Latest group news
Congratulations to the graduating group members
Our warmest congratulations to the members of CaRE-Fuel group who graduated from the undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Spring 2019 semester from Texas A&M University at Qatar. It has been a great pleasure to have these members in our group and we are...
GFRC at TAMUQ celebrates MoU with Energy Institute
The Gas and Fuels Research Center (GFRC) and Texas A&M University at Qatar recently celebrated the center’s agreement with the Texas A&M Energy Institute based in College Station, Texas (USA), to partner on research education and training. The GFRC is a...
Prof. Nimir Elbashir visits UTP in Malaysia and Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya in Mexico
Prof. Nimir Elbashir, chair and professor in the Petroleum Engineering Program and chemical engineering professor, gave a talk about advancement in natural gas processing research at the Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) in Malaysia recently. Prof. Nimir visited UTP...
Ahmed Omran successfully defends his M.S. thesis
Ahmed Omran, a member of the CaRE-FUEL team and a graduate student working with Prof. Nimir Elbashir, has successfully defended his Master thesis in Chemical Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar. The title for his thesis was “DFT Study of...
NPRP-EP 2019 project Annual General Meeting comes to an end.
On February 3 and 4, 2019, the NPRP-Exception Proposal project Annual General meeting was conducted at Texas A&M university at Qatar. Prof. Tobin Marks and Patrick Littlewood flew in from Chicago to attend this meeting. A strong delegation from TOTAL including...
Two graduate students join the CaRE-FUEL group in Spring 2019 Semester.
Two graduate students, Murtaza Ali Khan and Reem Faraj have joined our group. They will be pursuing their M. S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University at Qatar. Murtaza was born in Karachi, Pakistan but have lived for most of his life in Abu Dhabi,...
CaRE-FUEL Team publishes an article in the “Catalysis Today” Journal.
A new article titled “Understanding the deactivation process of a microfibrous entrapped cobalt catalyst in supercritical fluid Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis” has recently been accepted for publication in the prestigious catalysis journal Catalysis Today. Dr. Hanif...
CareFuel Team presents at Natural Gas Conversion Symposium conducted at the Energy Institute, Texas A&M, USA
Two presentations from our team were highlighted during the 2nd Natural Gas Utilization Workshop (AIChE) held at the Texas A&M University’s Energy Institute. The conference was held from August 12-14, 2018. Titles of the talk, “Coking and Sintering Resistance of...
Dr. Hanif Choudhury promoted to Assistant Research Scientist
Former postdoctoral research associate Dr. Hanif Choudhury has been promoted to the position of Assistant Research Scientist in the Petroleum Engineering Department. Please join us in congratulating him!
Mohamedsufiyan Challiwala patents Novel dual-reactor configuration ‘CARGEN’ for Carbon and Syngas production
3rd year PhD student Mohammedsufiyan Challiwala (co-supervised by Prof. Nimir Elbashir & Prof. Mahmoud El-Halwagi) has successfully filed a patent concerning a “system and method for carbon and Syngas production” (US patent WO2018187213A1). Congrats Sufiyan!
