| 2021 |
Cover page of I&EC research, February 17, 2021, Volume 60, Number 6
related to the paper I co-authored,
https://pubs.acs.org/pb-assets/images/_journalCovers/iecred/iecred_v060i006-
2.jpg?0.06506440195559848,
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.iecr.0c04313.
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| 2020 |
Recognized by Stanford University Study as Top 2% of most cited
scientists in their respective fields for career long contributions.
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| 2020 |
Chosen by IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) to train on
radioactive tracer technique and its implementation in petroleum
industry engineers and scientists from Nuclear Malaysia for two weeks
at my laboratory.
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| 2019 |
Honored and Acknowledged by the President Mun Y. Choi of the
University of Missouri System in a letter on April 17, 2019 on my
decade of exceptional achievements as a department chair of the
chemical and biochemical engineering.
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| 2019 |
Honored and Recognized with deep appreciation by the Academy of the
Chemical Engineering (ChE) on April 20, 2019 in the annual ChE Academy
meeting for outstanding service as the chair of the department of
chemical and biochemical engineering (2009-2019).
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| 2019 |
Selected by Qatar University to review as a team member of two faculty
members from USA to review (March 31-Apri 2) the undergraduate
chemical engineering program for advancement.
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| 2019 |
Selected for Round Table Discussion in the largest Nuclear Engineering
and Science meeting in South America - International Nuclear Atlantic
Conference - INAC 2019, Nuclear New Horizons: Fueling our Future -
Santos, Sao Paulo State, Brazil, October 21-25.
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| 2019 |
Invited Editorial Author on “Advanced Measurement Techniques for
Enabling Multiphase Reactors and Flow Systems for Sustainable and
Cleaner Processes”, Journal of King Saud University - JKSU -
Engineering Sc. Journal, production and hosting by Elsevier, July,
Vol, (31), 3, 2019.
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| 2019 |
Selected to review the Professional Engineering Exam for Saudi Arabia
Chemical Engineers assigned to King Saud University – Riyadh – Saudi
Arabia. The exam targets engineers working in Saudi Arabia who have
some years of experience in the field, February 2019.
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| 2019 |
Designated by Mohamed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) to be a member
of a committee to select for hiring new faculty members in chemical
engineering for the rank of Assistant, Associate and Full Professor,
July 4-5.
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| 2018-2019 |
Selected as a member of the International Program Committee – Delft
Process Technology Institute (DPTI) and its research and education
portfolio – Delft Technical University – The Netherlands.
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| 2018 |
Designated the department chair (Muthanna Al-Dahhan) as one of the
department strengths in the conclusion and the outcomes of the
distinguished Program Review Team in May 2018 that consisted of 3
Members of US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) (Professor Sangtae
Kim (chair of the chemical engineering department of Purdue
University), Professor Ruben G. Carbonell (Frank Hawkins Kenan
Distinguished Professor and Ex-Chair of the department, North Carolina
State University) and Dr. Teh Ho (Retired, ExxonMobil Research and
Engineering Company, Bridgewater) and 1 Distinguished Professor
(Professor Surya Mallapragada, Anson Marston Distinguished Professor
in Engineering, Carol Vohs Johnson Chair, Associate Vice President for
Research, Ex-Chair of the department, Iowa State University).
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| 2018 |
Chosen by Pakistan Higher Education Commission for two weeks (August 5
– 18, 2018) to be Distinguished Visiting Professor to Pakistan
Institute of Engineering and Applied Science (PIEAS) for lecturing,
mentoring faculty members and graduate students on research.
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| 2017-now |
Selected as an advisor and a member of the Supervisory Board of the
PhD program funded through the European Marie-Sklodowska-Curie
Innovative Training Network on TOMOCON “Smart Tomographic Sensors for
Advanced Industrial Process Control” – 12 International institution
and 15 Industry – 15 PhD students from institutions from Germany,
France, Czech, Poland, The Netherland, Sweden, Finland, and United
Kingdom.
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| 2017-now |
Chosen by IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) as Chief
Scientific Investigator (CSI) representing the developed countries on
“Imaging Technologies for Process Investigations and Components
Testing” to help developing/under development countries on
implementing and utilizing nuclear technology of imaging in applied
research, Kick off Meeting, February 11-15, 2019, Vienna, Austria.
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| 2017 |
Chosen by IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), Vienna to chair a
session and to give invited talks in the International Conference on
Applications of Radiation Science and Technology (ICARST, April,
2017).
