Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Services and Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr. Ahmed Al Shoaibi is currently a Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Services at Khalifa University.
Dr. Al Shoaibi’s research interests focus on environmentally-friendly technologies to increase energy efficiency and reduce waste. His research group has established a laboratory facility to carry out experimental studies in areas related to environmental and energy engineering. The laboratory research activities focus primarily on energy extraction from unconventional materials and porous material development for gas processing applications. The research facility serves both academic and industrial projects related to the field of environmental and energy engineering.
The impact of Dr. Al Shoaibi's scientific research can be summarized in the following points:
- Developed process know-how for preparation of porous carbon having high surface area and suitable pore structures, from date palm waste, which was suitably modified for different applications. The different applications include removal of contaminants from waste water, natural gas, naphtha and biomass.
- Gasification of plastic waste to syngas in a fluidized bed gasifier. Blends of plastic and biomass were gasified to generate syngas, which can be a potential tool for mitigation of plastic waste.
- Developed process know-how for selective dissolution of mixed plastics with suitable solvent and optimized process conditions to segregate mixed plastic to virgin plastics.
- Treatment of H2S using different chemical techniques such as pyrolysis and furnace reactors, adsorption on carbon-based materials, and using membrane electrochemical reactors.
