Rami Jumah

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Personal Information

Department of Chemical Engineering
Jordan University of Science and Technology
Irbid 22110 Jordan
Place and Date of Birth: Irbid, Jordan, 10/23/1966
Citizenship: Jordanian
Marital Status: Married, three children
Languages: Arabic, English

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dissertation: “Flow and Drying Characteristics of a Rotating Jet Spouted Bed” 1995

M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering
Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
Thesis: “A new Method to Solve Boundary-Layer Problems of Heat and Mass Transfer
in a Porous Medium .” 1992

B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering
Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
Graduation Project:” Flow Characteristics in a Rectangular Spout-fluid Bed” 1989

EXPERIENCE:

- June 2007 – present: Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan

- September 2011-August 2012: Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia

- April 2001– June 2007: Associate professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan

- 2005 – 2006: Chairman, Department of Chemical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan

- September 2002-August 2003 (Sabbatical leave), Associate professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar

- January 1996–April 2001: Assistant professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and technology, Irbid, Jordan

- Summer 2000: Visiting assistant professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

- Summer 1999: Visiting assistant professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

- 1992-1995: Teaching assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

- 1989-1991: Research and teaching assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and technology, Irbid, Jordan

TEACHING:

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:

- Heat Transfer (JUST)
- Mass Transfer (JUST)
- Fluid Mechanics (JUST)
- Unit Operations (JUST, Qatar University)
- Chemical Engineering Principles (KFU)
- Reaction Engineering I (JUST, Qatar University)
- Reaction Engineering II (JUST)
- Pharmaceutical Process Engineering (JUST)
- Transport Phenomena (KFU)
- Petroleum Engineering (JUST)
- Gas Treatment (Qatar University)
- Industrial Corrosion (Qatar University)
- Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory (JUST)
- Unit Operations Laboratory (JUST)
- Fluid Mechanics Laboratory (JUST)
- Chemical Processing Laboratory (JUST)

GRADUATE COURSES:

- Advanced Heat Transfer (JUST)
- Fluidization (JUST)

RESEARCH:

RESEARCH EMPHASIS AND INTERESTS:

- Heat and Mass transfer
- Drying and Dewatering
- Fluid-solid Systems including Fluidization, Spouting and Related Subjects
- Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic in Chemical Engineering
- Desalination
- Water Treatment

FUNDED RESEARCH:

- Electroosmotic Dewatering of Local Minerals and Biosolids
- Modeling and Control of Continuous Fluidized Bed Dryers
- Desalination by Solar-aided Membrane Distillation
- Manufacturing of Jameed Using the Spray Drying Process
- Production of Tomato Powder using the Spray Drying Technique
- Response surface methodology optimization of factors affecting the characteristics of polymeric films used in enteric coating in some pharmaceutical solid dosage form

THESIS SUPERVISION:

1. A.F. Zraiy, M.Sc., 1999, Manufacturing of Jameed Using Spray Drying Process
2. M. Garaebeh, M.Sc., 1999, Desalination by Solar-aided Membrane Distillation
3. M. Al-Haj Ali, M.Sc., 2001, Modeling and Control of Continuous Fluidized Bed Dryers
4. S. Hammad, M.Sc., 2001, Production of Tomato Powder using the Spray Drying Technique
5. K. Al-Zou’bi, M.Sc., 2003, Electroosmosis Dewatering of Tomato Paste Suspension
6. Mahmoud Amr, M.Sc., 2015, Investigation of the Removal of Foam Causing Contaminants and Degradation Products from Methyldiethanolamine Using Foam Fractionation Technique`
7. Boshra Taher, M.Sc., 2015, Response surface methodology optimization of factors affecting the characteristics of polymeric films used in enteric coating in some pharmaceutical solid dosage form

AWARDS and SCHOLARSHIPS:

- The Contemporary Who’s Who, American Biographical Institute, USA, 2003/2004
- The Hisham Hijjawi Award in the Field of Industry, Jordan, 2002
- The Hisham Hijjawi Award in the Field of Industry, Jordan, 1997
- McGill University Research Fellowships (FCAR, NSERC), 1992-1995
- McGill University Teaching Assistantship, 1992-1993
- Jordan University of Science and Technology Teaching Assistantship, 1989-1991

Training:

I delivered the following courses:

- Heat Exchangers Design, Operation, Maintenance & Troubleshooting [SABIC (Dammam and Khobar, Saudi Arabia)].
-Pumps Operation [SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)].

