Biography:
Dr. Yousef Alqaheem is a research scientist at the Petroleum Research Center of Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. He received his PhD degree in 2015 from Newcastle University (United Kingdom). Alqaheem prepared and evaluated polymeric membranes for hydrogen separation, oxygen enrichment, and carbon dioxide capture. He also developed membrane units in process simulators such as UniSIM® and CAPE-OPEN. Currently, he has a project with the refinery to assess the membranes for propane/propylene separation from technical and economic points of view. Alqaheem published 23 papers in refereed journals and presented 5 conference papers.
Title : A comparative study for natural gas treatment by amine process and membrane