Conducted research on three projects funded by American Heart Association (AHA) & NIH (T32) Program focused on developing medical devices equipped with thermoelectric claddings for non-invasive thermal treatment of implant infections. • Conducted wet lab experiments in a BSL-2 lab & characterized thermal susceptibility of single & co-culture bacterial biofilms at clinically relevant time/temperature combinations.• Conducted design of experiments (response surface methodology) &… Show more Conducted research on three projects funded by American Heart Association (AHA) & NIH (T32) Program focused on developing medical devices equipped with thermoelectric claddings for non-invasive thermal treatment of implant infections. • Conducted wet lab experiments in a BSL-2 lab & characterized thermal susceptibility of single & co-culture bacterial biofilms at clinically relevant time/temperature combinations.• Conducted design of experiments (response surface methodology) & developed a multivariate model to predict heat pumping performance of a thermoelectric layer at different operating conditions.• Programmed a heat transfer computational model in Python & simulated transient temperature distribution of a thermoelectric layer between two biological & nonbiological conduction fields during thermal treatment.• Designed & built a thermal cell that mimicked an implanted medical device & experimentally validated the model.• Developed a data acquisition & process control system by integrating a temperature sensing setup to LabVIEW to deliver controlled thermal shocks to biofilms. Show less

Worked in a group of five in the Process Engineering Department & collaborated with engineers from different disciplines on process design & detailed engineering of two methanol plants (EP, 5000 MTPD)• Prepared process flow diagrams (PFD), process & instrumentation diagrams (P&ID), & utility distribution diagrams (UDD). • Created & reviewed technical documents including line lists, equipment lists, & datasheets in collaboration with teams from Piping, Instrument, Mechanical, & HSE… Show more Worked in a group of five in the Process Engineering Department & collaborated with engineers from different disciplines on process design & detailed engineering of two methanol plants (EP, 5000 MTPD)• Prepared process flow diagrams (PFD), process & instrumentation diagrams (P&ID), & utility distribution diagrams (UDD). • Created & reviewed technical documents including line lists, equipment lists, & datasheets in collaboration with teams from Piping, Instrument, Mechanical, & HSE departments.• Conducted thermal rating for three shell & tube heat exchangers using HTRI.• Performed hydraulic calculations for sizing pipelines, pumps, & control valves for cooling water network of two plants.• Reviewed & commented on equipment general arrangement drawings (GADs).• Evaluated vendor offers (20+) according to the process need & plant licensor’s standards. Show less

I worked on different research projects involving modeling and characterization of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) mass transfer in single/two-phase biofilters.• Designed, built, & operated a bench scale (2L) biofilter as a waste-gas filtration system. • Analyzed gaseous samples from the biofilter in a Gas Chromatograph (GC) to model & characterize gas-to-liquid mass transport of styrene as the model contaminant in the biofilter.• Applied design of experiments (full factorial… Show more I worked on different research projects involving modeling and characterization of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) mass transfer in single/two-phase biofilters.• Designed, built, & operated a bench scale (2L) biofilter as a waste-gas filtration system. • Analyzed gaseous samples from the biofilter in a Gas Chromatograph (GC) to model & characterize gas-to-liquid mass transport of styrene as the model contaminant in the biofilter.• Applied design of experiments (full factorial analysis) to study the effect of three major operating parameters on the performance and optimization of the process. Show less

Worked on investigation of calcium oxalate crystallization in the presence of Rowatinex