Chemical Engineer, Design, Excel, ASPEN, Management, Simulations

Albara’a Mando

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Experience

Research Engineer University of South Alabama Jan 2022 - Current

• Reduced the cost of reactions by providing optimal environment for reactants.

• Provided industrial sites with accurate data for the solubility of gases in liquids.

• Implemented the equation of state ePC-SAFT using python.

• Modeled the vapor-liquid and liquid-liquid equilibria of ionic liquids in different solutions.

Trinova Operations Instrumentation University of South Alabama Sep 2019 – Jan 2020

• Advanced understanding of reactors, heat exchangers, tanks, condensers, and pumps.

• Hands on experience with common industrial instruments.

Research Technologist University of South Alabama May 2020 – Aug 2020

• Used Gaussian to predict the transition states of aromatic reactions via quantum computing.

• Studied thermodynamic properties of compounds via optimization tools. Skills

Process Engineering Design >Microsoft Office (VBA) and Excel

Python >ASPEN and MATLAB

AutoCAD Process Simulation

Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Capital Project Management

System Automation Manufacturing Operations

Equipment selection Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) KPI and OEE Analyses Education

Master’s in Chemical Engineering

Georgia Tech - Atlanta, Ga Aug 2020 – Dec 2021

GPA: 3.5/4.0

Teacher Assistant in Senior Design Class

• Researched the design of ion-exchange beds in a project sponsored by PepsiCo.

• Modeled the separations of aromatics via Aspen in the “Conversion of CO2 to Aromatics” project.

Bachelor’s in chemical engineering

University of South Alabama - Mobile, AL

GPA: 3.99/4.00

Senior Design Project May 2016– May 2020

• Created the BFD, the PFD, and the P&ID for the processes.

• Successfully simulated the processes in Aspen Plus.

• Completed a full economic analysis, a Monte Carlo simulation, and a sensitivity analysis.

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Mentor: Dr. Brooks Rabideau

• Simulated and analyzed cellulose in DMSO using molecular dynamic simulations.

• Created a python script to generate heatmaps to detect the density of water around cellulose.

• Characterized the topological features of ionic liquids using persistent homology.

• Analyzed the weight fractions of aromatics and alkanes in simulations using a python script. Publications

• “Driving Forces of Cellulose Solubility in Aqueous Quaternary Ammonium Hydroxide and Urea Using Molecular Dynamics.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Sep 19th, 2019.

• “Understanding liquid-liquid equilibria in binary mixtures of hydrocarbons with a thermally robust perarylphosphonium-based ionic liquid.” Royal Society of Chemistry. Sep 13th, 2021.

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