Surname: Soleimani

Name: Mansooreh

Date of Birth: September 1, 1976

Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran

Nationality: Iranian

Education

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (process design & separation), Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, September 2007

M.Sc. Chemical Engineering (process design & separation), AmirKabir University of Technology, Iran, 2001,

B.Sc. Petrochemical Engineering, AmirKabir University of Technology, Iran, 1998,

Academic Experiences

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, 2008

RESEARCH FIELDS

1.      Separation of metal ions with activated carbon

2.      Production of activated carbon from agricultural wastes

3.      Recovery and reuse of municipal solid wastes

4.      Separation of metals using emulsion liquid membrane

Publications        

(A)            Journal Papers

1-           F.Zokaee, T. Kaghazchi, A. Zare and M. Soleimani, Isomerization of lactose to lactulose - study and comparison of three catalytic systems, Process Biochemistry, 37, 629-635, 2002.

2-           F.Zokaee, T. Kaghazchi, A. Zare and M. Soleimani, Isomerization of lactose to lactulose using sweet cheese whey ultra filtrate, Journal of The Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers, vol.33, no.3, 307-313, 2002.

3-           T. Kaghazchi, M.Sohrabi, M.Soleimani, Educational of new courses in chemical engineering(gas conversion engineering), Iranian Journal of  Engineering Education, vol. 5, no.17, 71-82, 2003.

4-           A.Kargari, T.Kaghazchi, M.Sohrabi, M.Soleimani, Batch extraction of gold III ions from aqueous solutions using emulsion Liquid Membrane via Facilitated Carrier Transport, Journal of Membrane Science, 233,1-10, 2004.

5-           A. Kargari, T.Kaghazchi, M.Soleimani, Role of emulsifier in the extraction of gold III ions from aqueous solutions using emulsion liquid membrane, Desalination, 162, 237-247, 2004.

6-           A.Kargari, T. Kaghazchi, M. Soleimani, Extraction of gold (III) ions from aqueous solutions using polyamine type surfactant liquid membrane, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, vol.82, 1301-1306, Oct. 2004.

7-           A.Kargari, T. Kaghazchi, M. Soleimani, Mass transfer investigation of liquid membrane transport of gold (III) by methyl iso-butyl ketone mobile carrier, Journal of Chemical Engineering & Technology, vol.27, no.9, 1014-1022, 2004.

8-           F.Zokaee, T. Kaghazchi, A. Zare and M. Soleimani, Alkali-catalyzed Isomerization of lactose to lactulose: study of reaction parameters and purification methods catalytic systems, Iranian Journal of Chemical Engineering, vol.1, no.1, 23-28, 2004.

9-           M.Soleimani, T.Kaghazchi, The use of activated carbon prepared from agriculture waste in the separation of gold from industrial wastewaters, Amirkabir Journal of Science and Engineering, vol.15, no.60(3), 139-146, Fall &Winter 2004-2005.

10-       T. Kaghazchi, G.Kamrani, M.Soleimani, The evaluation of women's occupation in engineering and technology, Iranian Journal of  Engineering Education, no.24, vol.6, 59-75, 2005.

11-       A.Kargari, T.Kaghazchi, M.Sohrabi, M.Soleimani, Application of experimental design to emulsion liquid membrane pertaction of gold III ions from aqueous solutions, Iranian Journal of Chemical Engineering, vol.3, no.1, 77-91, 2006.

12-       A. Kargari, T.Kaghazchi, M.Soleimani, Mathematical modeling of emulsion liquid membrane pertraction of gold (III) from aqueous solutions, Journal of Membrane Science, vol. 279, Issues 1-2, 380-388, August 2006.

13-       A.Kargari, T.Kaghazchi, B.Mardangahi, M.Soleimani, Experimental and modeling of selective separation of gold (III) ions from aqueous solutions by emulsion liquid membrane system, Journal of Membrane Science, vol. 279, Issues 1-2, 389-393, August 2006.

14-       S. Arjmand, T. Kaghazchi, S. Mehdi Latifi, M.Soleimani, Chemical production of activated carbon from nutshells and date stones, Journal of Chemical Engineering & Technology, vol.29, no.8, 986-991, Aug. 2006.

15-       M.Maddadi Yeganeh, T.Kaghazchi, M.Soleimani, Effect of raw materials on the properties of activated carbons, Journal of Chemical Engineering & Technology, vol.29, no.10, 1247-1251, Oct. 2006.

16-       B.Nabieyan, A. Kargari, T. Kaghazchi, A. Mahmoudian, M. Soleimani, Bench-scale pertraction of iodine using a bulk liquid membrane system, Desalination, vol.214, 167-176, 2007.

