Research Areas | Chemical Engineering
Research Areas
Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy and Sustainability
• Air pollution Control and Carbon Capture
• Water and Wastewater treatment
• Design and Production of solar cells
• Sustainability and Energy Efficiency
Associated Faculty: Abdullah Alateeqi, Husain Ashkanani, Farah Alduweesh, Aisha Alobaid, Yousef Alshamlan, Fahad Alfadhli.
Interfaces, Catalysis, & Reaction Engineering
• Thermal-, Photo-, and Electro-catalysis for renewable and sustainable energy
• CO2 Reduction, Ammonia synthesis, Hydrogen evolution, Oxygen reduction and evolution
• Deposition techniques for material synthesis
Associated Faculty: Essam Alroqba, Abdulaziz Alherz, Sami Ali
Water Resources
• Water purification and desalination techniques
• Environmental Sustainability, Water and Energy Nexus
Associated Faculty: Khawla Alshayji, Farah Alduweesh, Hisham Ettouni, Aisha Alobaid
Materials, Polymers, & Rheology
• Design and Synthesis of Materials and Polymers for catalysis, energy storage
• Polymerization techniques and polymer property tuning
• AI assisted materials discovery
Associated Faculty: Abdulwahab Almusallam, Abdulaziz Alherz, Essam Alroqbah
Modeling, Theory, & Simulations
• Materials for catalysis, microelectronics, and data storage
• Atomistic and Quantum simulation of energy conversion and storage materials
• Modeling of materials, polymers and, petrochemicals Phase behavior
• crystallization and nucleation growth and modeling
Associated Faculty: Haitham Lababidi, Abdulwahab Almusallam, Abdulaziz Alherz, Abdullah Alateeqi, Mohammad Alajmi, Yousef Alshamlan, Mohammad Alhajeri, Khaled Alfadhel, Aisha Alobaid
Bioprocess Engineering
• Bioreactor design & Enzyme Engineering
• Bioseparation technologies
• Biomass Utilization
Associated Faculty: Salem Alkanaimish
Process Dynamics, Control, Integration & Optimization
• Advanced model predictive control of nonlinear systems
• Machine learning based modeling of complex systems
• Fault detection and tolerance
• Safety and environmentally constrained control strategies
• Process Simulation, Optimization, and Intensification
Associated Faculty: Haitham Lababidi, Sulaiman Alqalaf, Mohammad Alhajeri, Ghazi Alenezi, Farah Alduweesh, Khaled Alfadhel
Electrochemical Processes
• Design of batteries and electrochemial cells
• Surface electrochemistry and electrocatalysis
• Corrosion prevention and control
Associated Faculty: Fadhel Azeez, Abdulaziz Alherz, Aisha Alobaid
Applied Artificial Intelligence
• Data-based wider understanding of different physio-chemical phenomena
• Molecular design and material discovery
Associated Faculty: Haitham Lababidi, Mohammad Alhajeri, Abdullah Alatiqi
Fluid Transport and Separations
• Multiphase flow
• Ionic Liquids
Associated Faculty: Tareq Albahri, Osama Alrashed, Mohammad Alajmi, Jaber Aljuaidiya