Overview

Waste management through thermo-chemical conversion will be discussed and results from a number of R&D works will be detailed including bench to pilot-plant scale works. The presentation will focus on the benefits of fuels recovery from waste in oil driven economies to have a less dependent ‘culture’ and more integrated industrial platforms used in oil and gas economies.

Speaker

Dr Sultan Al-Salem, Research Scientist, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research 

Sultan graduated from Kuwait University, College of Engineering and Petroleum, holding a BSc and a MSc degrees in chemical engineering, where he started his career as a teaching assistant (full-time grad student) and a research engineer.

He then joined the Petrochemical Processes Program Element in the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) as a research assistant in August, 2006. His work experience has linked him with a number of projects in the crude oil refining and petrochemicals area, air pollutants monitoring, dispersion and chemical mass balance (CMB) modelling, cancer risk and environmental impact assessment.

He earned his PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering of the prestigious University College London (UCL), with a scholarship sponsored by the Government of the State of Kuwait through KISR. He held the position of an Assistant Research Scientist at the Petroleum Research Centre (PRC) of KISR from July 2013 to July 2015.

Sultan specialises in polymer degradation kinetics, which is a particular research interest of his. He is also interested in polymers weathering, Plastic Solid Waste (PSW) management, reactor design, downstream intensification processes, Waste Management, thermal engineering, life cycle assessment (LCA), biodegradable polymers and gas engineering.

Sultan has authored/co-authored a number of book chapters, refereed journal and conference papers. He currently holds the position of a Research Scientist at the Environment & Life Sciences Research Centre (ELSRC) of KISR working on a number of research projects and pursuing a number of major R&D works.

From 2021 he was the Environmental Pollution & Climate Program (EPCP) manager until he left the post in 2021. He has established the Waste Management Research Unit (WMRU) at KISR and is currently supervising this research unit. He also established and wrote the Waste Management & Valorisation Research Program Strategy in KISR’s 9th Strategic Plan based on his idea that was initiated prior.

He has led various R&D projects with a number of clients including KISR, EQUATE Petrochemical Company, Kuwait Municipality and KFAS; and participated/developed over fifteen research activities. Sultan is also recognised as the first Professional Ethics in the Workplace trainer in the State of Kuwait where he has developed a curriculum dedicated for the subject matter; and has developed various unique training courses for KISR including Energy from Plastic Waste and Plastics & the Environment. He is also currently the Associate Editor of the reputed Journal of Environmental Management (Elsevier) and served as one for Waste Management (Elsevier).

He is currently a board member for Environmental Challenges (Elsevier). He has also served as a consultant to the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS). Sultan holds two registered patents at the USTPO in thermo-chemical conversion of plastic solid waste and polymers. Sultan is also the senior author of one of the highest cited papers (about 1000 citations to date) in chemical engineering, which is recognised by Elsevier for his review manuscript published in Waste Management back in 2009. He is also the recipient of various research awards

The material presented has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter's own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Environment & Clean Technology Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

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