17-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Agricultural wastes conversion to activated carbon by chemical activation with phosphoric acid, Journal of Chemical Engineering & Technology, vol.30, no.5, 649 - 654, 2007.

18-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Recovery of gold from gold plating industry waste water using an agricultural waste: Hard Shell of apricot stones, Iranian Journal of Chemical Engineering (IAChE), vol. 4, no. 1, winter 2007, 21-35.

19-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, The Investigation of the potential of activated hard shell of apricot stones as gold adsorbents, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, vol. 14, no.1, 28-37, 2008.

20-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Activated hard shell of apricot stones: a promising adsorbent in gold recovery, Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, vol.16, no. 1, 112-118, 2008.

21-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Gold recovery from loaded activated carbon using different solvents, Journal of the Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers, vol. 39, 9-11, 2008.

22-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Adsorption of gold ions from industrial wastewater using activated carbon derived from hard shell of apricot stones- an agricultural waste, Bioresource Technology, vol. 99, Issues 13, 5374-5383, 2008.

23-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Low cost adsorbents from agricultural by-products impregnated with phosphoric acid, accepted for publication in Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan.

(B)            Papers Presented at the International and Iranian Conferences

1-           T. Kaghazchi, A. Heidari, M. Soleimani, A comparison of adsorption characteristics of activated carbons obtained from different agricultural by–products, 24^th International Conference on science and Technology, New Dehli, India, 2000.

2-           M.Soleimani and T. Kaghazchi, Gold adsorption on activated carbon from agricultural wastes, 7^th Iranian Congress of Chemical Engineering, Tehran Univ. of Iran, 2002.

3-           F.Zokaee, T. Kaghazchi, A. Zare and M. Soleimani, Isomerization of lactose to lactulose in sweet cheese whey 7^th  Iranian Congress of Chemical Engineering, Tehran Univ. of Iran, 2002.

4-           M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Adsorption of gold from liquid wastes on activated carbon prepared from apricot stones CHISA 2002, 15^th International Congress of chemical & Process Engineering, 25-29 Aug. 2002, Praha, Czech.

5-           F.Zokaee, T. Kaghazchi, A. Zare and M. Soleimani, Isomerization of lactose to lactulose, 13^th  Iranian Congress of Food industry, Amirkabir Univ., 2002.

6-           T. Kaghazchi, A., Kargari, M. Soleimani, Extraction of gold (III) Ion from Aqueous solutions by Emulsion Liquid Membrane Technique, TSE 2002, Oct 23-24 2002, Beijing China.

7-           M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Application of activated carbon prepared from hard shells in gold separation from liquid wastes, TSE 2002, Oct 23-24 2002, Beijing China.

8-           M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Adsorption of gold from liquid wastes on activated carbon prepared from apricot stones, Malaysian chemical Congress (MCC), 12-14 Dec. 2002, Kuching, Malaysia.

9-           T. Kaghazchi, A. Kargari, M. Soleimani, Recovery of magnesium salts from bitterns, Malaysian chemical Congress (MCC), 12-14 Dec. 2002, Kuching, Malaysia.

10-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Application of activated carbon prepared from hard shells in gold separation from liquid wastes, 6^th ISAIF, 7-11 April 2003, China.

11-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, The use of activated carbon in the separation of gold ions from industry wastewater, The 3^rd International conference on advances in strategic technology (ICAST), 12-14 Aug. 2003, Malaysia.

12-       T. Kaghazchi, A. Kargari, M. Soleimani, Application of emulsion liquid membrane in extraction of valuable metals from aqueous solutions, fourth European congress of chemical Engineering (Ecce4), 21-25 Sept.2003, Spain.

13-       T. Kaghazchi, A. Kargari, M. Soleimani, Role of emulsifier in the extraction of gold III ions from aqueous solutions using emulsion liquid membrane technique, Permaea, 7-11 Sept 2003, Slovakia.

14-       T. Kaghazchi, A. Kargari, M. Soleimani, Hydrometallurgical extraction of gold ions from aqueous solutions by emulsion liquid membrane, Sustainable planning & development,1-3 Oct.2003, Greece.

15-       A.Kargari, T.Kaghazchi, M.Soleimani, Extraction of gold III ions from aqueous solution using surfactant liquid membrane, 8^th Iranian Congress of Chemical Engineering, Ferdoosi Univ. of Iran, 21-23 Oct. 2003.

16-       M.Soleimani and H. Modaress, Modification of Stokes – Einstein equation for diffusivities in dilute polymer solutions, 8^th Iranian Congress of Chemical Engineering, Ferdoosi Univ. of Iran, 21-23 Oct. 2003.

17-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Recovery of gold from wastes of electro-plating industries using activated carbon, The 2^nd ASIAN PARTICLE TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM, 17 –19 December 2003, PENANG, Malaysia.

