. Determination of effective Diffusivity of Cocoa Beans using Variable diffusivity Model In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering (ICCBPE2009) in conjuction with the 23rd Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers (SOMChE2009). 1309-1313
  • C.L. HII, C.L. LAW, SUZANNAH, S. and CLOKE, M., 2009. Polyphenols in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.): A Review Paper In: Food Innovation Asia Conference (FIAC2009)..
  • C.L. HII, C.L. LAW and M. CLOKE, 2009. Effective Diffusivity of cocoa beans during drying In: Malaysia International Cocoa Conference (MICC2009)..
  • CHING LIK HII, CHUNG LIM LAW and MICHAEL CLOKE, 2008. Modeling of thin layer drying kinetics of cocoa beans during artificial and natural drying Journal of Engineering Science & Technology. 3(1), 1-10
  • C.H. CHONG, C.L. LAW, M. CLOKE, C.L. HII, L.C. ABDULLAH and W.R. WAN DAUD, 2008. Drying kinetics and product quality of dried chempedak Journal of Food Engineering. 88(4), 522-527
  • HII, C.L., LAW, C.L. and MUJUMDAR, A.S., 2008. Quality aspects in food drying. In: Guide to Industrial Drying IDS. 267-277
  • C.L. HII, C.L. LAW and M. CLOKE, 2008. Effective diffusivity of cocoa beans as estimated using various mathematical models based on Fick’s law of diffusion In: Proceedings of the 22nd Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers (SOMChe2008) and 15th Regional Symposium of Chemical Engineering (RSCE2008), eds. Daud et al. 857-862
  • C.L. HII, C.L. LAW, M. CLOKE and S. SUZANNAH, 2008. Total polyphenol content of cocoa beans dried using the natural and artificial drying methods In: In Proceedings of the 16th International Drying Symposium (IDS2008), ed. B.N. Thorat. 572-577
  • C.L. HII, C.L. LAW and CLOKE, M., 2008. Developments of drying technology in cocoa processing In: Proceedings of the 16th International Drying Symposium (IDS2008), ed. B.N. Thorat. 1363-1370
  • C.L. HII, C.L. LAW and CLOKE, M., 2007. Modeling of thin layer drying kinetics of cocoa beans during artificial and natural drying In: The 21stSymposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers (SOMChe 2007)..
  • C.L. HII and C.L. LAW, 2007. A survey of Malaysian cocoa smallholders processing practices and its effects on dried cocoa quality In: Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference (ADC2007). 1005-1010
  • C.L. HII, C.L. LAW, ABD RAHMAN., R and JINAP. S, 2007. Quality comparison of cocoa beans dried using solar and sun drying with perforated and non-perforated drying platforms In: Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference (ADC2007). 546-552
  • HII, C.L., 2004. Cocoa drying. In: Dehydration of Products of Biological Origin Science Publisher. 203-222

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