Professional Activities:

- Member, International Advisory Panel, The 5th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference, ADC’07, August 13-15, 2007, Hong Kong, China.
- Member, The International Scientific Advisory Committee, International Workshop and Symposium on Industrial Drying (IWSID-2004), December 2004, Mumbai, India.
- Member, International Advisory Committee, 2nd Asian-Oceania Drying Conference, ADC’01, August 20-22, 2001, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
- Member, International Advisory Committee, 1st Asian-Oceania Drying Conference, ADC’99, October 24-27, 1999, Bali, Indonesia.
- Referee: Drying Technology, Journal of Porous Media, Trans IChemE, Part C, Food and Bioproducts Processing, Int. J. Food Properties.
- Referee of several articles submitted to the Second & Third Jordanian Chemical Engineering Conferences (1996, 1999).
- Participation in scientific consultation committees in terms of measurements and standards for different industrial sectors held by The Institution For Standards and Metrology, Amman, Jordan.
-Coordinator and Chairman, Chemical Engineering Scientific Day, JUST, May 10, 2006.
- Administrator, Department of Chemical Engineering Website, 2003-present.
-Supervisor, Computer Facilities and Local Area Network, Dept. Chem. Eng., JUST, 1997-present.
-Coordinator, Scientific seminars held at the Dept. Chem. Eng., JUST, 1996-1997.
- Member, ABET Committee, Dept. Chem. Eng., JUST, September 2006-present
- Member, Laboratories Committee, Dept. Chem. Eng., JUST, 2006-present
- Member, Research Committee, Dept. Chem. Eng., JUST, 1998-2000.
-Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Dept. Chem. Eng., JUST, 2003-present
-Member, Curriculum Committee, Dept. Chem. Eng., JUST, 1996-present
-Coordinator, Senior Projects, Dept. Chem. Eng., JUST, 2003-2004
- Supervised several B. Sc. graduation projects, Chemical Engineering Department, JUST.
- Member of examining committees of several B. Sc. graduation projects and M.Sc. theses, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering Departments, JUST, the University of Jordan and Qatar University.

AFFILIATIONS:

Jordan Engineers Association, Member

PUBLICATIONS:

a) Book Chapters

04. Rami Y. Jumah and Arun S. Mujumdar (2015)”Dryer Feeding Systems”. In Handbook of Industrial Drying, 4th ed., (A. S. Mujumdar, ed.), CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, USA , pp.1025-1044.

03. Rami Y. Jumah and Arun S. Mujumdar (2015) “Dryer Emission Control Systems”, In Handbook of Industrial Dryin, 4th ed.,.(A. S. Mujumdar, ed.), CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp.1045-1076.

02. Rami Y. Jumah, Arun S. Mujumdar, and G.S.V. Raghavan (2015) “Control of Industrial Dryers”. In Handbook of Industrial Drying, 4th ed., (A. S. Mujumdar, ed.), CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp.1153-1170.

01. Rami Y. Jumah, Arun S. Mujumdar, and G.S.V. Raghavan (1997) “A Mathematical Model for Constant and Intermittent Drying of Grains in a Novel Rotating Jet Spouted Bed”, In Mathematical modeling and Numerical Techniques in Drying Technology, (I. Turner and A.S. Mujumdar, eds.), Marcel Dekker, New York, pp. 339-380.

b) Journal Articles

40. Emad Alhseinat, Mahmoud Amr, Rami Jumah, and Fawzi Banat (2015) “Removal of MDEA foam creators using foam fractionation: Parametric study coupled with foam Characterization”, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 26, 502-509.

39. Sameer Al-Asheh, Rami Jumah, Fawzi Banat, Amani Al-Zou’bi and Nesreen Al- Qutaish (2011) “Treatment of Olive-Mills effluent using Electro-osmosis Dewatering”, Hydrology : Current Research, 2:2.

38. R. Jumah, E. Al-Kteimat, A. Al-Hamad and E. Telfah (2007) “Constant and Intermittent Drying Characteristics of Olive Cake”, Drying Technology, 25: 1417–1422.

37. Rami Jumah, Sameer Al-Asheh, Fawzi Banat and Khalid Al-Zoubi (2007) "Influence of Salt, Starch, and pH on the Electroosmosis Dewatering of Tomato Paste Suspension", J. Food, Agriculture & Environment, 5(1), 34-38.

36. S. Al-Asheh, F. Mjalli, R. Jumah, F. Banat, W. Joudeh and F. Misleh (2006) "Electroosmosis Dewatering of Tomato Paste: Experimental Data and Neural Network Modeling", J. Food, Agriculture & Environment, 4(1), 80-85.

35. Rami Jumah (2005) "Modeling and Simulation of Continuous and Intermittent Radio Frequency-Assisted Fluidized Bed Drying of Grains", Trans IChemE, Part C, Food and Bioproducts Processing, 83(C3): 203-210.

34. R. Jumah, S. Al-Asheh, F. Banat, and K. Al-Zou’bi (2005) “Electroosmotic Dewatering of Tomato Paste Suspension Under AC Electric Field”, Drying Technology, 23(7), 1465 -1475.

