Bilal Yousaf, Research Assistant

Bilal Yousaf

Research Assistant

UAE University

Location
United Arab Emirates - Al Ain
Education
Master's degree, Chemical Engineering
Experience
6 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :6 years, 0 Months

Research Assistant at UAE University
  • United Arab Emirates - Al Ain
  • September 2017 to March 2018

- Designing and fabrication of pilot scale chemical process
- Experiment design for the testing of catalysts
- Synthesizing new catalysts and refining the synthesis techniques
- Characterization of the catalysts by XRD, BET, TPX etc.
- Testing catalysts using methane conversion processes e.g. oxidation, catalytic combustion and reforming

Masters Researcher at NTNU
  • Norway
  • August 2015 to August 2016

- Ni-Co hydrotalcite catalyst development by co-precipitation
- Characterization by XRF, XRD, SEM, BET, TPR and Chemisorption
- Morphological analysis of material by S(T)EM
- Clean room training for use of S(T)EM
- Catalyst evaluation for Methane oxidation and steam reforming

Assistant Manager at Style Textile (Pvt.) Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • May 2010 to August 2014

- Industry liaisons for buying new chemicals/dyes
- Visiting other textiles to overview processes
- Regular meetings with supplier representatives
- Co-ordination and negotiation with different departments
- Monitoring and controlling process parameters
- Operational support; to achieve daily targets
- Implementing reliability and performance tasks
- Collaboration with international experts for new installations
- Reviewing and amending safety manuals and procedures
- Preparing HSE reports and conducting relevant meetings
- Monitoring HSE control measures as required
- Reduced cost by effective dyeing
- Reduced dyeing time to increase production target
- Collaborated with labs to develop an optimized process
- Conducted FMEA analysis reports for dyeing process
- Developed ERP system for dyeing along-with software developers

Education

Master's degree, Chemical Engineering
  • at NTNU
  • January 2016

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Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering
  • at University of Engineering & Technology
  • January 2008

Department of Chemical Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Teaching
Research Skills
Microsoft Office
Chemistry
Chemical Engineering
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
LANGUAGES
MICROSOFT OFFICE
PROBLEM SOLVING
PROCESS ENGINEERING
RESEARCH

Languages

English
Expert
Norwegian
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
Urdu
Native Speaker
Hindi
Intermediate
Punjabi
Native Speaker

Hobbies

  • Computerized Simulation of Chemical Engineering Problems