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Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Nayef Mohamed Ghasem

 

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Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering,

UAE University, Al-Ain, P. O. Box 15551,

United Arab Emirates

Phone:  +  971 3 713 5313

Office: F1-1048

Email: nayef@uaeu.ac.ae

 

Educational

B.Sc.  Chemical Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

July 1983

M.Sc. Chemical Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

September 1986

Thesis: Separation of binary liquid mixtures by parametric pumping

PhD.   Chemical Engineering and Gas Processing unit, University of Salford, UK

January 1998

Thesis: Static and dynamic bifurcation behavior of the Industrial UNIPOL Process for polyethylene production in bubbling fluidized bed reactors.

 

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Journal Publications (last updated 2013)

    1. Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed Al-Marzouqi, Nihmiya Abdul Rahim, Modeling of CO2 absorption in a membrane contactor considering solvent evaporation, Separation and Purification Technology 110 (2013) 1–10.

    2.  Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed Al-Marzouqi, Nihmiya Abdul Rahim, Effect of polymer extrusion temperature on Poly(vinylidene fluoride) hollow fiber membranes; properties and performance used as gas-liquid membrane contractor for CO2 absorption. Separation and Purification Technology 99 (2012) 91–103.

    3. Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed Al-Marzouqi, Ali Duidar, Effect of PVDF concentration on the morphology and performance of hollow fiber membrane employed as gas-liquid membrane contactor for CO2 absorption. Separation and Purification Technology 98 (2012) 174–185.

    4. Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed Al-Marzouqi, Liping Zhu. Preparation and properties of polyethersulfone hollow fiber membranes with o-xylene as an additive used in membrane contactors for CO2 absorption. Separation and Purification Technology 92 (2012) 1–10.

    5.  Ibrehem A. S., Hussain M. A., Ghasem N. M, Decentralized Advanced Model Predictive Controller of Fluidized-Bed for Polymerization Process. IJCCE, Vol. 31, No. 4, 2012.

    6.  Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed Al-Marzouqi, Ali Duaidar. Effect of quenching temperature on the performance of poly (vinylidene fluoride) microporous hollow fiber membranes fabricated via thermally induced phase separation technique on the removal of CO2 from CO2 - gas mixture. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 5 (2011), pp. 1550-1558. (18-NOV-2011)

    7. Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed Al-Marzouqi. Effects of Shear Rate, Temperature, and Polymer Composition on the Shear Stress of Polyethersulfone/1-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone Cast Solutions. J. Chem. Eng. Data 2011, 56, 4444–4448.

    8.  Nayef Ghasem. Effect of Temperature and Catalyst Concentrations on the Thermal Properties of Polyamide Adhesives at Low Operating Pressure, Chemical Product and Process Modeling: (2010) Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 30. DOI: 10.2202/1934-2659.1508

    9. Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed Al-Marzouqi, Muftah Elnaas, Effect of Temperature, Composition, and Shear Rate on Polyvinylidene Fluoride/Dimethylacetamide Solution Viscosity, J. Chem. Eng. Data 2009, 54, 3276–3280.

    10.  Nayef Ghasem, Ang Wee Lee, Mohd Azlan Hussain, Dynamics and stability of ethylene polymerization in multizone circulating reactors, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 2009, 26(3), 603-611.

    11.  Ibrehem A. S., Hussain M. A., Ghasem N. M, Modified mathematical model for gas phase olefin polymerization in fluidized-bed catalytic reactor, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2009 149, 353–362

    12.  Ibrehem A. S., Hussain M. A., Ghasem N. M, Mathematical Model and Advanced Control for Gas-Phase Olefin Polymerization in Fluidized-Bed Catalytic Reactors, Chin. J. Chem. Eng., (Vol. 16, No. 1), February 2008.

    13.  Ghasem N. M., Wee L. A., Hussain M. A, Dynamic Model for Polyethylene Production in a Multizone Circulating Reactor. Chemical Product and Process Modeling, Volume 3, Issue 1 2008

    14.  Ibrehem A. S., Hussain M. A., Ghasem N. M, Dynamic analysis and system identification of polyethylene process,  Journal of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering, 3: 33-44, 2008.