33. Rami Jumah and Arun S. Mujumdar (2005)“ Modeling Intermittent Drying Using an Adaptive Neuro-fuzzy Inference System", Drying Technology, 23(5), 1075 -1092.

32. Nabil Abdel-Jabbar, Rami Jumah and M. Al-Haj Ali (2005) "State Estimation and State Feedback Control for Continuous Fluidized Bed Dryers", Journal of Food Engineering, 70, 197-203.

31. Basim Abu-Jdayil, Fawzi Banat, Rami Jumah, Sameer Al-Asheh, and Sunya Hammad (2004) “A Comparative Study of Rheological Characteristics of Tomato Paste and Tomato Powder Solutions”, Int. J. Food Properties, 7(3), 483-497.

30. S. Al-Asheh, R. Jumah, F. Banat, and K. Al-Zou’bi (2004) “Direct Current Electroosmosis Dewatering of Tomato Paste Suspension” Trans IChemE, Part C, Food and Bioproducts Processing, 82(C3), 193-200.

29. R. Jumah, F. Banat, S. Al-Asheh, and S. Hammad (2004) “Drying Kinetics of Tomato Paste”, Int. J. Food Properties, 7(2), 253-259.

28. S. Al-Asheh, R. Jumah, F. Banat and S. Hammad (2003) “The Use of Experimental Factorial Design for Analysis the Effect of Spray Dryer Operating Variables on The Production of Tomato Powder”, Trans IChemE, Part C, Food and Bioproducts Processing, 81, 81-88.

27. F. Banat, R. Jumah, S. Al-Asheh, and S. Hammad, (2002) “Effect of Operating Parameters on the Spray Drying of Tomato Paste”, Engineering in Life Sciences, 2(12), 403-407.

26. Nabil Abdel-Jabbar, Rami Jumah and M.Al-Haj Ali (2002) “Multivariable Process Identification and Control of Continuous Fluidized Bed Dryers”, Drying Technology, 20(7), 1347 -1377.

25. Nabil Abdel-Jabbar, Rami Jumah and M. Q. Al-Haj Ali (2002) “Dynamic Analysis of Continuous Well-Mixed Fluidized/Spouted Bed Dryers”, Drying Technology, 20(1), 37-54.

24. Basim Abu-Jdayil, Rami Jumah and Reyad Shaker (2002) “Rheological Properties of a Concentrated Fermented Product, Labneh, Produced From Bovine Milk: Effect of Production Method”, International Journal of Food Properties, 5(3), 667-679.

23. F. Banat, R. Jumah and M. Garaibeh (2002) “Exploitation of Solar Energy Collected by Solar Stills for Desalination by Membrane Distillation”, Renewable Energy, 25(2), 293-305.

22. R. Shaker, B. Abu-Jdayil, R. Jumah and S. Ibrahim (2002) “Rheological Properties of Set Yogurt as Influenced by Incubation Temperature and Homogenization” J. Food Quality, 25, 409-418.

21. Rami Jumah, Fawzi Banat and Fahmi Abu Al-Rub (2001) “Darcy-Forchheimer mixed convection heat and mass transfer in fluid saturated porous media”, Int. J. of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 11(6), 600-618.

20. R. Jumah, B. Abu-Jdayil and R.R. Shaker (2001) “Effect of Type and Level of Starter Culture on the Rheological Properties of Set Yogurt During Gelation Process”, International Journal of Food Properties, 4(3), 531-544.

19. R. Jumah, R. Shaker and B. Abu-Jdayil (2001) “Effect of Milk Source on the Rheological Properties of Yogurt During Gelation Process”, International Journal of Dairy Technology, 54(3), 89-93.

18. R. Jumah, A. S. Mujumdar (2001) “Natural Convection Heat and Mass Transfer from a Vertical Flat Plate with Variable Wall Temperature and Concentration to Power Law Fluids with Yield Stress in a Porous Medium”, Chemical Engineering Commmunications, 185, 165-182.

17. R. Jumah and G.S.V. Raghavan (2001) “Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer During Combined Microwave-Convective Spouted Bed Drying” Drying Technology, 19(3&4), 485-506.

16. B. Abu-Jdayil, R. Shaker, and R. Jumah (2000) “Rheological Behavior of Concentrated Yogurt (Labneh)”, International Journal of Food Properties, 3(2), 207-216.

15. R. Jumah, B. Tashtoush, R. Shaker and A. Zraiy (2000) “Manufacturing Parameters and Quality Characteristics of Spray Dried Jameed”, Drying Technology 18(4&5), 967-984.

