University of Jordan

Faculty Member, Depament of Chemical Engineering

Other Affiliations: TU Kaiserslautern, Process Engineering

Associate Professor

Faculty of Engineering & Technology

Thesis Title: Solution Methodologies for the Population Balance Equation Describing the Hydrodynamics of Liquid-liquid Extraction Contactors

About

•Attarakih: TU Kaiserslautern, http://www.uni-kl.de/tvt/tvtlehrstuhl/tvtehemalige/tvtattarakih/
•Inventor of LLECMOD software http://www.uni-kl.de/en/tvt/tvtforschung/extraction/llecmod-an-effective-simulation-tool-for-liquid-extraction-columns-using-bivariate-population-balance/.
•Inventor of the SQMOM (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009250908002649).
•Inventor of the NQMOM
http://congress.cimne.upc.es/particles2011/frontal/ProgSesion.asp?id=24 http://www.sintef.no/project/CFDCONF/docs/CFD2011ConferenceProgram.pdf

•Inventor of the OPOSPM
https://kluedo.ub.uni-kl.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2194
http://www.applied-system-modeling.de/?id=140


•A PhD holder of chemical engineering (computer aided process engineering) from the University of Kaiserslautern/ Institute of Process Engineering/ Germany with distinction grade (Auszeischnung). In 2008, was honoured with the selection as a testimonial in the Postgraduate & Doctoral Education by the International School for Graduate Studies at the University of Kaiserslautern/ Germany (http://www.isgs.uni-kl.de/pg/file/Karin/read/317/dr-menwer-attarakih-jordan). In 2008 was invited to join the University of Technology Malaysia (UTM)/ the Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineeing / Process Design Group as associate Professor. UTM ranks the first in the ten-top Malaysian Universities for sceince & technology. In 2005, the article LLECMOD: a windows-based program for hydrodynamics simulation of liquid-liquid extraction columns appeared as the 13th in the top of the 25th  hottest articles in the chemical engineering and processing journal. In 2004 the article: (Optimal temperature policy for immobilized enzyme packed bed reactor performing reversible Michaelis-Menten kinetics using the disjoint policy. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 77, 163-173.) was selected as the best practical research by the University of Jordan/ Amman-Jordan.

•PATENT: System and method for simulating and modelling the distribution of discrete systems, United States Patent Application: 0100106467, April 29, 2010, http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20100106467.pdf

•RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mathematical, numerical, dynamic modelling and analysis of chemical engineering processes using Population Balances framework and CFD. In this framework,  Riemann free solvers were developed based on the nonoscillatory central difference scheme of  Kurganov and Tadmor (2000) to simulate the coupled hydrodynamics and mass transfer in liquid-liquid extraction columns. I am currently working on coupling my invented discrete population balance equations to CFD solvers (Finite Pointset Method (FPSM) and FLUENT ) so that a detailed description of chemical processes can be realized. The work on this has already commenced at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics and Process Engineering Institute/ University of Kaiserslautern / Germany. I have a long experience in modelling and numerical simulation of industrial scale chemical engineering processes (two-phase high pressure oil splitting reactors, multicomonent glycerin and fatty acids distillation plants and chlorine drying plant). I have a strong research relations with the international chemical industries through the University of Kaiserslautern (BASF the chemical company/ Germany and NOVARTIS pharmaceutical company/Switzerland).

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