Marwan Abdullah

Aramco

Biography

Marwan Abdullah joined Saudi Aramco on 2011. He holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from KFUPM, and MS degree from the King Abdulaziz University (2022). His MS thesis is focused  on design of micro turbine combustor for synthetic carbon free fuels.

He is the main author of coauthor of more than 11 international journal and conference publications. Since 2015 he moved to Saudi Aramco R&D center at KAUST to support Sustainable Team’s projects and activities, and also established a state of the art system for steam generation using solar thermal collectors .

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Pioneering Demonstration of Saudi Aramco’s First Solar Thermal Technology System in Qurayyah Operation Facility
04:45 PM

Carbon Management team of Aramco R&DC has successfully demonstrated the use of Solar Thermal technology in Qurayyah Sea Water Plant operation facility. The system is intended to help reduce the overall dependence on diesel for thermal energy requirement. It works simply by absorbing the incoming solar radiation and directly heating up water that is circulating in copper tubes inside the panels. The system uses a novel high efficiency aluminum absorber sheet (blue layer) to harness solar energy, and the vacuum maintained between the glass cover and the absorber sheet helps reducing the convection energy loses of the incoming radiation. In the specific application at Qurayyah Sea Water Plant, the hot water produced from the solar field is used to pre-heat feedwater to the steam boilers in the plant. This will result in over 10% savings of the total annual diesel consumption that is burned to meet the required thermal energy. This will also subsequently lead to the avoidance of over 350 tons of CO2 emissions annually which is a key motivation behind this decarbonization initiative. This achievement represents a really promising prospect for integrating renewable and sustainable energy solutions into the energy mix of Saudi Aramco and contributing to the economic development by availing commodity fuel for export instead of local consumption. The benefits also include encouraging the local investment on clean energy technologies and the development of local expertise in this field.

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