Biography

Prof. Ahmed is presently professor at Chemical Engineering Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Prof. Ahmed shared the publication of three USA registered patents and over 125 in International journals and 50 conferences. He has very strong theoretical as well as experimental capabilities and he also gained first hand research experience on several state of the art catalyst characterization techniques like, surface area (BET) and porosity, X-ray diffraction, temperature programmed techniques (H2-TPR, O2-TPO, CO2-TPD), pulse-chemisorption, thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA), ICP, FT-IR,UV, Particle analyzer, etc. He has been involved in a number of research projects which have special focus on catalyst development, syngas/hydrogen production as well as direct and indirect utilization of “Greenhouse gases” (CH4 & CO2) through reforming processes such as dry reforming, steam reforming and catalytic decomposition of methane. Currently Dr. Ahmed research interests include: heterogeneous catalysis, nano-material synthesis, chemical reaction engineering, petrochemical industries, dry reforming of methane, photo-catalytic reactions, and partial oxidation of methane, tri reforming of methane, ethylene production and production of acetic acid.