MD Tanvir SowgathDr. Md Tanvir Sowgath is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Department, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh, and is currently the Visiting Academic of the School of Engineering, University of Bradford, U. He is an Associate Member of the IChemE (UK) and is a BUET technical representative for the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (2021). He was selected as technical committee member for the Bangladesh Ministry of Environment (2010, 2014), technical committee member of Sylhet Gas Field for the Bangladesh Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resource (2014e2015), Department of Public Health (2013) and Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (2021). He has 12 years of teaching and research experience in the field of Chemical Engineering as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at BUET. He has offered a number of courses in recent years in (a) Unit operation of Chemical Process, (b) Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering, (c) Industrial Pollution Control, (d) Air Pollution Control, (e) Optimization of Chemical Process, and (f) Computer Aided Process Design. Dr. Sowgath studied his BSc Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering at BUET and obtained his PhD degree from the University of Bradford in 2007. His PhD dissertation was entitled "Neural Network based hybrid modelling and MINLP based optimization of MSF desalination process within gPROMS." Dr. Sowgath set the stone for graduate level research in desalination at the University of Bradford which has been carried forward by several researchers at Bradford after him. Dr. Sowgath's main research interests are in process modeling, dynamic simulation, steady state, and dynamic optimization of chemical processes with specific interests in Desalination, Gas Processing, and Refinery. He has supervised several undergraduate and MSc projects at BUET and has published several technical papers in journals and conference proceedings in the area of Desalination, Gas Processing, Refinery, and Fertilizer Processing. His current research focus in desalination is on fault diagnosis, scheduling, and maintenance. Read More Read Less
