Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Associate Professor
PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA 1996

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

Room: EL 124
Office: +(971) 6 515 2907
Fax: +(971) 6 515 2979
E-mail: nabdeljabbar@aus.edu

Research Interests

Advanced control of chemical and petrochemical processes, process synthesis and optimization, mathematical modeling and simulation

Biography

Dr. Nabil Abdel-Jabbar received his doctorate (PhD) in 1996 from the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA . He joined the AUS Department of Chemical Engineering in September 2004. Prior to that, Dr. Abdel-Jabbar held several academic and industrial positions. He worked as a faculty at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), Jordan, and as a senior project engineer at AspenTech, Houston, Texas, USA, in the division of advanced control and optimization. Dr. Abdel-Jabbar has published several journal articles and technical papers and participated in many international and regional conferences. He is recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Research Award (2002) and the Hisham Hijawi Award for Applied Sciences (1999).

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

1. Mjalli, F., Ettouney, H., Abdel-Jabbar, N., Qiblawey, H., Design and operating characteristics of pilot scale reverse osmosis plants, Desalination, 222 (2008) 441–450.
2. Aidan, A., N. Abdel-Jabbar, T. Ibrahim, V. Nenov, F. Mjalli, “Neural Network Modeling and Optimization of Scheduling Backwash for Membrane Bioreactor,” Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2007.
3. Abdel-Jabbar, N., F. Mjalli, H. Qiblawey, H. Ettouney, “Development of Web Based Computer Package for the Simulation of Thermal Desalination Processes,” Chemical Product and Process Modeling, Vol. 2 (3), 1-25, 2007.
4. Husseini, G., N. Abdel-Jabbar, F. Mjalli, W. Pitt, “Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis of Acoustic Release of Doxorubicin from Unstablized Pluronic P105 using an Artificial Neural Network Model,” Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment, Vol. 6, 1 2007.
5. Abdel-Jabbar, N., H. M. Qiblawey, F. Mjalli, H. Ettouney, “Simulation of Large Capacity MSF Brine Circulation Plants,” Desalination Journal, 204, 501-514, 2007.
6. Mjalli, F. and N. Abdel-Jabbar, “Control of Sceibel Extraction Contactors using Neural-Network-Based Control Algorithms,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 44, 2125-2133, 2005.
7. Abdel-Jabbar, N., R. Jumah, and M. Al-Haj Ali, “State Estimation and State Feedback Control for Continuous Fluidized Bed Dryers,” Food Engineering, 70, 197–203, 2005.
8. Mjalli, F. N. Abdel-Jabbar, J. P. Fletcher, “Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Schiebel Extraction Columns: Part (I): Dynamic Analysis and System Identification,” Chemical Engineering and Processing, 44 (5), 543-555, 2005.
9. Mjalli, F., N. Abdel-Jabbar, J. P. Fletcher, “Modeling, Simulation and Control of Schiebel Extraction Columns: Part (II) Control System Design,” Chemical Engineering and Processing, 44 (5), 531-542, 2005
10. Abdel-Jabbar, N. and M. Al-Nimr, “The Dual-Phase-Lag Heat Conduction Model in Thin Slab under Fluctuating Boundary Thermal Disturbance,” Heat Transfer Engineering, 24(5), 47-54, 2003.
11. Mohameed, H., N. Abdel-Jabbar, K. Takrouri, A. Naser, “Model-Based Optimal Cooling Strategy for Batch Crystallization Processes,” Chemical Engineering Research and Design (IChemE), 81(A5), 578-584, 2003.
12. Harb, A. and N. Abdel-Jabbar, “Controlling Hopf Bifurcation and Chaos in a Small Power Systems,” Chaos, Solitensand Fractal 18, 1055-1063, 2003.
13. Abu Al-Rub, F., Abdel-Jabbar, N., Darwish, N., and Ghanem, H. “Vapor-liquid equilibrium of MTBE-methanol, MTBE-methanol-calcium chloride and MTBE-methanol-lithium chloride mixtures,” J. Chem. Eng. & Tech., 25, 2002.
14. Abdel-Jabbar, N., Jumah, R., and Al-Haj Ali, M., “Multivariable Process Identification and Control of Continuous Fluidized Bed Dryers,” Drying Technology, 20 (7), 1347-1377, 2002.
15. Abdel-Jabbar, N., Jumah, R., and Al-Haj Ali, M., “Dynamic Analysis of Continuous Well-Mixed Fluidized/Spouted Bed Dryers,” Drying Technology, 20 (1), 37-54, 2002.
16. Idkaidek, N. and Abdel-Jabbar, N., “A Novel Approach to Increase Oral Drug Absorption,” Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, 6 (2), 167-171, 2001.
17. Abdel-Jabbar, N., Al-Asheh, S., and Hader, B., “Modeling, Parametric Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis for Copper Adsorption with Moss Packed-Bed,” Separation Science and Technology, 36 (13), 2811-2833, 2001.
18. Abdel-Jabbar, N., Carnahan, B., and Kravaris, C. “A Multirate Parallel-Modular Algorithm for Dynamic Process Simulation Using Distributed Memory Multicomputers,” Computers and Chemical Engineering, 23, no. 6, pp. 733-761, 1999.
19. Abdel-Jabbar, N., Kravaris, C., and Carnahan, B., “Partially Decentralized State Observer and its Parallel Computer Implementation,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 37, No. 7, pp. 2741-2760, 1998.
20. Abdel-Jabbar, N. and Alatiqi, I., “Inferential-Feedforward Control of Petroleum Fractionators: A PNA Approach,” Computers and Chemical Engineering, 21, no. 3, pp. 255-262, 1997.

