International Conference on
Chemical Engineering & Catalysis

Prof. Litter is Doctor in Chemistry from the Buenos Aires University, Argentina (1974) with Postdoctoral stage at the University of Arizona, USA (1983). She is Senior Researcher of the Research Council (CONICET) and Full Professor of the University of General San Martín, Argentina. She was Principal Researcher at the National Atomic Commission until her retirement where she was Head of the Environmental Chemistry Remediation Division. Her research focuses on treatment of organic and inorganic contaminants in water and air by innovative advanced technologies, especially heterogeneous photocatalysis and use of nanomaterials. She authored more than 200 scientific publications in international journals, books and chapters of books. She received the Mercosur Prize twice in 2006 and 2011. She was President of the Local Organizing Committee of the 5th. International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment (As2014), Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 11 to 16 May 2014. She was designated pioneer on photocatalysis in Argentina (2016).

Professor Stanislaw Dzwigaj received his PhD degree in 1982 in Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Krakow (Poland). After two years of postdoctoral stay at the Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface Université P. et M. Curie (Paris) he obtained in 1990 a position of contracted researcher in the same Laboratory devoted to surface reactivity in relation to catalysis phenomena. Then, in 2008 he obtained permanent position in CNRS as a researcher. On February 19, 2014 for outstanding scientific achievements he received the title of professor. His published work includes more than 150 papers published in reputable international journals.

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Detlef Bahnemann received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Technical University Berlin in 1981 and his Habilitation in the area of Technical Chemistry from the Leibniz University Hannover in 2012. He is currently the Head of the Research Unit Photocatalysis and Nanotechnology at the Institute of Technical Chemistry of the Leibniz University Hannover in Germany and also the Director of the Research Institute on Nanocomposite Materials for Photonic Applications at Saint Petersburg State University in Russia. His main research topics include photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, solar chemistry, and photochemistry focussed on the synthesis and the detailed investigation of the physical-chemical properties of semiconductor and metal nanoparticles. He holds an Honorary Professorship at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen/Scotland (United Kingdom), an Honorary Professorship at the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (Chinese Academy of Sciences) in Urumqi (China), the Erudite Professorship at the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam (India), a Guest Professorship of Tianjin University (China), and is DeTao Master of Photocatalysis, Nanomaterials and Energy Applications (China). Prof. Bahnemann is the lead author of more than 260 publications in peer reviewed journals that have been cited more than 21 000 times (h-index: 58 according to ISI, 64 according to Google Scholar Citations) and has edited 2 scientific books.

Lenore L. Dai joined the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University in Fall 2008. Professor Dai received her doctorate in materials science and engineering from the University of Illinois in 1997. She worked for PPG Industries, Inc. for five and one-half years prior to joining the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University in 2002. Professor Dai is a recipient of the Fulton Exemplar Faculty Award (2014), ASU Parents Association Special Recognition Award (2012), AIChE-ASU Professor of the Year Award (2010), Top Five Percent Faculty at the IRA A. Fulton School of Engineering Award (2009, 2010, 2012, and 2015), National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2007), Whitacre Engineering Research Award (2007), Lockheed Martin Engineering Teaching Award (2007), Texas Tech Alumni Association New Faculty Award (2005), AIChE Professor of the Year Award (2003, 2005, 2006), 3M Nontenured Faculty Award (2003, 2004, 2005), University of Illinois Young Alumnus Award (2001), and Racheff Award (1996). She has also been recognized as an Elite Expert (EliteXpertTM).

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Engineering Program and Aerospace Research and Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 to 200. He was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Professor Agarwal has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), renewable energy systems and nanotechnology. He is the author and coauthor of over 300 publications and serves on the editorial board of fifteen journals. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow of fifteen societies including American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), and Institute of Physics. Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), and Institute of Physics.

Dr. Gordon Huang is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Energy and Environment, and Executive Director of the Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Communities at the University of Regina. Since the 1990s, he has led over 150 climate and environment-related projects, produced over 800 peer-refereed journal papers with an SCI-based H-index of 50, and supervised over 100 graduate students. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the president of the International Society for Environmental Information Sciences, editor-in-chief for 2 international journals, and editorial board member for over 10 journals.

Dr. J.P. Mittal is presently M.N. Saha Distinguished Professor (NASI) at BARC. He joined Chemistry Division, BARC in 1960 through the third batch of BARC Training School. He became Head, Chemistry Division in 1986, Director, Chemistry Group in 1993 and Director, Chemistry and Isotope Group in 1999. He did seminal work in the area of radiation and photochemistry, and was responsible for initiating ultra-fast chemistry labs at Chemistry Group. He superannuated in 2003. He has published more than 350 papers in international journals and guided about 35 younger colleagues for their PhDs. In recognition of his significant contributions, he has been conferred with a number of national and international awards such as Humboldt Senior Research Award, Senior JSPS Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship-USA, Distinguished Photo-chemist Award from Japanese Society of Photochemistry, Goyal Prize in Chemical Sciences, Life Time Achievement awards from the Chemical Research Society of India and the Indian Chemical Society, Padma Shri (2003) from Government of India, just to name a few. He is a Fellow of all the three Science academies in India, namely the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc) the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) and the Indian National Science Academy (FNA). He is also a Fellow of World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).

