Energies renouvelables - Développement durable - Environnement
TAMUQ, TotalEnergies Qatar workshop highlights joint research
The Peninsula, 29/05/2022
Doha: A workshop which was recently held by Texas A&M University at Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university, in partnership with TotalEnergies Qatar, highlighted their joint decarbonisation research that has led to innovative technologies in natural gas processing and CO2 utilisation for the State of Qatar.
The workshop marked the culmination of a six-year international collaborative research project led by Texas A&M at Qatar’s Gas and Fuels Research Center (GFRC), and was attended by representatives from partner academic and industrial institutions in Qatar and worldwide.
During the opening of the event, Dr. César Octavio Malavé, Dean of Texas A&M University at Qatar said, “Qatar is the gas processing capital of the world, and this project represents a unique academic and industry partnership that has not only advanced Qatar’s leadership role in natural gas processing but could transform the industry worldwide. We’re proud to partner with our friends at TotalEnergies and our academic collaborators in Qatar and the United States in this revolutionary research.”
The project, “Design of Novel Catalysts and Processes for Carbon Dioxide (CO2 ) Conversion from Micro- to Macroscale,” was funded by the Qatar National Research Fund as a National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), and was conducted jointly with TotalEnergies Research Centers in Qatar and Belgium, as well as Northwestern University. It sought to develop new catalysts and novel technologies that scale the conversion of CO2 into value-added chemicals and clean fuels, which could significantly impact gas processing technology and CO2 conversion, not only in Qatar but worldwide.
