Chemical Engineering Department discusses a doctoral thesis on the characterization of nano-organic matter added to polymeric membranes and its application in gas separation.

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

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

  The thesis of student Ali Abdul Hussein Abdul 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 results showed an improvement of 109.12% and 91.42% in the selectivity of N2/CO2 and CO2/CH4, respectively, compared to membranes free of nanomaterials. A mathematical program (CFD) was also developed 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, Prof. Dr. Khaled Turki Rashed , Prof. Dr. Hamid Hussein Alwan, Prof. Dr. Janan Abdul Karim Abdul Razzaq , Prof. Dr. Salman Hussein Abbas and under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thamirjasim 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 by Professor Farouk Ahmed Mahdi from the University of Technology.

The thesis was accepted with excellence mark.