Dr. BASSAM S. TAWABINI
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Dr. BASSAM S. TAWABINI CURRENT ADDRESS Earth Sciences Department King Fahd University of Petroleum & Mineral (KFUPM) P.O. Box # 189, Dhahran 31261, KSA Tel.: +966-3-860-7643 Fax: +966-3-860-2595 Mobile: +966-5-214-5429 Website: http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/ES/bassamst E-Mail: [email protected] EDUCATION 2002 Ph.D. Civil Engineering (Environmental Engineering). King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals KFUPM. 1987 M.Sc. Civil Engineering (Water Resources & Environmental Engineering). KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 1984 B.Sc. Civil Engineering. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Graduated with honor. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2014-Present Acting Director, Environment & Sustainability at the Environment, Health and Safety Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 2007 – Present Assistant Professor at the MSc program in Environmental Sciences Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 2005 – 2007 Research Engineer-III & Head, Central Analytical Laboratory Center for Environment and Water (CEW) Research Institute, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 1999 - 2005 Research Engineer-III Center for Environment and Water (CEW) Research Institute, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 1992-2000 Engineer-I Center for Applied Physical Sciences (CAPS), Research Institute, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 1987-1992 Engineer-II Center for Engineering Research (CER), Research Institute, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 1984 - 1987 Research Assistant Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Division Civil Engineering Department, KFUPM TEACHING ACTIVITIES (MSc program in Environmental Sciences-College of Science, KFUPM) 1. ENVS 522: Environmental Chemistry 2. ENVS 525: Advanced Environmental Pollution 3. ENVS 546: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)-new course 4. ENVS 510: Advanced Environmental Geology 5. ENVS 523: Advanced Analytical Geochemistry 6. ENVS 606: Independent Research 7. ENVS 590: Special Topics-I 8. ENVS 599: ENVS Seminar 9. CHEM 643: Environmental Analytical Chemistry. Chemistry Department, KFUPM. Partial 10. GEOL 446: Environmental Geology. Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM, Partial 11. ENVE 503: Environmental Impact Assessment. Env. Engineering Department. Dammam University. KSA, Partial Research Interest Investigation the fate of organic and inorganic pollutants in the water, air and soil environments. Assessment, monitoring and remediation of water, groundwater and soils contaminated with hazardous pollutants. Assessing the fate of the Disinfection By-products (DBPs) formed when disinfecting water using chlorine, ozone and chlorine dioxide. Currently, working on the treatment of groundwater contaminated with MTBE, BTEX and other VOCs using Advanced Oxidation Processes (i.e. the combination of Ultraviolet light (UV), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and ozone (O3)) Also doing intensive research on the treatment of contaminated water using nano-scale photo- catalytic degradation by Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs), Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) and N-Doped Titania. Funded Research Projects Work as the Principle/Co Investigator for a number of Funded-Projects including: 1. Co-I: Synthesis and Characterization of Micro and Nano Carbon Materials Coated with Polyelectrolyte for Removal of Heavy Metal from Water. Funded By KACST-NSTP. (On-going) 2. Co-I: Removal of MTBE from water using Saudi Aramco Fly Ash. Funded by KACST (On- going). 3. PI: Treatment of Water Contaminated With MTBE By Photo-TiO2 System And Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs). Funded By KACST-NSTP. (completed-2012) 4. Co-I: Microbial Dynamics In Oil Field Systems. Funded By Saudi Aramco.(2011, completed) 5. Co-I: Production Of Carbon Nanotubes By Using A Vertical Orifice Chemical Vapor Deposition (VO-CVD) For Water Purifications And Polymerization Of Polystyrene Nanocomposite. Funded By KACST-NSTP.(completed2011) 6. PI: Assessing the Fate of Inorganic and Organic Disinfection By-Products In Saudi Arabian Drinking Water. Funded By KFUPM.(2012, completed) 7. Co-I: Environmental Impact Assessment For Drilling Exploration In The Shallow Waters of The Northern Red Sea. Funded by Saudi Aramco. (2011-completed) 8. PI: Remediation of MTBE-Contaminated Groundwater Using Advanced Oxidation Technology. Funded by Saudi Aramco (2008-completed) 9. Co-I: The Potential For Water Saving In The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia Using Hydrobond Polymers. Funded by Bugshan Group, Saudi Arabia (completed, 2007) 10. Co-I: Environmental Program of Works. SFC No. 079. Funded by Rabigh Refining and Petrochemicals Company (Petro Rabigh). Saudi Arabia. 11. Co-I: Determination and Assessment of Organotin Compounds In The Saudi Marine Environment. Funded By KACST. (2013-completed) 12. Co-I: Photooxidation of MTBE In The Presence Of Hydrogen Peroxide. Funded By KFUPM. (2007-completed). 13. PI: Developing An Innovative Advanced Oxidation Technology For The Removal Of Trace Organics And Bacteria In Water. Funded By KACST.(2014-completed) 14. PI: A Pilot Study On The Removal Of MTBE From Contaminated Groundwater By Advanced Oxidation Processes – Phase II. Funded By Saudi Aramco.(2013-completed) 15. Co-I: A Pilot Project To Evaluate And Develop A Groundwater Remediation Technology. Funded By KACST-NSTP.(on going) 16. PI: Monitoring and Assessment of Water Quality of Al-Asfar Lake in Al-Hasa Region. Funded By Eco-Australia Co. Australia. (completed, 2012) 17. PI: Technical Support for Conducting Solid Waste Management Studies in Al-Hasa Region. Funded By Eco-Australia Co. Australia. (completed, 2013) 18. PI: Developing an online course ENVS 525: Advanced Environmental Pollution. Funded by KFUPM-DAD. (completed, 2013) 19. Co-I: Developing an online course GEOL 446: Environmental Geology. Funded by KFUPM-DAD. (in progress) Supervision of MSc / PhD Thesis 1. Chairman, MSc. Thesis titled: Environmental Pollution at Dammam Gas Stations. By Ali Al- Qahtani at Naif Arab University for Security Sciences". Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.(2005) 2. Member, MSc. Thesis titled: Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy Technique for the Determination of Nitrogen and Total Organic Carbon ". By Nemr Mehanna at Chemistry Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.(2007) 3. Member, MSc. Thesis titled: Optimization of photochemical oxidation processes for MTBE Degradation using ESR spectroscopy”. By Qasem Al-Sherari, ENVS Program, Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.(2007) 4. Member, MSc. Thesis titled ”Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Of Natural Gas and Crude Oil Fuel At Qurayyah Power Plant”. By Adel Al-Khalifah, ENVS Program, Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. (2008) 5. Member, MSc. Thesis titled” Evaluation of Tropospheric Ozone Concentrations in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia." By Mathker Otaibi, ENVS Program, Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. (2008) 6. Chairman, MSc. Thesis Titled” Removal of arsenic and mercury from water by multiwalled carbon nanotubes" By Salman Al-Khaldi, ENVS Program, Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. (2009) 7. Chairman, MSc. Thesis Titled” The Fate of Bromate Formation in Water Treated by Ozone- Based Advanced Oxidation Processes ". By Abdulrazaq Zubair, ENVS Program, Earth Science Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.(2009) 8. Member, MSc. Thesis Titled” Lead and Chromium Removal From Polluted Water Using Carbon Nanotubes". By Omer Bakatheer, ENVS Program, Earth Science Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. (2009) 9. Chairman, MSc. Thesis titled” Environmental Assessment of Groundwater Quality in Tarout Island, Eastern Saudi Arabia”. By Raeid Sadiq, ENVS Program, Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.(2010) 10. Member, MSc. Thesis Titled” