Professor Nimir O. Elbashir 

Professor Elbashir is the director of Texas A&M’s Engineering Experiment Station Gas & Fuels Research Center (GFRC), a major research center involving 30 faculty members from the College Station and Qatar campuses of Texas A&M University. He is a professor in the Chemical Engineering Program at Texas A&M University and served on the Qatar campus. He has extensive research and teaching experience from four countries worldwide, including his previous position as a researcher at BASF R&D Catalysts Center in Iselin, New Jersey. His research focuses on designing advanced reactors, catalysts, and conversion processes for natural gas, coal, and CO2 to ultraclean fuels and value-added chemicals. He has established several unique global research collaboration models between academia and industry, with research funds exceeding thirteen million dollars during the past eight years. He holds several U.S. and European patents and many scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, technical industry reports, and invited talks and presentations. The scholarship of his research activities has been recognized by awards from BASF Corp., Texas A&M University Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Shell, ORYX GTL Co., the Qatar Foundation, and others. Dr. Elbashir is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE) in August 2023.

Selected publications:

1. Catalysts for CARGEN, Methods of Preparing, and Uses of Same (QF Patent). Patent#: EP4076735A1, Disclosure date: 2020-10-09.
2. System and Method for Carbon and Syngas Production (QF Patent), Patent#: WO2018187213A1, US16/500,800, AU2018249486A, US11591213B2. Disclosure date: 2018-04- 02.
3. Processing Methane for Syngas Production with Reduced CO2 Emissions (QF Patent). Patent#: WO2019194694A3, US17/040,802, Disclosure date: 2019-10-10.
4. Process for the preparation of olefins by oxidative dehydrogenation. Patent#: DE60117198D1, Disclosure date: 2000-06-27.
5. Regeneration and Activation of Catalysts for Carbon and Syngas Production (QF Patent). Patent#: WO2020185107A1, US20230024777A1, Disclosure date: 2019,03,13.
6. Bayesian optimization of multiscale kernel principal component
7. System and Method for Carbon and Syngas Production (QF Patent), Patent#: WO2018187213A1, US16/500,800, AU2018249486A, US11591213B2. Disclosure date: 2018-04- 02.
8. Processing Methane for Syngas Production with Reduced CO2 Emissions (QF Patent). Patent#: WO2019194694A3, US17/040,802, Disclosure date: 2019-10-10.
9. Process for the preparation of olefins by oxidative dehydrogenation. Patent#: DE60117198D1, Disclosure date: 2000-06-27.
10. Regeneration and Activation of Catalysts for Carbon and Syngas Production (QF Patent). Patent#: WO2020185107A1, US20230024777A1, Disclosure date: 2019,03,13.
11. Retrofitting Gas to Liquids Processing Utilizing CARGEN Technology (QF Patent). Patent#: WO2023085960A1, Disclosure date: 2022- 11-09.
12. Catalysts for CARGEN, Methods of Preparing, and Uses of Same (QF Patent). Patent#: EP4076735A1, Disclosure date: 2020-10-09.
13. Catalysts for CARGEN, Methods of Preparing, and Uses of Same (QF Patent). Patent#: US20230039945A1, Disclosure date: 2019-12-17.
14. Methods of Producing Dimethyl Carbonate, (QF Patent). Patent#: WO2021125989A1, CN202080093237.2A, EP20900826.7A, US17/786,871, US20230024976A1. Disclosure date: 2019-12-17.
15. Catalysts for Converting Carbon Dioxide and Methane to Synthesis Gas, (QF Patent), Patent#: WO2020139094A2, US17/417,933, Disclosure date: 2019-12-27.