18-       A. Kargari, T. Kaghazchi, M. Soleimani, Mass transfer investigation of liquid membrane transport of gold (III) by methyl iso-butyl ketone mobile carrier, Chisa2004, Praha, Czech Republic, 22-26 August 2004.

19-       F. Zokaee, A. Kargari, M. Soleimani, G.Kamrani, Feasibility study of recovery of paint from paint sludge, 2^nd Paint and Resins Conference, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2004.

20-        M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Chemical activation of agricultural wastes to produce activated carbon, 7^th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on combustion and energy utilization, 15-17 December 2004, Hong Kong.

21-       A. Kargari, T. Kaghazchi, M. Sohrabi, M. Soleimani, Emulsion liquid membrane pertraction of gold (III) ions from aqueous solutions, 9^th Iranian Congress of Chemical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, 24-26 Nov.2004.

22-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Chemical activation of agricultural wastes to produce Activated carbon,5SCCE &3SCPE, Tehran, Iran, 8-10 March 2005.

23-       M. Soleimani, Z .Mahdavian, M.Pouria, Technology for gas conversion and transportation, New Technologies in Gas Conversion Congress, Sharif university, 26 May 2005, Tehran, Iran.

24-       T. Kaghazchi, S. Arjmand, M.Latifi, M. Soleimani, Chromium (VI) removal by activated carbons produced from agricultural wastes, 32^nd International Conference of SSCHE, Slovakia, 23 - 27 May, 2005.

25-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Adsorption of aurocyanide complexes onto activated apricot stones, 7^th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland 10-14 July 2005.

26-       T.Kaghazchi, M.Maddadi, M.Soleimani, Effect of raw materials composition on the activated carbon properties, 40^th IUPAC, Beijing, China, 14-19 August 2005.

27-       T.Kaghazchi, M.Soleimani, M.Maddadi Yeganeh, Preparation of activated carbon from agricultural wastes by chemical activation with phosphoric acid, 7^th ISAIF, Japan, 11-15 Sept., 2005.

28-       T.Kaghazchi, M.Soleimani, M.Maddadi Yeganeh, Effect of raw materials composition on the properties of the activated carbons, Fifth International Chemical Engineering Conference (JICEC05), Amman- Jordan, September 12 - 15, 2005.

29-       T. Kaghazchi, S. Arjmand, M.Soleimani, Chemical production of activated carbon from nutshells and date stones, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT2005),19-22 September 2005, Cairo, Egypt.

30-       T. Kaghazchi, A. Kargari, M. Soleimani, Extraction of gold(III)ions from aqueous solutions using the emulsion liquid membrane technique, International Solvent Extraction Conference Beijing, China, 19-23 Sept. 2005

31-       M.Soleimani, T.Kaghazchi, Rapid, ambient –temperature process for eluting gold from activated carbon, China/USA/Japan Joint Chemical Engineering Conference, 11-13 Oct., 2005, Beijing, China.

32-       M.Soleimani, T.Kaghazchi, Recovery of Aurocyanide complexes from dilute solutions with activated apricot stones, International Congress of Chemistry and Environment (ICCE 2005), 24-26 December 2005, Indore, India.

33-       T. Kaghazchi, S. Arjmand, M.Latifi, M. Soleimani, The effect of chemical reagent in the production of activated carbon from nutshells and date stones, 33^rd International Conference of the Slovak Society of Chemical Engineering (SSCHE06), Slovakia, 22 - 26 May, 2006, Slovakia.

34-       T. Kaghazchi, S. Arjmand, M.Latifi, M. Soleimani, Chemical production of activated carbon from some agricultural wastes for liquid applications, 11^th Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress & Exhibition (11^th APCChE) 2006, 27-30 Aug. 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

35-       T.Kaghazchi, M.Madadi, M.Soleimani, Preparation of activated carbon from residue of liquorices, CHISA 2006, Prague Czech Republic, Aug 27-31, 2006.

36-        T.Kaghazchi, M.Soleimani, M.Madadi, Production of activated carbon from residue of liquorices by chemical activation, 8^th Asia Pacific International Symposium on combustion and energy utilization (8^th APISCEU), Sochi Russian Federation, Oct.10-12, 2006.

37-       M.Soleimani, T.Kaghazchi, Improved process for stripping gold cyanide from activated carbon, International conference on Environment 2006 (ICENV 2006), Penang Malysia, 13-15 Nov. 2006.

38-       T. Kaghazchi, A. Kargari, M. Soleimani, Recovery of magnesium salts from bitterns of petrochemical plants, 6^th ANQUE International Congress of Chemistry, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Spain) December 5-7, 2006.

