Faculty

Profile

College / Department

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Teaching areas

Process Dynamics and Control, Computer Numerical Methods, Process Modeling and Simulation, Process Design, Safety, and Economics, Petroleum Refining, Fluid Flow, Statistical Design of Experiments, Advanced Process Analysis and Control.

Research areas

Advanced control, modeling, simulation, and optimization of petrochemical and environmental chemical processes, water desalination and wastewater treatment plants, drug delivery systems, and heat integration processes. Ionic liquids and its applications.

Education

PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States, 1996

MS, Chemical Engineering, Kuwait University, 1990

BS, Chemical Engineering, Kuwait University, 1986

Professional experience

Professor, American University of Sharjah, 2010 - Present

Visiting Professor, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2024 - 2024

Interim Department Head, American University of Sharjah, 2021 - 2021

Director, Gulf Ecosystems Research Center, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2013 - 2015

Visiting Scholar, Nsf Science & Technology Center For Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction (cmop), Oregon Health & Science University, OR, United States, 2013 - 2013

Associate Professor, American University of Sharjah, 2004 - 2010

Associate Professor, Jordan University of Sci. & Tech., Jordan, 2003 - 2010

Visiting Professor, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2004 - 2005

Visiting Scholar, Chemical And Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003 - 2003

Assistant Professor, Jordan University of Sci. & Tech., Jordan, 1996 - 2003

Assistant Dean Of Engineering, Jordan University of Sci. & Tech., Jordan, 2000 - 2001

Senior Project Engineer, Advanced Control And Optimization, Aspen Technology, Houston, TX, USA, 1998 - 1999

Graduate Teaching Assistant/instructor, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, MI, United States, 1992 - 1995

Scientific Assistant, Chemical Engineering, Kuwait university, Kuwait, 1986 - 1990

Memberships

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), USA, September 1992

Jordan Assoc. of Engineers, Jordan, June 1986

International Desalination Assoc., USA, September 2005 - September 2006

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2817

Dr. Nabil M Abdel Jabbar

Professor

PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States

Dr. Nabil Abdel Jabbar's areas of specialization include process modeling, simulation, advanced control, process design, and optimization. He has diverse academic, industrial, and administrative work experiences at different institutions. He published numerous research articles in high-impact factor journals and conference proceedings. He held/attended many professional workshops. Dr. Abdel Jabbar received several scientific and research grants awards. He served as a guest co-editor and a member of the editorial board of international journals.

Publications

Du Pu, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Benjamin Wilhite And Costas Kravaris. Fault Diagnosis in Chemical Reactors with Data-Driven Methods, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, March 2025

Aahil Khambhawala, Chi Lee, Silabrata Pahari, Paul Nancarrow, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Mahmoud El-halwagi And Joseph Kwon. Advanced transformer models for structure-property relationship predictions of ionic liquid melting points, Chemical Engineering Journal, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2025

Ibrahim Shomope, Kelly Percival, Nabil Jabbar And Ghaleb Husaini. Predicting Calcein Release from Ultrasound-Targeted Liposomes: A Comparative Analysis of Random Forest and Support Vector Machine, Technology In Cancer Research & Treatment, November 2024

Ibrahim Shomope, Nabil Abdel Jabbar And Ghaleb Husaini. Support Vector Regression (SVR) for Prediction of Ultrasound Drug Release, Aip Conf. Proc., 3034, 100004-1–100004-8, March 2024

Shehzad Liaqat, Moh’d Shahin, Paul Nancarrow, Samira Zeinab, Taleb Ibrahim, Nabil Jabbar, Mustafa Khamis And Sarah Mccormack. Prediction of Liquid Phase Heat Capacity of Ionic Liquids: Comparison of Existing Methods and Development of New Hybrid Group Contribution Models, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., September 2023

Tarek Lemaoui, Ahmad Darwish, Ghaiath Almustafa, Abir Boublia, P. Sarika, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Taleb Ibrahim, Paul Nancarrow, Krishna Yadav, Ahmed Fallatah, Mohamed Abbas, Jari Algethami, Yacine Benguerba, Byong-hun Jeon, Fawzi Banat And Inas Alnashef. Machine learning approach to map the thermal conductivity of over 2,000 neoteric solvents for green energy storage applications, Energy Storage Materials, May 2023

Ibrahim Shomope, Nabil Jabbar And Ghaleb Husseini. Application of Random Forest Regressor for the Prediction of Estrone – Liposomal Drug Release at different Ultrasound Power Densities, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2023

Dhruve Mital, Shehzad Liaqat, Paul Nancarrow, Taleb Ibrahim, Nabil Abdel Jabbar And Mustafa Khamis. Thermal Conductivities of NTf2-Based Ionic Liquids: Experimental Measurement and Prediction via Group Contribution Methods, Journal Of Chemical & Engineering Data, September 2022

