Chemical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Disaster-Resilient Design of Manufacturing Facilities Through Process Integration: Principal Strategies, Perspectives, and Research Challenges
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2020 , Article)Extreme events cause significant damage and disruption to the manufacturing sector, associated supply chains, and adjacent communities. These disastrous shocks may include natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, floods, ... -
Synthesis of water capture technologies for gas fired power plants in Qatar
( Institution of Chemical Engineers , 2020 , Article)Flue gas from gas fired power plants contains 10-16% (w/w) water vapor with considerable amount of latent heat. Although CO2 capture and utilization have received great attention, water capture from power plant has received ... -
Ionic liquid design for enhanced carbon dioxide capture by computer-aided molecular design approach
( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Article)Carbon capture and storage is an emerging technology to mitigate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial sources such as power plants. Post-combustion capture based on aqueous amine scrubbing is one of the most ... -
Mitigation of operational failures via an economic framework of reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) during conceptual design
( Elsevier Ltd , 2020 , Article)Abnormal process situation may lead to tremendous negative impact on sustainability, wellbeing of workers and adjacent communities, company's profit, and stability of supply chains. Failure of equipment and process subsystems ... -
Flare minimization for an olefin plant shutdown via plant-wide dynamic simulation
( Elsevier Ltd , 2020 , Article)During shutdown operations of chemical plants, significant amounts of raw materials, intermediates, and products may be flared leading to economic losses and emissions such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and volatile ... -
Integration of Safety in the Optimization of Transporting Hazardous Materials
( Springer , 2018 , Article)The development of fully integrated supply chain networks has drawn much attention due to industrial integration and globalization. Inter-plant transportation of chemicals plays a central role in enabling efficient supply ... -
An integrated approach to the simultaneous design and operation of industrial facilities for abnormal situation management
( Elsevier B.V. , 2014 , Book chapter)Flaring is a common operation in industrial facilities and is usually intended for safety purposes, for disposal of waste gases with low heating values, or for management of abnormal situations. In addition to the economic ... -
Generic approach of using dynamic simulation for industrial emission reduction under abnormal operations: Scenario study of an ethylene plant start-up
( American Chemical Society , 2014 , Article)Flare minimization under normal and abnormal operating conditions in large-scale industrial processes, especially for refineries and petrochemical plants, is a double-win practice, which simultaneously benefits industrial ... -
Ionic liquid design for enhanced carbon dioxide capture - A computer aided molecular design approach
( Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC , 2014 , Article)Greenhouse gases emission is known as the main factor of climate change, and carbon dioxide (CO2) makes up vast majority of them. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a vital technology to mitigate industrial CO2 emissions, ... -
Multi-objective optimization methodology to size cogeneration systems for managing flares from uncertain sources during abnormal process operations
( Elsevier Ltd , 2015 , Article)Flaring is common practice in industries to reduce the risk during abnormal situations, to maintain the product quality or to operate safely during process start up and shut down. Due to its large negative impacts on the ... -
Optimal Scheduling of Biodiesel Plants through Property-based Integration with Oil Refineries
(2011 , Book)This paper addresses the design and scheduling problem of biodiesel plants in conjunction with typical oil refineries via blending of biodiesel and petro-diesel. The feedstocks are often seasonal and their availability and ... -
Predictive ANN models for varying filler content for cotton fiber/PVC composites based on experimental load displacement curves
( Elsevier Ltd , 2020 , Article)In this paper, artificial neural network (ANN) models are developed to predict the load-displacement curves for better understanding the behavior of cotton fiber/polyvinyl chloride (PVC) composites. Series of experiments ... -
Design of composite rectangular tubes for optimum crashworthiness performance via experimental and ANN techniques
( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article)This paper examines the crashworthiness performance of composite rectangular tubes using experimental and artificial neural network (ANN) techniques. Based on experimentally obtained values of different crashworthiness ... -
Characterization of Industrial Flaring under Uncertainty for the Design of Optimum Flare Recovery and Utilization Systems
( Elsevier B.V. , 2022 , Book chapter)One of the main challenges in industrial applications is to optimally manage flare gases that are inevitably generated both in routine and non-routine process operations but can yet constitute valuable energy resources for ... -
Data-driven modeling to predict the load vs. displacement curves of targeted composite materials for industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing
( Elsevier Ltd , 2021 , Article)This work presents an approach for smart manufacturing focusing on Industry 4.0 to predict the load vs. displacement curve of targeted cotton fiber/Polypropylene (PP) composite materials while complying with the required ... -
Practicality of Green H2Economy for Industry and Maritime Sector Decarbonization through Multiobjective Optimization and RNN-LSTM Model Analysis
( American Chemical Society , 2022 , Article)A green H2 economy's practicality depends highly on multisector decarbonization and cost-benefit analyses of the supply chain, including production routes, techno-economic performance, storage, and transportation. In this ... -
Status of renewable energy in the GCC region and future opportunities
( Elsevier Ltd , 2021 , Article)The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are committed to boosting the proportion of renewable energy (RE) in their overall energy mix to reduce the economic reliance on fossil fuels. The governments and regulatory ... -
Optimal filler content for cotton fiber/PP composite based on mechanical properties using artificial neural network
( Elsevier Ltd , 2020 , Article)In this paper, a machine learning-based approach has been proposed to integrate artificial intelligence during the designing of fiber-reinforced polymeric composites. With the help of the proposed approach, an artificial ... -
Highly sensitive humidity sensor based on cadmium selenide quantum dots-polymer composites: synthesis, characterization, and effect of UV/ozone treatment
( Springer , 2023 , Article)This work describes the rational design of thin film-based cadmium selenide quantum dots (CdSe) mixed with conductive polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), inducing PVDF-CdSe composite for potential resistive humidity-sensing ... -
Bio-Based Self-Healing Concrete for Sustainable and Durable Concrete Infrastructure
( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Conference Paper)In this study, bio-self-healing concrete was manufactured using a natural phenomenon called microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP). The bacillus cereus bacteria isolated from Qatari soil was used for this ...
