Planning and Integration of Refinery and Petrochemical Operations

Dr. Khalid Al-Qahtani is a senior process engineer at Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He worked for more than 10 years in the industry as a process engineer spanning the area of oil treatment, gas processing and refining operations. Dr. Al-Qahtani is a member in different scientific societies and published his work in several refereed journals and international conferences.

Ali Elkamel is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He holds a B.S. in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics from Colorado School of Mines, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. Prof. Elkamel's specific research interests are in computer-aided modeling, optimization, and simulation with applications to the petroleum and petrochemical industry. Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, he was at Purdue University, P&G, Italy, Kuwait University, and the University of Wisconsin,Madison. He has also taught a number of short courses to industry, including optimization and cost awareness, quantitative decision making, computer-aided problem solving, refinery economics and planning, and practical process engineering. He has contributed more than 200 publications in refereed journals and international conference proceedings and serves on the editorial board of several journals, including the International Journal of Process Systems Engineering, Engineering Optimization, Int. J. Oil, Gas, Coal Technology, and the Open Fuels & Energy Science Journal.