Faculties at the department of Chemical Engineering have abroad research interests due to the diversity in their background. Below is an overview of the faculty’s research interests.
Dr. Ali
Elkamel |
Acting Chair & Professor |
Process Systems Engineering |
Dr. Cornelis Peters |
Department Chairman & Distinguished Professor |
Thermodynamics, Phase equilibria, Ionic liquids, Hydrogen storage and Gas hydrates and CO2-sequestration |
Dr. Ioannis Economou |
Associate Provost of Graduate Studies & Professor |
Molecular Thermodynamics |
Dr. Fawzi Banat |
Visiting Professor |
Desalination and water purification processes, membrane separation processes, wastewater treatment, Solar Energy |
Dr. C. S. Kannan |
Associate Professor |
Fluidization, Biomass gasification/Pyrolysis, Porous Carbons/ Adsorption, and Waste water treatment |
Dr. Uwe
Kruger |
Associate Professor |
Multivariate Statistical Process Control, System Modeling, Data Mining, Fault Diagnosis in Complex Chemical Systems |
Dr. Saleh
Al Hashimi |
Assistant Professor |
Catalysis, Process Modeling |
Dr. Ali Almansoori |
Assistant Professor |
Modeling & optimization of supply chains, Hydrogen & fuel cells, Refrigeration cycles. |
Dr. Ahmed Abdala |
Assistant Professor |
Polymers |
Dr. Ahmed Al Shoaibi |
Assistant Professor |
Kinetics, Pyrolysis |
Dr. Ghada Bassioni |
Assistant Professor |
Organometallic and Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Construction Chemicals |
Dr. Abdallah S. Berrouk |
Assistant Professor |
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Discrete Particle Modeling of Fluidized Bed Reactors, Natural Gas and Heavy Oil Processing |
Dr. Francisco M. Vargas |
Assistant Professor |
Thermodynamics, General Phase Behavior Modeling, Asphaltene Deposition |
Dr. Vikas
Mittal |
Assistant Professor |
Polymer nanotechnology, Polymer colloids, Coating technologies, Design of Experiments and Six Sigma applications on various systems |
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Dr. Radu Vladea |
Research Professor |
Catalytic Process Development, Petroleum Processing, Oilfield Chemicals |
The primary research expertise/capabilities of the Chemical Engineering Department are:
