Professor Elbashir Nimir
Chemical Engineering Program and the Petroleum Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar
Chair of the Petroleum Engineering Program
director of Texas A&M’s Engineering Experiment Station Gas and Fuels Research Center
Chair of the ORYX GTL Excellence Program in Gas-to-Liquid technology
Title: Challenges and Potential for Natural Gas Conversion to Liquids: From Reforming to Refining
Abstract
Biography
Professor Elbashir holds a joint appointment as a professor in the Chemical Engineering Program and the Petroleum Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar and the Chair of the Petroleum Engineering Program. He is the director of Texas A&M’s Engineering Experiment Station Gas and Fuels Research Center, a major research center that involves 32 faculty members from both the Qatar and College Station campuses of Texas A&M University (http://gfrc.tamu.edu/) and the Chair of the ORYX GTL Excellence Program in Gas-to-Liquid technology. He has extensive research and teaching experience from four different countries around the world, including his previous position as a researcher at BASF R&D Catalysts Center in Iselin, New Jersey. The focus of his research activities is the design of advanced reactors, catalysts, and conversion processes for natural gas, coal, and CO2 to ultraclean fuels and value-added chemicals. He has established several unique global research collaboration models between academia and industry with research funds exceeding twelve million dollars during the past six years. He holds several U.S. and European patents and a large number of scientific publications in the form of peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, and technical industry reports as well as invited talks and conference presentations. The scholarship of his research activities has been recognized by awards from Qatar Foundation, BASF Corp., Texas A&M University Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University Qatar, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Shell, ORYX GTL Co. and others.