Adnan Al-harahshehMu’tah University · Chemical Engineering
Adnan Al-harahsheh
PhD in chemical enginering
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Introduction
I am a professor of chemical engineering at Mutah University,Jordan
my research interests include Jordanian oil shale processing and ( utilization of oil shale ash in water and gas treatment processing), hydrocarbon processing. and energy saving in chemical engineering processes.
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September 2006 - September 2010
September 1999 - February 2016
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Publications (51)
![The steps of H2SO4 pretreatment of wheat straw as described previously [32]](profile/Fawzi-Irshaid/publication/360408934/figure/fig1/AS:1152558760497152@1651802830166/The-steps-of-H2SO4pretreatment-of-wheat-straw-as-described-previously-32_Q320.jpg)
Biogas production from wheat straw (WS), cow manure (CM), and sewage sludge (SS) have positive impacts on the environment and economy. Therefore, this study investigated the optimization of biogas production from WS and pretreated with H2SO4 during codigesting with SS or CM as co-substrate. The total solids (TS), volatile solids (VS), carbon (C), n...
Livestock and chicken manures generated in 2017 in Al-Mafraq governorate (North of Jordan) were estimated to be around 250 × 10³ tons and expected to increase in the coming years. Therefore, the accumulation of animal manures will continue to pose a significant threat to public health by direct or indirect exposure. In this work, manures of cow, sh...
Journal of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, 56 (2021) 331-341.
The objective of this research is to investigate a naturally occurring Jordanian zeolitic tuff (JZT) as a potential adsorbent for nitrate ion removal from aqueous solution. An integrated experimental study that spans kinetics, OVAT and DOE experimental metrologies was designed and i...
Disposal of poultry sludge is one of the significant challenges facing cities because of very strict requirements for landfilling and the scarcity of space for landfills. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the physical and chemical properties of poultry sludge and its suitability for reuse in agricultural and non-agricultural applicatio...
Groundwater constitutes the main water supply in Jordan. Therefore, various steps are taken to monitor groundwater quality and vulnerability for a sustainable groundwater development. The present study uses DRASTIC model on a national rate and assess the groundwater contamination through phosphate release from the mining activities in south of Jord...
The present study uses DRASTIC model on a national rate and assess the groundwater contamination through phosphate release from the mining activities in south of Jordan (Al-Abiad area) using GIS environment. It is found that about 58.6% of the area was considered to be of moderate vulnerability, while high and low vulnerability was found to be at 0...
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Groundwater constitutes the main water supply in Jordan. Therefore, various steps are taken to monitor groundwater quality and vulnerability for a sustainable groundwater development. The present study uses DRASTIC model on a national rate and assess the groundwater contamination by phosphate concentration released from the mining activit...
This study presents an alternative tactic to pyrolysis of auto tires avoiding the use of high temperature and increasing the yield of oil produced. It depends on a simple chemical treatment of auto tires with sodium carbonate at low temperature (50 °C) followed by solvent extraction. This treatment produced two folds of the yield that can be obtain...
Slag is investigated towards its potential use as an aggregate in concrete mix production. Full factorial design methodology is applied to study the effect of two process input variables, namely: slag as coarse aggregate and slag as medium aggregate on the properties of concrete mix. Additionally, the interaction between input variables is also exa...
In this study, a naturally occurring zeolitic tuff located in Jordan was investigated as a potential
adsorbent for phosphate removal from aqueous solution. Adsorption kinetics and
thermodynamics of phosphate adsorption under different temperatures were studied. The
pseudo-second-order kinetic model adequately fitted the collected experimental data...
This paper presents the first study on the oil shale (OS) ashing and OS ash leachability of Jordanian OS located further in the south. The studied OS is from Isfir Al-Mahata subsurface OS located 10 km south of Ma’an. Chemical and physical characterization of the OS ash was performed and compared with original OS. Ashing OS was conducted at differe...
Adsorption of SO2 onto Jordanian zeolitic tuff (ZT) was examined in this work. ZT samples were characterized by XRD, XRF, BET and TGA analyses. The sorption process was carried out in a fixed bed column at different operating conditions. The unique measuring technique, namely UIC sulfur coulometer, for SO2 measurement was adopted in this work. Upta...
A preliminary characterization and beneficiation study of Jordanian tar sand obtained from the Dead Sea area has been carried out. Representative tar sand samples were crushed using a jaw crusher and sieved to different size fractions. Characterization of these size fractions revealed that most of the bitumen content was concentrated in the smalles...