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| 2017 |
Selected by US Department of State – CRDF to co-develop and lecture as
a consultant on the workshop organized by CRDF on safety and security
of chemical and biological laboratories for the universities from
Iraqi liberated cities from ISIS (Daesh), (U. of Anbar, Al-Mousel U.,
Nineveh U., U. of Fallujah, Tikrit U., Samara U.), Baghdad, Iraq,
September 24-28.
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| 2017 |
Chosen as a visiting scholar by Institute Mexico de Petroleum (IMP),
Mexico, Feb. 13 - 24.
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| 2016-2017 |
Chosen by Total, France to give plenary lecture in October 2016 and
2017, Paris France in Total annual R&D Seminar (MATHIAS 2016 and
2017).
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| 2016 |
Dow Chemicals adopted my liquid-liquid contactor development for
process optimization and with modification for gas treatment which is
called Dow Al-Dahhan Cell (2016) Hsu Chiang, Jeff Ferrio, Xiaoyun
Chen, Kishar Kar, Joel Reihl, Michael Church, Dan Friedhoff, Muthanna
Al-Dahhan, (2016, June 13), Dow Al-Dahhan cell for measuring intrinsic
kinetics of a reaction in two-fluid-phase system, 24th International
Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE24), Minneapolis
Minnesota, U.S.A, June 12-15.
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| 2015 |
Selected as invited speaker and for panel discussion in the workshop
on University Chemical Safety and Security Frame Work, “Best Practices
for Implementing Chemical Safety and Security in Iraqi Universities”,
Organized by US Department of State and Pacific Northwest National Lab
(PNNL), Istanbul, Turkey, September 13-17.
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| 2015 |
Elected as AIChE Fellow, July, 2015. |
| 2014 |
Inducted to Chemical Engineering Academy, Missouri S&T, October, 2014.
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| 2014 |
Featured as, “Movers & Shakers”, The Catalyst Review, vol. 27, Issue
2, February, 2014.
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| 2012 |
Selected to Review and provide feedback for establishing PhD program
in Chemical Engineering at King Abdulaziz University – Jeddah – Saudi
Arabia, May, 2012.
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| 2012 |
Selected by Rentech (alternative energy company), Colorado, USA to be
their consultant to assess the risks and benefits of their scale up
design from demonstrating unit to commercial plant, 2012.
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| 2011 |
Selected by UNESCO as a member of a team to review the scientific
research in Iraq: situation and perspectives, Beirut, Lebanon,
September 27-28, 2011.
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| 2011 |
Inducted to Tau Beta Pi (US honor society for engineers) as a member
in April 2011.
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| 2010-2019 |
Selected as consultant to review the 7th, 8th, and 9th Strategic Plans
(2010/2011, 2014/2015, 2019) of the Petroleum Research Center of
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), Kuwait.
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| 2010-2016 |
Selected as expert/consultant by UN-UNESCO as a member of a team of 5
experts from around the world on Quality Assurance of Engineering
Education – We provided workshops, lectures, training session,
mentoring, and site visits to 12 Iraqi Universities (U. of Baghdad,
AlMustansiriyah U., U. of Kufa, U. of Karbala, U. of Babylon, U. of
Al-Qadisiyah, Al-Muthanna U., U. of Thi-Qar, U. of Al-Basrah, U. of
Misan, U. of Anbar, Al-Mousel U.) Selected Examples of Activities: •
Workshops in Doha-Qatar, June 2011, in Erbil – Kurdistan Iraq, June
2012 and February 2014, Amman, Jordan, October 2013 (two workshops),
and November 2015, Erbil Kurdistan Iraq (May 2016) • Site visits to 12
Iraqi Universities (2013-2015) • Reviewing self-study reports.
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| 2010-2014 |
Chosen by US Department of State through CRDF to supervised and host 3
faculty members and 3 engineers as part of the Iraqi Fellow Scientific
Program.
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| 2010-2011 |
Selected as consultant to ADM, Decatur, Illinois, USA to help in
correcting the performance of their first industrial plant for new
process related to processing the Glycerin byproduct of biodiesel
production, where my technical recommendations and analysis helped to
operate properly the plant, 2010/2011.
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| 2010 |
Selected as a member US delegates to US-India Symposium on development
of sustainable energy and Environment sponsored by NSF in December
2010.
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| 2009 |
Selected by The Catalyst Group Resources, Inc. to author two chapters
on scale-up of trickle bed reactors and fluidized bed reactors
distributed to its industrial sponsors.
