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Research Areas

Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy and Sustainability

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Environmental Research Area

•    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

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Interfaces & Catalysis

•    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

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Materials

•    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

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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

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Bio

•    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

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Electrochemistry

•    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

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Chemical Applied AI

•    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