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Texas A&M Gas & Fuels Research Center
Presentation to Industrial Advisory Board, Chemical Engineering Program,Texas A&M University at Qatar
May 21, 2013
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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.
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• 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
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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.
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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
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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
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Gas and Fuels Research Center
GTL
Catalysis Fuel processing Reactor design
Intensification of gas processing plants Fluid PropertiesSimulation of natural
gas processing
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Resources in Qatar
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Texas A&M Fuel Characterization Lab
State-of-the-art experimental facilities
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Support Detailed Composition & Hydrocarbon Products Properties
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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
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Advanced Reactor Technologies for Catalyst Testing
Applied Catalysis Lab
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Current Collaboration with Industry in Qatar
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Collaboration with Academia