Prof. Dr. Menwer Attarakih
· Distinguished PhD holder of Computer-Aided Process
Engineering/ The University of Kaiserslautern/ Institute of Process
Engineering/ Germany
· Appointed
at the University Technology Malaysia in 2008, Declined
· Appointed
at Fraunhofer Institie for Industrial Mathematics/ Kaiserslautern/
Germany in 2009, Declined
· Spent
Special Research Visits at the Institute of Process
Engineering/Kaiserslautern/ Germany during the summer of 2005 until
2014
· Having long
experience in modelling discrete phase systems using the Populaiton Balance
Equation & CFD (High Resolution Nonoscillatory Central Difference Schemes)
· Having
long experience in modeling, dynamic analysis, optimization and numerical
simulation of industrial scale chemical engineering processes:
- Two-phase high pressure oil splitting reactors
- Liquid-Liquid extraction columns (agitated & pulsed extraction columns)
- Bubble columns
- Multicomponent glycerin plants
- Chlorine drying plant
· Having
research cooperation with:
· Institute of Process Engineering/ University of Kaiserslautern/ Germany
· Department of
Applied Mathematics/ University of Kaiserslautern/ Germany
· Fraunhofer Institute of Industrial Mathematics/ Transport &
Computational Fluid Dynamics Group
· University of
Cambridge/ Department of Chemical engineering/ Computational Modelling
Group
· Having
strong research collaboration with the international chemical industries:
· BASF
the chemical company/ Germany
· NOVARTIS
pharmaceutical company/Switzerland
· Published
in this field more than 60 articles in peer reviewed International Journals and
Conferences
· Participated
in more than 30 peer reviewed International Conferences
· Developed PPBLAB software
· Developed LLECMOD software
· Developer of
the DMaxEntM for
the solution of population balance equation, which was presented in PBM2013 conference
· Inventor
of the SQMOM and the MSQMOM for
discrete modelling of particulate systems
· Developer
of the CQMOM, which recently solved the Moment Problem in
Population Balances
· Developer
of the NQMOM: A
stable population balance solver, which is coupled to FPM software (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial
Mathematics)
· Developer
of OPOSPM:
A reduced Population Balance Model for modelling Two-phase flow systems with
particular coupling to CFD software:
-
FLUENT: CFD
Simulation of RDC and Kuhni Extraction columns
-
FPM: CFD
simulation of RDC Extraction column
-
OPENFOAM:
CFD simulation of RDC and Kuhni Extraction columns
· Having
a special five-year experience in erection, start-up and operation of oil
splitting, fatty acids and glycerin processes
· Frequent
Reviewer of the Chemical Engineering Science Journal and the Chemical
Engineering Reasearch and Design Journal (IChemE)
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