Kevin Francis Loughlin, Associate Professor
PhD, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada,

Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering American University of Sharjah
P.O. Box 26666
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Room: EL 140
Office: +(971) 6 515 2986
Fax: +(971) 6 515 2979
E-mail: kloughlin@aus.edu

Research Interests

Separations, equilibria of adsorption, kinetics of adsorption, modeling of adsorption operations, packed adsorber columns, pressure swing adsorbers, zero length columns, chromatographic adsorption columns and kinetics

Courses taught at American University of Sharjah

Course           Description
CHE 303         Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
CHE 430         Modeling, Simulation and Optimization
CHE 240         Numerical Methods in Chemical Engineering

Courses taught at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Course          Description
CHE 201         Introduction to Chemical Engineering
CHE 204         Fluid Mechanics
CHE 205         Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
CHE 300         Heat Transfer
CHE 304         Mass Transfer
CHE 306         Equilibrium Stage Processes
CHE 309         Chemical Engineering Laboratory I
CHE 401         Process Dynamics and Control
CHE 409         Chemical Engineering Laboratory II
CHE 415         Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering
CHE 455         Simulation of Chemical Processes
CHE 495         Integrated Plant Design
CHE 505         Advanced Fluid Mechanics
CHE 507         Advanced Heat Transfer
CHE 516         Advanced Mass Transfer
CHE 521         Diffusion Processes
CHE 560         Numerical Methods in Chemical Engineering
CHE 562         Advanced Process Control
CHE 630         Adsorption

Courses taught at University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada

Course           Description
CHE 5504       Simulation of Chemical Processes
CHE 5524       Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering

Biography

Kevin Francis Loughlin earned his BE and MEngSc from the National University of Ireland (1965 and 1970) and PhD from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, in 1970. He has more than 35 years of professional experience in industry and academia. Dr. Loughlin taught in the Department of Chemical Engineering for seven years at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, before joining the same department at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in 1978. In 2006, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at American University of Sharjah. His favorite undergraduate courses are the teaching of process dynamics and control, equilibrium separations and integrated design, and his favorite graduate courses are the teaching of numerical methods in chemical engineering and adsorption. He thoroughly enjoys the interactive stimulation that undergraduate and graduate students provide to his professional career. Over the past 22 years, he has participated in many short courses offered by the department. Dr. Loughlin has been a Senior Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers since 1973, and he joined the International Adsorption Society in 1995. Dr. Loughlin has published over 50 technical papers in the field of adsorption on zeolites and activated carbon on both the fundamentals and applied aspects in these areas. He has supervised four PhD students and 18 MS students.

Selected Publications

Selected Recent Publications in Refereed Journals

1. Al-Harthi, M., Loughlin, K. and Kahraman, R., "Moisture Diffusion into Epoxy Adhesive: Testing and Modeling", Adsorption, (2007), 13(2), 115-120.
2. Kahraman, Ramazan; Al-Harthi, Mamdouh; Loughlin, Kevin.   Concentration dependence of moisture diffusivity in aluminum particle filled epoxy adhesive in salt solutions,  Journal of Adhesion  (2007),  83(3),  183-194
3. Loughlin, Kevin F..   Comments on "Excess Molar Enthalpies, Molar Heat Capacities, Densities, Viscosities, and Refractive Indices of Dimethyl Sulfoxide + 1-Propanol at (288.15, 298.15, and 308.15) K at Normal Pressures" (Fabio Comelli, Romolo Francesconi, Adriana Bigi, and Katia Rubini, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2006, 51, 1711-1716).    Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data  (2007),  52(3),  1149
4. Nadhir Al-Baghli and Kevin F. Loughlin, "Binary and Ternary Adsorption of Methane, Ethane and Ethylene on Titanosilicate ETS-10 Zeolite”, Journal Chem Eng. Data 51(1), 248-254, (2006).
5. Zaman, Sharif F., Loughlin, Kevin F., and Al-Khattaf, Sulaiman A." Kinetics of Desorption of 1,3 di-isopropyl benzene and 1,3,5 tri-isopropyl benzene I. Diffusion in Y Zeolite Crystals by Zero Length Column Method”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 44(7), 2027-2035 (2005)
6. Nadhir Al-Baghli and Kevin F. Loughlin, " Adsorption of Methane, Ethane and Ethylene on Titanosilicate ETS-10 Zeolite”, J. Chem Eng. Data, 50(3), 843-848, (2005).
7. Abdulhadi Al-Juhani and Kevin F. Loughlin, "Simulation of a Combined Isomerization Reactor & Pressure Swing Adsorption Unit", Adsorption, 9(3), 251-264 (2003)
8. Ifadat Khan and Kevin F. Loughlin, "Kinetics of sorption in deactivated crystal adsorbents”, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 27(5), 689-696 (2003)
9. Alfarabi Sharif, Abul A. Azad, Kevin F. Loughlin and Cheriya M. Nawaz, “Chloride Diffusion Coefficient of Concrete in the Arabian Gulf environment”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 22(2B),169-182, Oct(1997).
10. Sharif, A., Loughlin, K.F., Azad, A.K., and Nawaz, C.M., “Determination of the Effective Chloride Diffusion Coefficient in Concrete via a Gas Diffusion Technique”, Materials Journal, ACI, 94(3), 227-233, May-June (1997)
11. Sheikh, M. A., Hassan, M. M., and Loughlin, K.F., “Adsorption Equilibria and rate Parameters for Nitrogen and Methane on MAXSORB Activated Carbon”, Gas Sep. Purif., 10(3), 161-168 (1996).
12. Hassan, M.M., Loughlin, K.F., and Biswas, M.E., “Optimization of Continuous Countercurrent Adsorption Systems”, Separations Technology, 6, 19-27, 1996.

