Habib Ale Ebrahim
NAME: Habib Ale Ebrahim
DATE OF BIRTH: Aug. 10, 1965
Email: alebrm@aut.ac.ir
EDUCATION:
B.S. Petrochemical Engineering, Amirkabir University, 1987
M.S. Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University, 1990
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University, 1998
EXPERIENCES:
Training in the Shiraz petrochemical plant, 1986
Cooperation with Shahid Bakeri industrial group, 1987-90
Selection, purchasing, training, and working with Simultaneous Thermal Analyser (TG & DSC) - Mass Spectrometer, 1994-
Working on pore size distribution and BET with Autosorb equipment, 2000-
Working with laser doppler anemometry and particle dynamics analyzer, 2002-
EMPLOYMENT:
Assistant Professor, Energy Research Center, Amirkabir University, 1999-2004
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University, 2004-2005
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University, 2005-
Equipment Responsible, Chemical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University, 2002-
Administration Deputy, Chemical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University, 2005-
TEACHING:
Extractive metallurgy calculations, Mines & Metallurgical Eng. Dept., Amirkabir University, 1998-2007
Fluid mechanics, Chemical Eng. Dept., Amirkabir University, 2000-1
Statics and strength of materials, Chemical Eng. Dept., Amirkabir University, 2003-5
Petroleum and gas refining, Chemical Eng. Dept., Amirkabir University, 2003-
Fluid mechanics, Mines & Metallurgical Eng. Dept., Amirkabir University, 2002-
Heat Transfer, Chemical Eng. Dept., Amirkabir University, 2004-
Advanced refining processes, Chemical Eng. Dept., Amirkabir University, 2005-
RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Preparation of chromium oxide pigment, 1986
Mathematical modeling for wax crystallization, 1988
Study on the fluidized bed dryers, 1992
Reduction of zinc oxide by petroleum materials, 1989-98
Kinetic study, mathematical modeling and simulation of noncatalytic gas-solid reactions, 1992-
Study on a new solution technique for coupled partial differential equations in gas-solid reactions, 1994-
Mathematical modeling on the adsorption of acid gases, 1996-98
Preparation of barium carbonate by barite reduction with methane, 1998-99
Preparation of strontium carbonate by celestite reduction with methane, 1999
Mathematical modeling of suspension and emulsion PVC polymerization, 2000-3
Mathematical modeling of solution VAc polymerization and hydrolysis, 2001-3
Study on the new flue gas desulphurization processes, 2001-2
Study on the greenhouse gas phenomenon and CO2 sequestration, 2001-
Study on the synthesis gas production from natural gas, 2001-
Study on the adsorbed natural gas (ANG) process, 2003-4
Study on the various methods for hydrogen production, 2003-
Study on the metals as energy carriers and new clean fuels, 2003-
Study on the effect of electromagnetic fields on chemical reactions, 2003-4
Environmental problems of phosphoric acid plant, 2004-5
UNIVERSITY PROJECTS:
1-Study on the new synthesis gas production methods, B.S. Thesis of A. Mojarad, 2005
2-Study on the new methods of diesel hydrotreating, B.S. Thesis of I. Soleimani, 2005
3-Study on the zinc-air fuel cells, B.S. Thesis of A. S. Mohamadi, 2006
4-Study on the new methods of hydrogen storage, B.S. Thesis of M. Arasteh, 2006
5-Study on the economics of coal, natural gas and hydrogen, B.S. Thesis of A. H. Karimi, 2006
6-Study on the oxygen and nitrogen separation methods, B.S. Thesis of S. Rezakhoo, 2006
7-Study on the separation of gases by PSA process, B.S. Thesis of M.H. Hadad, 2007
8-Study on the effect of microwave on chemical reactions, B.S. Thesis of M. Maghami, 2007
9-Study on the adsorbed natural gas (ANG) method, B.S. Thesis of A. Hedayati, 2007
10-Study on the catalysts of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, B.S. Thesis of M. Poorani, 2008
11-Study on the reactors of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, B.S. Thesis of S. Rooina, 2008
12-Solution of gas-solid partial differential equations by orthogonal collocation, M.S. Thesis of A. Afshar, 2006
13-Simulation of steam reformer of the methanol plant, M.S. Thesis of M. Talebi, 2007
14-Simulation of moving bed reactor of direct reduction process, M.S. Thesis of M.M. Noori, 2007
15-Simulation of trickle bed reactor for gas-oil hydrotreating, M.S. Thesis of I. Soleimani, 2008
16-Simulation of refinery alkylation unit with solid catalyst, M.S. Thesis of A. Javooni, 2008
17-Simulation of fluid catalytic cracking reactor, M.S. Thesis of M. Heidari, 2008
SOCIETIES:
American Chemical Society membership between 2001-3
EXHIBITIONS:
First International Steel and Mines Congress, 2003
LECTURES:
1-‘Modeling and simulation of the PVC production by suspension and emulsion methods’, Bandar Imam Petrochemical Plant, 2003
2-‘The absorption methods for SO2 acid gas and CO2 greenhouse gas from the industries’, The Workshop for Environmental Engineers, Amirkabir University, 2004
3-‘Modeling of poly vinyl alcohol production by solution polymerization of vinyl acetate and hydrolysis of poly vinyl acetate’, Polymer and Petrochemical Research Centre, 2004
4-‘Petrochemical industries: products from synthesis gas’, Amirkabir University, 2005
PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS:
1-‘Reactions of calcium based sorbents with acid gases: a new solution technique for grain model with product layer diffusion’, (E. Jamshidi, H. Ale Ebrahim, M. Rostam-Abadi and J. Abbasian) AIChE Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 1996
2-‘An incremental analytical solution for gas-solid reactions, application to the grain model’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Chem. Eng. Sci., Vol. 51, 4253-4257, 1996
3-‘A new solution technique of moving boundary problems for gas-solid reactions, application to half order volume reaction model’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Chem. Eng. J., Vol. 63, 79-83, 1996
4-‘Reduction of zinc oxide concentrate by natural gas’, (E. Jamshidi, H. Ale Ebrahim, G. Etemad and M. Barazandeh) Proceeding of Natural Gas Conversion Seminar, Tehran, Iran, 1996
5-‘A new approximate solution technique (quantized method) for simultaneous gas-solid reactions’, (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) J. Eng., Islamic Republic of Iran, Vol. 9, 181-187, 1996
6-‘A quantized solution for nucleation model in gas-solid reactions’, (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Chem. Eng. J., Vol. 68, 1-6, 1997
7-‘A quantized solution technique for modified grain model’ (E. Jamshidi, H. Ale Ebrahim, M. Rostam-Abadi and J. Abbasian) AIChE Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, Nov. 1997
8-‘A quantized solution technique for gas-solid reactions, considering the grain model with product layer resistance’, (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Second Iranian Congress of Chemical Engineering, Amir-Kabir University, 1997
9-‘A quantized solution technique for gas-solid reactions, considering the grain model with product layer resistance’, (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Scientica Iranica, Vol. 5, 112-117, 1998
10-‘A new solution technique for gas-solid reactions with structural changes’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Chem. Eng. Sci., Vol. 54, 859-864, 1999
11-‘Using natural gas as reducing agent in metallurgical and chemical industries’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Seminar of Research Results in Minerals, Converting, and Metallurgy, Tehran, Dec. 2000
12-‘Kinetic study of the zinc oxide reduction by methane’ (H. Ale Ebrahim and E. Jamshidi) Chem. Eng. Res. & Des., Vol. 79, 62-70, 2001
13-‘Kinetic study of lead oxide reduction by methane’ (H. Ale Ebrahim and E. Jamshidi) Sixth Iranian Congress of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan Industrial University, 2001
14-‘A new solution technique for differential equations of first order volume reaction model in gas-solid reactions’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Sixth Iranian Congress of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan Industrial University, 2001
15-‘Effect of mass transfer and bulk flow on the zinc oxide reduction by methane’ (H. Ale Ebrahim and E. Jamshidi) Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 41, 2630-2636, 2002
16-‘Preparation of a simulation software for suspension polymerization of vinyl chloride’ (H. Ale Ebrahim, M. Sadi, A. Habibi, H. Nazokdast and B. Dabir) Seventh Iranian Congress of Chemical Engineering, Tehran University, 2002
17-‘Introduction of gas-solid reaction models for simulation of the direct reduction method’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) The First International Steel and Minerals Congress, 2003
18-‘Preparation of synthesis gas by methane oxidation with ZnO’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) 12th International Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Congress, 2003
19-‘Production of the synthesis gas by methane oxidation with zinc oxide’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Petroleum Science Research J., Vol. 46, 46-51, 2003