Dhruve Mital, Paul Nancarrow, Taleb Ibrahim, Nabil Abdel Jabbar And Mustafa Khamis. Ionic Liquid Melting Points: Structure-Property Analysis and New Hybrid Group Contribution Model, Industrial And Engineering Chemistry Research, 6 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2022

Amir Khan, Taleb Ibrahim, Nabil Jabbar, Mustafa Khamis, Paul Nancarrow And Farouq Mjalli. Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents for the recovery of phenolic compounds: effect of ionic liquids structure and process parameters, Rsc Advances, 2021

Amir Khan, Taleb Ibrahim, Noor Akbar, Mustafa Khamis, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Paul Nancarrow, Farouq Mjalli, Naveed Khan And Nabil Abdel Jabbar. Application of protic ammonium-based ionic liquids with carboxylate anions for phenol extraction from aqueous solution and their cytotoxicity on human cells, Journal Of Molecular Liquids, November 2021

Amir Khan, Taleb Ibrahim, Mustafa Khamis, Paul Nancarrow, Jibran Iqbal, Inas Alnashef, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Muhammad Hassan And Farouq Mjalli. Preparation of sustainable activated carbon-alginate beads impregnated with ionic liquid for phenol decontamination, Journal Of Cleaner Production, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2021

Amir Khan, Taleb Ibrahim, Zeeshan Rashid, Mustafa Khamis, Paul Nancarrow And Nabil Jabbar. COSMO-RS based screening of ionic liquids for extraction of phenolic compounds from aqueous media, Journal Of Molecular Liquids, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021

Dhruve Mital, Paul Nancarrow, Samira Zeinab, Nabil Jabbar, Taleb Ibrahim, Mustafa Khamis And Alnoman Taha. Group Contribution Estimation of Ionic Liquid Melting Points: Critical Evaluation and Refinement of Existing Models, Molecules, 22 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021

Dhruve Mital, Paul Nancarrow, Samira Zeinab, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Taleb Ibrahim, Mustafa Khamis And Alnoman Taha. Group Contribution Estimation of Ionic Liquid Melting Points: Critical Evaluation and Refinement of Existing Models, Molecules (basel, Switzerland), 22 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021

Amir Khan, Taleb Ibrahim, Zeeshan Rashid, Mustafa Khamis, Paul Nancarrow And Nabil Abdel Jabbar. COSMO-RS based screening of ionic liquids for extraction of phenolic compounds from aqueous media, Journal Of Molecular Liquids, 15 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021

Amir Khan, Taleb Ibrahim, Mustafa Khamis, Paul Nancarrow And Nabil Jabbar. Role of cation and alkyl chain length on the extraction of phenol from aqueous solution using NTf2-based ionic liquids: Experimental and computational analysis, Journal Of Molecular Liquids, March 2021

Amir Khan, Taleb Ibrahim, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Mustafa Khamis, Paul Nancarrow And Farouq Mjalli. Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents for the recovery of phenolic compounds: effect of ionic liquids structure and process parameters, Rsc Advances, 29 March 2021

Amir Khan, Taleb Ibrahim, Mustafa Khamis, Paul Nancarrow And Nabil Abdel Jabbar. Role of cation and alkyl chain length on the extraction of phenol from aqueous solution using NTf2-based ionic liquids: Experimental and computational analysis, Journal Of Molecular Liquids, 15 March 2021

Basma Baioumy, Rachid Chebbi And Nabil Jabbar. Bingham Fluid Flow in the Entrance Region of a Pipe, Journal Of Fluids Engineering-transactions Of The Asme, February 2021

Rehab Khawaga, Mohamed Abouleish, Nabil Abdel Jabbar And Sameer Al-asheh. Chlorination breakpoint with nitrite in wastewater treatment: A full factorial design experiments, Journal Of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 1 February 2021

Taleb Ibrahim, Muhammad Sabri, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Paul Nancarrow, Farouq Mjalli And Inas Alnashef. Thermal Conductivities of Choline Chloride-Based Deep Eutectic Solvents and Their Mixtures with Water: Measurement and Estimation, Molecules, 21 August 2020

R Khawaga, Nabil Jabbar, Sameer Al-asheh And Mohamed Abouleish. Model Identification and Control of Chlorination Disinfection in Wastewater Treatment., Journal Of Water Process Engineering, December 2019

Awais Zaka, Taleb Ibrahim, Mustafa Khamis And Nabil Jabbar. Experimental design modelling and optimization of levofloxacin removal with graphene nanoplatelets using response surface method, Desalination And Water Treatment, November 2019

