DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

 

Research Areas for ChE Students

Research Area

Brief Description

Gas Processing

Improving the removal of sulfur from natural gas from UAE gas fields Making sulfur more effectively by combustion of hydrogen sulfide

Dr. C. Peters, Dr. A S Berrouk

Sorbent development  for removal of i)  mercury in the natural gas and ii) BTEX removal prior to sulfur recovery process

Dr. A. Al Shoaibi

Development of graphene-based amine functionalized solid sorbent for natural gas sweetening.

Dr. A. Abdala

Catalysis

Carbon-based catalysts for hydro-treating crude oils is aiming to develop new catalysts with high effectiveness factor, high thermal conductivity, and very low pressure drop even at high flow rates. 
New catalytic systems with very high effectiveness factor for hydrogen production through steam reforming of methane. 
Functionalized meso-porous zeolites, carbon, or silica as selective adsorbents for natural gas mixture separations.

Dr. R. Vladea

Thermodynamics

Development of physical property models for CO2 systems: Thermodynamic, transport and phase equilibrium of pure components and mixtures.   The project is related to ADCO CO2 EOR process.
Molecular modeling of chemical systems for novel process and product design: Ionic liquids, electrolyte mixtures, etc.  The project is related to the new Gas Research Center. 

Dr.  I. Economou

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Simulation of hydrodynamics and heat transfers in Fluidized Catalytic Cracking units and bubble columns for reactor efficiency improvement

Dr.  A. S. Berrouk

Fuel cells and Hydrogen Technology

Understanding the processes that determine the efficiency of fuel cells Generating power using solid oxide fuel cells from off-well gases captured from oil and gas fields in UAE

Dr A. Almansoori

Polymer Engineering 

Graphene-based conductive polyolefin for high-voltage power cable applications.

Dr. A. Abdala

Polymer composites by compounding polymers with functional fillers and additives to enhance mechanical, electrical and biodegradation properties. Polymer based oil sensors

Dr. V. Mittal

Polymer composites: Solution and melt blending of various polymers and their functional derivatives, additives and nano-materials to improve mechanical, thermal and electrical properties. Testing and characterization of materials.

Dr.  S. Vukusic

Separation Technology

Adsorption kinetics and isotherms for separation of toxic components either from gas and liquid streams. Modeling and simulation of packed bed absorbers for gas/liquid adsorption with appropriate experimental validation

Dr.  A. Al Shoaibi

Process Systems Engineering

Application of multivariate statistics for the data mining, feature extraction and classification of chemo-metric data

Dr.  U. Kruger

Chemical kinetics of pyrolysis/ gasification / combustion

Experimental and modeling studies oriented to  Degradation kinetics of plastic waste in batch/fluidized beds using pyrolysis/gasification/combustion

Dr.  A. Al Shoaibi

Production Chemistry

Understanding the phenomena that lead to flow assurance problems during oil production and developing solutions to mitigate them

Dr. F. Vargas

Development of oilfield scale management strategies in order to extend field lifetime using scale-inhibitor treatments.

Dr. Ghada Bassioni

Water treatment

Applications of nano-materials for oil-spill cleanup and waste-water treatment.

Dr. A. Abdala

Chemistry of Construction materials

Study of oil well cement necessary for drilling purposes to investigate optimum recipes of cement-admixture combinations.

Dr. Ghada Bassioni

For more information, interested students can consult All CHEG faculty members' research interests under /Research/Faculty Interests and All their research projects under /Research/Current Projects

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