Jordan is located in an arid to semi arid region where around 90% of its land receives an average annual precipitation of less than 100 mm while only 3% of the land receives an average annual precipitation of 300 mm or more. Jordan is characterised as a “water scarce” country because the current per capita share of water is estimated to be of the o...
In this study, an integration of geophysical survey methods including Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES), ground geo-magnetic methods and soil-samples texture analysis were performed at selected suggested water harvesting sites in the Northern Jordanian Badia to investigate and characterize the shallow subsurface stratigraphic sequences and structu...
Jordan is characterized by severe weather conditions, therefore great temporal and spatial variations in rainfall; runoff and evaporation amounts are expected. Water harvesting has been practiced in Jordan throughout history for both irri-gation and household purposes. A major research project was carried out in the Jordanian Badia on site selectio...
This work reports the leachability of heavy metals and major anions from Jordanian spent oil shale after combustion. Oil
shale samples were combusted at temperatures of 550C, 650C, 750C and 850C. Characterization of the produced solid
ash was performed based on XRD analyses. Leaching tests on the ash samples were conducted for different periods...
This work presents a study on the capacity of oil shale ash to remove sulphur dioxide from air streams before escaping into the atmosphere. Slurries of different concentrations of this ash showed an uptake capacity of 4 x 10(-4) mol SO2/g ash obtained after 250 sec. This value increases with the increase of solution pH, temperature, and ash concent...
The effect of mineral matter content on the activation energy of oil shale pyrolysis has been studied. Kerogen was isolated from raw oil shale by sequential HCl and HCl/HF digestion. Oil shale and kerogen samples were pyrolyzed in a Thermogravimetric Analyzer at different heating rates (1, 3, 5, 10, 30, and 50°C/min) up to a temperature of 1000°C....
Oil shale samples from two oil shale deposits in Jordan (El-lajjun & Sultani) were examined for solvation using different solvent systems, such as chloroform, ethanol, hexane, toluene, and a mixture of chloroform-ethanol. Aliphatic, aromatic, asphaltenes, and nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen (NSO)-containing fractions were separated from the obtained extra...
Oil shale samples were pyrolysed at different heating rates. The effect of heating rate on fractional composition of shale oil is investigated in 0.2–6 °C min−1 range. It is found that increasing the heating rate increases the content of aliphatic of the liquid shale oil. Normal paraffins of (C10–C32) are identified in aliphatic fraction. The maxim...
Surface water is one of the major water resources for drinking and agricultural purposes in Jordan. It is the largest contributor to the irrigation sector and it is the second largest source for domestic consumption. Jordan also has a huge amount of oil shale that exists in the Southern and Eastern parts of the country. It is estimated that Jordan...
Utilization of heat pumps in various industrial technological processes is considered as an important approach to reduce the demand of energy. One of a prospective chemical processes for heat pumps being used is crystallization process. This work presents a theoretical analysis of the feasibility and potential use of a heat pump in direct contact e...
Jordan is a country that faces “absolute water scarcity” and may not be able to meet its water needs by the year 2025. Groundwater is the major water resource for many areas of the country and the only source of water in some areas. Most of the groundwater basins in Jordan are already exploited beyond their estimated safe yield. Groundwater is the...
Different parameters affecting the behavior of froth flotation of Jordanian tar sand, obtained from the Dead Sea area, were studied. This study was performed in a modified fluidized bed floatator. The effects of the addition of a flotation agent, NaOH, temperature and flotation time on the beneficiation of bitumen in the froth were investigated. It...
Kaolinite clay was tested for removal of lead ions from aqueous solution. This clay was washed with sulfuric acid solution followed by chemical surface modification using 3-chloropropyltriethoxysilane and sodium hydroxide. XRF results showed that silica to alumina ratio was 2.8:1 for the treated sample compared to 1.6:1 for the raw one.XRD analysis...
The effect of demineralization on oil yield and mineral composition of Jordanian oil shale was investigated. A standard digestion procedure using a range of inorganic and organic acids including HCl, HNO3, HF, and CH3COOH was used to enhance the oil recovery of oil shale samples collected from the El-lajjun area. The total yield of the digested sam...
Production of oil at pyrolysis of Ellajun oil shale was investigated at different heating rates (0.2-2.8; 2.2-5.0 and 7.0-13.0 °C min -1 in a fixed-bed retort. Total weight loss and oil yield were calculated for the temperature range 610- 873 K. Total weight loss of oil shale sample increased from 12.5% to 18% with increasing the heating rate from...
