DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty

Dr. Ali Elkamel, PhD, PEng Acting Chair & Professor Building # 2 (Bu Hasa), 2211 Tel: +971-2-607 5114 Email: chego@pi.ac.ae Interests: Process Systems Engineering; Process Analysis and Improvement; Planning and Scheduling of Process Operations; Supply Chain Management

Dr. Cornelis Peters Distinguished Professor & GRC Director Bu Hasa Building, Room 2207A Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 607 5492 Email: cpeters@pi.ac.ae Interests: thermodynamics, phase equilibria, ionic liquids, hydrogen storage, gas hydrates and CO2-sequestration

Dr. Ioannis G. Economou Associate Provost for Graduate Studies & Professor of Chemical Engineering Habshan Building, room 5333A Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 607 5884 Email: ieconomou@pi.ac.ae Interests: Molecular Thermodynamics and Molecular Simulation of Complex Fluid Systems

Dr. Yves Gunaltun Total Chair Professor Habshan Building, room 5248 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 607 75121 Email: ygunaltun@pi.ac.ae

Dr. Fawzi Banat Visiting Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2212 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 607 5099 Fax: +971 2 607 5200 Email: fbanat@pi.ac.ae Interests: Desalination and water purification processes, membrane separation processes, wastewater treatment, and coupling desalination processes with renewable energy sources.

Dr. C.S. Kannan Associate Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2008 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 607 5580 Email:csrinivasakannan@pi.ac.ae Interests: Fluidization, Biomass gasification/Pyrolysis, Porous Carbons/ Adsorption, Waste water treatment

Dr. Uwe Kruger Associate Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2006 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 6075150 Email: ukruger@pi.ac.ae Interests: Multivariate Statistical Process Control, System Modeling, Data Mining, Fault Diagnosis in Complex Chemical Systems

Dr. Kean Wang Associate  Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2115, Sas Al Nakhl Campus, Office: +971 2 607 5116 Fax: +971 2 607 5200 Email: kwang@pi.ac.ae Interests: Adsorption science and membrane technology in separation/purification applications

Dr. Ahmed A. Abdala Associate Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2214 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 607 5584 Email: aabdala@pi.ac.ae Interests: Polymers (rheology and nanocomposites) and nanomaterials (graphene synthesis, characterization and applications)

Dr. Ali S. Almansoori Assistant Professor & Associate chair Bu Hasa Building, Room 2212 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 607 5583 Email: aalmansoori@pi.ac.ae Interests: Process simulation and optimization, Hydrogen and fuel cell technology

Dr. Saleh Al Hashimi Assistant Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2205 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 607 5222 Email: salhashimi@pi.ac.ae Interests: Catalysis, Process Modeling

Dr. Ghada Bassioni (On leave) Assistant Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2215 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office:+971-2-607-5201 Email: gbassioni@pi.ac.ae Interests: Organometallic and Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Construction Chemicals

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

Dr. Abdallah Sofiane Berrouk Assistant Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2210, Sas Al Nakhl Campus, Office: +971 2 607 5408 Email: aberrouk@pi.ac.ae Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Large eddy simulation of turbulent multiphase flows, Discrete Particle Modelling of Fluidized Bed Reactors, Natural Gas and Heavy Oil Processing.

Dr. Francisco M. Vargas Assistant Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2203 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 607 5456 Email: fvargas@pi.ac.ae Interests: Thermodynamics, General Phase Behavior Modeling, Asphaltene Deposition

Dr. Vikas Mittal Assistant Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2204, Sas Al Nakhl Campus, Office: +971 2 607 5491 Email: vmittal@pi.ac.ae Interests: Polymer nanotechnology, Polymer colloids, Coating technologies, Design of Experiments (DoE) and Six Sigma applications on various systems

Dr. Saeed M. Alhassan Assistant Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2219 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971-2-607-5944 Email: salhassan@pi.ac.a Interests: Polymer nanocomposites, Colloids and porous solids (e.g. aerogel), Surface science and catalysis, Nanoparticles processing and application, Enhanced oil recovery, Process design and simulation, Polybenzoxazine synthesis, properties and application