    15.  Ghasem N. M., Sata S. A., Hussain, M. A. Temperature control of a bench scale batch polymerization reactor for polystyrene production. Chem. Eng. Technol., 2007, 30, 1193.

    16.  Ghasem N. M., Heidarian J., Wan Daud W. M. A. Effect of reaction temperature on conversion and the thermal Properties of polyamides hot-melt adhesives. Asia-Pac. J. Chem. Eng. 2007; 2: 599–608.

    17. Ghasem N. M., Design of a fuzzy logic controller for regulating the temperature in industrial polyethylene flujidized bed reactor, Trans IChemE, Part A, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 84(A2):1-10, 2006

    18.  Heidarian J., Ghasem, N. M., Wan Daud W. M. A.., The optimum temperature profile for non-catalytic reaction to produce polyamide hot melts adhesives, Journal of Applied Polymer Science. Volume 99, Issue 4: 2006, pp: 1817-1822

    19.  Ghasem N. M., Hussain M. A., Sata S. A, Application of model predictive control to batch polymerization reactor, Journal of faculty of science, Universitas scientiarum, Bogota, Colombia,  No. 1, Vol. 11, 2006.pp. 43-50.

    20.  Ghasem N. M., Bifurcation Analysis of Fluidized bed polyethylene reactor with internal cooler, Chem .Eng. Technol., Volume 28, Issue 8 , Pages 915 – 922, 2005

    21.  Heidarian J., Ghasem N. M., Ashri W. M., Kinetics of polymerization of dimmer fatty acids with ethylenediamine after 90% conversion,  Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2005, 206, pp. 658-663.

    22.  Ang W. L., Ghasem, N. M., Hussain, M.A., Utilization of mathematical Software packages in chemical engineering research," AJChE Vol. 5, No. 2, 2005. pp.125-130

    23.  Ghasem N. M., Hussain M. A., Simulation, optimization and parametric studies of solid catalyzed gas phase ethylene polymerization fluidized bed reactor, Journal of chemical Engineering of Japan, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 171-175, 2005

    24.  Heidarian J., Ghasem N. M., Ashri W. M., Kinetics of polymerization of dimmer fatty acids with ethylenediamine, Journal of Applied Polymer Science. Vol. 92, No. 4, 2004, pp. 2504-2513

    25.  Heidarian J., Ghasem N. M., Ashri W. M.,  Study on kinetics of polymerization of dimmer fatty acids with ethylenediamine in the presence of catalyst, Chemical Engineering Journal, 100 (2004) 85-93.

    26.  Heidarian J., Ghasem N. M., Ashri W. M., Effect of temperature and mixing rate on foaming in polymerization reaction to produce fatty polyamides in presence of catalyst. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. (2004),43, 6048-6054

    27.  Ghasem N. M., M. A. Hussain, Stabilization of the dynamic behavior of a UNIPOL process for polyethylene production. Dev. Chem. Eng. Mineral Process. 12(1/2) pp. 1-18. (2004).

    28.  Ghasem N. M., Al-Masry W. A., Al-Mubaddel F. S., Al-Zeghayer Y.S., The effect of design parameters on industrial UNIPOL polyethylene fluidized bed polymerization process, J. Saudi Chem. Soc.; Vol. 8, No. 1; (2004) pp. 97-104

    29.  Ghasem N. M., Hussain M. A., Avoiding instability under PID control of polyethylene fluidized bed reactor (UNIPOL Process), Asean J. of Chem. Eng., 3(1), 26-33, 2003.

    30.  Ghasem N. M, Hussain M. A., Mujtaba I. M., The use of SIMULINK block diagram to solve mathematical models and control equations, Journal of faculty of science, Universitas Scientiarum, Colombia, Vol. 8, No. 2. (2003). pp. 43- 50.

