Research Areas Abnormal Situation Management Research Chemical Incident Data Systems Consequence Analysis Corrosion Engineering Sustainability Explosions Facility Siting Flammability High Expansion Foam Research Inherent Safety Research Layer of Protection Analysis LNG Safety Research Making a Business Case for Process Safety Offshore Safety, Refinery Process Safety Quantitative Risk Assessment Reactive Chemical Research Resilient Engineered Systems Safety Climate / Human Factors GFRC is a multidisciplinary research center led by Texas A&M University at Qatar involving - 22 professors from Texas A&M University’s main campus in College Station and the University’s Qatar campus, and represents different engineering programs, including chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, material engineering and mechanical engineering. College Station facilities include: A 43-meter long vertical loop for the study of the upward flow of gas-liquid mixture under conditions similar to the ones in a natural gas producing well affected by liquid loading. Several analytical instruments that include HPLC, GC, temperature-controlled incubators, centrifuges, refrigerator/freezers, drying ovens, pH meters, biomass grinders, water baths, Rotovaps, Soxhlet extractors, and specialized pretreatment reactors. A pilot-scale fermentation facility. Combustion, Reaction and Characterization Lab with a scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS) with condensation particle counter (CPC); a Hiden Catlab powder reactor system; a custom built two-stage powder reactor monitored by mass spectrometer; we are in the progress of finalizing a custom built bench scale core reactor monitored by FTIR. Chemical Reaction Engineering laboratory for manufacturing and testing catalytic packed-bed reactors and membrane reactors, as well as analysis of permselective membrane materials via variable-pressure, constant-volume and Wilke-Kallenbach (constant pressure) permeation apparatus. The laboratory is also home to a suite of materials processing equipment for synthesizing ceramics and performing electrochemical analysis of solid-oxide electrolyte materials. The Brazos computing cluster with 311 computing nodes with various processors with a total memory of 9,300 GB and total peak performance of about 28.1 Tflops. Large amount of in-house developed and commercial simulation codes for the analysis, design, and optimization of various gas and fuel processes.
Research Areas Abnormal Situation Management Research Chemical Incident Data Systems Consequence Analysis Corrosion Engineering Sustainability Explosions Facility Siting Flammability High Expansion Foam Research Inherent Safety Research Layer of Protection Analysis LNG Safety Research Making a Business Case for Process Safety Offshore Safety, Refinery Process Safety Quantitative Risk Assessment Reactive Chemical Research Resilient Engineered Systems Safety Climate / Human Factors - GFRC is a multidisciplinary research center led by Texas A&M University at Qatar involving 22 professors from Texas A&M University’s main campus in College Station and the University’s Qatar campus, and represents different engineering programs, including chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, material engineering and mechanical engineering. College Station facilities include: A 43-meter long vertical loop for the study of the upward flow of gas-liquid mixture under conditions similar to the ones in a natural gas producing well affected by liquid loading. Several analytical instruments that include HPLC, GC, temperature-controlled incubators, centrifuges, refrigerator/freezers, drying ovens, pH meters, biomass grinders, water baths, Rotovaps, Soxhlet extractors, and specialized pretreatment reactors. A pilot-scale fermentation facility. Combustion, Reaction and Characterization Lab with a scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS) with condensation particle counter (CPC); a Hiden Catlab powder reactor system; a custom built two-stage powder reactor monitored by mass spectrometer; we are in the progress of finalizing a custom built bench scale core reactor monitored by FTIR. Chemical Reaction Engineering laboratory for manufacturing and testing catalytic packed-bed reactors and membrane reactors, as well as analysis of permselective membrane materials via variable-pressure, constant-volume and Wilke-Kallenbach (constant pressure) permeation apparatus. The laboratory is also home to a suite of materials processing equipment for synthesizing ceramics and performing electrochemical analysis of solid-oxide electrolyte materials. The Brazos computing cluster with 311 computing nodes with various processors with a total memory of 9,300 GB and total peak performance of about 28.1 Tflops. Large amount of in-house developed and commercial simulation codes for the analysis, design, and optimization of various gas and fuel processes.
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