DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty

Dr. Abdallah Sofiane Berrouk The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 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

Dr Berrouk was awarded a PhD degree from The University of Manchester (UK) in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and turbulence modeling 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).  

Before joining the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi (PI) in October 2008, he worked as Senior Research/Teaching Associate at City University of Hong Kong. He has six years of university lecturing experience; four of them are postdoctoral.  He taught different courses in different departments both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.  He has supervised and is supervising four Masters Students and two Post-Doctoral Fellows. He also acted as coordinator of many Master’s Thesis defense committees  

Dr Berrouk domain of expertise covered: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Large Eddy Simulation, stochastic Modeling for Particle-laden Turbulent Flows, Aerosol Dispersion and Deposition Indoor and Computational Flow Modeling for Chemical Reactor Engineering. He recently developed expertise towards sour gas sweetening, heavy oil processing and waste plastic gasification technologies. He is the leader of four industrial projects worth 3.1M US$ and co-leader of other two industrial projects worth 1.35M US$.

During his academic career, Dr Berrouk published two books, three book chapters and more than 40 papers on his ongoing research work in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.

Dr Berrouk is a recipient of many awards:  Algerian Government Award (2001) for top 1% Algerian Engineers, Worldwide University Network Award (2005) for best research collaboration proposal, and Manchester Science Enterprise (2006) for second best business proposal.      

Dr Berrouk is chairing the website committee in the chemical engineering department since 2010 and he has been an active member of the outreach committee (2010-2011) and the departmental Annual Report committee (2011-2012). Currently he is member of departmental ABET committee and PI Computing and Information Technology Committee. Dr Berrouk is a reviewer for different scientific journals and editorial board member for the American Journal of Fluid Dynamics.    

EDUCATION

• PhD. in Mechanical Engineering, Thermo-Fluid Division. July 2007
  The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
  
• M.S. in Oil and Gas Management. September 2003
  University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
• Master of Research. Mechanical Engineering. February 2000
  Agricultural Institute (INA), Algiers, Algeria 
  
• Master of Engineering in Energetics (Ingeniorat 5-year degree). June 1995
  Mechanical Engineering Institute (INGM), Boumerdes, Algeria 

 TAUGHT COURSES

• CHEG220: Computational Methods for Chemical Engineering
• CHEG301: Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics
• CHEG415: Combustion & Air Pollution   
• CHEG533: Numerical Analysis and Optimization
• CHEG571: Transport Phenomena  

HONORS AND AWARDS

• PhD and Masters with honours.
• Algerian Government award.  2001
• Worldwide University Network (WUN) award. 2005  
• Manchester Science Enterprise (MSE) award. 2006

 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) since 2009
• Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) since 2006
• Editorial Board Member of the American Journal of Fluid Mechanics 
• Reviewer for Journal of Fluid Mechanics, American Journal of Fluid Dynamics, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Powder Technology, Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer, Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics Journal, and Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy Journal
• Chair of the departmental Website Committee since 2010
• Member of the departmental Outreach Committee 2010-2011
• Member the departmental Annual Report Committee since 2011-2012
• Member of the PI Computing and Information Technology Committee since 2012
• Member of the technical Committee of GASCO/ADGAS Gas Sub Committee since 2011

INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

• Abdallah S. Berrouk “Prediction of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) formation and emission from catalyst regeneration in Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) units”. 2013 – 2014

Sponsor: Research Initiation Funding Projects (Petroleum Institute)
           
Project Objectives: Develop a compact and reliable procedure for the prediction of noxious
emissions from catalyst regeneration in modern Fluidized-bed Catalytic Cracking (FCC) units.
To this end, numerical simulations of the dense, reacting, gas–solid flow in the FCC
Regenerator will be conducted using Barracuda VR software and used to optimize the
environmental performance of such a refining unit.

           Role: Project Leader

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

Sponsor: 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 Leader

•   Abdallah S. Berrouk “Proposed solutions for the new challenges facing GASCO existing and new Habshan gas plants: High H2S and CO2 concentrations and unconventional contaminants”. 2012-2014.
  
  Sponsor: Gas Research Centre (SHELL/TOTAL/PARTEX)

Project Objectives: Propose technical solutions for the new challenges facing GASCO
Habshan existing and new gas plants in dealing with the highly sour natural gas. Indeed,
challenges such as high H2S and CO2 concentrations and unconventional contaminants should
be technically addressed and have their effects mitigated through a framework of actions to
improve GASCO gas sweetening operations.