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

1. G. Husseini, N. Abdel-Jabbar, F. Mjalli, W. Pitt, “Using Artificial Neural Networks to Model Acoustic Release of Doxorubicin from Unstabilized Pluronic P105, ” IASTED International Conference on Modern Nonlinear Control Theory- Chaos and Bifurcation and Chaos (MNT 2007), Montreal, Canada, May 30-June 1, 2007.
2. H. Ettouney, F. Mjalli, N. Abdel-Jabbar, H. Qiblawey, “Design and Operating Characteristics of Pilot Scale Reverse Osmosis Plants,” Desalination and the Environment, Halkidiki, Greece, 22–25 April 2007. (to appear in Desalination Journal; in press)
3. F. Mjalli, N. Abdel-Jabbar, H. Qiblawey , H. Ettouney, “Neural and Genetic Based Techniques for Solving the MSF Model as Opposed to Conventional Numerical Methods,” Proc. 17th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering– ESCAPE 17, Bucharest, Romania, May 27-30, 2007.
4. Wajdi Ahmad and Nabil Abdel-Jabbar, “Modeling and Simulation of a Fractional Order Bioreactor System,” Second IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications, Porto, Portugal, July 19-21, 2006.
5. Nabil Abdel-Jabbar, Farouq Mjalli, Hazim Qiblawey, Hisham Ettouney, “Computer Package for Design and Costing of Thermal and Membrane Desalination Processes,” Fifth International Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse Desalination, Singapore, September 2005.
6. J. Hamadi, M. Jarrah, N. Abdel-Jabbar , “Model-Based Control of Amine Sweetening Plant,” Second AUS International Mechatronics Symposium, Sharjah, UAE, April 2005.
7. RavindraD. Gudi, James B. Rawlings, Aswin Venkat, and Nabil Abdel Jabbar, “Identification for Decentralized MPC,” Seventh International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS 7), Boston, MA, USA, July 2004.
8. F. Mjalli, N. Abdel-Jabbar, J. P. Fletcher, “Dynamic Analysis and System Identification of A Schiebel Extraction Column,” IASTED Conference (ASM 2004), Rhodes, Greece, June 28-30, 2004.
9. Nabil Abdel-Jabbar, Hazim A. Mohameed, Kifah Takrouri, “System Identification and Control of Batch Crystallization Processes,” Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization, Sorrento, Italy, September 15-18, 2002.
10. N. Abdel-Jabbar, F. Abu Al-Rub and K. Abu-Diak, “A New Structural Methodology for Design and Control Integration of Heat Exchanger Network,” World Renewable Energy Congress VII, Cologne, Germany, June 29- July 5, 2002.
11. Nabil Abdel-Jabbar, Costas Kravaris and Brice Carnahan, “Structural Analysis and Partitioning of Dynamic Process Models for Parallel State Estimation,” Proceedings of the 1998 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 3170-3176, June 1998.
12. Nabil Abdel-Jabbar, Costas Kravaris and Brice Carnahan, “A Partially Decentralized Model-Based Control Strategy and its Parallel Computer Implementation,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Chicago, ILL, November 1996.