CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Information

Muhanned Adnan Hararah

/ Name
Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma'an, Jordan. / Address
+962-3-2179000 Ext. 8510 / Telephone
+962-777-999990 / Mobile
+962-3-2179050 / Fax
/ E-mail
Jordanian / Nationality
23 July 1971 / Date of birth
Married (3 children) / Marital status
Qualifications
Feb. 2000 – Nov. 2005 / Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Chemical Engineering/Environmental Engineering. Rating (Sehr Gut).
Department of Environmental Process Engineering and Recycling (Lehrstuhl für Umweltverfahrenstecknik und Recycling LUR), Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Paul Gordan Strasse 3, 91052 Erlangen, Germany.
Thesis title: Settling of Fine Particles in Dense Polydisperse Suspensions.
Sep. 1995 – Feb. 1999 / M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering. Rating (very good).
Chemical Engineering Department, University of Jordan (UJ), Amman, Jordan.
Thesis title: Reduction of Jordanian Iron Ore.
Sep. 1989 – Jan. 1995 / B. Sc. in Chemical Engineering. Rating (good).
Chemical Engineering Department, University of Jordan (UJ), Amman, Jordan.
Graduation Project: Production of Sulfuric Acid.
Sep. 1988 – July 1989 / The General Secondary Education Certificate, Jordan. Rating (very good).
Professional experience
Sep. 2009 - Present / Vice Dean of the Engineering Faculty.
Assistant Professor, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma'an, Jordan.
Sep. 2007 –Sep.2009 / Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering.
Faculty of Mining & Environmental Engineering, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma'an, Jordan.
Sep. 2005 - Sep. 2007 / Chairman of the Environmental Engineering Department - Assistant Professor.
Faculty of Mining & Environmental Engineering, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma'an, Jordan.
Taught courses:
Physics for Engineers I, Physics for Engineers II, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, Material Science and Engineering, Air Pollution, Contaminated Land, Energy Engineering, Solid Waste Management, Environmental Issues.
July 2005 - Sep. 2005 / Lecturer at the Civil Engineering Department.
Al-Isra' University, Amman-Jordan.
Taught courses:
Environmental Engineering, Wastewater Treatment.
Feb. 2000 - Jan. 2005 / Scientific researcher Department of Environmental Process Engineering and Recycling (Lehrstuhl für Umweltverfahrenstecknik un Recycling LUR).
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Paul Gordan Strasse 3, 91052 Erlangen, Germany.
Research project:
Settling of Fine Particles in Dense Polydisperse Suspensions.
June 1995 - Jan. 2000 / Jordan Armed Forces.
Working area: Treatment of boiler feed water (Reducing scaling, priming and corrosion by using degassing, phosphate treatments, corrosion inhibitor treatment and anti-priming treatment).
Feb. 1997 – Feb. 1999 / Teaching assistant at the Chemical Engineering Department.
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Assistant functions include the following courses:
Physical chemistry, Process design, Process heat transfer.
Scientific activities
19-21 Oct., 2009 / 29th Oil Shale Symposium, Colorado School of Mines, Golden-USA.
16-17 June., 2009 / Physical separation 09, Falmouth, UK.
30 May 2009 – 29 Aug. 2009
14 June 2008 – 13 Sep. 2008
9 June 2007 – 5 Sep. 2007 / Scientific research in physical separation field at the Department of Environmental Process Engineering and Recycling, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen -Nuremberg, Germany.
Nov. 2008 – Now / Project manager of Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in the "Rangeland and Forest Fire prevention" project (Partner: Greece).
19 – 21 Oct. 2008 / Jordanian-Germany International Workshop about Water resources in the middle east – reality and aspiration. Irbid-Jordan.
Nov. 2006 – 2008 / Project manager of Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in the "Integrated Development and Management of NATURA 2000 Protected Areas through Innovative Techniques in East. Mediterranean" project-(Partners: Greece, Italy, Cyprus & Turkey).
5 – 10 Oct. 2006 / Jordanian-Germany Winter Academy about Fluid mechanics, Turbulence and Combustion (University of Jordan-Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Amman, Jordan).
27 Aug. - 1 Sep. 2006 / International Summer School in Mecatronics and Microsystems 2006 (Goslar, Germany).
13 – 15 Dec. 2005 / Workshop in Bio-solids Risk Assessment and Standards Development (Royal Scientific Society-Environmental Research Center, Amman, Jordan).
8 - 10 Nov. 2005 / Workshop in Renewable Energy (Department of Physics-Hashemite University, Amman, Jordan).
13 - 20 July 1996 / Workshop in Industrial water treatment (Jordan Engineering association, Amman, Jordan).
Research interest
Basic research / ·  Separation processes
·  Water & Wastewater treatment
Other research / ·  Energy
·  Food processing
Publications
Golyk, V., Huber, S., Farghaly, M. G., Hararah, M. A., Prölss, G., Endres, E., Neesse, T.: Higher kaolin recovery with a water injection cyclone, Journal of Minerals Engineering. Submitted.
