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I'm here trying to introduce myself to you my dear visitor hoping to see you again and again as this website is always in a continuous update.

Personal Information:

Name: Nabeel Salim M. Abo-Ghander
Date of Birth: 18, July, 1977
Citizenship: Saudi Arabian

Educational Background:

Work Experience:

  1. Summer training in Saudi ARAMCO Mobile Refinary (SAMREF), Yanbu industrial complex, Saudi Arabia, 1999.
  2. Graduate assistant at chemical engineering department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (2000 - 2003).
  3. Lecturer chemical engineering department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (2003 - 2011).
  4. Assistant professor chemical engineering department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (2011 - till now ).

Teaching Experience:

When I was a graduate assistant and lecturer, I taught two undergraduate lab courses required for chemical engineering B.S. , namely CHE-309 and CHE-409. In CHE-309, undergraduate students conduct experiments in the areas of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and mass transfer. However, CHE-409 students conduct experiments in the areas of unit operations, reactions and kinetics and process control. In both lab courses, the undergraduate students are required to submit a formal report explaining what they have performed, discussing the theoretical background, and carrying out the necessary calculations.

After obtaining my PhD, I'm currently delivering lectures to undergraduate students about a course entitled "Introduction to Chemical Engineering". In this course, different subjects are thoroughly discussed like, units and equation conversion, pressure and forces, material balance around reactive and nonreactive processes, equation of states and finally multiphase and equilibrium calculations.

Areas of Research:

My work falls in the following areas:

  1.  Modeling and simulation of chemical reactors.

  2. Optimization and optimal control.

  3. Multiobjective optimization.

  4. Computational mathematics.

Academic Activities:

My academic activities can be broken up into the following parts:

  1.  Patents:

    S.U. Rahman, Nabeel Abo-Ghander, S.M.J. Zaidi " Integrated Electrolytic Electrodialytic apparatus and process for recovering metals from ions-containing Waste Streams " United States Patent Application No. 2006/0219574A1 (05/10 2006).
     

  2. Publications in international peer reviewed journals:

    PJ1 : Nabeel S. Abo-Ghander, John R. Grace, Said S.E.H. Elnashai, and C. Jim Lim, 2008. Modeling of a novel membrane reactor to integrate dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene with hydrogenation of nitrobenzene to aniline, Chemical Engineering Science, 63(7), 1817-1826. (link)

    PJ2 : Nabeel S. Abo-Ghander, Filip Logist, John R. Grace, Jan F.M. Van Impe, Said S.E.H. Elnashaie, and C. Jim Lim 2010. Optimal design of an autothermal membrane reactor coupling the dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene with the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene to aniline, Chemical Engineering Science, 65(10), 3113-3127. (link)

    PJ3 : Abo-Ghander, N., Logist, F., Grace, J., Van Impe, J., Elnashaie, S., Lim, C. (2012). Comparison of diffusion models in the modelling of a catalytic membrane fixed bed reactor coupling dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene with hydrogenation of nitrobenzene. Computers & Chemical Engineering. (link)
     

  3. Papers at international conferences and symposia, published in full in proceedings

    Abo-Ghander, N., Logist, F., Grace, J., Van Impe, J., Elnashaie, S., Lim, C. (2010). Feasibility of coupling dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene with hydrogenation of nitrobenzene in an autothermal catalytic membrane reactor: modeling study. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems. International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems. Leuven (Belgium), 5-7 July 2010 (pp. 365-370).
     

  4. Paper under revisions:

    J1 : Nabeel S. Abo-Ghander, Filip Logist, John R. Grace, Jan F.M. Van Impe, Said S.E.H. Elnashaie, and C. Jim Lim 2011. Heterogeneous modeling of a catalytic membrane reactor coupling the dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene with the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene to aniline, submitted for publication.

  1. Project accepted:

The research project proposal entitled "Optimal Control of a Coupling Membrane Reactor Integrating Dehydrogenation of Ethylbenzene with Hydrogenation of Nitrobenzene" has been accepted in 2012.

 

  1. Visit to KULeuven:

In summer 2012, a period of two months was spent in KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium in which a model for a fixed bed membrane reactor integrating dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene with hydrogenation of benzene via catalyst distribution has been developed.

 

Computer skills:

I wok hard on improving my computer skills as I believe that they are the tools that should be always maintained sharpen and ready to use whenever they are needed. So, I'm aware of programming in Fortran, C++, Matlab, and to some extent Visual Basic. I'm also aware of Aspen Hysys produced by Aspen Tech. I insist on asking my undergraduate students to use computer softwares and simulation whenever time permits.