Completed PhD Theses (21 as Advisor and 1 as Co-Advising)
| 23 |
Name:
Binbin Qi
Thesis title:
Investigation of packed bed and moving bed
reactors with benchmarking using advanced measurement and
computational techniques.
Thesis Defended:
May 2021
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| 22 |
Name:
Humayun Shariff
Thesis title:
Experimental and modeling studies using
packed bed reactors: liquid phase ethylene production by hydrogenation
of acetylene.
Thesis Defended:
January 2019
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| 21 |
Name:
Mohammed Jaber Al-Ani
Thesis title:
Hydrodynamics of trickle bed
reactors (TBRs) packed with industrial catalyst using advanced
measurement techniques.
Thesis Defended:
August 2019
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| 20 |
Name:
Hayder Alnaseri
Thesis title:
The effects of low aspect ratio and heat
exchanging internals on the bubble properties and flow regime in a
pilot-plant bubble/slurry bubble column for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis.
Thesis Defended:
May 2019
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| 19 |
Name:
Laith Sabri
Thesis title:
Characterization of split Internal-loop photobioreactor for culturing
microalgae via non-invasive gamma-ray techniques: Hydrodynamics and Modeling.
Thesis Defended:
December 2018
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| 18 |
Name:
Nasser Zouli
Thesis title:
Enhancement of heat transfer coefficient using nanofluids for thermal
multi-stage flash desalination (MSF).
Thesis Defended:
December 2018
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| 17 |
Name:
Vineet Alexander
Thesis title:
Hydrodynamics related performance evaluation of upflow moving bed
hydrotreater (MBR) reactor using developed experimental methods and CFD simulations.
Thesis Defended:
May 2018
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| 16 |
Name:
Thaar Aljuwaya
Thesis title:
Investigation of the hydrodynamics and scale-up of advanced TRISO
nuclear fuel manufacturing using sophisticated measurement techniques (Nuclear Engr.).
Thesis Defended:
May 2018
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| 15 |
Name:
Abbas J. Sultan
Thesis title:
Hydrodynamics study of the bubble columns with intense vertical heatexchanging internals using gamma-ray computed tomography and radioactive particle tracking
techniques, Department of Chemical Engineering.
Thesis Defended:
May 2018
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| 14 |
Name:
Mahmood Taha
Thesis title:
experimental investigations of natural circulation in a separate-andmixed effects test facility mimicking prismatic modular reactor (PMR) core.
Thesis Defended:
December 2017
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| 13 |
Name:
Ibrahim Ahmed Said
Thesis title:
experimental study of natural convection heat transfer and
gaseous dynamics from dual-channel circulation loop.
Thesis Defended:
December 2017
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| 12 |
Name:
Haider Taofeeq
Thesis title:
Impact of vertical internals on the hydrodynamics and heat transfer
coefficient in a gas-solid fluidized bed.
Thesis Defended:
December 2017
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| 11 |
Name:
Abdulrahman Fitri
Thesis title:
Investigation local velocities and phase holdups and flow regimes and
maldistribution identification in a trickle bed reactor.
Thesis Defended:
May 2017
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| 10 |
Name:
Aastha Ojha
Thesis title:
Advancing microalgae culturing via bubble dynamics, mass transfer
and dynamic growth investigations.
Thesis Defended:
December 2016
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| 09 |
Name:
Abdelsalam Efhaima
Thesis title:
Scale-up investigation and hydrodynamics study of gas-solid
fluidized bed reactor using advanced noninvasive measurement techniques.
Thesis Defended:
May 2016
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| 08 |
Name:
Neven Y. Ali
Thesis title:
Evaluating of scale-up methodologies of gas-solid spouted beds for coating
TRISO nuclear fuel particles using advanced measurement techniques (Nuclear Engr.).
Thesis Defended:
May 2016
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| 07 |
Name:
Khairul Anwar Mohd Salleh – Co-Advising with Y. Lee
Thesis title:
Local liquid velocity measurement
of trickle bed reactor using digital industrial X-ray radiography (Nuclear Engr.).
Thesis Defended:
May 2014
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| 06 |
Name:
Rahman Abdulmohsin
Thesis title:
Gas dynamics and heat transfer in a packed pebble-bed reactor
for the 4th generation nuclear energy.
Thesis Defended:
May 2013
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| 05 |
Name:
Vaibhav Khana
Thesis title:
Experimental and computational investigation of flow of pebbles in
a pebble bed nuclear reactor.
Thesis Defended:
December 2013
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| 04 |
Name:
Shreekanta Aradhya
Thesis title:
Scale up and hydrodynamics Study of Gas-Solid Spouted Beds,
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department, In Industry-USA.
Thesis Defended:
May 2013
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| 03 |
Name:
Moses Kagumba
Thesis title:
Heat transfer and bubble dynamics in bubble and slurry bubble columns
with internals for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of clean alternative fuels and chemicals.
Thesis Defended:
May 2013
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| 02 |
Name:
Mohamed Al Mesfer
Thesis title:
Effects of Dense Heat Exchanging internals on the hydrodynamics
of bubble column reactors using non-invasive measurement techniques.
Thesis Defended:
May 2013
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| 01 |
Name:
Faraj Zaid
Thesis title:
Gas-Solid Fluidized Bed Reactors: Scale-Up, Flow Regimes Identification and
Hydrodynamics.
Thesis Defended:
May 2013
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Completed MS Thesis
| 07 |
Name:
Choji Bitrus Daches
thesis title:
Performance investigation of surface modified ceramic microfiltration membranes and the effects of
ionic strength.
Thesis Defended:
December 2019
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| 06 |
Name:
Ali Toukan
Thesis title:
Hydrodynamics of a co-current gas liquid up flow
in a moving packed bed reactor with a porous catalyst.
Thesis Defended:
May 2016
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| 05 |
Name:
Ahmed Jasim
Thesis title:
The impact of heat exchanging internals on
hydrodynamics of bubble column reactor, Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering Department .
Thesis Defended:
May 2016
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| 04 |
Name:
Fadha Ahmed
Thesis title:
Experimental investigation of the pebble
bed structure by using gamma ray tomography (Nuclear Engr.) .
Thesis Defended:
December 2014
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| 03 |
Name:
Vivek Rao
Thesis title:
academic advisor
Thesis Defended:
August 2012
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| 02 |
Name:
Christine Meitzner
Thesis title:
Hydrodynamics of Monolithic Reactor,
Technical University of Dresden, Germany.
Thesis Defended:
May 2011
|
| 01 |
Name:
Humayun Shariff
Thesis title:
as academic advisor
Thesis Defended:
August 2010
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Completed MS Students – Non-Thesis
| 17 | Omar J. Farid (May 2020). |
| 16 | Qusay Al-Obaidi (December 2017). |
| 15 | Neila Pederneira (August 2017-19). |
| 14 | Hayder Alnaseri (August 2016). |
| 13 | Srishti Shrivastava (May 2016). |
| 12 | Ibrahim Said Abdullah (December 2015). |
| 11 | Mohammed Al-Ani (December 2015). |
| 10 | Nasser Zouli (December 2015). |
| 09 | Abdelsalam Efhaima (August 2015). |
| 08 | Haider Taofeeq (August 2015). |
| 07 | Abbas Sultan (May 2015). |
| 06 | Laith Sabri (May 2015). |
| 05 | Aastha Ojha (May 2014). |
| 04 | Vaibhav Khane (May 2013). |
| 03 | Gaurav Vedpathak (May 2012). |
| 02 | Rasika Nimkar (December 2012). |
| 01 | Rania Shahada (December 2012). |