Key Instructors:
Professor Iqbal M Mujtaba
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford, UK
Dr. Md. Shahinoor Islam
Professor and Head
Department of Chemical Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh
Workshop 01: Water Desalination and Wastewater Treatment Principles
Venue and Date: 18-19 December 2024, Department of Chemical Engineering (DChE), BUET, Dhaka-1000
Course Content:
The increase in population and standards of living, together with water pollution, are diminishing the quantity of naturally available freshwater while the demand for it is increasing continuously. Freshwater consumption is increasing at 4–8%/y, 2.5 times the population growth. Global water shortages will become so catastrophic over the next decade that two in three people will face regular depletion of water supplies. Global thirst will turn millions into water refugees. As more than 94% of the world’s water is saline [3], desalination technology is vital for sustaining human habitation in many parts of today’s world. Seawater desalination delivers fresh water to many regions in the world that are suffering from water scarcity. Thermal and membrane processes are, by far, the major desalination systems used nowadays.
In the last 50 years, a sharp increase in the volume of industrial effluents being generated and disposed of into rivers and oceans is witnessed causing significant harm on our ecosystem and health. The European Union documented about 66 chemicals in 2000 as being (EDCs) reaching to 564 toxic chemicals in wastewater in 2009. Contaminated water transmits diseases causing over half a million diarrheal deaths each year.
Climate change also results in river water levels falling in many parts of the world to a dangerous level impacting agriculture (leading to food insecurity), transportation of essential commodities, etc.
This short course will discuss several desalination and wastewater treatment technologies with several industrial case studies. The following topics will be covered in this course;
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- Thermal Water Desalination and Case Studies
- Membrane Water Desalination and Case Studies
- Renewable Energy Systems in Desalination
- Physicochemical and Biological Properties of Wastewater
- Coagulation/Flocculation/Sedimentation Techniques for Wastewater Treatment
- Biological Methods of Wastewater Treatment
- Advanced Oxidation Methods for Wastewater Treatment
- Adsorption Technology for Wastewater Treatment
- Membrane Technology for Wastewater Treatment
- Laboratory-based Water Quality Analysis and Advanced Technologies
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for process research, design, and manufacturing engineers and chemists involved with the development and operation of Chemical, Petroleum, Food and Textile Industries. Besides, professionals from different organizations of the Government who are interested to gain advanced knowledge on water and wastewater treatment are also invited to register the course.
Venue:
Seminar Room, Department of Chemical Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka-1000
Registration:
Seats are limited. Please book your seat at earliest possible using registration link. Please Click Here
Last date of Registration is 01 December 2024.
Payment:
BDT 15,000/- per Person (Tk. Fifteen Thousand Only). The fee will cover lecture instructions, workshop kits, comprehensive materials, refreshments, certificate etc.
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Workshop 02: Petroleum Refinery and Aspen HYSYS simulation
Venue and Date: 22-23 December 2024, Department of Chemical Engineering (DChE), BUET, Dhaka-1000
Course Content:
Petroleum contributes significantly to our lives and will continue to do so for many years to come. Petroleum derivatives supply more than 50% of the world’s total supply of energy. Traditionally, crude oil goes through fractional distillation to produce different grades of fuel such as gasoline, kerosene, and diesel oil providing fuel for automobiles, tractors, trucks, aircraft, and ships. Catalytic hydrotreating (HDT) is used to detoxify the oil fractions produced by fractional distillation in the petroleum refining industries which involve removal of pollutants such as sulfur, nitrogen, metals, and asphaltene in trickle-bed reactors. Recently, we proposed detoxification of whole crude oil a priori before the crude oil enters further processing in a fractionating column. This short course will highlight this new technology.
Design of different types of reactors and several synthetic catalysts for oxidative desulfurization (ODS) and adsorptive desulphurization for Light Gas Oil, Naphtha, Kerosine will be highlighted in the short course.
Increasing the yield and research octane number (RON) of naphtha isomerization process are the most important issues in petroleum industries. There are many alternative industrial naphtha isomerization processes practiced around the world including the AJAM process developed by our research team. These will be discussed in detail in the short course.
Petroleum refineries fulfil their energy (process heat) requirement by direct fuel firing. In this regard, a heat exchanger network (HEN) is widely used to recover thermal energy that may be otherwise wasted. The HEN can significantly reduce the overall energy consumption in industrial processes. A case study on our study of a HEN problem of a crude oil distillation unit of an African Oil Refining Company (AORC) will be presented.
The riser of a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit cracks gas oil to make fuels such as gasoline and diesel. However, changes in quality, the nature of crude oil blends feedstocks, environmental changes, and the desire to obtain higher profitability lead to many alternative operating conditions of the FCC riser. The production objective of the riser is usually the maximization of gasoline and diesel. During this short course we will highlight some of our recent work on FCC.