Al-Hamamre, Z., Hararah, M. A.: Hydrogen production by thermal partial oxidation of ethanol: thermodynamic and kinetic study, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, In Press.
Hararah, M. A., Ibrahim, K. A., Al-Muhtaseb, A. H., Yousef, R. I., Abu-Surrah, A., Qatatsheh, A.: Removal of phenol from aqueous solutions by adsorption onto polymeric adsorbents, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol. 117, No. 4, P. 1908-1913, 2010.
Hararah, M. A., Endres, E., Dueck, J., Minkov, L., Neesse, T.: Flow conditions in the air core of the hydrocyclone, Journal of Minerals Engineering, Vol. 23, P. 295–300, 2010.
Al-Muhtaseb, A. H., Hararah, M. A., Megahey, E. K., McMinn, W. A. M., Magee, T. R. A.: Moisture adsorption isotherms of microwave-baked Madeira cake, LWT - Food Science and Technology Vol. 43, No.7, P. 1042-1047, 2010.
Al-Muhtaseb, A. H., Hararah, M. A., Megahey, E. K., McMinn, W. A. M., Magee, T. R. A.: Dielectric properties of microwave-baked cake and its constituents over a frequency range of 0.915–2.450GHz, Journal of Food Engineering, Vol. 98, No. 1, P. 84-92, 2010
Al-Muhtaseb, A. H., Al-Harahsheh, M., Hararah, M. A., Magee, T. R. A.: Drying characteristics and quality change of unutilized-protein rich-tomato pomace with and without osmotic pre-treatment, Industrial Crops and Products, Vol. 31, No. 1, P. 171-177, 2010.
Hararah, M. A., Al-Salaymeh, A., Sakhrieh, A., Salaymeh, M.: Perspectives of water resources in Jordan for oil shale production, Poster, Colorado School of Mines, Golden-USA, Oct. 19-21, 2009.
Hararah, M. A., Al-Harahsheh, M., Tobgy, A. H.: A Preliminary study on the hydrogen reduction of Jordanian iron ore, Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy (TIMM C), Vol. 118, No. 2, 2009.
Al-Salaymeh, A., Hararah, M. A., Sakhrieh, A., Salaymeh, M.: Current Water Situation in Jordan: Problems and Solutions, Water resources in the middle east–reality and aspiration Workshop. Irbid-Jordan, Oct. 19 – 21, 2008.
Al-Thyabat, S., Tarawneh, K., Hararah, M. A., Rawashdeh, I., Ryan, D., Majali, T.: Beneficiation of Jordanian phosphate: a review of current practices. The 5th Jordanian international mining conference, Amman, Jordan, Sep. 3-6, 2007.
Hararah, M. A., Dueck, J., Neesse, Th., L. Minkov: Investigation of disturbed settling in polydisperse suspension, Eurasian Physical Technical Journal, Vol.3, No. 2(6), P.27-37, 2006.
Hararah, M. A., Dueck, J., Neesse, Th.: Investigation of polydisperse suspension settling, Middle East International Conference on Advances in Civil, Mechanical and Material Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, May 13-15, 2005.
Hararah, M. A., Dueck, J., Neesse, Th.: Fine particles settling in polydisperse suspensions, International Mechanical Engineering Conference, Proceedings of IMEC2004, Kuwait, Dec. 5-8, 2004.
Dueck, J., Neesse, Th., Minkov, L., Kiliminik, D., Hararah, M. A.: Theoretical and experimental investigation of disturbed settling in a polydisperse suspension, 5th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF'04, Yokohama, Japan, May 30-June 4, 2004.
Hararah, M. A., Dueck, J., Neesse, Th.: Poster in title: Disturbed settling of individual fractions of a polydisperse suspensions, Baden conference, Germany, 22-24 March 2004.
Awards
April 2001 - Dec. 2004 / ·  DAAD
June 2007 - Sep. 2007
June 2008 - Sep. 2008
May 2009 - Aug. 2009 / ·  DFG
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue / Arabic
Other languages
Understanding / Speaking / Writing
Listening / Reading / Spoken interaction / Spoken production
English / Very good / Very good / Very good / Very good / Very good
Germany / Good / Good / Good / Good / Good
Social skills and competences / Ability to build and maintain effective networks and relationships
Capacity to work and live in an multicultural environment
Team player, practice objectively, prioritisation of work actives and ability to cope under different conditions and limited time frames
Organisational skills and competences / Team work
Project management
Communicate effectively
Interpersonal skills / ·  Patience, hard working, and keeping track on distant goal
·  Flexibility and self learning
·  Creative
Computer skills and competences / ·  Programming Languages: FORTRAN
Good command of Software Packages: Windows, Microsoft Office™ tools (Word™, Excel™ and PowerPoint™), Math CAD, Adobe Photoshop
Artistic skills and competences / ·  Teaching
·  Foreign Languages Learning
·  Football playing
Professional Membership / Jordan Engineering Association
References
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Neesse, Lehrstuhl für Umweltverfahrenstecknik un Recycling LUR, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Paul Gordan Strasse 3, 91052 Erlangen, Germany. Tel.: (+49 9131 8523200), Fax: (+49 9131 8523178).
Prof. Dr. Yahya Khraisha, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. Tel.: (962 6 843555), Fax (962 6 848558).
Dr. Johann Dueck, Lehrstuhl für Umweltverfahrenstecknik un Recycling LUR, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Paul Gordan Strasse 3, 91052 Erlangen, Germany. Tel.: (+49 9131 8523189), Fax: (+49 9131 8523178).

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