Asst. Prof. Dr. Firas Khaleel AL-Zuhairi
Chemical Engineering Department
Lecturer
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1- B.Sc.in Chemical Engineering /General (2002)/ Department of Chemical Engineering - The Former Military College of Engineering, Iraq
2- M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering/ Unit Operation (2009)/Department of Chemical Engineering- University of Technology, Iraq.
3- Ph.D. In Chemical Engineering/Biogas Technology (2017) /Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering- University of Naples “Federico ΙΙ”-Italy
1- Multiphase Reaction (Fisher-Tropsch reaction, Reactive distillation). 2- Gas to Liquid Technology (GTL). 3- Gas and wastewater treatment. 4- Synthesis of Biogas. 5- Preparation and characterize catalysts. 6- Adsorption and Bioadsoption.
1- Firas Al-Zuhairi, Domenico Pirozzi, Angelo Ausiello, Ciro Florio, Maria Turco, Luca Micoli, Gaetano Zuccaro, Giuseppe Toscano, “Biogas Production from Solid State Anaerobic Digestion for Municipal Solid Waste”,Chemical Engineering Transactions, Vol. 43, PP. 2407- 2412 , (2015).
2- Ciro Florio, Angelo Ausiello, Luca Micoli, Biancamaria Pietrangeli, Felicia Rugari, Gaetano Zuccaro, Firas AL-Zuhairi, Giuseppe Toscano and Domenico Pirozzi, “ Effect of the sewage sludge inoculum on the anaerobic digestion of municipal solid waste”, Sixth International Symposium on Energy from Biomass and WasteAt: Venice,Italy,(2016).
3- F.K. Al-Zuhairi, R.A. Azeez, S.A. Mahdi, W.A. Kadhim and M.Kh. AlNaamee, “Removal oil from Produced Water by Using Adsorption Method with Adsorbent a Papyrus Reeds, Engineering and Technology Journal, Vol. 37, Part A, No. 05, pp. 157-165, (2019).
4- Firas K. AL-Zuhairi and Wafaa A. Kadhim, “Effect of Ce-promotion on iron catalysts activity through the synthesis of Liquid fuels by the Fischer-Tropsch process”, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol., 579, 012017, (2019).
5- Firas Al-Zuhairi, Luca Micoli, Maria Turco, Ciro Florio, Angelo Ausiello, Gaetano Zuccaro, Domenico Pirozzi, Giuseppe Toscano, “Anaerobic codigestion of Municipal Solid Wastes with Giant Reed under Mesophilic Conditions” ,Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, Vol. 21, pp. 1332-1340, (2019)
6- Firas Khaleel Al-Zuhairi, Wafaa Abdul Kadhim, Ahmed Lateef Khalaf and Mohd Hasbi Ab Rahim., “The Effects of Cerium Promoter on the Performance of Cobalt-Based Catalysts in Fischer Tropsch Synthesis for Liquid Fuel Production”, IIUM Engineering Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2,pp.1-11, (2020).
7- Rana Abbas Azeez, Firas K. Al-Zuhairi and Aqeel Al-Adili, “A Comparative investigation on Viscosity Reduction of Heavy Crude Oil Using Organic Page 4 of 10 Solvents”, International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, Vol.10, No. 4, pp.1675- 1681, (2020).
8- Firas K. Al-Zuhairi,Rana Abbas Azeez and Muna Kheder Jassim, “Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for Prediction of Viscosity Reduction of Heavy Crude Oil using Different Organic Solvents”, Journal of Engineering, Vol.26, No.6, pp. 35-49, (2020).
9- Rana Abbas Azeeza and Firas K. Al-Zuhairi, “Biofuel ( Biethanol, Biodiesel, and Biogas) from Lignocelluloses Biomass :A review”,Journal of University of Babylon for Engineering Sciences, Vol. (28), No. (1), pp.202-215, (2020).
10- Firas K. Al-Zuhairi and Rana Abbas Azeeza, “Augmentation of Biomethane Production from Potato Peels Waste by Co-digestion with Sheep Manure, AIP Conference Proceedings 2213, pp. 020048:1-020048:1, (2020).
11- Khalid A. Sukkar, Firas K. Al-Zuhairi and Eveleen A. Dawood, “Evaluating the Influence of Temperature and Flow Rate on Biogas Production from Wood Waste via a Packed-Bed Bioreactor”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 46, pp. 6167–6175, (2021).
12- Rana Abbas Azeez, Firas Khaleel Ismael Al-Zuhairi, “Biosorption of dye by immobilized yeast cells on the surface of magnetic nanoparticles” Alexandria Engineering Journal,61, pp.5213-5222, (2022).
13- Firas K. Al-Zuhairi, Rana A. Azeez, and Suhair A. Mahdi , “Synthesis of long-chain hydrocarbons from syngas over promoted Co/SiO2 catalysts using Fischer–Tropsch reaction”, AIP Conference Proceedings 2443, 030028, (2022).
14- Rana A. Azeez, Firas K. Al-Zuhairi, “Bio-treatment Technologies of Produced Water: A Review”, Engineering and Technology Journal, 40 (9), 1216-1230, (2022).
15- Firas Khaleel AL-Zuhairi, Rana Abbas Azeez , Nabil Majd Alawi , Hoang M. Nguyen , “Enhancement the Properties of Local Crude Oil using DE- Page 5 of 10 asphalting Process”, Iraqi Journal of Oil & Gas Research, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2022)
1- Award from the president of the University of Technology Prof. Dr. (Amin Daway Thamir) , No. : - 13380, Date: 17/11/2011.
2- Award from the president of the University of Technology Prof. Dr. (Amin Daway Thamir), No. : - 9/254, Date: 20/3/2012.
3- Award from the president of the University of Technology Prof. Dr. (Amin Daway Thamir), No. : - 11079, Date: 24/6/2012.
4- Award from the president of the University of Technology Prof. Dr. ( Kahtan Khalaf AL-Khazraji) , No. : - 31, Date: 13/1/2011.
5- Award from the president of the University of Technology Prof. Dr. ( Kahtan Khalaf AL-Khazraji) , No. : - 284, Date: 23/5/2011.