Participants in this course will engage in hands-on experience with AspenTech tools, focusing on real-world refinery operations. They will build confidence in modeling various refinery processes, including distillation, furnace and heat exchanger within the petroleum sector. The course will cover essential skills such as building, navigating, and optimizing process simulations.
Additionally, participants will learn to define and manage crude oil assay information and properties effectively. Through case studies, they will determine the optimum operating points for processes to eliminate energy waste and maximize profits. The program also emphasizes reducing engineering time with comprehensive overpressure protection solutions using Aspen HYSYS.
The following topics will be covered in this course.
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- Detoxification of Crude Oil
- Catalysts Design for Detoxification of Petroleum Fractions
- Naphtha Isomerization – AJAM Process
- Heat Exchanger Network Design – Energy Consumption
- Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC)
- Process Simulation
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for process research, design, and manufacturing engineers and chemists involved with the development and operation of Petroleum Refinery.
Key Instructor Biography:
Iqbal M. Mujtaba, Professor, University of Bradford. UK
Iqbal M. Mujtaba is a Professor of Computational Process Engineering and is currently Associate Dean (Learning, Teaching & Quality) of the Faculty of Engineering & Informatics at the University of Bradford. He was Head of the School of Engineering at the University of Bradford from 2016-2018. He obtained his PhD from Imperial College London in 1989. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IChemE, a Chartered Chemical Engineer. He was the Chair of the European Committee for Computers in Chemical Engineering Education from 2010-2013 and the Chair of the IChemE’s Computer Aided Process Engineering Special Interest Group from 2012-2019.
Professor Mujtaba is a world leader in batch distillation, wastewater treatment and desalination He has developed process models for a range of processes that have delivered impact for many companies internationally, for example in oil separation, industrial scale desalination, fluid catalytic cracking, naphtha isomerisation, crude oil hydrotreating, along with chlorination reactor and process for titanium dioxide production which radically improved production and reduced CO2 emissions. He leads research into dynamic modelling, simulation, optimisation and control of batch and continuous chemical processes with specific interests in distillation, industrial reactors, refinery processes, desalination, wastewater treatment and crude oil hydrotreating focusing on food, energy and water. He has managed several research collaborations and consultancy projects with industry and academic institutions in the UK, Italy, Hungary, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Qatar, South Africa, Iraq, Algeria, China, Libya, Jordan, Bangladesh, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. He has published over 400 technical papers and has delivered more than 80 invited lectures/seminars/plenaries/keynotes/short courses around the world. He has supervised 43 PhD students to completion and is currently supervising 9 PhD students. He is the author/co-author of (1) ‘Batch Distillation: Design & Operation’ (textbook) published by the Imperial College Press, London, 2004 (2) ‘Wastewater Treatment by Reverse Osmosis’ published by CRC Press, 2020 (3) ‘Desalination technologies: Design & Operation’, Elsevier, 2022. He is one of the co-editors of the books (1) ‘Application of Neural Networks and Other Learning Technologies in Process Engineering’, Imperial College Press, London, 2001 (2) ‘Composite Materials Technology: Neural Network Applications’ CRC Press, 2009, (3) ‘The Water-Food-Energy Nexus’, CRC Press, 2017, (4) ‘Water Management: Social & Technological Perspective’, CRC Press, 2018.
Dr. Md Shahinoor Islam, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, BUET
Md. Shahinoor Islam is a Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). After graduating from the Department of Chemical Engineering BUET, Dr. Islam started his career as a Process Engineer at Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company (KAFCO) from 2002 to 2005 and gained invaluable experience in chemical engineering operations. He started his teaching profession in 2005 and left for Canada for PhD degree in 2009. From joining the department after completing his PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, he has been actively engaged in research, collaborations, and consultancy. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed Journal Articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters. Dr. Islam has been listed in the top 2% of researchers worldwide based on publications, citations, and other metrics by Stanford University/Elsevier.
Dr. Islam is currently involved in a multitude of consultancy projects. Serving as an Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) specialist for various industries in Bangladesh, including pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing, Dr. Islam has undertaken the challenge of upgrading existing ETPs to achieve zero discharge. Besides, Research has been a consistent component of Dr. Islam’s professional journey, with notable projects such as the establishment of a Water Quality Index (WQI) through Principal Component Analysis, ongoing research on microplastics in surface/river water, and investigations into electronic waste management, municipal solid waste management, and chlorine management. Collaborating with the University of Alberta, he has contributed to cutting-edge research on nanoparticles, biochars, and effective wastewater treatment strategies. His commitment to environmental sustainability, technical acumen, and ability to navigate complex projects align with international standards, making him a distinguished professional in the field of water quality and monitoring.
Program coordinator:
For any queries, please communicate with
Dr Md Easir Arafat Khan
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology,
BUET, Dhaka-1000, Hp: +880 1756 414 190