39-       F.Zokaee, M. Soleimani, Removal of cadmium ions from aqueous solutions by adsorption onto chitosan, 6^th ANQUE International Congress of Chemistry, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, December 5-7, 2006.

40-       T. Kaghazchi, V. Golestani, M. Soleimani, Mercury removal from aqueous solutions and chlor-alkali industry wastewater by activated carbon prepared from liquorices pith, Third International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning, Algarve, Portugal, 25 - 27 April 2007.

41-       T. Kaghazchi, M. Soleimani, Gold separation from industrial wastewater with activated apricot stones, 34^rd International Conference of the Slovak Society of Chemical Engineering (SSCHE07), Slovakia, 21 - 25 May, 2007.

42-       T. Kaghazchi, V. Golestani, M. Soleimani, Removal of mercury from aqueous solutions by activated carbon prepared from licorices pith, 4^th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, Dubrovnik , June 4-8, 2007.

43-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Agricultural by-products conversion to low cost carbon adsorbents, 2^nd International Conference on Advances in Petrochemicals and Polymers (ICAPP2007), Bangkok, Thailand, June 25-28, 2007.

44-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Separation of gold ions from industrial wastewater with activated carbon prepared from apricot stones, European Congress of Chemical Engineering – 6, Copenhagen,16-21 September 2007.

45-       M.Soleimani and H. Modaress, Modification of Stokes-Einstein equation for diffusivities in dilute polymer solutions, European Congress of Chemical Engineering – 6, Copenhagen,16-21 September 2007.

46-       T. Kaghazchi, V. Golestani, M. Soleimani, Mercury adsorption by licorice activated carbon, Chemeca 2007, Sofitel Melbourne, Australia, 23-26 September 2007.

47-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, A new model for gold cyanide adsorption based on the properties of activated agricultural wastes, International Conference on Separation Science and Technology (ICSST-07), Beijing, China, 14- 16 Oct. 2007.

48-       T. Kaghazchi, A. Fouladi Tajar, M. Soleimani, Adsorption of cadmium using activated carbon derived from nut shells – an agricultural waste, International Conference on Separation Science and Technology (ICSST-07), Beijing, China, 14- 16 Oct. 2007.

49-       T. Kaghazchi, A. Kargari, M. Soleimani, Magnesium salts recovery from bitterns of petrochemical plants, 3^rd conference of International Congress of Chemistry and Environment (ICCE 2007), Kuwait, 18- 20 Nov. 2007.

50-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Modeling of gold adsorption with activated carbon using artificial neural networks, International Conference on Environmental Research and Technology 2008 (ICERT 2008), PENANG, MALAYSIA, 28-30 May 2008. 

51-       T.Kaghazchi, N.Asasian Kolur, M.Soleimani, Production of activated carbon from mixture of pistachio-nut shells and licorice residues for wastewater treatment, International Conference on Environmental Research and Technology 2008 (ICERT 2008), PENANG, MALAYSIA, 28-30 May 2008.

52-       N.Asasian Kolur, T.Kaghazchi, M.Soleimani, Preparation of low cost activated carbon from agricultural wastes by activation with phosphoric acid and zinc chloride, 18^th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering (CHISA 2008), Praha, Czech Republic, 24-28 August 2008.

53-       M.Adibfar, T.Kaghazchi, M.Soleimani, Production of activated carbon adsorbent from PET: post-consumer plastic waste, 18^th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering (CHISA 2008), Praha, Czech Republic, 24-28 August 2008.

54-       M. Soleimani, T. Kaghazchi, Application of RBF network for the modeling of gold recovery from industrial wastewaters, 6^th International Chemical Engineering Conference (JICEC06), Amman- Jordan, 14-16 October 2008.

55-       T.Kaghazchi, M.Adibfar, M.Soleimani, A comparison between chemically and physically activated carbons prepared from PET waste, 9^th Asia Pacific International Symposium on combustion and energy utilization (9^thAPISCEU), Beijing, China, 2-6 November, 2008.

56-       T.Kaghazchi, M.Soleimani, Low-cost activated carbon from agricultural wastes by phosphoric acid activation, 9^th Asia Pacific International Symposium on combustion and energy utilization (9^th APISCEU), Beijing, China, 2-6 November, 2008.

57-       F.Zokaee, M.H.Mirzae, Sh.Mortazavi, M.Soleimani, A.Sheikmohammadi, Amir Fouladi, Study of Trends in Iranian Gas Sweetening Units by Changing from Simple Amine Solutions to Mixed Amines and aMDEA Solutions, 12^thAsia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress, Dalian, China, 3-6 August, 2008.

Contacts:

Phone :+( 98)21-64543213

E-mail: soleimanim@aut.ac.ir; 

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