Prof. Lim is currently in the Division of Environmental & Water Resources Engineering, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering. He received his Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering (University of Malaya, Malaysia), Masters degree in Geo-environmental Engineering (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), and PhD degree in Environmental Engineering (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). He provides expert services in the fields of advanced water treatment and reclamation, pollution control, environmental site assessment, environmental monitoring, and hazardous waste site rehabilitation. He is also engaged by local authorities or organizations to provide independent third party review for environmental projects. He also conducts training courses to professionals working in the field of water and soil pollution control.

Dr. Sultan Alshmimri earned his M.Sc. from the University in Manchester in the UK in 2011 in Polymer Material Science and Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in the UK in 2016 in chemistry. His research was on the behavior of β-Triketimine Nickel Complexes in olefin polymerization. In collaboration with Clariant Inter Ltd Co. in Germany, He worked on transferring and producing Carbon Fibers in Saudi Arabia. Currently, He is the Director of KACST-UC Berkeley Center of Excellence of Nanomaterial for Clean Energy applications (CENCEA). He is working with the University of California-Berkeley to produce new Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) to be used in various applications, such as, water harvesting from air and CO2 capturing and utilization.

His research interests are environmental remediation and energy conversion, aiming to enhance sustainability by generating and using new fundamental insights on the molecular and nanoscopic level to develop feasible leads for the design of new catalytic chemical routes and processes. His recent research project involves the rational design of porous perovskite oxide catalysts for the environmental pollutant prevention and energy conversion. Dr Arandiyan has published more than 100 peer-review papers in heterogonous catalysis area.

Abdollah was born in 1969 in Iran. He graduated in petroleum engineering. He has more than 25 years of industry expertise in the Middle East, amongst others as Senior Petroleum Engineer at National Oil Companies and course lecturer for Petroleum Engineering at universities in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa. Furthermore, he is leading international workshops and master classes and has presented numerous papers as expert speaker at international conferences throughout the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa. He is author of numerous articles published in international journals covering the wider range of gas production, exploration, and processing in great depth.

Dr. Obed Majeed Ali obtained Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Hons) in 2000 and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2002 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering / College of Engineering at Mosul University, Iraq. Dr. Obed Majeed Ali obtained his DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Mechanical Engineering (Internal Combustion Engine and Alternative Fuels) in 2014 from University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. After finishing his PhD., he worked as a senior lecturer at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering-University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. While working as a senior lecturer, he supervised many PhD and Master Students. He has published many technical papers in very reputable journals and international conferences in the area of internal combustion engine, energy efficiency, engine performance, exhaust emissions and alternative green fuels. In addition, Dr. Obed Majeed Ali worked as a lecturer at the Technical Institute of Hawija-Foundation of Technical Education, Iraq from year 2003 to 2012, and currently lecturer at the Northern Technical University, Iraq. His present research interests are Biofuel, combustion and emissions of Spark-Ignition (SI) and Compressed-Ignition (CI) engines, combustion strategies, fuel injection strategies, alternative future green fuels, fuel spray behaviour, modelling air flow and thermal stress analysis on Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF). Dr. Obed Majeed Ali is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) of UK and also registered with American Association for Science and Technology (AASCIT), USA and the Iraqi Engineers Society, Iraq.

Ibtisam Kamal is professor of process engineering, and vice dean for scientific affairs at Soran University, Kurdistan Region- Iraq. She received her BSc in 1975, MSc in 1982 from Basrah University-Iraq. In 1983 she got a position of assistant lecturer in chemical engineering department, faculty of engineering, Basrah University. She received her PhD degree in Polymer Technology from Basrah University in 1991. She got her full professor degree in 2001, and held the position of head of chemical engineering department for seven academic years (1997-2003), she established for the first time the post-graduate studies in chemical engineering department and supervised 15 PhD and MSc thesis in chemical and civil engineering, she worked also as consultant and member of administrative board in industrial sectors including the Iraqi state company of petrochemical industries. She has been awarded the annual Iraqi national award for Iraqi experts and scientists for three academic years. After 20 years academic work in Basrah University, she transferred her services to Baghdad University and worked in Alkwarizmi engineering faculty as professor in biochemical engineering department. She got a sabbatical leave to University of La Rochelle, France (Laboratory of Engineering Science for Environment LaSIE FRE-CNRS 3474), she conducted her postdoctoral studies, then received her HDR degree in Process Engineering from La Rochelle University- France. She worked at La Rochelle University, contributed in teaching and supervision of post graduate studies as well as in planning and preparing European projects. In 2012 she returned back to Iraq and worked as professor in Soran University-Kurdistan region, she held the positions of head of school of engineering, head of chemical engineering department and vice dean for scientific affairs of faculty of engineering. Prof. Ibtisam Kamal research activity is documented by more than 130 scientific peer-reviewed papers, and 2 patents, she has participated as keynote speaker and delegate in dozens of national and international conferences, she has been also serving as member of editorial board of some international journals. Her main research interest has focused on simulation of the production processes of petroleum and petrochemical products, and modeling and optimization of treatment, extraction and transformation of renewable resources to biofuels.