Curriculum Vitae
Badie I. Morsi
Professor and Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program
Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department
University of Pittsburgh
1244 Benedum Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Professor Badie I. Morsi joined the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh in 1982 and currently he is Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program. He received his B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, 1972; M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC), Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL) Nancy, France, 1977; Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, ENSIC, INPL-Nancy, France, 1979; and Sc.D. in Chemical Engineering, ENSIC, INPL-Nancy, France, 1982.
Professor Morsi's research activities involve different aspects of Chemical, Environmental, and Petroleum Engineering. His recent research work focuses on: design and scaleup of multiphase reactors; modeling and optimization of industrial processes; CO2 sequestration in deep coal seams; CO2 capture from syngas and natural gas streams using chemical and physical solvents; SOX and NOX removal from flue gas; and Enhanced Oil Recovery using CO2 and alcohols.
Professor Morsi is serving as the Executive Officer for the Annual International Coal Conferences; and Chair of area 2F "Fluid/Particle Separation," AIChE Annual Meetings. He has been serving as a consultant to major corporations and organizations in the US and worldwide. He has been also serving as a reviewer for International Conference on gas-liquid and gas-liquid-solid reactor engineering; for research proposals for the US-DOE; and for papers for Chem. Eng. Sci., Chem. Eng. J., Chem. Eng. Comm. J., Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res., Energy & Fuel, Coal Prep., Chem. Eng. & Processing, AIChE J, and SPE J.
Professor Morsi has received various honors, including the Beitle-Veltri School of Engineering's Outstanding Teaching Award (1999); ORISE Fellow, (2000-present); CNG Faculty Fellow (1991-1995); The Richard A. Glenn Award, ACS National Meetings (1995) and (2002); Mentor of the Year Award for the 2002-2003 Minority Engineering Mentoring Program (MEMP), School of Engineering; and George M. and Eva M. Bevier professorship (2001-2005). He is also a member of AIChE; ACS; SPE; and AFS.
Professor Morsi has authored and co-authored several technical papers (see publications and proceedings) and with his research group has made numerous presentations worldwide.