Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Volume 2013 Issue 1

Answering the global need to identify crops that have the potential to produce quality food while maintaining sustainable development, quinoa is a cereal that provides significant promises. Thanks to its nutritional characteristics and agronomic versatility, quinoa offers an interesting alternative to traditional crops. Its harvesting contributes to regional and global food security especially in the areas where the population has no ac Read More

The idea of pushing the limits of drilling oil and gas wells by improving drilling fluids using conventional macro and micro type fluid additives is very crucial tasks especially to fulfill certain functional tasks. This is due to inadequate information on the physical, chemical, thermal and environmental characteristics of the additives. The industries are currently looking for cost efficient drilling operations, thus many researches are focusi Read More

Qatar biodiversity is under the pressure by the effects of environmental pollution, overgrazing, desertification as well as the climatic change. In order to rescue wild plant genetic resources of Qatar and in the line of Qatar Strategic action plan of Genetic resources, the present investigation aims at ex-situ conservation of some wild plant genetic resources from Rawdat Umm Al-Kharq. A total number of 17 accessions have co Read More

Gas hydrates are crystalline solids consisting of three dimensional, hydrogen bonded water molecules (host), encapsulated with a guest molecule. [1] There are numerous possibilities for the molecules acting as the guests. The most common guests include methane, ethane, propane and carbon dioxide. They can be significantly problematic in the production of oil and gas. The 1930's marked the discovery, by Hammersch Read More

Qatar holds the world's third-largest reserves of natural gas at 890 trillion cubic feet according to proven reserves according the latest report in 2013. This plentiful natural resource makes Qatar being one of the most important key players in LNG business around the globe. Qatar's natural gas reservoirs are located 80 km off the shore in North Field. Qatar's LNG production is highly dependent on the reliable natural gas fee Read More

Existing solar technology can convert only limited bandwidth of solar rays into electricity due to the Shockley-Queisser limit of the solar diodes. Rest get wasted by heating up the solar array or reflected back. This proposed method increases this bandwidth range significantly. Thus produces high yield of electricity. Thin organic solar panel sheet is coated for reflecting non-absorbed bandwidth of sun rays. This sheet can be bend int Read More

The boiling of binary hydrocarbon mixture on water exhibits a special immiscible liquid-liquid heat transfer phenomenon where the heat transfer parameters change rapidly in a short duration of time. The boiling of hydrocarbon mixtures involves a process called ageing where the vaporization of most volatile component takes place faster leaving behind the less volatile component. This process establishes a concentration gradi Read More

The Gulf sand gecko (Pseudoceramodactylus khobarensis Haas, 1957) is a nocturnal gecko endemic to the Arabian Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Iran). The species is easily recognizable, being a medium sized ground dwelling gecko with no enlarged tubercles on the dorsum nor lamellae beneath toes, like Stenodactylus species, but Pseudoceramodactylus khobarensis has at Read More

The “multi-agent systems” approach allows to model the interaction between various entities (agents), through an organization that helps to simplify problems with a high number of freedom degrees. An agent is a semi-autonomous entity that interacts with the surrounding reality through its own system of decision, cognition, communication and organization. The research project aims to define a relationship between the Read More