Qatargas sponsors Best Overall Prize at 18th Annual Plant Design Competition – The Peninsula

Qatargas sponsors Best Overall Prize at 18th Annual Plant Design Competition – The Peninsula

Doha: Qatargas Operating Company Limited (Qatargas) sponsored and presented the Best Overall Prizes for the first, second and third place winning teams at the 18th Annual Plant Design Competition, organized by Qatar University's Department of Chemical Engineering.

With a rich legacy dating back to 2004, this annual contest aims to provide students with opportunities to gain world-class engineering experience.

The 18th Chemical Engineering Plant Design Contest was held on 18th May 2022 at the Qatar University, College of Education. Twelve Female teams and three Male teams participated in this year’s senior design projects.

The competition was of an exceptionally high standard and the best three teams were selected by the judges unanimously from the contesting teams.

Mubarak Al-Hajri, Head of Process Engineering Onshore South, represented Qatargas as Lead Judge. Ahmed Salem, process engineer from Qatar Chemical Company (QChem), and Abdulla Hussein Al-Ishaq, process engineer from Qatar Fertilizer Company (QAFCO) were amongst the esteemed judging panel.

The first-place winning team created a project titled “Designing of Methanol Plant – Methanol Production Pioneers Company (MPPC)”. The team included Lujain Aljohi, Sali Hamze, Nora Mohamed and Sara Raeesi and supervised by Dr. Donghyun Kim. The project involved the concept, design and construction of a methanol production company. The