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Professional Experience
- Vice Dean
Faculty of Engineering
Mutah University, Jordan
01/09/2003 - Date
- Director
Dead Sea Studies Center
Mutah University, Jordan
14/08/2002 - 14/4/2003
- Chairman
Department of Chemical Enginering
Mutah University, Jordan
01/09/2000 - 31/08/2002
- Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Enginering
Mutah University, Jordan
09/08/1998 - date
- Instructor
Robert Morris College
Chicago, USA
01/1996 - 08/1998
Taught computeriezed problem solving, web design with
HTML and JavaScript and other courses
- Research and/or Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemical Enginering
Illinois Inst of Technology, Chicago, USA
02/1994 - 05/1998
- Research and Teaching Assistant
Faculty of Engineering
Mutah University, Jordan
12/1990 - 08/1993
- Practical training
Natural Resourses Authority Laboratories
Amman, Jordan
6/1991-8/1991
- Summer Intern
Oil and Gas Production Company Retchisa-Neft
Rechitsa, Byelorussia
- Pre-diploma training summer 1989
- 2nd industrial train. summer 1988
- 1st industrial train. summer 1987
- Summer Intern
NGDY Pavly-Neft (Introductory Training)
Pavly,Tatatia
summer 1986
Selected Publications and Presentations
- Al-Khlaifat, A., and Arastoopour, H., Fracture and In-Situ Stress Characterization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs; Chapter 17: “Simulation of Water and Gas Flow in Fractured Porous Media,” pp 201-212. The Geological Society of London, London, 2003.
- Al-Khlaifat, A., Nonaqueous Phase Liquid Cleanup in Stratified Formation by Water Displacement. Mutah Lil-Buhuth wad-Dirasat, Accepted
- Al-Khlaifat, A., and AlRifai, R., A Case Study in the Chemical Engineering Freshman Course Using Enhanced Excel with Visual Basic and Power Point. The Chemical Educator Journal, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp 384-386, 2002.
- Shawabkeh, R., Al-Harahsheh, A., Hami, M., and Khlaifat, A., Conversion of Oil Shale into Zeolite for Cadmium and Lead Removal from Wastewater. Fuel Journal, in press.
- Al-Khlaifat, A., and Arastoopour, H., Simulation of Two Phase Flow through Anisotropic Porous Media. Journal of Porous Media, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp 275-281, 2001.
- Al-Khlaifat, A., Determination of Time Required to Empty a Reservoir Using Dimensional Analysis. Pakistan Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, No 9, pp 878-881, 2002.
- Al-Khlaifat, A., P. Pakdel, and Arastoopour, H., “Measurement and Analysis of Single Phase Water Flow through Fractured and Non-Fractured Low Permeability Porous Media.” J. Chin. Inst. Chem. Engineers, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp57-61, 2001.
- Al-Khlaifat, A., P. Pakdel, K. Henriksen, C. Wang, and Arastoopour, H., “Measurement and Analysis of Single Phase Gas Flow through Fractured and Non-Fractured Low Permeability Porous Media.” Proceedings Volume of the Third Jordanian International Mining Conference, Amman, Jordan, April 25-28, 2000
- Al-Khlaifat, A., and Arastoopour, H., “Numerical Simulation of Water-Gas Flow in Fractured Porous Media,” Presented at Fracture and In-Situ Stress Characterization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Conference, London, UK, June 1999.
- Al-Khlaifat, A., and Arastoopour, H., “Experimental Study of Drainage, Imbibition, and Two Phase Flow through Low Permeability Tight Sand Fractured Porous Media,” J. Chin. Inst. Chem. Engineers, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp 297-302, 1999.
- Al-Khlaifat, A., and Arastoopour, H., (1997) Experimental Study of Two-Phase Flow Through Low Permeability Tight Sand Fractured Porous Media, AIChE Annual Conference, Los Angeles, USA.
- Al-Khlaifat, A., and Arastoopour, H.,(1997) Simulation of Two-Phase Flow Through Low Permeability Porous Media, Third Annual CFX and CFX-TASCflow International Users Conference, Chicago, USA.
- Al-Khlaifat, A., and Arastoopour, H., (1997) Two-Phase Flow in Low Permeability Fractured Travis Peak Formation, Technology Transfer and Exchange Forum on Middle East Fractured Reservoirs, Dubai, UAE.
Professional membership
- Member of Jordan Engineers Association (JEA), Jordan
- Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), USA
- Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), USA
- Member of Global Association for the use of knowledge on Fractured Rock in a state of Stress, In the field of Energy, Culture and Environment (SFERA), Italy
Research
- Establishment of HRH Prince Faisal Dead Sea Studies Center at Mutah University. 2000
- Development of Chemical, Civil, and Mechanical Engineering Departments’ Laboratories in the Faculty of Engineering at Mutah University. 2001
- Remediation of Heavy Metals from Water by Synthesized Zeolite from Ash-Impregnated with Iron, 2001
- Combined Process of Solvent Extraction and Gamma-Ray Radiation for the Utilization of Jordanian Oil Shale. 2001
- Fluid Dynamics Center Proposal
- Contaminated Drinking Water Tanks in Al-Ghweir Neighborhood in Karak/Jordan
Certificates
Certificate
Certificate in Russian Language
Teaching Russian Language as a Foreign Language
State Academy of Oil and Gas, Moscow,
Russia
May 1990.
ICDL
International Computer Driving Licence
April 2003.
SPECIAL SKILLS
- Pogramming Languages
C++, JAVA SCRIPT,
Visual Basic, FORTRAN, MATLAB, and HTML
- Application Software
MS Office
software components (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, MS
Outlook)
Spreadsheet & Graphic Application ( Lotus 123,
Grapher, Excel,Jandel Scientific, Stanford Graphics and others)
- Operating System
UNIX, LINUX, MS-DOS
and Windows
- Trilingual
- English
- Arabic
-
Russian
Courses
- Computerized Problem Solving
- Web Design with HTML and JavaScript
- Communication Skills and Information Technology I
- Communication Skills and Information Technology II
- C++
- Engineering Drawing
- FORTRAN
- Principles of Chemical Engineering
- Fluid Mechanics
- Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
- Mathematical Analysis I
- Mathematical Analysis II
- Thermodynamics I
- Thermodynamics Laboratory
- Transport Phenomena I
- Transport Phenomena II
- Chemical Reaction Engineering I
- Special Topics in Chemical Engineering
- Plant Design
- Graduation Project
Awards, Scholarships and Prizes
- 2002
Environmental Design Contest Prize & Award. United Arab Emirates University, UAE
- 1993-1998
Mutah University and Illinois Institute of Technology scholarships to get both an MS and PhD degrees
- 1984-1990
Ministry of Higher Education Scholarship to get BSc degree
- 1984
The Late King Hussein Award for being an Outstanding Student at Al-Tawjeehi (High School 12th Grade)
Organizing, Conducting Seminars, Training Courses, Lectures and Workshops
- Organizing the Water Management session at the Frontiers of Science and Engineering Symposium. Sponsored by The American National Academies. Held in Istanbul, Turkey, September 2003.
- Conducting training course in Windows 95 and Windows 98. Held at the Southern Studies Center, Mutah University. 1999.
- Conducting short courses in C++ for free. Attendees: Faculty of engineering students. Held at the Faculty of Engineering, Mutah University. Fall semester 2002 and summer semester 2003.
- Giving a lecture about Mutah University and the Faculty of Engineering to the Civil Defense Employees in Karak, 2003.
- Tutorial classes on Polymath and Excel for chemical engineering students.
Photos
The negative is lost
Coming soon.