Assistant Professor | Chairman, Chemical Engineering Department

Address: College of Engineering, Building 3, Office # 2 B 42 | Phone: +966-11-467-6854

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Abdulaziz Abdullah Alghyamah, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering 

 

Address:

Chemical Engineering Department

College of Engineering

King Saud University

P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, KSA

Phone (Office): +966-11-4676854

Email: aalghyamah@ksu.edu.sa

 

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, Nov. 2012

M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, King Saud University, KSA, May 2005

B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (with First Class Honor), KSA, Sep. 2001

 

Research Interests:

Polymer Characterization

Advanced analytical techniques for polyolefin microstructural characterization and fractionation

Polymer structure-property relationships

Polymer reaction engineering

 

Short Courses:

Polymer Reaction Engineering: An industrial Short Course on Olefin Polymerization Processes (19-23, April, 2008, Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

Users Training Course – Polymer Char (10-13, November, 2009), Valencia, Spain

Users Training Meeting – Polymer Char (11-12, November, 2010), Shanghai, China

 

Publications:

Alghyamah, A. and J. B. P. Soares, "Simultaneous Deconvolution of the Bivariate Distribution of Molecular Weight and Chemical Composition of Polyolefins Made with Ziegler-Natta Catalysts", Macromol. Rapid. Commun. 2009, 30, 384

 

Alghyamah, A. and J. B. P. Soares, "Simultaneous Deconvolution of the Molecular Weight and Chemical Composition Distribution of Polyolefins Made with Ziegler-Natta Catalysts", Macromol. Symp. 2009, 285, 81

 

Alghyamah, A. and J. B. P. Soares, "Crystallization Elution Fractionation of LLDPEs Made with Metallocene Catalysts", Macromol. Symp. 2012, 312, 43

 

Siriwongsarn, E., S. Anantawraskul S., N. Chokputtanawuttilerd, A. A. Alghyamah, J. B. P. Soares, "Mathematical Modeling of Temperature Rising Elution Fractionation (TREF) of Polyethylene and Ethylene/1-Olefi n Copolymers", Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2012, 213, 1892.

 

Chokputtanawuttilerd N., S. Anantawaraskul, A. A. Alghyamah, and J. B. P. Soares, "Effect of Operating Conditions on Dynamic Crystallization of Ethylene/1-Octene Copolymers",  Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2013, 214, 2591

 

Alghyamah, A. and J. B. P. Soares, "Fractionation of Ethylene/1-Octene Copolymers by High-Temperature Thermal Gradient Interaction Chromatography", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2013, DOI: 10.1021/ie403310d

 

 

Conferences:

 

Alghyamah A. and J. B. P. Soares, “Simultaneous Deconvolution of the Molecular Weight and Chemical Composition Distributions of Polyolefins Made with Ziegler-Natta Catalysts”, INCOREP 2008, (22-27, June, 2008), Montréal, QC, Canada

 

Alghyamah A. and J. B. P. Soares, “Simultaneous Deconvolution of Experimental GPC and CRYSTAF/TREF Curves Including the Soluble Fraction”, 2nd ICPC 2008, (14-17, September, 2008), Valencia, Spain

 

Alghyamah A. and J. B. P. Soares, “Crystallization Elution Fractionation of LLDPE made by Zeigler-Natta and Metallocene Catalysts”, 3rd ICPC 2010, (7-10, November, 2010),  Shanghai, China

 

Alghyamah A. and J. B. P. Soares, “Effects of CEF Run Parameters on the CCDs of Metallocene LLDPE Blends”, Poster Presentation 3rd ICPC 2010, (7-10, November, 2010), Shanghai, China

 

Alghyamah A., A. Alshiaban and J. B. P. Soares, “Study of Cocrystallization Effects on PE/PP Blends”, 3rd ICPC 2010, (7-10, November, 2010), Shanghai, China

 

Alghyamah A. and J. B. P. Soares, “Fractionation of Metallocene-LLDPE Blends by HT_TGIC”, Advances in Polyolefins 2011, (25-28, Septemper, 2011), Santa Rosa, California, USA

 

Alghyamah A. and J. B. P. Soares, “Polyolefins Characterization Techniques: A Comparison Between TREF, CRYSTAF, and CEF”, 61st  CSChE 2011, (23-26, October, 2011),  London, ON, Canada

 

Alghyamah A. and J. B. P. Soares, "Effect of Solvent Type on HT-TGIC of Polyolefins made with Metallocene Catalysts", 4th International Conference on Polyolefin Characterization, The Woodlands, TX, USA, October 2012

 

Anantawraskul S., E. Siriwongsarn, N. Chokputtanawuttilerd, A. A. Alghyamah, J. B. P. Soares, "Development of Mathematical model for TREF", 4th International Conference on Polyolefin Characterization, The Woodlands, TX, USA, October 2012

 

Alghyamah A. and J. B. P. Soares, " High Temperature Thermal Gradient Interaction Chromatography of LLDPE Made by Metallocene Catalyst ", 5th International Conference on the Reaction Engineering of Polyolefins, Ferrara, Italy, September 2013