Omani research on cutting carbon emissions wins award

Omani research on cutting carbon emissions wins award

Dr. Zainab Al Ani, Research Assistant at Sultan Qaboos University, said that cutting emissions and minimising the utilised energy while keeping the production unaffected is a complex problem that can be solved by multi-objective optimisation. Muscat: A study conducted by a research team led by Dr. Zainab Al Ani, Research Assistant at Sultan Qaboos University, is among the winning innovative research projects in the 8th National Research Award, organised by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. The award is given in the Young Researcher's category in energy and industry. The subject of the research is 'Simultaneous Energy and Environment-based Optimisation and Retrofit of TEG Dehydration Process: An Industrial Case Study', Elaborating on the project, Dr. Zainab Al Ani said that Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) during the dehydration process of natural gas are of great concern as this gas negatively affects the climate and environment in general. Dehydration process also encounters many heating, cooling and pumping units, which leads to high energy consumption. Reducing these emissions along with minimising the utilised energy while keeping the production unaffected is a complex problem that can be solved by multi objective optimisation (MOO). She maintained that the research project focused on minimizing