DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty

Dr. Ahmed S. AlShoaibi Assistant Professor   Bu Hasa Building, Room 2220 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 607 5586 Fax: +971 2 607 5200 Email: aalshoaibi@pi.ac.ae

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, U.S.A., 2008.
• M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, U.S.A., 2006.
• B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Florida State University, U.S.A., 2001.
  
  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2008 to now	Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, Petroleum Institute, Abu-Dhabi, U.A.E.
2004 to 2008	Intern at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), Colorado, U.S.A.
2002 to 2003	Teaching Assistant, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, U.A.E.
2001 to 2002	Safety & Environment Engineer, Borouge, Ruwais, U.A.E.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Reaction Engineering.
• Designed Experimentation & Statistical Process Control.
• Principles of Chemical Engineering
• Heat Transfer

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research is focused on the kinetic characterization of reaction systems. Detailed kinetic modeling is a valuable tool to characterize complex chemical systems. If the kinetics of a system are properly characterized, one has the potential to more effectively identify those reaction parameters that could steer the kinetics toward more production of the desirable products and/or in the direction of producing less of the undesirable products (such as molecular weight growth products that can lead to deposit formation). For example, kinetic modeling can help identify the optimum temperature and residence time parameters in order to achieve specific goals. Fortunately, running kinetic models can be much cheaper and less time consuming than running experiments. Therefore, kinetic modeling can be most useful in identifying the regimes where experiments would be of interest to study. However, a kinetic model needs to be validated with well-designed experiments. A major thrust of my research is to perform such validation experiments, specifically in the context of characterizing the pyrolysis chemistry of hydrocarbons. Comparisons of these experiments to the model might indicate model deficiencies. Thus an additional thrust of my research is to use the data to guide the improvement of the kinetic model. The characterization of hydrocarbon gas phase kinetics in a combined experimental/modeling effort has some important practical applications. For example, these studies can be applied to hydrocarbons that are fed into a petrochemical cracker, a SOFC anode channel, biomass thermal cracker or a waste fluidized bed gasifier.

ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

Project Title		Collaborator	Investigators
Conversion of Waste Plastics to Energy by Catalytic Pyrolysis		Funded by Borouge	Dr. Ahmed Al Shoaibi, Principle Investigator (PI);                      Dr. Abdallah S. Berrouk (PI);   Dr. Chandrasekar Srinivasakannan (PI)
Sulfur Recovery from Gas Stream using Flameless and Flame Combustion Reactor		PI-UMD	Dr. Ahmed Al Shoaibi (PI);        Dr. Ashwani Gupta (UMD)
Development of Catalyzed High Surface Area Porous Carbons Suitable for Gas Processin		PI Funded Project	Dr. Chandrasekar Srinivasakannan (PI) Dr. Ahmed Al Shoaibi (PI);
Remediation of Sulfidic Waste Water by Advanced Oxidation		PI Funded Project	Dr. Binay Dutta (PI);    Dr. Ahmed Al Shoaibi (PI);

PUBLICATIONS

1. A. S. AlShoaibi, A. M.  Dean, “Kinetic Analysis of C4 Alkane and Alkene Pyrolysis: Implications for SOFC Operation”, J. Fuel Cell Sci. Technol., vol. 7(4), pp.  041015 (2010).
2. A. S. AlShoaibi, M. Ratcliff, A. M.  Dean, “Experimental and Modeling Analysis of N-Butane, Isobutane, Isobutylene and 1-Butene: Implications for SOFC Operation”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov, 2007.
3. A. S. AlShoaibi, A. M.  Dean, “Kinetic Analysis of Molecular Weight Growth of Olefin Pyrolysis”, 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April, 2008.
4. L. K. Huynh, A. S. AlShoaibi, H. H. Castensen, A. M.  Dean, “Low Temperature Partial Oxidation of Ethane and Propane”, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March, 2009.
5. I. Kang, A. S. AlShoaibi, A. M.  Dean, “Ethylene Pyrolysis and the Subsequent Molecular Weight Growth Reactions”, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March, 2009.
6. N. Al Amoodi, H. Selim, A. K. Gupta, M. Sassi, A. Al Shoaibi, “Numerical Simulations of the Claus Process: Equilibrium and Kinetic Investigation”, 48th AIAA Meeting, Orlando, FL, January 2009.
7. H. Selim, A. Gupta, A. Al Shoaibi, “Implementation of Novel Error Propagation Based Reduction Approach in H2S/O2 Reaction Mechanism”, 48th AIAA Meeting, Orlando, FL, January 2009.
8. C. Xu, A. S. AlShoaibi, H. H. Castensen, A. M.  Dean, “Kinetic Modeling of Ethane and Propane Pyrolysis at SOFC Operating Conditions”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov, 2010.
9. H. Selim, V. Vijayan, A. Al Shoaibi, A. Gupta, “Numerical and Experimental Studies on Mixing and Products Species Distribution in a Claus Reactor”, 8th IECEC Meeting, Nashville, TN, July 2010.

INSTITUTIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Institute Academic Recruitment Committee, Member, Aug. 2009-current
• Program Outreach Committee, Member, Sept. 2008-current
• Department Search Committee, Chair, Jan 10- current
• Evaluating Collaboration Research Projects, March 10- current
• AICHE Abu-Dhabi, Technical Committee, Chair, Feb 10-current
• PI AICHE Student Chapter, Advisor, Jan 09-current
• Foundation Restructuring Committee, Member, March 09-June 09