Selected Conference Papers

1. Kahraman, R., Al-Harthi, M. and Loughlin, K., "Testing and Modeling of Moisture Diffusion into Aluminum Particle Filled Epoxy Adhesive",  Thirteenth International Conference of Experimental Mechanics (ICEM13), Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 1-6, 2007.
2. Kevin F. Loughlin, and Tareg M. Al-Soudani, “Modeling and Simulation of A  Combined Reactor/Pressure Swing Adsorption Unit for Isomerization of a Mixed Feed Of Pentanes And Hexanes”, Session Selection: 02E04 PSA/TSA, AIChE conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, Oct 30, Nov 4, 2005, published on CD ROM 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting, ISBN 0-8169-0996-2.
3. Kevin F. Loughlin, Sulaiman S. Al-Khattaf & Sharif F. Zaman, “Kinetics of Sorption of 1,3 di-isopropyl benzene and 1,3,5 tri-isopropyl benzene in NaY  Method”, Session Selection: 02E02 Fundamentals of Adsorption and Ion Exchange II, AIChE conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, Oct 30, Nov 4, 2005, published on CD ROM 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting, ISBN 0-8169-0996-2.
4. Loughlin, Kevin F., “Effect of Nonlinear Equilibrium on Zero Length Column Experiments in Mesoporous or Macroporous Sorbents: Limiting Analytical Asymptotic Forms”, Session Selection: 02E07 Experimental Methods in Adsorption, AIChE conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, Oct 30, Nov 4, 2005, published on CD ROM 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting, ISBN 0-8169-0996-2.
5. Ahmad , S , Azad, A., & Loughlin, K. F., “A Study of Permeability and Tortuosity of concrete”, 30th Conference on OUR WORLD IN CONCRETE & STRUCTURES: 23-24 August 2005,  Singapore Volume XXIV (2005): ISBN 981-05-3546-5, pages 153-160
6. K. F. Loughlin and A. A. Shaikh, "Evaluation & Revision of the MS Program in Chemical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals", Proc. of the "Symposium on Assessment of Engineering and Technical Education in Saudi Arabia", pp. 257-270, held at KFUPM Nov.23-24, 1999
7. A. I. Fatehi and K. F. Loughlin, “A new rate model for the oxic removal of phenol and O-cresol  by granulated activated carbon: ii.  column studies”, Pub In Carbon ’97,pp 138-139,Vol II, 23rd Biennial Conference on Carbon18-23rd, July, 1997 held at Penn  State Univ., Penn. USA
8. K.F. Loughlin*, A. I. Fatehi  and  N. Abuzaid, “A new rate model for the oxic removal of phenol and O-cresol  by granulated activated carbon: i. Batch studies”, Pub. In Carbon ’97,pp 100-101,Vol II, 23rd Biennial Conference on Carbon 18-23rd July, 1997 held at Penn  State Univ., Penn. USA
9. Ekhator, E. O. , K.F. Loughlin*, M.M. Hassan  and  G. Nakhla, “Anoxic diffusion of phenolic compounds in granulated activated carbon: batch studies”, Pub. In Carbon ’97,pp 6-7,Vol I, 23rd Biennial Conference on Carbon 18-23rd July, 1997 held at Penn  State Univ., Penn. USA
10. Kevin F. Loughlin, Mirza M. Hassan, Emmanuel O. Ekhator, and Girgis F. Nakhla, “The Adsorption of Phenol and its Reaction in the presence of Oxygen on Granular           Activated Carbon”, Presented at  fifth International Conference on Fundamentals        of Adsorption”, May 13-18 1995 Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove,    California , USA, Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference           on Fundamentals of Adsorption, LeVan, M.D., Ed., Kluwer, 1996.
11. Hassan, M. M., Rahman, A. K. M. S., and Loughlin, K. F., “A Detailed Model for Simulated Continuous Countercurrent Adsorption System”, Presented at the Third Int. Symposium on Separation Technology, Antwerp, Belgium, August 22-27, 1993.  Pub. in Process Technology Proceedings, 11 Separation Technology Proceedings of the Third Int. Symposium on Separation Technology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994.
12. Loughlin, K. F., Hassan, M. M., Fatehi, A. I., & Zahur, M., “Physical Adsorption of Methane and Nitrogen on Carbon Molecular Sieve”, Presented and Published in CHEMISTRY AND INDUSTRY, Proceedings, Part II, Org. by BSE-ACSAIG, Bahrain, 14-16 November  1992, 909-925.