Texas A&M Gas & Fuels Research Center
Presentation to Industrial Advisory Board, Chemical Engineering Program,Texas A&M University at Qatar
May 21, 2013
Center’s Major Objectives• To advance gas and fuels processing research activities in
gas utilization, clean energy and in production of fuels and value-added chemicals.
• To establish multidisciplinary projects and collaboration models with both industry and academic institutions in Qatar and worldwide.
• To provide consulting services and training courses in areas of specialty.
• To integrate Texas A&M University resources and to support Qatar’s 2030 vision in advancing its human and research facilities in clean energy field.
• Seven Texas A&M University professors from both Qatar campus and College Station campus will be participating in this center.
• Multidisciplinary specialties in critical areas in gas and fuels processing technologies.
• World class research facilities and labs at Texas A&M Qatar and in College Station.
• Highly skilled research staff, graduate and undergraduate students.
Center’s Structure
Center’s Principal InvestigatorsProf. Dragomir Bukur
Catalysis, Reaction Engineering, Fischer -Tropsch and Gas-to-Liquid technology.
Prof. Perla Balbuena
Computational design of materials, catalysts and processes.
Prof. Mahmoud El-Halwagi
Process integration, synthesis, simulation, and optimization, sustainable process design, and molecular/product design.
Prof. Marcelo Castier
Thermodynamic models of complex mixtures, confined fluids, electrolyte solutions; applications of thermodynamics to chemical process safety.
Center’s Principal InvestigatorsProf. Ioannis Economou
Molecular thermodynamics and molecular simulation of complex fluids for chemical process and product design.
Prof. Nimir Elbashir
Reactor Design, Catalysis, Fuel Processing and Gas-to-Liquid technology.
Prof. Ken Hall
Hydrocarbon Processing, High Pressure Fluids Thermodynamics Natural Gas Conversion
Name Funding (2008 – 12)
Source Representative collaborators
# publications
Group size
Balbuena $ 3.5 mil. DOE, NSF, ARPA TAMU, Sandia, Brookhaven, industrial
>170 papers, 5 books
7
Bukur $ 2.8 mil. QNRF TAMU, TAMUQ, QU, Kentucky, AUTh
>130 papers, 2 chapters
3
Castier $ 0.8 mil. QNRF TAMUQ, QU, Delaware, FU Rio, SU Maringá
> 80 papers, 3 chapters
6
Economou $ 2.3 mil. EU, industry UCL, Leeds, INERIS, industry
130 papers, 5 chapters
10
Elbashir $ 5.3 mil. QNRF, industry TAMU, TAMUQ, Auburn, DTU, industry
> 50 papers 11
El-Halwagi $ 10.8 mil. QNRF, NSF, DoE, DARPA, industry
TAMU, TAMUQ, UT, Wisconsin, DTU, etc.
175 papers, 55 chapters
8
Hall $1.3 mil. DOE, Dow, Chevron
TAMU 259 papers, 7 books
7
Highlights of Principal Investigators
Gas and Fuels Research Center
GTL
Catalysis Fuel processing Reactor design
Intensification of gas processing plants Fluid PropertiesSimulation of natural
gas processing
Resources in Qatar
Texas A&M Fuel Characterization Lab
State-of-the-art experimental facilities
9
Support Detailed Composition & Hydrocarbon Products Properties
Catalyst synthesis Catalyst characterization
Catalyst testing(slurry and fixed bed
reactors)
Kinetics of heterogeneous reactions
Reactor modeling and simulation
Applied Catalysis Group
Applied Catalysis Lab
Advanced Reactor Technologies for Catalyst Testing
Applied Catalysis Lab
Current Collaboration with Industry in Qatar
Collaboration with Academia
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