20-‘Synthesis gas production by zinc oxide reaction with methane: elimination of greenhouse gas emission from a metallurgical plant’ (H. Ale Ebrahim and E. Jamshidi) Energy Conversion & Management, Vol. 45, 345-363, 2004
21-‘A new method for the zinc production by natural gas and comparison with the existing methods’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) The First Professional Zinc Congress, Zanjan, 2004
22-‘Kinetic study and mathematical modeling of the reduction of ZnO-PbO mixtures by methane’ (H. Ale Ebrahim and E. Jamshidi) Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 44, 495-504, 2005
23-‘Comparison of pseudo-steady and unsteady states for nucleation model in gas-solid reactions’ (A. Shiravani, E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) 10th Chemical Engineering Congress, Baloochestan University, 2005
24-‘A software for the solution of gas-solid differential equations in the packed beds’ (H. Moshiri, E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) 11th Chemical Engineering Congress, Tarbiat Modaress University, 2006
25-‘A new solution technique for the random pore model in fluid-solid reactions’ (E. Jamshidi, H. Ale Ebrahim and B. Khosh Andam) 11th Chemical Engineering Congress, Tarbiat Modaress University, 2006
26-‘Kinetic study of nickel oxide reduction by methane’ (R. Alizadeh, E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Chem. Eng. Technol., Vol. 30, 1123-8, 2007
27-‘Catalytic effect of zinc oxide on the reduction of barium sulfate by methane’ (R. Alizadeh, E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Thermochimica Acta, Vol. 460, 44-9, 2007
28-‘Application of population balance method in the prediction of particle size distribution in emulsion polymerization of vinyl chloride’ (A. Tavakoli, B. Dabir and H. Ale Ebrahim) International Seminar on Polymer Science and Technology, Tehran, 2007
29-‘Two Dimensional Simulation of the steam reforming unit of methanol plant’ (M. Talebi, H. Ale Ebrahim and B. Dabir) 5th International Chemical Engineering Congress and Exhibition, Kish Island, 2008
30-‘A new solution technique for fluid-solid reactions’ (A. Shiravani, E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Chem. Eng. J., Vol. 140, 264-77, 2008
31-‘Solving partial differential equations of gas-solid reactions by orthogonal collocation’ (A. Afshar, H. Ale Ebrahim and E. Jamshidi) Comput. Chem. Eng., Vol. 32, 1746-59, 2008
32-‘A study on the kinetics of hydrogen reduction of molybdenum disulfide powders’ (M.M. Afsahi, M. Sohrabi, R.V. Kumar and H. Ale Ebrahim) Thermochimica Acta, Vol. 473, 61-7, 2008
33-‘A model for the intrinsic kinetic parameters of the direct reduction of MoS2 with hydrogen’ (M.M. Afsahi, M. Sohrabi, and H. Ale Ebrahim) Intern. J. Materials Res., Vol. 99, 1032-8, 2008
34-‘Modeling of catalyst effect on the reduction of barium sulfate by methane’ (R. Alizadeh, E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) 5th International Chemical Engineering Congress and Exhibition, Kish Island, 2008
35-‘Kinetic study of nickel oxide reduction by methane’ (R. Alizadeh, E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) 5th International Chemical Engineering Congress and Exhibition, Kish Island, 2008
36-‘A new clean process for barium carbonate preparation by barite reduction with methane’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Chem. Eng. Proces., Vol. 47, 1567-77, 2008
37-‘Finite element solution for gas-solid reactions: application to the moving boundary problems’ (A. Afshar, H. Ale Ebrahim, M. Hatam and E. Jamshidi) Chem. Eng. J., Vol. 144, 110-8, 2008
PATENTS:
1-‘Omitting of lead splash condensers in the zinc producing furnaces’ (H. Ale Ebrahim and E. Jamshidi) Patent No. 25993, 1998
2-‘Preparation of synthesis gas and zinc by zinc oxide reduction with methane and complete kinetic study of the reaction’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Patent No. 25994, 1998
3-‘New method for lead preparation from lead concentrate by methane’ (H. Ale Ebrahim and E. Jamshidi) Patent No. 26996, 2001
4-‘Preparation of barium carbonate by barite reduction with methane’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Patent No. 26997, 2001
5-‘Preparation of strontium carbonate by celestite reduction with methane’ (H. Ale Ebrahim and E. Jamshidi) Patent No. 27890, 2002
6-‘A new method for copper preparation by thermal decomposition of copper sulfide or oxide (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Patent No. 27889, 2002
7-‘A new method for hydrogen production from natural gas without carbon dioxide emission and energy transport by metallic zinc’ (E. Jamshidi and H. Ale Ebrahim) Patent No. 31321, 2005