Role: Project Leader

• Abdallah S. Berrouk, Cornelis Peters, Frank Geuzebroek “Use of Ionic liquids for CO2 Separation”. 2012-2015.

Sponsor: Gas Research Centre (SHELL/TOTAL/PARTEX)

Project Objectives: The project aims to deliver an optimum choice of an ionic liquid for CO2
capturing in terms of loading capacity, kinetics of the absorption process, thermo-stability,
corrosion, price of the solvent, etc.  Most important in this study is to establish the pros and cons
of physical absorbents in comparison with chemical absorbents like amines. G-force technique
potential in CO2 separation will be experimentally and numerically investigated

Role: Project Leader  

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

  Sponsor:  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.

Sponsor: 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 co-principal investigator

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Abdallah. S. Berrouk
  “Stochastic Lagrangian modelling for large eddy simulation of turbulent dilute two-phase flows.”
  Bentham Publisher. 2011. ISBN: 978-1-60805-377-3 
  
  
• 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.

Book Chapters  

1. C. L. Wu, Abdallah S. Berrouk
   “Discrete Particle Model for Dense Gas-solid Flows.” Pages 198-245
   Source: Advances in multiphase flow and heat transfer. Vol. 3 (2012)
   BENTHAM Science Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-60805-288-8
   
2. C. L. Wu, Abdallah 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. Abdallah 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 

International Peer Reviewed Journal Papers 

1. Richard Ochieng, Abdallah S.  Berrouk, Justin Slagle.
   Improved Performance of the Natural-Gas-Sweetening Benfield-HiPure Process Using Process Simulation: Part II.
   Hydrocarbon Engineering. 
   Submitted 

2. Richard .Ochieng, Abdallah. Berrouk and Ali Elkamel.
   Modular Flowsheet Optimization of Natural Gas Sweetening Units  using  Stochastic Algorithms
   Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering.
   Submitted

3. Wael A Fouad, Abdallah S. Berrouk
   Phase Behavior of Sour Natural Gas Systems Using Classical and Statistical Thermodynamic  Equations of States
   Fluid Phase Equilibria.
   Submitted 

4. Jia, D., Zhao, H., Abdallah S. Berrouk , Yang, C.
   Numerical simulation of counter-current gas-solid flow in FCC reactor
   Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering,  
   Accepted.  

5. Wael A Fouad, Abdallah S. Berrouk
    Using Mixed Tertiary Amines for gas sweetening energy requirement reduction
   Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Vol. 11, March 2013, pp. 23-30.

6. Richard Ochieng, Abdallah S.  Berrouk, Justin Slagle.
   Sweet Simulation: Part I.
   Hydrocarbon Engineering, Vol. 18(2), February 2013, pp. 33-36.

7. Wu, C.L., Abdallah S. Berrouk
   Are Particles in Two-dimensional Fluidized Beds Discs?
   Chemical Engineering Journal, Vol. 218, February 2013, pp. 392-393

8. Abdallah S. Berrouk
   Stochastic large eddy simulation of bluff-body two-way-coupled gas-particle turbulent flow
   American Journal of Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 2, Issue 6, December 2012, pp. 141-162

9. Richard Ochieng, Abdallah S. Berrouk, Cornelis J. Peters, Justin Slagle
   Amine Processes outperform in sweetening LNG plant feed
   Oil and Gas Journal. Vol. 110, Issue 12, December 2012, pp. 108-115

10. Wael A Fouad, Abdallah S.
    Prediction of H2S and CO2 solubilities in aqueous TEA solutions using a simple model of Kent-Eisenberg Type
    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. Vol. 51, Issue 18, July 2012, pp 6591–6597

11. 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, Vol. 218, March 2012, pp.69-75

12. Wael A. Fouad, Abdallah S. Berrouk, Cornelis J. Peters
    Mixing MDEA, TEA shows benefit for gas-sweetening operations
    Oil and Gas Journal. Vol. 109, Issue 45, November 2011, pp. 25-33

13. 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, Vol. 50, Issue 20, October 2011, pp.11511-11520

14. C. L. Wu, K. Nandakumar, Abdallah S. Berrouk, H. Kruggel-Emden
    Mass Conservation in DPM-CFD Modeling of Dense Particulate Flows
    Chemical Engineering Journal. Vol. 174, Issue 1, October,  2011, pp.475-481

