Amman- 13 November 2018

Dr. Ziad Abu El-Rub from the Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering Department, School of Applied Medical Sciences (SAMS) at the German Jordanian University (GJU), won one the best presentation award in the session of Energy Engineering and Energy-Saving Technology in the ICNEA 2018 conference occurred on 2-4 Nov. 2018 in Singapore.

In this conference, Dr. Ziad presented a scientific paper on the characterization of spent oil shale as a catalyst for tar removal. In his paper, he focuses on both bioenergy and oil shale.

The idea was about utilizing the abundant spent oil shale in Jordan in terms of finding new applications for this waste product. In order to find new applications for the produced spent shale, a physical and chemical characterization study was made for the spent oil shale to find out the potential of using this material as a catalyst for hot gas catalytic cleaning in biomass chemical processes.  

In these processes, such catalysts can covert the undesired heavy hydrocarbons into light gaseous components, which improve the value of the produced gas and the performance of the downstream units.

The 2018 3rd International Conference on New Energy and Applications (ICNEA 2018) aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners, and professionals from the industry, academia, and government to discourse on research and development, professional practice in new energy and applications.

The conference included four sessions that focus on Environmental Science and Management, Energy Engineering and Energy-Saving Technology, System and Thermal Engineering, and Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics.

ICNEA is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of new energy and applications. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving new energy technology and related techniques. Further, ICNEA is also the Annual Meeting of SGCE Editorial Board.