Despite continuous monitoring of public water supplies by governmental agencies, little is done for monitoring the water qualit ns and tanks receiving rainwater. For this reason, it is very important to evaluate the quality of rainwater collect ored in these cisterns and storage tanks. In the present work, a comprehensive survey was carried out to...
This work presents a study of the leaching of chalcopyrite in acidic ferric chloride. Two chalcopyrite samples (natural chalcopyrite crystal and chalcopyrite concentrate) were leached under different conditions. The effects of stirring speed and temperature were investigated. It was found that agitation had a negative effect on copper recovery from...
Jordanian oil shale contains large amounts of minerals that could hinder its utilization. The effect of demineralization of Jordanian oil shale on the oil yield and mineral composition was investigated. A standard digestion procedure was applied on Jordanian oil shale using a wide range of acids including HCl, HNO 3 , HF with different concentratio...
Diatomite, an abundant inorganic material in Jordan, was treated with sulfuric acid and heat treated in order to improve its performance as an adsorbent. The acid treated diatomite (ATD) was used to adsorb methylene blue from aqueous solutions. The equilibrium data were fitted to different adsorption isotherms and the best fit was obtained using La...
Oil shale ash was used to adsorb hydrogen sulfide from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Fixed mass of ash of particle size 500-710 μm showed a sorption capacity of 30 mg H2S per liter of LPG and one gram of ash from 150 ml LPG containing 467 ppm H2S. This value increased with increasing the volume of spiked gas and decreasing the particle size of the...
The extracted shale oil by the thermal cracking process of the El-Lujjan oil shale showed that the yield of oil was around 12wt%. The amount of sulfur in this shale oil was found to increase (from 7 to 9.5wt%) with the increase of the boiling point for different distillate fractions. Sulfur in Jordanian oil shale was found to be mainly organic sulf...
A characterization study was performed on the spent oil shale (oil shale ash) obtained from the combustion of Jordanian oil shale. This characterization utilized different analytical techniques. These include scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive spectrum analysis, X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction and Qemscan. During the combusti...
Recently industrial heat pumps are being used as important heat recovery equipment that can facilitate energy savings in various chemical processes, like distillation, evaporation, and absorption. One of the prospective processes for the use of heat pumps is in various crystallization processes, where usually two different cooling and heating zones...
This study presents alternative methods for the utilizing of Dead Sea resources. These include crystallization through cooling by passing the Dead Sea water across cooled surfaces, or by direct contact between a cooling agent and the water solution. The cooling process of the Dead Sea water leads to the saturation state, after which precipitation o...
Jordanian oil shale ash was used as an adsorbent for the removal of copper and zinc from aqueous solution. This ash was treated with either hydrochloric, nitric, sulfuric or phosphoric acids followed by washing and/or neutralization with sodium hydroxide in order to enhance its adsorption capacity. The sample that was treated with nitric acid showe...
Continuous contact mixing was used to examine solvation of organic matter found in Jordanian oil shale. Different types of organic solvents as well as their mixtures were examined under different operating conditions. The solvation of organic matter was found to increase with the increase of mixing time and temperature, and to decrease with the inc...
A by-product fly ash from oil shale processing was converted into zeolite by alkali hydrothermal activation using sodium hydroxide. The activation was performed at different activation temperatures using 8 M sodium hydroxide. The obtained cation exchange capacity (CEC) showed that the best condition for synthesis of zeolite performed in a closed re...
Fly ash - a by-product of oil shale processing - was converted into zeolite by alkali hydrothermal activation using sodium hydroxide. Activation was performed at different temperatures using 1, 3 and 8 M sodium hydroxide. The cation-exchange capacity of zeolite obtained showed that the best conditions for synthesis in a closed reactor are: 8 M NaOH...
Oil shale ash was used to absorb sulfur dioxide to avoid releasing it into atmosphere. Slur- ries of different concentrations of this ash showed uptake capacity of 6 x 10-4 mol/1.5 g ash obtained after 250 s. This value is increased by increasing the solution pH, solution tem- perature, and ash concentration, or by decreasing the particle size of t...
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The objective of this research is to investigate the washing/leaching beneficiation process for the reduction of P2O5 using two strong acid solutions. This investigation should reveal clear picture of the dynamics and the interactions between the basic components (players) in the process. This research is process oriented in terms of aiming to study the beneficiation process within the perspective of developing efficient, low cost, competitive, environmental friendly process to beneficiate PG.
