Haitham Hussein

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Nahrain University

Ahdaim hydropower plant is designed to produce electricity of 29 MW. The plant is supplied with water by a designed power tunnel of 4.5 m diameter and 310 m length. This study investigates and analyses the economical diameter of the tunnel by using a mathematical model. This model consists of annual charges, which comprise fixed cost, cost of opera...

Baghdad Metro is a vital project to fulfill the rapidly increased traffic volume requirements. The proposed metro will connect both sides of Baghdad City, passing under the Tigris River. This study is employed finite elements software (PLAXIS 3D) to evaluate the seepage force developed around the sub-river segment during different construction stag...

With a length of 1900 Km, the Tigris River flows from South eastern Turkey to five eastern tributaries. It has an average mean discharge at the Baghdad Sarai Station of 916 m³/s for 90 years and an average mean of 615 m³/s for the last 30 years. The probable maximum and minimum discharges during the study period are calculated using statistical ana...

In this study, a new adsorbent derived from sunflower husk powder and coated in CuO nanoparticles (CSFH) was investigated to evaluate the simultaneous adsorption of Levofl oxacin (LEV), Meropenem (MER), and Tetracycline (TEC) from an aqueous solution. Significant improvements in the adsorption capacity of the sunflower husk were identified after th...

Water seepage can cause serious problems in geotechnical engineering especially for construction under the water level. Baghdad metro tunnel is one of the leading vital projects to solve the major problem of crowding roadways in a highly population increase city like Baghdad. In this study, the seepage rate that will flow toward different selected...

Water tanks represent an important critical structure type for the provision of water necessary for continuation of life and firefighting purposes. The objective of this paper is to study the response of reinforced concrete rectangular tank on grade in the presence of cleanout hole under the effect of an earthquake. This numerical analysis was cond...

Horan Dam H4 is an earth dam located 18 km northeast Rutba town in Anbar province in Iraq. The main objective for dam construction is to save rainfall for agriculture purposes and some household uses. In this study, a mathematical model is developed to analyze water seepage through the dam under steady state. The upstream and downstream slopes stab...

The gravitational effect was widely applied in wastewater and water treatment processes to extract suspended particles. The optimum efficiency of removal is increased by gaining the highest flow uniformity through settling basins. The research carried out 2D computational fluid dynamics CFD to examine the impact of inlet aperture configuration with...

Mini hydropower plants can be considered as good instruments for power generation at a low cost with high efficiency. This study is undertaken to help address the electricity shortage that Iraq has faced for many decades. This study covers the design and analysis of two alternatives, which are hydropower and thermal power plants, through a mathemat...

This study was aimed to investigate the development and evaluation of artificial intelligence techniques by using multilayer neural network. Levenberg-Marquardt back propagation (LMA) training algorithm was applied for calculating drinking water quality index (WQI) for Euphrates river (IRAQ). The transfer functions in the artificial network model w...

Agriculture is the only source of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Iraq. Annually more than 70% of the available water is used for irrigation. The total amount of land that can be cultivated in Iraq is 12 million hec. Only 2.2 million hec in Tigris basin and 1.37 million hec in the Euphrates basin were cultivated in 2001. According to the develop...

Pharmaceutical-instigated pollution is a major concern, especially in relation to aquatic environments and drugs such as meropenem antibiotics. Adsorbents, such as multi-walled carbon nanotubes, offer potential as means of removing polluting meropenem antibiotics and other similar compounds from water. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of mult...

This study was aimed to investigate the development and evaluation of artificial intelligence techniques by using multilayer neural network. Levenberg-Marquardt back propagation (LMA) training algorithm was applied for calculating drinking water quality index (WQI) for Euphrates river (IRAQ). The transfer functions in the artificial network model w...

Blocks are used at stilling basins to decrease the high flow velocity and dissipate energy at hydraulic structures. In this paper a comparison between physical and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model at stilling basin blocks are conducted. The aim of CFD model is to show the application of the finite element method for the solution of fluid flo...

The Greater Zab river originating in Turkey and is a major and greater tributary of Tigris river (in Iraq). The Greater Zab confluence with Tigris river at south of Mosul city. The mean annual water volume of Greater Zab river is about 13.6 milliard M³(BCM) (FAO, 2006). The aim of this research is to find the recession of water in the Greater Zab r...

Developing integrated marches management for restoration of the southern marshes in Iraq require adequate reliable plan. The aim of this study is developing the Chibayish region. In this study, economic feasibility and cost analysis for constructing embankment across Euphrates River and overflow weir are conducted. These structures are used to regu...

This paper present the comparison of the performance of stilling basin of several buffer blocks configuration results for flow velocity reduction between physical model and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) on PMF discharge of 67 L/s. 1:20 of spillway physical model have been used in this study. The configuration and dimension of the block are mod...

Sungai Belibis sump is tested to check the flow condition around the intake. The sump model was scaled down by a ratio of 1:10 and used for experimental analysis. The test was carried out to examine the causes of vortex occurrence effecting the uniformity of flow distribution in the pump intake at the lower water level (0.18m) with higher flow rate...

Oil and water separation due to gravitation is extensively applied in water and wastewater treatment to get rid of the oil droplets. Optimum inlet baffle configuration may facilitate the formation of favorable flow fields and heighten the separator tank’s removal efficiency. Experimental tests were carried out to ascertain appropriate position for...

Gravity separator tanks are used to separate oil from water in treatment units. Achieving the best flow uniformity in a separator tank will improve the maximum removal efficiency of oil globules from water. In this study, the effect on hydraulic performance of different baffle structure positions inside a tank was investigated. Experimental data an...

The study comprised investigation of the seasonal and spatial variations in water quality of the Tigris River in Iraq for the period (2005-2012). Cluster analysis (CA) and principal component analysis (PCA) were applied to analyze the similarities among sampling sites to identify the source apportionment of pollution parameters in river. Three prin...

Gravity Separator Tanks are Used to Separate Oil from Water in Treatment Units. Achieving the Best Flow Uniformity in a Separator Tank will Improve the Maximum Removal Efficiency of Oil Globules from Water. in this Study, the Effect on Hydraulic Performance of Different Inlet Baffle Height inside a Tank was Investigated. some Experimental Tests wer...

Rectangular separator tanks used gravity settling to separate oil from water in treatment units. In this study, in order to increase the performance of separator tanks, the effect of different positions of baffle structure on improving the uniformity of flow was investigated. Two dimensional computation fluid dynamics (CFD) and one phase flow model...

A hydrological routing study for Abu Zirig Marsh was carried out to estimate the hydrological state within the marsh for the Present and future conditions of the marsh.The water surface elevation, area and storage within the marsh at the present and for the future conditions were estimated and the effect of uncontrolling outlets on the hydrological...

The Diyala river is a major tributary of the Tigris river that runs through Iran and Iraq which drains an area of 32600 km 2. The catchment area consist of four parts which are the area of the basin above Derbendi-Khan, Upper Diyala, Middle Diyala and lower Diyala. Through the last two decade the water coming to the upstream Derbendi-Khan reduced a...

A hydrological routing study for Abu Zirig Marsh was carried out to estimate the hydrological state within the marsh for the Present and future conditions of the marsh. The water surface elevation, area and storage within the marsh at the present and for the future conditions were estimated and the effect of uncontrolling outlets on the hydrologica...