Walid ElMoudir

Dr. Walid ElMoudir is the Principal Process Consultant at ChemProcess Consulting & Services Ltd. and the official representative of Optimized Gas Treating, Inc. (Texas, USA) in Africa, Turkey and Cyprus. Dr. ElMoudir has a B.Sc. (University of Tripoli, Libya) and M.Sc. with distinction (University of Leeds, UK) in Chemical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Systems Engineering (University of Regina, Canada). He is a registered professional engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) and Alberta (APEGA). He is also certified as Project Management Professional (PMP®) by Project Management Institute (PMI).

Dr. ElMoudir has twenty-four years’ experience in chemical plant design, operation, optimization and troubleshooting. He has participated in over 150 engineering studies and projects worldwide in Gas Processing and Conditioning, Crude Oil Refining, Chemical Purification, Seawater Desalination, and Research & Development. In the past 16 years, he improved and developed generic and proprietary Carbon Capture systems. He is an inventor of patented solvent purification system for carbon capture applications and has published more than 25 publications and papers on many technical topics.

He was a volunteer research contributor at the University of Calgary and University of Guelph. He is also a volunteer reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (Wiley), Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology (Wiley), and Gas Science and Engineering (Elsevier).