Prof. Mohammed Antar

Biography

Dr. Antar is a Professor and Chairman of Mechanical Engineering Department, KFUPM. He is the director of desalination lab and founder/Coordinator of a Master program in Water Treatment and Desalination. His research is related to thermal sciences with a focus on water Desalination technologies either conventional or emerging ones. The main objectives is related to effective energy recovery to improve performance of existing conventional systems and explore performance improvement of emerging desalination technologies like HDH and Membrane distillation (MD) where high salinity can be used as feed solution. He has developed new courses related to water desalination. He has several papers and patents related to water desalination systems and received several teaching and research awards.