A Zaka, Taleb Ibrahim, Mustafa Khamis And Nabil Jabbar. Experimental design modelling and optimization of levofloxacin removal with graphene nanoplatelets using response surface method, Desalination And Water Treatment, November 2019

Rachid Chebbi, Muhammad Qasim And Nabil Abdel Jabbar. Optimization of triethylene glycol dehydration of natural gas, Energy Reports, 1 November 2019

Taleb Ibrahim, Rami Alhasan, Mohamed Bedrelzaman, Muhammad Sabri, Nabil Abdel Jabbar And Farouq Mjalli. Corrosion Behavior of Common Metals in Eutectic Ionic Liquids, International Journal Of Electrochemical Science, September 2019

A. Zaka, Taleb Ibrahim, Mustafa Khamis And Nabil Abdel Jabbar. Experimental Design Modelling and Optimization of Levofloxacin Removal with Graphene Nanoplatelets using Response Surface Method, Sixth International Conference On Water, Energy And Environment (icwee/6), March 2019

Rehab Khawaga, Sameer Al-asheh, Nabil Abdeljabbar And Mohamed Abouleish. Modelling and Validation of Chloribation with Nitrate in Wastewater Treatment, Water Research Journal Of Canada, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2018

Nabil Jabbar And Farouq Mjalli. Ultrasonic study of binary aqueous mixtures of three common eutectic solvents, Physics And Chemistry Of Liquids: An International Journal, 13 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2017

M Hesham, Ghaleb Husaini, Nabil Mohamed Jabr Abdel Jabbar And S Ahmed. The Use of Model Predictive Control and Artificial Neural Networks to Optimize the Ultrasonic Release of a Model Drug from Liposomes, Ieee Transactions On Nanobioscience, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2017

Ibrahim Masoud, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Muhammad Qasim And Rachid Chebbi. Methodological Framework for Economical and Controllable Design of Heat Exchanger Networks: Steady-State Analysis, Dynamic Simulation, and Optimization, Applied Thermal Engineering, 5 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016

Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Wasim Ahmed And Zarook Shareefdeen. System Identification and Control of a Biotrickling Filter, Chemical Product And Process Modeling, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2015

Wasim Ahmed, Zarook Shareefdeen And Nabil Abdel Jabbar. Dynamic modeling and analysis of biotrickling filters in continuous operation for H2S removal, Clean Technologies And Environmental Policy, December 2014

Farouq Mjalli And Nabil Jabbar. Acoustic investigation of choline chloride based ionic liquids analogs, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 15 November 2014

N. Abdel Jabbar, A. Aidan, H. Razouk, N. Chihadih, S. Faraghat And Y. El-tal. Biodiesel Production from Algal Oil- A Simulation Study, 2014 5th International Renewable Energy Congress (irec), March 2014

Raafat Alnaizy, Ahmad Aidan, Noor Abachi And Nabil Jabbar. Neural Network Model Identification and Advanced Control of a Membrane Biological Reactor, Journal Of Membrane And Separation Technology, 30 November 2013

Nabil Abdel-jabbar, António Baptista, Tuomas Karna, Paul Turner And Guatam Sen. US experience will advance Gulf Ecosystem Research, Geo-informatics In Resource Management And Sustainable Ecosystem: International Symposium, F., Xie, Y., Cui, X., Zeng, Y. (eds), Grmse 2013, Wuhan, China., November 2013

Raafat Alnaizy, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Ahmed Aidan And Noor Abachi. Modeling and dynamic analysis of a membrane bioreactor with backwash scheduling, Desalination And Water Treatment, 2012

Ghaleb Husaini, Nabil Abdel-jabbar, Farouq Mjalli, William Pitt And Ala'a Al-mousa. Optimizing the use of ultrasound to deliver chemotherapeutic agents to cancer cells from polymeric micelles, Journal Of The Franklin Institute-engineering And Applied Mathematics, 2011

Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Essam Al Zubaidy And Mehrab Mehrvar. Waste lubricating oil treatment by adsorption process using different adsorbents, Proceeding Of The International Conference On Environmental Science And Technology (icest 2010), Malaysia, Feb. 2010, 2010

Rachid Chebbi, N. Al-amoodi, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Ghaleb Husaini And K. Al Mazroui. Optimum ethane recovery in conventional turboexpander process, Chemical Engineering Research And Design, 2010

Ghaleb Husaini, Farouq Mjalli, William Pitt And Nabil Abdel Jabbar. Using Artificial Neural Networks and Model Predictive Control to Optimize Acoustically Assisted Doxorubicin Release from polymeric Micelles, Technology In Cancer Research & Treatment, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2009

Farouq Majali, Hisham Ettouney, Nabil Abdel-jabbar And Hazim Qiblawey. Design and operating characteristics of pilot scale reverse osmosis plants, Desalination, 2008