    31.  Ghasem N. M. Combined mode of operation for thermal parametric pumping, Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Volume 78, Issue 6, 2003. pp 666-669

    32.  Ghasem N. M., Chaotic behavior of Industrial fluidized bed reactors for polyethylene production. Chem. Eng. and Technol. 24(2001) 3 pp. 297-303.

    33.  Ghasem N. M., Effect of Polymer Growth Rate and Diffusion Resistance on the Behavior of Industrial Polyethylene Fluidized Bed Reactor. Chem. Eng. and Technol. 24(2001) 10, pp. 1049-1057

    34.  Ghasem N. M., Dynamic Behavior of the Industrial Gas Phase Fluidized Bed Polyethylene Reactors under PI control, Chem .Eng. Technol. 23(2000) 2 pp. 133-140

    35.  Ghasem N. M., Effect of polymer particle size and inlet feed temperature on fluidized bed polyethylene reactors, Chem Eng. Technol. 22(1999) 9, pp.777-783

    36.  Elnashaie S.S.E.H, Ghasem, N. M, Hughes R., Static and dynamic bifurcation characteristics of industrial fluidized bed polyethylene (UNIPOL process) and their implications on polyethylene production rate, Fractal and Chaos in Chemical Engineering, World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd, 1997, pp. 530-541

    37.  Elnashaie S.S.E, Al-Fariss T., AbdelRazik F. A., Ghasem N. M., "Investigation of acidulation and coating of Saudi phosphate rocks. 2. Continuous process", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1995, 34, 4122-4126.

    38.  Al-Fariss, T. F and Ghasem, N. M., Prediction of Phosphoric acid viscosity, J Science International, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1993.

    39.  Al-Fariss, T.F; Abdul Razik S.M., Ghasem N. M., Abdelaleem F.A. Elnashaie S.S.E.H, Computer program for the mass and heat balance calculations for the wet process phosphoric acid (hemi-hydrate) and its application to Saudi phosphate rock, Fertilizer Research, Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 35: 169-175, 1993.

    40.  Al-Fariss, T.F, L.K. Jang, H.O. Ozbelge, Ghasem N. M., A new correlation for the viscosity of waxy oils, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering., 9(1993) 139-144.

    41.  Al-Fariss, T. F., Ozbelge H.O., Elnashaie S.S.E.H., AbdulRazik S.M., Abd-Eleem F.A., Ghasem N. M., " Preliminary investigation for the production of wet-process phosphoric acid from Saudi phosphate ores", Fertilizer Research 28: 201-212, 1991.

    42.  Ghasem N. M., Orbey H., Effect of feed concentration in Equilibrium Parametric Pump, Separation Science and Technology. 22(12), pp.2339-2351, 1987

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Conferences Papers (selected)

  1. Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed Al-Marzouqi, Modeling and simulation for the removal of pollutant gases from natural gas using membrane contactors. Advance in fluid mechanics & heat & mass transfer. WSEAS International Conferences Istanbul, Turkey, August 21-23, 2012. Page 147-152

  2. Latifa Al Nuaimi, Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed Al.Marzouqi, fabrication of polymeric hollow fiber membrane for the production of safe drinking water. The 2011 International Conference on Water, Energy and Environment, 14 -17 November, 2011, Sharjah, UAE.

  3. Raha Al-Marzouqi Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed H. Al-Marzouqi, A. Duaidar. Removal of CO2 from gas mixture using hollow fiber membrane contactors fabricated from PVDF/Triacetin/Glycerol cast solution. Advances in control and chemical engineering conference. European Conference of Chemical Engineering, November 30- December 2, 2010. Tenerife, Spain.

  4. Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed Al-Marzouqi, Use of gPROMs in solving chemical engineering problems. Proceedings of ICERI2009 Conference. 16th-18th Nov 2009, Madrid, Spain. ISBN:978-84-613-2955-7.