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| 2009 |
Selected by UiTM University in Malaysia – Shah Alam, to review their
chemical engineering curriculum and program, February, 2009.
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| 2008 |
Our results have been adopted by ABB Lummus Global for redesigning the
reactor for new environmentally benign technology for alkylation
process on improving octane number of the transportation fuel. The
technology is currently for licensing.
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| 2008 |
Selected for US – India Symposium on energy and sustainable
development sponsored by NSF to give an invited talk in the symposium,
Dec. 27-29, 2008, Punjab University, India.
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| 2007-now |
Selected as expert/consultant for IAEA (International Atomic Energy
Agency), Vienna, Austria Selected Examples of Activities: • Expert
(June 25-29, 2018) consultants meeting, Krakow, Poland, on
Cross-Correlations of Radioactive Tracer Technique for Industrial
Applications • Expert (December 23-27, 2018) to help Kuwait Institute
for Scientific Research (KISR), Petroleum Research Center in
establishing a laboratory to implement nuclear technology on
measurements and diagnostics in oil and gas industrial processes for
imaging and visualization • Organized and lectured in a week short
course and workshop on Industrial Process Tomography, Regional
Training Course on Capacity Building for Industrial Tomography
Applications, Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN-CNEN), São
Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 2018. Scientists and Engineers from all South
America, Central America and Caribbean countries were attended •
Expert to KISR (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research) on a mission
to help KISR implementing radioisotopes for enhanced petroleum
processing and give lectures on these technologies, 2012 •
Representative of IAEA (International Atomic Energy agency) to
organize and lecture in Asia Scientific short course in Malaysia,
August 2010 on industrial gamma ray process tomography. Scientists and
Engineers from 12 Asian countries were attended (Bangladesh, China,
Korea, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan,
Philippine, Thailand, Vietnam) • Expert to South Korea – Daejeon
(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, KAERI) for one week (July 6 –
10, 2009) to give short course to engineers, scientists, faculty, and
graduate students on industrial applications of radioisotopes for
imaging and visualization • Consultant for the consultants meeting
called by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to assist the
agency in formulating an international project on visualizing
industrial multiphase flow systems using radioisotopes, October, 2008,
2010, Vienna, Austria • Expert to Malaysian Nuclear Agency (Summer
2008) to train about 30 engineers, scientists, faculty, and graduate
students on industrial applications of radioisotopes for imaging and
visualization • Chaired the consultants meeting called by
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to help the agency
establishing an international project of radioactive particle tracking
techniques, October 22-25, 2007, Vienna, Austria.
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| 2007 |
Chosen as an expert by HOK and Aramco to help in developing the research laboratories of
King Abdullah University for Science and Technology – KAUST for graduate studies, Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia.
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| 2006 |
Featured as the invited speaker to BTL (Biomass-to-Liquid-Fuels) 2006, Munich, Germany.
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| 2004-2008 |
Our findings and results facilitated the design and operation of the world largest slurry bubble
column for converting natural gas to transportation fuels in Qatar; A joint venture between
Sasol, South Africa and Qatar.
|
| 2004 |
Featured as the invited speaker of the 2004 BIOPHEX Conference & Expo.- Reed Exhibition
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| 2000-2006 |
Improved the anaerobic digesters engineering and hydrodynamics for treating animal and farm
wastes and its conversion into renewable energy (2000-2006), where-in USA 76 digesters prior
to 2000 were shutdown out of 100 for animal waste treatments.
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| 1995-now |
Selected to be external examiner to PhD and MS theses and faculty promotion evaluator by
universities around the world (e.g., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East).
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| 1995-now |
Selected as a consultant by a large number of Energy and Chemical Industry, research
centers and universities in the USA and around the world.
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| 1995-now |
Recognized to receive travel awards to many national and international meetings as an invited
speaker and plenary/keynote lecturer.
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| 1995-2008 |
Certificate of Appreciation from the National Science Foundation-Young Scholars Program
(supervising high school students in research during summer) (1995 to 2008).
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| 1995-1999 |
Chosen by Exxon Education Foundation Research for unrestricted Grant (1995/1996,
1996/1997, 1997/1999).
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| 1979 |
Ranked first out of 136 students graduated in the chemical engineering department, and among
the top five of more than 1000 students graduated in nine different departments of the
engineering school. Ranked first from first grade through engineering school.
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