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The Saudi International Petrochemical Technologies Conference 2011 (June 6‐7, 2011) has been and gone, but has left in its wake some interesting tidbits that you can access online. For example, follow this link …
… and you will find the names of a number of experts, such as ... Dr. Mohammed C. Al-Kinany, who gave a presentation titled "Supported Nano-Catalyst for Clean Fuel Distillates Production Free of Sulphur, Nitrogen, and Aromatic Compounds." The site includes a short bio ...
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Research Specialist Petrochemicals Research Institute King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Dr. Al-Kinany holds Ph.D. in heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis from university of Manchester for science and technology (UK) since 1984. He obtained his M. Sc. degree in Petrochemicals and Hydrocarbons Chemistry from University of Manchester, Institute of Science & Technology U. K. 1981.
He received his B.Sc., from Faculty of Science - Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry- University of Damascus, 1974. From 1988 till date he has been working as a Research Specialist in Petrochemicals Research Institute, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology Riyadh Saudi Arabia. During the period from 1987- 1988, he worked as a Project Manager at Safari Factory for Veterinary Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has worked at the department of industrial polymer chemistry-Lancaster university (UK) between 1986-1987, in the field of thermoplastics, polycarbonate and in a joint research project with VanaTech company in the field of antifouling organometallic polymers.
He has also worked at the University of Manchester for science and technology (UK), between 1982-1986, in a joint research project with Imperial Chemical Industries (UK) in the field of alkylation, isomerization, transalkylation, disproportionation, and hexane cracking.
He has also worked on transformer oils, biomass to oil, practical class lecturer, and supervision master of science students. He has over 26 years of experience in the development and the use of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts (nano- and traditional) for various important petroleum and petrochemical industrial applications such as, alkylation, isomerization, transalkylation, oligomerization, oxidative dehydrogenation, cracking, clean fuel production, fuel additives, dehydrogenation, and hydrodesulphurization.
He has extensive experience in design and operation bench scale pilot plant, feedstock, and product characterization; catalyst preparation and characterization, testing and evaluation. DR. AL-Kinany is an author of more than (30) research articles, (3) patents ,(12 ) books, translated (2) books; and he designed and constructed "data base of toxic and hazardous chemicals used in Saudi Arabia.
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The site also provides downloads of a number of the PowerPoint presentations. And it provides information on King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) ...
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KACST’s collaborations with key drivers of advancement in the sector...
In order for petrochemicals technology research to thrive, a substantial investment must be made to expand the Kingdom’s infrastructure. The petrochemicals research Institute will move toward the establishment of both a centralized and a regionally distributed petrochemicals technology R&D infrastructure within the Kingdom....
KACST has already formed research and development partnerships and collaborative programs with some leading international institutions such as:
1. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2. Chinese Academy of Science, China
3. The Institute on Membrane Technology (ITM-CNR), Italian Research
National Council Scientific Network.
4. Oklahoma State University, USA
5. Max Planck institute for Polymer, Germany
6. IBM, USA
7. National Academy of Science of Belarus
8. Chinese University of Petroleum, China
9. Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Germany
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You may have missed this one, but the conference Web is worth exploring for valuable tidbits of information.
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