14. R. Jumah, A. S. Mujumdar (2000) “Free Convection Heat and Mass Transfer of non-Newtonian Power Law Fluids with Yield Stress from a Vertical Flat Plate in Saturated Porous Media”, Int. Comm. in Heat and Mass Transfer, 27 (4), 485-494.

13. R. Shaker, R. Jumah and B. Abu-Jdayil (2000) “Rheological Properties of Plain Yogurt During Coagulation Process: Impact of Fat Content and Preheat Treatment of Milk”, Journal of Food Engineering, 44, 175-180.

12. R. Shaker, R. Jumah, B. Tashtoush, and A. Zraiy (1999) “Manufacture of Jameed Using Spray Drying Process: A Preliminary Study”, International Journal of Dairy Technology, 52, 77-80.

11. F. Banat, F. Abu Al-Rub, R. Jumah and M. Shanag (1999) “Theoretical Investigation of Membrane Distillation Role in Breaking the Formic-acid Water Azeotropic Point: Comparison Between Fickian and Stefan-Maxwell-Based Models”, Int. Comm. in Heat and Mass Transfer, 26, 879-888.

10. F. Banat, F. Abu Al-Rub, R. Jumah and M. Shanag (1999) “Modeling of Desalination Using Tubular Direct Contact Membrane Distillation Modules”, Sep. Sci. Technol., 34, 2191-2206.

09. F. Abu Al-Rub, F. Banat, and R. Jumah (1999) “Vapor Liquid Equilibrium of Ethanol-water System in the Presence of Molecular Sieves”, Sep. Sci. Technol., 34, 2355-2368.

08. F. Banat, F. Abu Al-Rub, R. Jumah and M. Shanag (1999) “Application of Stefan-Maxwell Approach to Azeotropic Separation by Membrane Distillation”, The Chemical Engineering Journal, 73, 71-75.

07. F. Banat, F. Abu Al-Rub, R. Jumah and M. Shanag (1999) “On the Effect of Inert Gases in Breaking the Formic-acid Water Azeotropic Point by Air Gap Membrane Distillation, The Chemical Engineering Journal, 73, 37-42.

06. R. Jumah, A. S. Mujumdar and G.S.V. Raghavan (1998) “Aerodynamics of a Novel Rotating Jet Spouted Bed”, The Chemical Engineering Journal, 70, 209-219.

05. R. Jumah, A. S. Mujumdar and G.S.V. Raghavan, (1996)“Batch Drying Kinetics of Corn in a Novel Rotating Jet Spouted Bed”, Can. J. Chem. Eng., 74, 479-486.

04. R. Jumah, A. S. Mujumdar and G.S.V. Raghavan (1996)“ A Mathematical Model for Constant and Intermittent Batch Drying of Grains in a Novel Rotating Spouted Bed”, Drying Technology, 14(3&4), 765-802.

03. R. Jumah and A.S. Mujumdar (1993) “A PC Program for Preliminary Design of a Continuous Well-mixed Fluid Bed Dryer”, Drying Technology, 11(4), 831-846.

02. M.Z. Anabtawi, B.Z. Uysal and R.Y. Jumah, (1992) “Flow Characteristics in a Rectangular Spout- fluid Bed”, Powder Technology, 69(3), 205-211.

01. M.Z. Anabtawi, B.Z. Uysal, R.Y. Jumah and N. K. Abdel-Jalil (1991)“Gas Hold-up in a Bidimensional Two-phase Spouted Bed”, The Chemical Engineering Journal, 47(3), 135-139.

c) Proceedings:

02. R. Y. Jumah, B. Tashtoush, R.R. Shaker and A.F. Zraiy (1999) “A Parametric Analysis of the Spray Drying of Jameed”, Proceedings of the First Asia-Australia Drying Conference, ADC’99 Bali, Indonesia, October 24-27, pp 563-570.

01. R.R. Shaker, B. Tashtoush, R. Y. Jumah and A.F. Zraiy (1999) “Functional Properties of Spray Dried Jameed: Effect of Milk Fat and Type of Starter” Proceedings of the First Asia-Australia Drying Conference, ADC’99, Bali, Indonesia, October 24-27, pp 571-578.

d) Presentations:

03. F. Banat, R. Jumah and M. Garaibeh (2000) “Desalination by Solar-Aided Membrane Distillation”, Mediterranean Conference on Desalination Systems Powered Renewable Energies, Santorini, Greece, June 21-23.

02. B. Abu-Jdayil, R.Y. Jumah and R. Shaker (2000) “Rheological Properties of Concentrated Yogurt (Labneh): Effect of Production Method”, 14th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society, Patras, Greece, September 17-22.

01. R. Y. Jumah, A. S. Mujumdar and G.S.V. Raghavan (1995) “Drying of Particulates in a Novel Rotating Jet Spouted Bed”, The 26th Annual Meeting of the Fine Particle Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 22-25.