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Fadwa Eljack
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Qatar University

  • Ph.D. 2007

    Doctorate of Philosophy

    Auburn University, USA

  • B.Sc. 1999

    Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

    Auburn University, USA

Fadwa Eljack is a faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Qatar University. She obtained her bachelor (1999) and PhD (2007) degrees from Auburn University, USA. Her research focuses mainly in the area of Process System Engineering that includes optimization and management of gas processing facilities, flare reduction, product design,  risk assessment and the inclusion of safety in design. Fadwa has served as the Director of the Gas Processing Center (GPC) at Qatar University (2008 – 2010). She has over 30 paper publications and is currently leading a number of research projects in collaboration with academic institutions and Qatari Industry, with over $3 million in funding.

  • Decarbonize Gas Processing Facilities and Enhance Qatar’s Energy Mix through Integrated Blue Hydrogen Production and Carbon Capture & Utilization Systems

    Decarbonize Gas Processing Facilities and Enhance Qatar’s Energy Mix through Integrated Blue Hydrogen Production and Carbon Capture & Utilization Systems

    Decarbonization of gas operation via CO2 utilization alternatives to produce Blue H2 will be explored to enhance the performance of both retrofit and greenfield scenarios of Blue H2 production with the help of suitable CCU technology, which ultimately can lead to large CO2 emission reductions in transport, industry, and energy sector

  • Realizing Qatar’s Sustainable H2 Economy through Developing Multi-sector H2 Supply Chains

    Realizing Qatar’s Sustainable H2 Economy through Developing Multi-sector H2 Supply Chains

    The objective of the proposed research project is to map and optimize hydrogen supply chain networks (HSCN) in Qatar for multiple local and global end users including: H2 for the transportation, shipping, global markets, and industrial sectors.

  • Techno-Economic Analysis of Water Recovery from Power Plant Flue Gas and Integration of Recovered Water with Desalination Facilities In Qatar

    Techno-Economic Analysis of Water Recovery from Power Plant Flue Gas and Integration of Recovered Water with Desalination Facilities In Qatar

    The overarching objective of the proposed research is to develop a novel and cost-effective source of water for Qatar, based on the recovery of water from wet flue gas - a power plant exhaust saturated with water vapor

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  • A Life-Cycle Integrated Approach to the Incorporation of Safety in the Design, Operation, and Optimization of Industrial Supply Chains in Qatar

    A Life-Cycle Integrated Approach to the Incorporation of Safety in the Design, Operation, and Optimization of Industrial Supply Chains in Qatar

    The project is aimed at developing systematic tools with Qatar-based applications for the new concept of LCA of safety (which is analogous to the environmental LCA) for the whole industrial supply chain

    This could be a full decription about the project

  • Addressing Design Challenges for Effective Implementation of Flare Recovery Systems

    Addressing Design Challenges for Effective Implementation of Flare Recovery Systems

    There is a need to develop an effective flare mitigation strategy and operational implementation plan based on industrial data to contribute to systematically reducing flare emissions and at the same time further reusing them as valuable energy sources. The approach used in this research focuses on flare minimization and utilization. Minimization of process upset flares during abnormal events and the utilization of flare streams from an energy perspective

    This could be a full decription about the project

  • An Integrated Approach to the Simultaneous Design and Operation of Industrial Facilities for Abnormal Situation Management

    An Integrated Approach to the Simultaneous Design and Operation of Industrial Facilities for Abnormal Situation Management

    The project scope focuses at the development of a novel framework for optimal management of abnormal situation that occur in facilities based on simultaneous design and optimization of operation

  • Computer Aided Product Design (CAPD) of Task-specific Ionic Liquid Solvents for CO2 Capture

    Computer Aided Product Design (CAPD) of Task-specific Ionic Liquid Solvents for CO2 Capture

    This work presents a systematic property based approach to design an optimal IL for the purpose of carbon capture. The significant contribution of the presented approach in this work is the introduction of disjunctive programming to identify optimal operating conditions of the process involved while solving the IL synthesis problem.

    This could be a full decription about the project