15. B. R  Palmer, C. Gutierrez, M-B., Gidas, Abdallah S. Berrouk, M. W. H. Gawargy.
    Rate Phenomena in the Reaction of Hydrogen Sulphide with a Zinc-Oxide Sorbent
    Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, Vol. 30, October 2011, Issue 3, pp. 384-391

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. C.L. Wu, Abdallah 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

20. 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

21. C.L. Wu, Abdallah 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

22. C.L. Wu, Abdallah 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      

23. C.L. Wu, Abdallah 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

24. C. L. Wu, J. M. Zhan, Y. S. Li, K. S. Lam, Abdallah 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. Abdallah 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
    

Invited Talks

1. “Lagrangian-Eulerian modeling of gas-particle turbulent industrial flows”.
   Oran University of Science and Technology Seminars. Oran. Algeria.
   June 2006

2. “Computational Fluid Dynamics for Chemical Reactor Engineering”.
   Chemical Engineering Department Seminars. Petroleum Institute. Abu Dhabi. UAE.
   June 2009

3. “Multi-scale modeling of dense particulate systems”.
   2nd Annual TAKREER-Idemitsu-Kosan Technical Workshop. Abu Dhabi. UAE.
   November 2011

International Conference Papers

1. H. Zhao, Abdallah S. Berrouk (Speaker), Renbo Hu, Chao H. Yang
   Coupled Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Analysis of a firebox of a Crude Distillation Unit (CDU)
   Source: International Conference on Modelling Fluid Flow. Budapest. Hungary. 4-7 September 2012.

2. R. Ochieng (Speaker),  Abdallah S. Berrouk, C. J. Peters, P. E. Krouskop, L.G. Lyddon, J. Slagle
   Optimization of ADGAS Gas Sweetening Benfield - HiPure Process
   Source: Gas Processors Association Europe Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany. 23-25 May 2012.

3. D. Jia, Hui Zhao(Speaker), Abdallah S. Berrouk, Abdelhakim Koudil
   Numerical study of the disengager and stripper performances in FCC reactors
   Source: International conference on Multiphase Flows and Transport Phenomena. Agadir, Morocco. 22-25 April 2012.

4. J. Gan, Hui Zhao(Speaker), Abdallah S. Berrouk, Chaohe Yang
   Comparison of Axial solid distribution in mono- and binary- dispersed gas-solid Fluidized beds
   Source: International conference on Multiphase Flows and Transport Phenomena. Agadir, Morocco. 22-25 April 2012.

5. Wael A. Fouad, Abdallah S. Berrouk (Speaker), Cornelis J. Peters
   Improved Kent-Eisenberg models for predicting H2S and CO2 solubilities in aqueous TEA solutions
   Source: 3rd International Gas Processing Symposium, Doha, Qatar. 5-7 March 2012.

6. R. Ochieng(Speaker), Abdallah S. Berrouk, C. J. Peters, P. E. Krouskop, L.G. Lyddon, J. Slagle
   Simulation of the Benfield Hi-Pure Process of Natural Gas Sweetening for LNG Production and Evaluation of Alternatives
   Source: Sour Oil & Gas Advanced Technology (SOGAT), Abu Dhabi, March 2012.

7. C. Gutierrez(Speaker), B.R. Palmer, Abdallah. S. Berrouk, C. Peters.
   Rate Phenomena in the Reaction of Hydrogen Sulfide with a Pelletized Zinc Oxide–Based Sorbent
   Source: AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA. 17-21 October 2011.

8. Abdallah. S. Berrouk (Speaker), Hui Zhao
   Simulation of Hydrodynamics and cracking reactions of TMP riser feed mixing section. 
   Source: Source: AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA. 17-21 October 2011.

9. Abdallah S. Berrouk (Speaker), 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

10. Wael A. Fouad(Speaker), 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

11. C. Gutierrez (Speaker), Abdallah 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.  533-557

12. B. R  Palmer, M-B., Gidas, C. Gutierrez (Speaker), Abdallah 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

13. C.L. Wu (Speaker), Abdallah 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

14. Abdallah S. Berrouk, A. Douce, D. Laurence, J. J. Riley, D. E. Stock(Speaker).
    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

15. Abdallah S. Berrouk (Speaker), 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