Ahmad Al-Douri

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Ahmad Al-Douri

Assistant Professor

Email: aaldouri1@ou.edu
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, T-319
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Education

PhD, Chemical Engineering (2021)
Texas A&M University

MS, Chemical Engineering (2016)
Texas A&M University

MS, Petroleum Engineering (2014)
Texas A&M University

Ahmad Al-Douri is an assistant professor in the School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. The Al-Douri group will focus on process systems engineering approaches to challenges in sustainable energy systems and decarbonized industrial processes. To achieve this, we will examine the following three areas and the synergies between them: (1) process systems design and integration; (2) systems safety, risk, reliability, and resilience; (3) sustainability in the process industries.

Before starting at OU, he was a postdoctoral fellow supervised by Prof. Katrina Groth at the Systems Risk and Reliability Analysis (SyRRA) Lab at the University of Maryland. His research at UMD focused on quantifying and addressing uncertainties in the risk assessment of a diverse set of energy systems critical to national and global energy transition efforts, with a focus on hydrogen technologies. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University and conducted his Ph.D. research under Prof. Mahmoud El-Halwagi in developing systematic frameworks integrating reliability, availability, and maintainability considerations in the design of chemical processes.

Research Focus

Process and Systems Safety
Process Systems Engineering
Risk and Reliability Analysis
Sustainability and the Energy Transition
Hydrogen Technologies Risk and Reliability

Experience and Awards

Postdoctoral Research Associate (2021-2024) University of Maryland-College Park
Editor’s Choice Article (June 2022) Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering
Phillips 66 Technical Fellowship (2016-2017)

Selected Publications

Al-Douri, Ahmad, and Katrina M. Groth. "Hydrogen production via electrolysis: State-of-the-art and research needs in risk and reliability analysis." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 63 (2024): 775-785.
Levine, Camille S., Ahmad Al-Douri, Vincent Philip Paglioni, Michelle Bensi, and Katrina M. Groth. "Identifying human failure events for human reliability analysis: A review of gaps and research opportunities." Reliability Engineering & System Safety (2024): 109967.
Groth, Katrina M., Ahmad Al-Douri, Madison West, Kevin Hartmann, Genevieve Saur, and William Buttner. "Design and requirements of a hydrogen component reliability database (HyCReD)." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 51 (2024): 1023-1037.
Al-Douri, Ahmad, Camille S. Levine, and Katrina M. Groth. "Identifying human failure events (HFEs) for external hazard probabilistic risk assessment." Reliability Engineering & System Safety 235 (2023): 109236.
Al-Douri, Ahmad, Andres Ruiz-Tagle, and Katrina M. Groth. "A quantitative risk assessment of hydrogen fuel cell forklifts." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 48, no. 50 (2023): 19340-19355.
Al-Douri, Ahmad, Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi, and Katrina M. Groth. "Emergency shutdowns of propylene production plants: Root cause analysis and availability modeling." Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 80 (2022): 104921.
Al-Douri, Ahmad, Syeda Zohra Halim, Noor Quddus, Vasiliki Kazantzi, and Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi. "A stochastic approach to evaluating the economic impact of disruptions in feedstock pipelines on downstream production." Process Safety and Environmental Protection 162 (2022): 187-199.
Al‐Douri, Ahmad, Abdulrahman S. Alsuhaibani, Margaux Moore, Rasmus B. Nielsen, Amro A. El‐Baz, and Mahmoud M. El‐Halwagi. "Greenhouse gases emissions in liquified natural gas as a marine fuel: Life cycle analysis and reduction potential." The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 100, no. 6 (2022): 1178-1186.
Al-Douri, Ahmad, Vasiliki Kazantzi, Nancy Currie-Gregg, and Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi. "Integrating uncertainty quantification in reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysis in the conceptual and preliminary stages of chemical process design." Chemical Engineering Research and Design 167 (2021): 281-291.
Al-Douri, Ahmad, Debalina Sengupta, and Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi. "Shale gas monetization–A review of downstream processing to chemicals and fuels." Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 45 (2017): 436-455.