Hydrogen for Clean Energy Production: Combustion Fundamentals and Applications

The book fills the existing gap in the literature on clean and hydrogen combustion technologies for industrial applications. This gas is created due to the absence of a comprehensive textbook that covers such kinds of developments. This book can be used as a textbook for graduate-level courses in the areas of clean and hydrogen combustion and as a reference book for short courses to be offered to mechanical and aerospace engineers and young researchers worldwide. The book chapters consider investigating clean and hydrogen combustion techniques for different applications based on experimental measurements along with detailed numerical simulations. Detailed descriptions of the different numerical models are presented for given applications to solve for the flow/flame fields, which are very important, especially for beginners and undergraduate students in the fields of clean and hydrogen combustion.

Dr. Medhat A. Nemitallah is an experienced Faculty with a demonstrated history of working in higher education and industry.He is experienced Faculty in terms of students’ advising and teaching wide range of undergraduate/graduate courses at different Universities with students’ evaluations above all standards. He acts as an Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology. He had a strong education and professionally graduated from Alexandria University - Egypt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA, and King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) - KSA. He specializes mainly in experimental and numerical combustion, clean combustion technologies, hydrogen mobility, hydrogen production, and carbon capture techniques for the control of global warming.

He has been involved in research projects with the industrial sector in Saudi Arabia including Saudi Aramco and SABIC companies. He was assigned through an official committee created by the department chairman to develop a PhD program for the Aerospace Engineering Department at KFUPM. He had the chance to have international collaboration with international institutions including MIT, University of Rostock, Air products, US-DOE, NETL, Baker Hughes, Cranfield University, and Newcastle University.

Dr. Habib is currently a professor at KFUPM. He obtained his Ph.D. from Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1980. He worked as a visiting professor in The University of Arizona, USA and Pennsylvania State University, USA in addition to Cairo University. Dr. Habib has a vast experience in research development and achievements. His work covers experimental and theoretical science, fundamental and applied research. Dr. Habib is the recipient of “excellence in Research” Award at KFUPM three times (during 1995, 2010 and 2015) in addition to the Distinguished University Professor Award in 2019 and Khalifa Award in 2020. Dr. Habib worked as a PI and Co-I in Saudi Aramco and SABIC client funded projects, NSTIP projects, Excellence Center for MIT-KFUPM collaboration, KACST and Excellence Center for Renewable energy. Dr. Habib, leading a group of KFUPM, has successfully established a center of TIC on CCS with a budget of 50,000,000 SR for 5 years. Dr. Habib served as an Associate Editor for Energy and ASME journal of Energy Resources Technology. He shared in the organization of the workshops of MIT-KFUPM collaboration from 2008-2013. The courses taught by Dr. Habib covers all levels in the area of specialty of Thermofluids and related areas.

Dr. Ahmed Abdelhafez is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and an affiliate of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen Technologies and Carbon Management at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). He specializes in the design and development of burner technologies that are fueled with clean hydrogen, ammonia, and/or natural gas to be used in clean-energy applications with cost-effective carbon capture, such as gas turbines, boilers, and heaters. Dr. Abdelhafez got his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to joining KFUPM, he was a Lead Combustion Research Engineer at the Global Research Center of General Electric Co., responsible for the design, testing, and optimization of dry-low-emissions (DLE) combustor components in aviation, aeroderivative, and utility gas turbines with the goals of emissions reduction and fuel flexibility.