Rachid Chebbi, Khamis Al Mazroui And Nabil Abdel Jabbar. Study compares C2-recovery for conventional turboexpander, GSP, Oil And Gas Journal, 1 December 2008

Ghaleb Husaini, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Farouq Mjalli And William Pitt. Modeling and sensitivity analysis of acoustic release of Doxorubicin from unstabilized pluronic P105 using an Artificial Neural Network model, Technology In Cancer Research & Treatment, 2007

Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Hazim Qiblawey, Farouq Mjalli And Hisham Ettouney. Simulation of large capacity MSF brine circulation plants, Desalination, 2007

Conference Presentations

Support Vector Regression (SVR) for Prediction of Ultrasound Drug Release, The Ninth International Conference On Modeling, Simulation And Applied Optimization (icmsao’23), 26–28 April 2023 Marrakesh, Morocco., 26 April 2023

Application of Random Forest Regressor for the Prediction of Estrone – Liposomal Drug Release at different Ultrasound Power Densities, Society For Biomaterials 2023 Annual Meeting And Exposition, 19 April 2023

Prediction of Albumin-Liposomal Drug Release at Different Ultrasound Power Densities Using Random Forest, Uae Graduate Students Research Conference 2023, 19 March 2023

New Hybrid Group Contribution Model (GCM) for the Estimation of Heat Capacity of Ionic Liquids, 7th International Conference On Water, Energy And Environment, November 2022

Towards the data-driven design of ionic liquids as phase change materials (PCMS) for energy storage applications, 7th International Conference On Water, Energy And Environment, 24 November 2022

Combined Group Contribution Modeling and Machine Learning Approach for Predicting the Heat of Fusion of Ionic Liquids, Uae Graduate Students Research Conference 2022 (uaegsrc'2022), 24 March 2022

Environmental Impact Assessment- An Oil and Gas Industry Perspective, International Conference On Renewable And Sustainable Energy (renewablemeet2022), 21 March 2022

Estimating the Heats of Fusion of Ionic Liquids, Uae Graduate Students Research Conference 2021 (uaegsrc'2021), 28 June 2021

Development of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Forecasting Models and Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) for Chlorine Disinfection of Wastewater Treatment Effluent, Putrajaya International Conference On Multi-disciplinary Research (icmres2020), 18 January 2020

DESIGN OF A DAIRY WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, The 6th Putrajaya International Built Environment, Technology, And Engineering, April 2019

Heat Integration and Controllability Analysis of Heat Exchanger Networks, 2018 Aiche Annual Meeting, October 2018

Deep Extractive Desulfurization of Diesel Fuel Using Ionic Liquids, 2nd International Petrochemistry Conference, Rome, Italy, April 2018

Bingham Fluid Flow in the Entrance Region of a Pipe, Uae Graduate Students Research Conference 2017 (uaegsrc'17), Abu Dhabi, Uae, March 2017

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Facile and efficient bio-inspired route for an improved membrane based treatment of oil produced water (FRG24-C-E68), American University of Sharjah-ORGS, June 2024 - 31 May 2027

Grant, FRG23-E-E44: “Prediction of Drug Release Using Machine Learning Techniques, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2023 - 31 May 2024

Grant, FRG20-L-E77: Data-Driven Design of Ionic Liquids as Phase Change Materials, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2020 - 31 May 2023

Grant, Treatment of spent caustic using modified nano materials with ionic liquids, AUS, 1 June 2019 - 31 May 2022

Sponsored Research, Combined extractive dearomatization, denitrogenation and desulfurization of diesel using novel solvents, Khalifa University, 1 July 2018 - June 2021

Grant, FRG19-S-E93: Application of Mass Integration Network Technology for Wastewater Treatment Processes, American University of Sharjah, May 2019 - 31 May 2020

Awards and Honors

Sabbatical Leave Award, AUS, Spring Semester 2024 spent at Texas A&M University (Jan-April), 21 January 2024

CEN Annual Excellence Award 2021-2022 (Outstanding Interdisciplinary Research), CEN, AUS, May 2022

Sabbatical Leave Award, American University of Sharjah, NSF and Environmental Coastal Science Center, Portland, Oregon, USA, February 2013

Faculty Research Grant Category 1-Provost's Challenge 2012-2013, American University of Sharjah, Title: Using Targeted Nano-carriers and Ultrasound to Release High Concentration of Chemotherapeutic agents to Cancer Cells Worked as Co-PI PI:: Dr. Ghaleb Husseini, 2012

Senior Membership, AIChE, 2010

Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, September 2002

Hisham Hijawi Scientific Research Award, Hisham Hijawi Foundation, 1999