The Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Technology discussed the doctoral thesis tagged:

Covalent-Organic Frameworks (COFs)-based Membrane from Synthesis Characterization and Application in Gas Separation

On Thursday, 3/14/2024, the thesis of student Ali Abdel Hussein Abdel Abbas aimed to study the treatment of high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the fields of the Maysan Oil Company. Polymeric membranes loaded with organic nanomaterials were manufactured to capture CO2 from natural gas. The operational conditions affecting the performance of CO2 gas separation were also studied by installing a laboratory system that simulates industrial applications. The results showed an improvement of 109.12% and 91.42% in the selectivity of N2/CO2 and CO2/CH4, respectively, compared to membranes devoid of nanomaterials. A program was also developed Mathematical analysis (CFD) was used to study the operational and design conditions and compare them with the practical results, where the error rate was 6.89%.

The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Talib Muhammad Nayef as chairman and Prof. Dr. Khaled Turki Rashed and Prof. Dr. Hamid Hussein Alwan and Prof. Dr. Janan Abdul Karim Abdul Razzaq and Prof. Dr. Salman Hussein Abbas and under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thamir Jasim Muhammad and Dr. Tahseen Ali Hussein. In addition to the scientific evaluation of the thesis by Prof. Dr. Kazem Matar Shabib from the University of Technology and Prof. Dr. Ahmed Faiq Hassan from the University of Baghdad. Linguistically, it was conducted by Assist. Professor Dr. Farooq Ahmed Mahdi from the University of Technology, and the thesis was accepted with distinction.