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College / Department

College of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering

Teaching areas

Chemical engineering measurements, Unit and operation at chemical engineering I & II, materials science, simulation, process dynamics and control, introduction to engineering, corrosion and wastewater projects

Research areas

Process dynamics and control, Simulation. Wastewater, Water technologies. Corrosion. Air pollutionusing bio-filtration and Renewable Energy.

Education

B.Sc., M.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Higher Institute of Chemical Technology, Bulgaria 1987
PhD, Higher Institute of Chemical Technology, Bourgas Bulgaria, 2008

Professional experience

Energy Research Center and the Scientific Congress, Baghdad1987-1992,
Baghdad University of Technology, Iraq, 1992-1999
American University of Sharjah, UAE, 1999 - Present

Memberships

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE),Iraqi Engineers Association

Contact

aidan@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2563

Ahmed A. Aidan

Senior Lab Instructor
PhD in Chemical Engineering, Higher Institute of Chemical Technology, Bulgaria

Ahmed Aidan worked as a research engineer in the Energy Research Center and the Scientific Congress, Baghdad. He has worked as a lab instructor for more than 19 years at the University of Technology, Baghdad, and at American University of Sharjah. His areas of research and teaching interest are in process control, simulation, wastewater, renewable energy and corrosion. His teaching areas are material science; units and operation and control labs I, II , III; corrosion and waste water treatment lab.

Publications

Raafat Alnaizy, Nabil Abdel-Jabbar, Ahmed Aidan, Noor Abachi,” Modeling and dynamic analysis of a membrane bioreactor with backwash scheduling”, Desalination and Water Treatment journal DWT 8690, 15-01-2012.
T.A. Ratlawamah, A.H. El-Sinawi, M.A. Gadalla and A. Aidan. “Performance analysis of a newly designed PEM fuel cell”. International Journal of Energy Research. 2011, DOI: 10.1002/er.1877. In press
Raafat Alnaizy • Ahmad Aidan • Haonan Luo ,”Performance assessment of a pilot-size vacuum rotation membrane bioreactor treating urban wastewater” Applied Water Science Volume 1, Numbers 3-4, 103-110, DOI 10.1007/s13201-011-0013-2 Received: 17 March 2011 / Accepted: 23 August 2011 / Published online: 22 September 2011
Ahmed Aidan • Raafat Alnaizy • Valentin Nenov •Omar Abdelrahman, Process design of waste gas treatment from Emirates Gold Refinery, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy DOI: 1007/s10098-010-0323-3 ,21 September 2010 Springer-Verlag 2010
Z. M. Shareefdeen*, A. Aidan, W. Ahmed, M. B. Khatri, M. Islam, R. Lecheheb, F. Shams, Hydrogen Sulphide Removal Using a Novel Biofilter Media , International Journal of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering 3:2 2010 , World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 62 2010
Ahmed Aidan, Mehrab Mehrvar, Taleb Hassan Ibrahim, Valentin Nenov, Raafat Alnaizy, “Phenolic Shock Load in a Submerged Ceramic Membrane Bioreactor for the Degradation of Aqueous Phenol”, International Review of Chemical Engineering, V 1,January 2009 ,
Aidan Ahmed, N. Abdel-Jabbar, T. H. Ibrahim, V. Nenov, F. Mjalli (Neural Network Modeling and Optimization of Scheduling Backwash for Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy Journal Volume 10, Number 4November, 2008
Aidan, Ahmed, Mehrvar, Mehrab, Ibrahim, Taleb Hassan and Nenov, Valentin, ’Particulates and bacteria removal by ceramic microfiltration, UV photolysis, and their combination', Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, 42:7, (2007 ) pp 895 – 901
Taleb H. Ibrahim, Ahmed Aidan, Valentin Nenov, NOVEL” METHOD FOR MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT, 2nd International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology 2006 August 19-22, 2006 _ Greenspoint Wyndham Hotel _ Houston, USA
Ahmad Hamad and Ahmed Aidan ,Mohammed Fayed and Mehrab Mehrvar, Experimental Investigation of Phenolic Wastewater Treatment Using Combined Activated Carbon and UV Processes, Clean Techn Eviron policy, vol 7,(2005), pp (177-181)
Hamad, A. Aidan, M. Douboni. “Cost-effective wastewater treatment and recycling in mini-plants using mass integration.” Clean Techn Environ Policy 4, 246-256, 2003.

Conference Presentations

Ahmed Aidan, Raafat Alnaizy, M. Qasim Rafiq “Fruit Juice Concentration Process using Different Kinds of Membranes in Forward Osmosis”, International Conference on Water, Energy and Environment November 14–17, 2011
Ahmed Aidan, Zarook Shareefdeen, Bogdan Bogdanov*, Irena Markovska*, Dimitar Rusev*, Yancho Hristov*lab scale production and testing of aerated autoclave concrete Proceedings of a 12th , International conference on mechanics and technology of composite materials MTCM’ September 22-24, 2009, Varna, Bulgaria
Ahmad Aidan, Shareefdeen Z, Kaltam Al-Kaabi, Mashael Maraziq, Marwa Shiri, Dana Nasralla, and Preethi Varijakshan, “ Lab Scale Production and Testing of Aerated Autoclave Concrete”, 24th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water, October 20 -23, 2008, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.

Awards and Honors

20010-2012 Bee’ah: The Sharjah Environmental , “Bio-filter Development and Testing for Removal of Air Pollutants from Waste Treatment and Industrial Facilities” 138,000 Dhs
2008-2011 Europe-and Ministry of Education and Science- Bulgaria, “Elaborating of compositions, installation and technology for obtaining porous silicate materials from local natural materials and waste products. a. 380.000 US $
2009-2010 Emirates foundation ,”Treatment of Mixed Refinery Spent Caustic by Chemical Oxidation in Conjunction with Aerobic Biological treatment 200.000Dhs
2004-2005 Emirates Gold DMCC. Reduction of NO/NO2 Emission from gold refinery Process 35,000 Dhs
2003-2004 AUS/ Petrofac,Corrosion and Oil State Monitoring in Oil and Gas Industries 100,000 Dhs

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