Jude Okolie

Educational Background

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Benin
• M.S. Petroleum Engineering, Imperial College London
• M.S. Materials and Sustainable Energy, Tallinn University of Technology
• P.h.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Teaching interest

• Material Science
• Applied mathematics for Chemical Engineering
• Data science for Chemical Engineering
• Sustainable Energy systems
• Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
• Process control
• Material & energy balances

Research interests:

• Techno-economic and lifecycle assessment
• Carbon capture and utilisation
• Heterogeneous catalysts
• Sustainable production of platform chemicals
• Modelling of hydrogen production systems and supply chain
• Decarbonization of hard to abate industries
• Biorefineries and integrated renewable energy systems
• AI/ML applications in bioenergy

Engineering Education

• Teaching sustainability with gamification
• Development of lab at home tool kits
• Integrating comics into engineering curriculum

Selected Publications

** Indicates undergraduate Researchers

• Divine, D. C., Hubert, S., Epelle, E. I., Ojo, A. U., Adeleke, A. A., Ogbaga, C. C., ... & Okolie, J. A. (2024). Enhancing biomass Pyrolysis: Predictive insights from process simulation integrated with interpretable Machine learning models. Fuel, 366, 131346.
• **Rogachuk, B. E., & Okolie, J. A. (2024). Comparative assessment of pyrolysis and Gasification-Fischer Tropsch for sustainable aviation fuel production from waste tires. Energy Conversion and Management, 302, 118110.
• **Smith, E. K., Barakat, S. M., & Okolie, J. A. (2024). Spreadsheet-based application integrated with Virtual reality for teaching economic and environmental assessment of subsurface gasification and combustion for hydrogen production. Education for Chemical Engineers, 47, 22-29.
• **Prigmore, S., Okon-Akan, O. A., Egharevba, I. P., Ogbaga, C. C., Okoye, P. U., Epelle, E., & Okolie, J. A. (2024). Cushion Gas Consideration for Underground Hydrogen Storage. Encyclopedia, 4(2), 847-863.
• Tabat, M. E., **Omoarukhe, F. O., Güleç, F., **Adeniyi, D. E., Mukherjee, A., Okoye, P. U., ... and Okolie, J. A. (2023). Process design, exergy, and economic assessment of a conceptual mobile autothermal methane pyrolysis unit for onsite hydrogen production. Energy Conversion and Management, 278, 116707.
• Okolie, J.A., 2023. Can biomass structural composition be predicted from a small dataset using a hybrid deep learning approach?. Industrial Crops and Products, 203, p.117191.
• Güleç, F., Okolie, J.A. and Erdogan, A., 2023. Techno-economic feasibility of fluid catalytic cracking unit integrated chemical looping combustion–A novel approach for CO2 capture. Energy, 284, p.128663.
• Tabat, M.E., **Omoarukhe, F.O., Güleç, F., Adeniyi, D.E., Mukherjee, A., Okoye, P.U., Ogbaga, C.C., Epelle, E.I., Akande, O. and Okolie, J.A., 2023. Process design, exergy, and economic assessment of a conceptual mobile autothermal methane pyrolysis unit for onsite hydrogen production. Energy Conversion and Management, 278, p.116707.
• **Rogachuk, B.E. and Okolie, J.A., 2023. Waste tires based biorefinery for biofuels and value-added materials production. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, p.100476.
• Umenweke, G.C., Pace, R.B., Santillan-Jimenez, E. and Okolie, J.A., 2022. Techno-economic and life-cycle analyses of Sustainable Aviation Fuel production via integrated catalytic deoxygenation and hydrothermal gasification. Chemical Engineering Journal, p.139215.
• Okolie, J.A., 2022. Insights on production mechanism and industrial applications of renewable propylene glycol. Iscience, p.104903.
• Ortiz-Olivares, R.D., Lobato-Peralta, D.R., Arias, D.M., Okolie, J.A., CuentasGallegos, A.K., Sebastian, P.J., Mayer, A.R. and Okoye, P.U., 2022. Production of nanoarchitectonics corncob activated carbon as electrode material for enhanced supercapacitor performance. Journal of Energy Storage, 55, p.105447.
• Mukherjee, A., Okolie, J.A., Niu, C. and Dalai, A.K., 2022. Techno–Economic analysis of activated carbon production from spent coffee grounds: Comparative evaluation of different production routes. Energy Conversion and Management: X, 14, p.100218.
• Okolie, J. A., Escobar, J. I., Umenweke, G., Khanday, W., & Okoye, P. U. (2022). Continuous biodiesel production: A review of advances in catalysis, microfluidic and cavitation reactors. Fuel, 307, 121821.
• Okolie, J.A., 2022. Embedding equity, diversity, and inclusivity while teaching organic chemistry lab: An instructor’s perspective. Matter, 5(8), pp.2390-2392.
• Okolie, J.A., Tabat, M.E., Ogbaga, C.C., Okoye, P.U., Davis, P. and Gunes, B., 2022. Economic and environmental assessments of a novel integrated process for biomethane production and ammonia recovery from pot ale. Chemical Engineering Journal, 446, p.137234.

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