DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty

Dr. Abdallah Sofiane Berrouk Assistant Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2210, Sas Al Nakhl Campus, Office: +971 2 607 5408 Fax: +971 2 607 5200 Email: aberrouk@pi.ac.ae

PROFILE

Before joining the PI in October 2008, Abdallah Sofiane Berrouk worked as senior research associate at City University of Hong Kong. He was awarded a PhD degree from The University of Manchester in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and turbulence modelling with particular emphasis on Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent multiphase flows. He holds several master degrees which bear witness to his wide academic training: Master of Engineering in Energetics, Master of Research in Solid Mechanics and Master of Science in Oil and Gas Management. He also received several valuable industrial trainings related to CFD (EDF/FRANCE) and LNG technology (SONATRACH/ALGERIA).  

INTERESTS

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Large eddy simulation of turbulent multiphase flows, Discrete Particle Modelling of Fluidized Bed Reactors, Natural Gas and Heavy Oil Processing.

EDUCATION

• PhD. Mechanical Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• MSc. Hydrocarbon Enterprise, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
• MEng. Mechanical Engineering, National Mechanical Engineering Institute,  Boumerdes, Algeria

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
• Reviewer for International Journal of Multiphase Flow, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Powder Technology, Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer, and Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy
  

HONORS AND AWARDS

• PhD and Masters with honours
• Algerian Government  award  
• Worldwide University Network (WUN) award  
• Manchester Science  Enterprise (MSE) award         

EXPERTISE

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Large Eddy Simulation
• Stochastic Modelling for Particle-laden Turbulent Flows
• Aerosol Dispersion and Deposition Indoors
• Discrete Particle Modelling of Fluidized Bed Reactors

CURRENT INTERESTS

• Sour Gas Sweetening   
• Heavy Oil Catalytic Cracking
• Waste Plastic Gasification 
• Foam Bubble Dynamics

INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

• Abdallah S. Berrouk, Abdelhakim Koudil “Discrete Particle modelling of Fluid Catalytic Cracking units”. 2011-2014.TAKREER

Project Objectives: Model fluid dynamics and heat transfer within fluidized catalytic cracking units present in refinery plants as well as pilot plant units used for catalyst screening and selection. The aim is to improve refinery plants’ components functioning using the developed numerical models for multiphase flows.

Role: Project principal investigator

• Ahmed S. Al Shoaibi, Abdallah S. Berrouk “Conversion of Waste Plastics to Energy by Catalytic Pyrolysis”, 2010-2013. BOUROUGE

Project Objectives: Study both experimentally and numerically the catalytic conversion of plastic waste to synthetic gas (H2+CO) that can be used as a source of energy. The conversion process takes place in a fluidized bed gasifier.

Role: Project co-principal investigator

• Cornelis Peters, Abdallah S. Berrouk “Improved Performance of Gas-Sweetening Processes”, 2009-2012. GASCO/ADGAS

Project Objectives: Improve GASCO/ADGAS asset utilization by applying new modelling and design tools for amine sweetening and sulphur-production plants

Role: Project coordinator

TAUGHT COURSES

• CHEG220: Computational Methods for Chemical Engineering
• CHEG301: Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics 
• CHEG533: Numerical Analysis and Optimization
• CHEG571: Transport Phenomena   

PUBLICATIONS

Books

1. Yacine Kahil, Dominique Laurence, Abdallah S. Berrouk
   “Depot d’aerosols dans les conduits coudées a 90°: Suivi de particules dans un écoulement turbulent avec approche Lagrangienne.” 
   Editions Universitaires Européennes. 2010. ISBN: 978-613-1-52359-5.
   
