DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty

Dr. Fawzi Banat Professor Bu Hasa Building, Room 2212 Sas Al Nakhl Campus Office: +971 2 607 5099 Fax: +971 2 607 5200 Email: fbanat@pi.ac.ae

EDUCATION

	PhD	Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1995)
	MSc	Chemical Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan (1991)
	BSc	Chemical Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan (1988)

PROFILE

Dr. Fawzi Banat joined the PI in June 2011 as a Visiting Professor of Chemical Engineering. He earned the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degree from the University of Jordan and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Canada. Dr. Banat has good experience in membrane desalination and water treatment.  He is known for his work in applying and coupling membrane distillation process with renewable energy sources for desalination.

Dr. Banat is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications in refereed journals, among them 3 book chapters. He received many invitations as an invited speaker in many international conferences.  In addition, he serves as a reviewer of numerous papers in well-known international journals.  Dr. Banat was the advisor or co-advisor of 22 MSc theses. Furthermore, he served on MSc. committees as the external examiner. Dr. Banat has been involved in international collaborative research efforts concerned with desalination (ADIRA and SMADES EU-funded projects).

Dr. Banat has been active on many university committees and external boards. Furthermore, he was involved in scientific committees of many international conferences. Dr. Banat has served as the Dean of research at JUST University in Jordan and as the Dean of graduate studies and Dean of Natural Resources Engineering at the German-Jordanian University. 

Dr. Banat was the recipient of several awards in recognition of his research.  For example, he was the recipient of Shoman Prize for Young Arab Researchers and the Hijjawi Award for Applied research. In 2006 he received the award of exceptional researcher from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Jordan. In recognition of his international research reputation, Dr. Banat was listed among the leading scientists in the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC). 

Research Interests

Desalination and water purification processes, membrane separation processes, wastewater treatment, and coupling desalination processes with renewable energy sources.

Selected Publications

• F. Banat and J. Simandl, “Removal of Benzene Traces from Contaminated Water by Vacuum Membrane Distillation, Chemical  Engineering Science, 51, 1257 - 1265, (1996).
  
  
• F. Banat, and J. Simandl, “ Desalination by Membrane Distillation: A Parametric Study”, Separation Science and Technology, 33, 201-226 (1998).
  
  
• F. Banat, F. Abu Al-Rub, R. Jumah and M. Al-Shannag, Application of Stefan-Maxwell Approach to Azeotropic Separation by Membrane Distillation”, Chemical Engineering  Journal, 73, 71-75 (1999).
  
  
• F. Banat, F. Abu Al-Rub, M. Al-Shannag, Modeling of Dilute Ethanol-Water Separation by Membrane Distillation. Separation and Purification Technology, 16, 119-131 (1999).
  
  
• F. Banat, S. Prechtl, and F. Bischof, Experimental Assessment of Bioreduction of DEHP in Sewage Sludge under Aerobic Thermophilic Conditions”, Chemosphere, 39, 2097-2106 (1999).
  
  
• F. Banat, F.A. Abu Al-Rub, R. Jumah, and M.Y. Shannag, Theoretical Investigation of Membrane Distillation Role in Breaking the Formic Acid-Water Azeotropic Point: Comparison between Fickian and Stefan-Maxwell Based Models, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 26, 879-888 (1999)
  
  
• F. Banat, F. Abu Al-Rub, and J. Simandl, Isothermal Vapor Liquid Equilibrium of Acetone-Water Mixture in the Presence of Molecular Sieves, Separation Science and Technology, 36, 487-497 (2001).
  
  
• F. Banat, R. Jumah, M. Garaibeh, Exploitation of Solar Energy Collected by Solar Stills for Desalination by Membrane Distillation, Renewable Energy, 25, 293-305 (2002).
  
  
• F. Banat, S. Al-Asheh, J. Simandl, Vapor Liquid Equilibria of Propionic Acid Water System in the Presence of Different Types of Inorganic Salts: Effect of Temperature and Salt Concentration, Chemical Engineering and Processing, 42, 917-923 (2003).
  
  
• F. Banat, S. Al-Asheh, L. Makadmeh, Evaluation of the Use of Raw and Activated Date Pits as Potential Adsorbents for Dyed Waters, Process Biochemistery, 39, 193-202, (2003).
  
  
• F. Banat, N. Al-Bastaki, Treating Dyeing wastewater by an Integrated Process of Adsorption by Activated Carbon and Ultrafiltration, Desalination,170, 69-75 (2004).
  
  
• F. Banat, S. Al-Asheh, M. Al-Rawashdeh, M. Nusair, Photodegradation of Methylene Blue Dye by the UV/H2O2 and UV/acetone oxidation processes. Desalination 181, 225-232 (2005).
  
  
• F. Banat, N. Jwaied, M. Rommel, J. Koschikowski, M. Wieghaus, Performance evaluation of the “large SMADES” autonomous desalination solar-driven membrane distillation plant in Aqaba, Jordan. Desalination, 217 17-28 (2007).
  
  
• F. Banat, N. Jwaied, M. Rommel, J. Koschikowski, M. Wieghaus, Desalination by a "compact SMADES" autonomous solar powered membrane distillation unit. Desalination, 217 29-37 (2007).
  
  
• S. Al-Asheh, F. Banat, F. Lattieff, Comparison between Activated Charcoal, Bentonite and Phillipsite as Storing Media for Methane, Oil and Gas Technology,  104, 83-89 (2011).
  
  
• H. Qiblawey, F. Banat, Q. Al-Nasser, Performance of Reverse Osmosis Pilot Plant Powered by Photovoltaic in Jordan, Renewable Energy, Accepted (2011).