Chemical Engineering Department discusses a doctoral thesis on treating oil refinery waste using dual anodic oxidation techniques and heterogeneous nanophotocatalysts.

The Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Technology discussed the doctoral thesis titled:

‎Treatment of petroleum refinery wastewater by using anoxic oxidation and nanophotocatalysts

The thesis of student Hisham Muhammad Majeed aimed to remove the chemical oxygen demand (COD) from the liquid oil waste left behind from the Najaf refinery, where the practical aspect included three stages.

The results showed a very high convergence between the practical results and the theoretical calculations of the mathematical model.

The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Ahmed Abdel Mohamed as Chairman, and Prof. Dr. Zainab Youssef Shanin, Prof. Dr. May Ali Muslim, Prof. Dr. Furat Yasser Sharad, and Prof. Alia Khudair Majeed as members, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Khaled Ajami Sukkar and Dr. Ali Hussein Abbar - University of Baghdad - Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering. The discussion was attended by the thesis coordinator contracted with the Ministry of Oil, the expert Dr. Zaidoun Khalaf Al-Saadi, Assistant Director of the Petroleum Research and Development Center. In addition to the scientific evaluation of the thesis by Prof. Dr. Ramzi Sayhoud Hameed from the University of Technology - Department of Petroleum Engineering and Prof. Dr. Rasha Habib Salman from the University of Baghdad - College of Engineering. Linguistically by A.M. Dr. Farouk Ahmed Mahdi from the University of Technology.