(17b) Environmental Sustainability through Process Integration, Control and Optimization
AIChE Annual Meeting
2016
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting
Meet the Faculty Candidate Poster Session – Sponsored by the Education Division
Poster Session: Meet the Faculty Candidate - Sustainable Engineering
Sunday, November 13, 2016 - 1:00pm to 3:30pm
Environmental
Sustainability through Process Integration, Control and Optimization
Monzure-Khoda Kazi
Post-Doctoral
Researcher
Department
of Chemical Engineering | Qatar University
Email:
kazi.khoda@gmail.com; kazi0001@qu.edu.qa |Tel:
(+974) 6640 8300
KEY CONTRIBUTION AREAS
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§ Process Integration |
§ Process Optimization |
§ Process Control |
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§ Process Design |
§ Process Intensification |
§ Process Simulation |
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§ Financial Modelling |
§ Ad hoc Reporting |
§ Market Analysis
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VISION AND PERSPECTIVE
The vision of my research is
aimed at the improvement of environmental sustainability focusing on energy,
water and food security. My research will promote sustainable engineered
systems that support human well-being and that lead to economic growth, environmental
protection, and social progress for the current generation without compromising
the potential of future generations to have an ecosystem that meets their
needs. Innovations in industrial ecology, green engineering and large scale
engineering research are the prime focuses of my long time research horizons.
The ultimate target of my research activities is to conserve natural resources
(mass and energy), recycle and reuse materials, prevent pollution, enhance
yield, improve quality, advance inherent safety, and increase profitability.
Given the rise in human
population and the inevitable consequences of climate change, the challenges of
achieving secure and sustainable supplies of energy, water and food are
Herculean. Within the next 20 years we will need to produce 50% more food and we
will also need 50% more energy, and 30% more fresh water. There is an urgent
need to develop long-term strategic programmes of research with integrated and
sustainable approaches that will be able to offer potential solutions for
managing such challenges. To achieve the desire goals a systematic framework
and associated concepts and tools are necessary to guide designer methodically
with the global insight of the process, identify root causes of the problems or
key areas of opportunities, benchmark the performance of the process, and
develop a set of design recommendations that can attain the true potential of
the process.
My research background of process
integration, process control and specially process optimization assist me for
developing new concepts and tools to systematically enhance and reconcile
various process objectives, such as cost effectiveness, yield enhancement,
energy efficiency, and pollution prevention. I am working last few years to
develop such methodical sustainable approaches for various processes starting
from small scale production (producing valuable pharmaceutical drags using
liquid chromatography) to large scale facility (managing industrial flares
during abnormal situations). As my specialization is to work with different
kinds of optimization algorithms and control concepts, I would also like to
face the challenges from process uncertainty and from the black box problems
which can be mitigated using sustainable process integration.
My knowledge of research is not
limited to the industrial processes, I have also implemented my acquire
optimization knowledge to develop some adaptable financial modelling/algorithms
which can be used in the most challenging and unpredictable global financial
markets. The unique point of my research activity is that I can use my long
experience of capital market to develop long term view for energy and commodity
prices; this knowledge can be integrated with my developed framework to make
the system/design more robust to face different kind of challenges including
unpredictable price fluctuations (price fluctuations of oil, natural gas etc.),
unpredictable incidents (industrial flaring) or unknown disturbances (sudden
changes in process parameters).
Future
Plans
Following
are three principal research areas and corresponding projects that I plan to
advance in my research group during the first several years:
Figure 1. Schematic of proposed research projects
and the research goal. Each of these rectangles (representing research
projects) will interact with one another in an iterative manner.
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Research Interests: |
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§ Industrial flare utilization strategies through process integration and energy optimization for abnormal situation management by economic and environmental friendly alternatives § Development of energy alternative tools and sustainable process configurations to manage excess resources (i.e., waste energy streams, waste water) in the industrial complex for environmental sustainability § Development of fundamentals/technologies/alternatives for large scale “greening” separation technique (i.e., chromatography) to move towards environmental sustainability § Sustainable approaches of producing functional super-foods with green solvents for global food security through process integration and intensification Teaching Interests: I am comfortable teaching the Chemical Engineering core courses offered within the department at both the undergraduate and graduate level. I would be well suited to teach fundamental course such as: chemical process control, chemical reaction engineering, particle technology, separation technology, chemical & engineering thermodynamics, numerical methods, unit operations, mass transfer technology, process integration etc. I appreciate the need for faculty flexibility and embrace the opportunity to cover a broad spectrum of courses. Based on my research, I also have a strong interest in process integration, control and optimization. I look forward to incorporating fundamental engineering concepts with cutting-edge technologies.
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SUMMARY OF RECORDS |
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Peer Reviewed Journal articles: 5 published (3 first- and 2 co-authored) and 1 (first-authored) in review |
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Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings: 3 |
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Conference Presentations: 14 |
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Selected Peer Reviewed Publications (Citations: 16; h-index: 2; i-10 index: 1; total impact factor: 13.90, as in April 2016)
· Monzure-Khoda Kazi, Fadwa Eljack, Nesreen A. Elsayed and Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi. Integration of energy and wastewater treatment alternatives with process facilities to manage industrial flares during normal and abnormal operations – A multi-objective extendible optimization framework. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, ACS publication, 2016, 55, (7), 2020-2034. (doi:10.1021/acs.iecr.5b03938) · Monzure-Khoda Kazi, Fahd Mohammed, Ahmed Mhd Nabil AlNouss and Fadwa Eljack. Multi-objective optimization methodology to size cogeneration systems for managing flares from uncertain sources during abnormal process operation. Computers and Chemical Engineering, Elsevier, 2015 vol 76, p.76-86 (doi:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2015.02.012) · Monzure-Khoda Kazi, Bijan Medi, and M. Amanullah. Optimization of an Improved Single-Column Chromatographic Process for the Separation of Enantiomers. Journal of Chromatography A, Elsevier, 2012. 1231: p. 22-30. ( doi:10.1016/j.chroma.2012.01.057).
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REFERENCES |
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Dr. Mahmoud El-Halwagi Professor, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3251 Tel: (979) 845-3484 Email: el-halwagi@tamu.edu (He is my current research collaborator and mentored me in a workshop) |
Dr. Fadwa T. Eljack Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Qatar University, P.O. Box: 2713 – Doha – Qatar Tel: +974 4403 4141 Fax: +974 4403 4131 Email: Fadwa.Eljack@qu.edu.qa (She is my current supervisor) |
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Dr. Mohammad Aman Ullah Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Qatar University, P.O. Box: 2713 – Doha – Qatar Tel: +974 4403 4162 Fax: +974 4403 4131 Email: Aman@qu.edu.qa (He was my PhD supervisor in Singapore) |
Dr. M. M. Faruque Hasan Assistant Professor, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3251 Tel: (979) 862-1449 Email: hasan@tamu.edu (He was my senior colleague in Singapore) |
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