  5. Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed H. Al-Marzouqi, Muftah H. El-Naas, Simulation of CO2 Capture from Flue Gases in Hollow Fiber Membrane, The Tenth Annual U.A.E. University Research Conference, 13-16th April, 2009

  6. Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed H. Al-Marzouqi, Muftah H. El-Naas. Synthesis of various polymeric adhesives using fatty acid and diamines, The Tenth Annual U.A.E. University Research Conference, 13-16th April, 2009.

  7. Nayef Ghasem, Synthesis of various polymeric adhesives using fatty acid and diamines under vacuum operating pressures, The Tenth Annual U.A.E. University Research Conference, 13-16th April, 2009.

  8. Nayef M. Ghasem, Ang Wee Lee, M. A. Hussain , Effect of operating conditions on the stability of the multizone circulating reactor used for olefin polymerization, proceedings of the Third International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization Sharjah, UAE, January 20-22 2009

  9. Nayef M. Ghasem, Ang Wee Lee, M. A. Hussain, Temperature instability in circulating fluidized bed reactor for ethylene polymerization, International conference on modeling, simulation and applied optimization (ICMSAO 2007), March 25 - 27, 2007, Abu-Dhabi, UAE

  10. N. M. Ghasem, S.A. Sata, M. A. Hussain, Simulation and online verification of batch polymerization reactor for polystyrene production. International conference on modeling, simulation and applied optimization (ICMSAO 2007), March 25 - 27, 2007, Abu-Dhabi, UAE

  11. Ahmmed S. Ibrehem, Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Nayef Ghasem, Mathematical model and control for gas-phase olefin polymerization in fluidized-bed catalytic reactor, 17th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering – ESCAPE 17, May, 2007.

  12. Ahmmed S. Ibrehem, Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Nayef Ghasem Advanced control for gas phase olefin plymerization in fluidized-bed catalytic reactors,. Process System Engineering Asia (PSE ASIA 2007), Xi'an, China, 15-18 Aug 2007, pp. 23:

  13. Ahmmed S. Ibrehem, Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Nayef M. Ghasem, (2007), Dynamic analysis and system identification of polyethylenen process, Book of Abstracts for 21st Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers,UPM, Malaysia 12-14 Dec 2007, p31

  14. Ahmmed S. Ibrehem, Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Nayef M. Ghasem, Advanced control for gas phase olefin polymerization in fluidized-bed catalytic reactors using DMC method, 14th Regional Symposium on Chemical Engineering, Book of abstracts, Yogjakarta, Indonesia, 1, pp-46,: 4-5th Dec 2007, p23

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Published Books

 

1. Nayef Ghasem, "Computer Methods in Chemical Engineering,

CRC press, 25 August 2011.

 

CRC Press website

 

2.   Nayef Ghasem, Redhouane Henda "Principles of Chemical Engineering Processes",

CRC Press, September, 2008.

 

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3. Nayef Mohamed Ghasem & Ezzat Chan Abdullah, "Simulations of Unit Operations with Hysys"

UM press, 2006, ISBN: 983-100-345-4

 

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Book Chapters:

Nayef Ghasem, Mohamed Al-Marzouqi, Modeling, simulation and experimental verification of gas-liquid membrane contactors for Carbon dioxide absorption, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition, July,2014

 

 

Graduate Student Theses Supervised

 

       Ph.D. Theses

1.   Javad Hederian: Studies on the kinetics of polymerization of polyamide hot melt adhesives, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August, 2005.

2.  Suhairi AbdulSata: Advanced and online control of batch polymerization reactor, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October, 2006.

 

M.Sc. (Eng.) Theses

1.     Ang Wee Lee: Modeling simulation and control of a multi zone circulating reactor for polyethylene production. March 2007. University Malaya, Malaysia.

2.      Mohamed Al-Rashed, Removal of CO2 from flue gases. 2008. UAE University, UAE

3.     Latifa Obeid Hamad Al-Nuaimi: Fabrication of polymeric hollow fiber membrane for the production of safe drinking water. January, 2011. UAE University, UAE.

 

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