   
2. Abdallah. S. Berrouk
   “Stochastic Lagrangian modelling for large eddy simulation of turbulent dilute two-phase flows.”
   Bentham Publisher. 2011. In Press

Book Chapters

1. A. S. Berrouk, D. Laurence, J. J. Riley, D. E. Stock
   
   “Stochastic modelling of fluid velocity seen by heavy particles for two-phase LES of non-homogeneous and anisotropic turbulent flows.”
   Series: European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC)
   Source: Particle-Laden Flow: From Geophysical to Kolmogorov Scales. Vol. 11 (2007)
   SPRINGER Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-4020-6217-9
   
   
2. C. L. Wu, A. S. Berrouk
   
   “Particle Collision Handling for Hard-Sphere Discrete Particle Model.”
   Series:  Chemical Engineering Methods and Technology
   Source: Powder Engineering: Technology and Applications. Vol. 1 (2010)
   NOVA Science Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-61761-424-8
   
   
3. C. L. Wu, A. S. Berrouk
   
   “Discrete Particle Model for Dense Gas-solid Flows.” Pages 198-245
   Source: Advances in multiphase flow and heat transfer. Vol. 3 (2010)
   BENTHAM Science Publishers. In Press

International Peer Reviewed Journal Paperers

1. Abdallah S. Berrouk, Dominique Laurence
   Stochastic large eddy simulation of bluff-body two-way-coupled gas-particle turbulent flow
   Flow, Turbulence and Combustion. Under review
   
   
2. Jieqing Gan, Hui Zhao, Abdallah S. Berrouk, Chaohe Yang, Honghong Shan Impact of the drag law formulation on the predicted binary-particle segregation patterns in a gas-solid fluidized bed
   Powder Technology, Under review
   
   
3. L. Wu, K. Nandakumar, A. S. Berrouk, H. Kruggel-Emden
   Mass Conservation in DPM-CFD Modeling of Dense Particulate Flows
   Chemical Engineering Journal. Accepted
   
   
4. Wael A. Fouad, Abdallah S. Berrouk, Cornelis J. Peters
   Using Mixed Tertiary Amines for gas sweetening energy requirement reduction
   Oil and Gas Journal. Accepted
   
   
5. Jieqing Gan, Hui Zhao, Abdallah S. Berrouk, Chaohe Yang, Honghong Shan
   Numerical simulation of hydrodynamics and cracking reactions in the mixing zone of a multi-regime gas-solid riser reactor
   Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Accepted
   
   
6. B. R  Palmer, C. Gutierrez, M-B., Gidas, A. S. Berrouk, M. W. H. Gawargy.
   Rate Phenomena in the Reaction of Hydrogen Sulphide with a Zinc-Oxide
   Sorbent.
   Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy,
   Article published online. September 2010, DOI: 10.1002/ep.10495
   
   
7. Abdallah. S. Berrouk, C.L. Wu. 
   Two-Dimensional Discrete Particle Model: Comments on the numerical simulation of cluster flow behaviour in the riser of circulating fluidized beds.
   Chemical Engineering Journal, Vol. 160, Issue 2, June 2010, pp. 810-811
   
   
8. Abdallah. S. Berrouk.
   Turbulence Modulation of dense two-phase flows: Comment on Modelling of dense gas-particle flow in a circulating fluidized bed by Distinct Cluster Method (DCM).
   Powder Technology, Vol. 201, Issue 1, July 2010, pp.104-105
   
   
9. Abdallah. S. Berrouk, C.L. Wu.  
   Large eddy simulation of dense two-phase flows: Comment on [DEM-LES study of 3-D bubbling fluidized bed with immersed tubes.
   Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 65, Issue 5, March 2010, pp.1902-1903
   
   
10. C.L. Wu, A. S. Berrouk.
    Conceptual comparative study between efficient collision-handling algorithms used for Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Discrete Particle Model (DPM).
    Powder Technology,Vol. 198, Issue 3, March 2010, pp. 435-438
    
    
11. Abdallah S. Berrouk, Alvin C.K. Lai, Albert C.T. Cheung, S.L. Wong. Experimental measurements and large eddy simulation of expiratory droplet dispersion in a mechanically ventilated enclosure with thermal effects.
    Building and Environment, Vol. 45, Issue 2, February 2010, pp. 371-379
    
    
12. C.L. Wu, A. S. Berrouk,  K. Nandakumar.
    An efficient chained-hash-table strategy for collision handling in hard-sphere discrete particle modelling.
    Powder Technology,Vol. 197, Issue 1-2, January 2010, pp. 58-67
    
    
13. C.L. Wu, A. S. Berrouk.
    Comments on: Solid cross-flow into the spout and particle trajectories in conical spouted beds.
    Chemical Engineering Science,Vol. 64, Issue 21, November 2009, pp.4457-4459
    
