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El-Halwagi receives American Institute of Chemical Engineers award

Dr. Mahmoud El-Halwagi, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, received this year’s American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) Fuels and Petrochemicals Division Award. This award is El-Halwagi’s third from AIChE for his research in sustainable design of industrial processes and process integration, safety, intensification and simulation. This is […]

Integrating decentralized energy storage with power generation

Texas A&M University researchers have developed a computational model to study how to optimally integrate and operate batteries to store excess energy from renewable sources at individual power plants. The findings of this study were published in the Energy and Environmental Science journal. Energy sources such as solar and wind are not always available, but with […]

Pistikopoulos, Balbuena Among Faculty Earning Texas A&M’s Highest Honor

Texas A&M University has awarded the title of University Distinguished Professor, its highest faculty award, to eight scholars. The 2023 University Distinguished Professors represent the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Engineering, as well as the Schools of Medicine, Law and Public Health.

Battelle-led Team to Investigate Recycling Solar Panels 

A team from Battelle is one of 16 to win funding from National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program Track I: Sustainable Materials for Global Challenges. The NSF initiative is focused on converging advances in fundamental research and bringing solutions to the real world through a multidisciplinary approach with academic, nonprofits and industry members.

Review Article Published on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage

Faruque Hasan, an Associate Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering and the Assistant Director of Decarbonization for the Texas A&M Energy Institute, along with his doctoral student Manali Zantye and Postdoctoral Research Associate Kazi Monzure-Khoda, co-authored an article titled, “Challenges and Opportunities in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage: A Process Systems Engineering Perspective” that was published in the October 2022 issue of Computers & Chemical Engineering by Elsevier. This work provides an overview of technology and systems integration challenges, advances, and opportunities in the area of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS).