Ammar Abdullah

Advanced into the Fellowship's Catalyst Track after completing the Foundation Year, in a selected global cohort of sustainability innovators. The work: turning untreated effluent from SME molasses-ethanol distilleries in Pakistan into a recoverable resource rather than a compliance cost. SMEs are the under-served polluters in this sector — too small for the capital-heavy solutions the majors buy, too numerous to ignore. • Built out a secondary treatment train for distillery spent wash — electrocoagulation

Digital catalysis research under Prof. Dr.-Ing. Helge Stein, applying data-driven methods to catalyst performance and to the recycling of plastic waste. • Helped establish and set up a slurry reactor for oxidation catalysis in the lab — selecting and integrating instrumentation, running experimental campaigns and interpreting results. The reactor targets converting waste plastics into valuable chemical products rather than incineration or landfill • Ran systematic process optimisation studies across 10+ va

Hunza is Pakistan's leading sugar, edible oil, vanaspati ghee, CO₂ and ethanol producer. I joined the Process Department as a Graduate Trainee Engineer and spent ten months at Hunza Sugar Mills Unit-I and ten months at Hunza Distillery. • Developed the complete spent-wash testing regime that enabled more environment-friendly, compliant discharge from the distillery — the analytical foundation for everything downstream • Prepared the site Fire & Safety plan for storage of ethanol products (Extra Neutral Alc

Six-week internship in the FP (Flexible Packaging) Department at Packages Limited, Tetra Pak's Pakistan partner. • Optimised aluminium and thermoplastic film packaging processes, reducing material waste by 8% through bottleneck analysis and targeted process adjustments • First hands-on exposure to FMCG automated production lines and to the gap between a process on paper and a process on the floor

Specialisation: Renewable Resources, Energy Policy & Economy, Waste & Project Management. Master's thesis (supervisor Prof. Dr.-Ing. Helge Sören Stein): "Rethinking Supported Exempt Accommodation in the UK — A Financial Sustainability Model Aligned with the UN SDGs." 11 chapters, LCA and economic

Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology. Design and simulation projects: • Ammonia production plant, 2,500 t/day — full process design • Biodiesel plant, 27,000 L/day, via algal-oil transesterification (final year project, supervised by Prof. Dr. Rafi Ullah Khan) • Process simulation and eq

Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Lahore · Pre-Engineering group · Grade A Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English, Urdu, Islamic Education, Pakistan Studies — the pre-engineering track that leads into a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering. Also active in debating during this period: Direct