I graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Cairo University in Egypt in 2008. I was ranked as one of the top 3% among 160 chemical engineering students with graduation grade of distinction with honor. Since my graduation, I have been working in parallel activities which gave me a unique combination between academic, research and practical experience. By the end of 2008 and for 14 months, I worked as a process design engineer in Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I). I was assigned for six months in Den Haag in Netherlands. Since 2010, I am working as part time teaching and research assistant in chemical engineering department of Cairo University. The main duties include tutoring various courses, supervising in labs, giving computer simulation courses and organizing multi-course project. In addition to working in Cairo University, I worked as a process engineer in Egyptian Research and Consulting Company (ERCC) for more than one year then I started working in Italfluid Egypt from 2011 till 2016 then I started to work with ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solution in process modification and optimization studies as a senior process engineer.
In my master degree research, I am using evolutionary stochastic techniques in process optimization. My master thesis is entitled as “Optimization of Small Scale Natural Gas Liquefaction Processes Using Genetic Algorithm". Based on my work, a new optimization scheme based on communication between the Genetic Algorithm toolbox of Matlab and HYSYS process simulation software is suggested. Then, the newly developed scheme is used in the optimization of alternative existing nitrogen based stranded gas liquefaction technologies. By using this optimization framework, the specific power consumption for each process, which is considered as the objective function, was much lower compared to the results obtained using the traditional HYSYS Optimizer tool.
For more than seven years, I successfully combined academic, research and industrial experience with wide exposure to different processes. I participated in teaching and tutoring for undergraduate and postgraduate students for more than five years. The strong simulation, programming and optimization skills, which I built during the master research would complete my profile. I dealt with upstream & downstream petroleum refining processes. I have gained experience in different processes such as atmospheric & vacuum distillation, pressure swing adsorption, steam reforming, removal of hydrogen sulfide from crude oil, removal of nitrogen from natural gas stream, delayed coking, fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC), hydrocracking in addition to natural gas processing including gas sweetening, dehydration and liquefaction.