    
14. C.L. Wu, A.S. Berrouk, K. Nandakumar.
    Three-dimensional discrete particle model for gas-solid fluidized beds on unstructured mesh.
    Chemical Engineering Journal, Vol. 152, Issues 2-3, October 2009, pp. 514-529
    
    
15. C. L. Wu, J. M. Zhan, Y. S. Li, K. S. Lam, A. S. Berrouk.
    Accurate Void Fraction Calculation for Three-dimensional Discrete Particle Model for Gas-solid Fluidized Bed on Unstructured Mesh.
    Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 64, Issue 6, March 2009, pp. 1260-1266
    
    
16. Abdallah. S. Berrouk, David. E. Stock, Dominique. Laurence, James. J. Riley.
    Heavy particle dispersion from a point source in turbulent pipe flow.
    International Journal of Multiphase flow, Vol. 34, Issue 10, October 2008, pp. 916-923
    
    
17. Abdallah. S. Berrouk, Dominique Laurence.
    Stochastic modelling of aerosol deposition for LES of 90 bend turbulent flow.
    International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 29, Issue 4, August 2008, pp. 1010-1028
    
    
18. A. S. Berrouk, D. Laurence, J. J. Riley, D. E. Stock.
    Stochastic modelling of inertial particle dispersion by sub-grid motion for LES of high Reynolds number pipe flow.
    Journal of Turbulence, Vol. 8, Issue 50, November 2007, pp. 1-20

International Conference Papers

1. C. Gutierrez, B.R. Palmer, A. S. Berrouk, C. Peters.
   Rate Phenomena in the Reaction of Hydrogen Sulfide with a Pelletized Zinc Oxide–Based Sorbent
   Source: AIChE Conference. October 2011.
   
   
2. Hui Zhao, A. S. Berrouk
   Simulation of Hydrodynamics and cracking reactions of TMP riser feed mixing section. 
   Source: AIChE Conference. October 2011.
   
   
3. Abdallah S. Berrouk, Dominique Laurence
   Stochastic large eddy simulation of bluff-body two-way-coupled gas-particle turbulent flow
   Proceedings of ASME/JSME/KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, Hamamatsu, Japan, July 2011, AJK2011-12006, pp.8-17
   
   
4. Wael A. Fouad, Abdallah S. Berrouk, Cornelis J. Peters
   On Mixing Tertiary Amines for Gas Purification 
   International Conference on Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Engineering,
   Amsterdam, Netherlands. July 2011, pp 1041-1049
   
   
5. C. Gutierrez, A. S. Berrouk, B. R.  Palmer,
   A Zinc Oxide–Zinc Aluminate based Sorbent for dilute hydrogen sulphide capture – A follow up
   Source: Sour Oil & Gas Advanced Technology (SOGAT), Abu Dhabi, March 2011, pp.  533-55
   
   
6. B. R  Palmer, M-B., Gidas, C. Gutierrez, A. S. Berrouk, M. W. H. Gawargy, U. M. Muzaffar
   A zinc aluminate sorbent for dilute hydrogen sulfide capture.
   Source: Sour Oil & Gas Advanced Technology (SOGAT), Abu Dhabi, March 2010, pp. 497-528
   
   
7. C.L. Wu, A. S. Berrouk, K. Nandakumar.
   On the efficiency of discrete particle modeling of gas-solid fluidized bed reactor.
   Source: International Conference on Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering, Singapore, October 2009, pp. 235-240
   
   
8. A.S. Berrouk, A. Douce, D. Laurence, J. J. Riley, D. E. Stock.
   RANS and LES of particle dispersion in turbulent pipe flow: Simulations versus experimental results” Keynote.
   Source: Proceedings of ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting 2006, Miami FL, FEDSM2006, July 2006, pp. 1673-1682
   
   
9. A. S. Berrouk, D. Laurence, J. J. Riley, D. E. Stock
   Stochastic modelling of fluid velocity seen by heavy particles for two-phase LES of non-homogeneous and anisotropic turbulent flows.
   Source: International Conference on Particle-Laden Flow, University of Twenty, Netherland, June 2006, pp. 179-192