EGA extends research partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Emirates Global Aluminium, EGA, has announced that it will work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, on six new practical research projects at EGA later this year.

The new projects extend EGA’s partnership with MIT’s David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice, a programme through which post-graduate students apply their academic knowledge and expertise by suggesting 'out of the box' solutions for industrial problems.

Dr. Alan Hatton, the director of the school, and Dr. Brian Stutts, who runs the school’s projects with industrial companies, visited EGA to finalise the new projects.

Previous MIT research projects at EGA have led to technical and operational improvements at EGA that have saved over US$2 million as well as giving EGA technical experts and MIT students opportunities to learn from each other.

Commenting on the announcement, Abdulla Al Zarouni, Vice President Technology Development and Transfer at EGA, said, "We work closely with local and international universities to combine the latest academic thinking with EGA’s decades of experience in aluminium smelting in order to find solutions to the industry’s technological challenges. We look forward to making new breakthroughs with MIT’s engineers later this year."

Dr. Hatton commented, "Our six projects at EGA this year are challenging, but they each have the potential to advance chemical engineering as well as deliver tangible improvements at EGA. We work with innovative industrial companies in the United States and all over the world, and we are glad that the Middle East’s leading aluminium producer is among them."