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Chemical Engineering Faculty Profiles

Zainuddin Abd. Manan - Associate Professor (Ph.D)

Tel: 6-07-5535512 E-mail: zain@fkkksa.utm.my

Qualification

 

Ph.D. (Chem. Eng.) (Waste Minimisation) : University of Edinburgh, UK. (1998) 
M.Sc. (Process Integration) : UMIST, UK (1991)
B.Sc. (Chem. Eng.) : University of Houston, USA. (1988)

 

Working Experience

 

1988 : Production Engineer, Hume Industries Malaysia
1989 : Appointed as Assistant Lecturer of Chemical Engineering at UTM
1991 : Appointed as Lecturer of Chemical Engineering at UTM
          Head, Chemical Engineering Curriculum Committee 
1994 : Head, Pollution Control Laboratory
2000 : Appointed as Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at UTM
2000 : Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, UTM 

Design, synthesis and Improvement (Retrofit) of new as well as existing process systems with emphasis on achieving maximum energy efficiency and minimising waste discharge.

• Material and Energy balances
• Engineering and Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
• Plant Design
• Process Simulation for Continuous and Batch Processes
• Numerical Methods
• Process Integration (Heat, Mass and Water Pinch)
• Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Industries

• Energy Management
• Process Integration (Heat, Mass and Water Pinch)
• Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Industries
• Advanced Thermodynamics

• Council Member, Institution of Chemical Engineers Malaysia (IChemE).
• Committee member, position paper on academicians for Institution of Engineers Malaysia
• Member, Institute of Energy Malaysia
• Fellow, Institute of Water and Environmental Resource Management, UTM
• Member, American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS)
• Technical Advisor, Malaysian Energy Centre
• Consultant for DOE for the Implementation of Cleaner Production in Malaysia
• Committee Member, 5th Asia Pacific Roundtable On Cleaner Production (APRCP)

• Industrial Energy Auditing and Energy Improvement for over 30 local companies
• Process Integration for Crude Oil Refinery, Petrochemical, Palm Oil (Refinery and Oleochemical), Pulp and Paper, Cement Industries
• National Policy and Guidelines for Implementation of Cleaner Production in the Malaysian Industries
• Conceptual Design of Chemical Engineering Pilot Plant
• Conceptual Design of a Bio-Scrubber Treatment System
• Risk Assessment Studies
• Development of IT and academic system for a technical college.

Professional Courses taught to over 200 companies nationwide include:

• Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers
• Chemical Process Operations
• Energy Management
• Heat Exchangers: principles, operation, control and design
• Energy and Water Reductions in Process Plants
• Process Integration using Pinch Analysis

1. Development of a New Systematic Technique for Mass Exchange Network for Batch Process Systems
   - Project case study based on a local Palm Oil Mill and Textile (IRPA 74070).
2. Simultaneous Energy and Water Reduction in Process Systems.
   - Project case study based on a local Pulp and Paper Mill (IRPA 74057).
3. Development of a New Intensified Process for Production of High Quality Refined Palm Oil (Based on a Local Palm Oil Mill and Refinery) - Joint venture with Chemical Eng pilot Plant, UTM, Golden Hope and FVOP.
4. MATRIX - a New Systematic Technique for Heat Recovery Network Retrofit – Project case study based on a local Pulp and Paper Mill, a Local Palm oil Refinery and Petrochemical Refinery (IRPA 72017, RMC 71784).
5. Heat-MATRIX : A Software for Simultaneous Reduction of Energy and Water in Process Plants (IRPA 72017, RMC 71784)
   - Winner of Silver Medal, Science and Technology Expo, 2002) 31st International Exhibition of Invention, New Techniques and Products of Geneva, Switzerland.
6. Development of an Ultra-selective catalyst for NOx reductions in lean burn engines (IRPA72172, IRPA 74012).
7. Synthesis of non-ideal distillation systems.

1. Best Working Paper, Seminar FKKKSA, Ogos, 1994
2. Commonwealth Scholarship Award for PhD studies 1994-1998
3. Best Working Paper, sponsored paper to APPChE Conference, New Zealand, 2002
4. Silver Medal, Ekspo Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia, Putra World Trade Center, Kuala Lumpur, 2-5 November 2002.
5. Silver Medal, 31st International Exhibition of Invention, New Techniques and Products of Geneva, Switzerland, April 2003.
   

• More than 70 technical papers in international and local refereed journals as well as in international and local conference proceedings in the area of process synthesis and design on process improvement, energy efficiency and waste minimization
• More than 20 consultancy and research project reports, monographs for professional courses.

6 selected recent international refereed journal publications related to the different topics of my current research:

1. Z. A. Manan, Rene Banares-Alcantara, "A New Catalog of the Most Promising Separation Sequences for Homogeneous Azeotropic Mixtures I. Systems without Boundary Crossing ”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res 2001, 40, 5795-5809, Nov 2001.
2. Josh M. P. King, Rene Banares-Alcantara and Z. A. Manan "Minimising Environmental Impact Using CBR: an azeotropic distillation case study ”, Environmental Modelling & Software, 14 (1999),359-366.
3. Z. Ujang, C. L. Wong and Z. A. Manan, “ Industrial Wastewater Minimisation Using Water Pinch Analysis – A Case Study on an Old Textile Plant” Water Science and Technology, Vol 46. No 11-12, pp 77-84, 2002.
4. C. S. Lim, Z. A. Manan, Simulation Modeling of the Phase Behavior of Palm Oil-Supercritical Carbon Dioxide, vol 80, no. 11, 2003.
5. Foo, C. Y., Z. A. Manan, R. M. Yunus and R. A. Aziz, Synthesis Of Mass Exchange Networks For Batch Processes – Part I: Utility Targeting, in print, Chem. Eng. Sci., Dec 2003.
6. Z. A. Manan, C. Y. Foo and Y. L. Tan, “Targeting The Minimum Water And Wastewater Flowrates Using The New Water Cascade Analysis Technique”, in print, AiChE Journal, Feb 2004.

1. Heat-MATRIX – A Software for the Simultaneous Reduction of Energy and Water, submitted August 2002, patent under review.
2. 2. MATRIX – A New Technique for the Retrofit of Heat Recovery Network, submitted August 2002, patent under review.

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