Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan Ali

Biography

Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan Ali is an associate professor in the Mechanical engineering department and the CMAT thermal desalination theme lead at Khalifa University, UAE. He served as an associate and assistant professor at the University of Helwan, Egypt, an assistant professor at Masdar Institute, UAE, and a senior research scientist and lecturer at the University of Kentucky, USA. During his academic career, Dr. Ali established comprehensive experimental and computational studies on Hydrogen, Hydrocarbons, Biofuels, and Syngas combustion. He developed a robust database for the laminar burning characteristics, including flame stability analysis. This database is used for creating robust and reduced reaction mechanisms for hydrogen, hydrocarbons, biofuels, and syngas combustion and guided several research studies in understanding the burning rate and the stability conditions for these fuels under different preferential diffusion conditions. He also accomplished comprehensive computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies for industrial burners and furnaces design, Internal combustion engine performance, waste heat recovery from flue gases, and water desalination. These CFD models are guided to improve, optimize, and recover waste energy in energy conversion devices. Dr. Ali established a computational research study on the renewability of the solar CSP/gas power hybrid plant by using biofuel gas turbines to replace the booster fire heaters to superheat the steam and replace the solar shade time fire heaters to produce electricity during the nighttime. Also, a feasibility study is accomplished to use thermal storage technology versus CSP/gas hybrid power. In the aluminum and steel industries, he developed several designs for heat-to-power and heat-to-heat recovery systems to utilize the furnaces and smelter flue gas to produce electricity, desalinate water, and preheat solid scrap within the industrial plant, investigated the power modulation in the aluminum industry for the Integration of Renewable Energy in Key Industrial Sectors for UAE. His achievements are very well-cited and recognized in top journals in the field. He has served as the principal/co-principal investigator of more than 20 projects; he is responsible for more than $5 Million. In 2002, he was selected among 13 leading scientists in the US by DOE to improve energy efficiency and develop an ingot-cracking index in the aluminum industry. During his teaching career, he taught several courses to graduate, undergraduate, and first-year students: Thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, combustion, Turbomachinery, Internal combustion engines, Energy resources&sustainability, Grand challenges, and Engineering computations using Matlab. He has more than 170 journal papers and peer-reviewed conference publications.

Education

• PhD. in Mechanical Power Engineering
• MSc. in Mechanical Power Engineering
• BSc. in Mechanical Power Engineering

Teaching

• Advanced Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer (MEEN 741 )
• Advanced Heat Transfer (MEEN 613 )
• Advanced Thermodynamics (MEEN 603 )
• Applied Thermodynamics (MECH441)
• Internal Combustion Engines (MEEN 446)
• Introduction to Computing using Matlab (ENGR112)
• Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering (MEEN 395)
• Sustainable Energy (MEEN 607 )

Affiliated Research Institutes/Centers

• Center for Membranes and Advanced Water Technology
• Masdar Institute