Professor Dr. Nadin Moustafa

Biography

Nadin Moustafa is a research associate in the Chemical Engineering department at the Center for Environmental Policy. She specializes in systems modeling for carbon management and decarbonization technologies, developing net-zero strategies, carbon accounting, and policies for carbon markets. Her work integrates socio-economic and techno-economic aspects of energy technologies, including carbon capture and storage applications, CO2 removal from the atmosphere, nuclear power, and sustainable fuels. Nadin also serves as a program policy officer for the Coalition for Negative Emissions, advancing policies related to negative emission technologies. She graduated with an MEng in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Business Management from the University of Birmingham. Her PhD research focused on the performance of aqueous-amine solvents for carbon capture from flue gases and similar streams, ultimately facilitating the selection of improved solvent blends for cost-effective and environmentally benign carbon capture processes. The project involved a fundamental study of the kinetics of carbon dioxide absorption, as well as the interplay of chemical reactions and mass-transfer rates controlling the overall capture rate, which is a key driver of process economics.

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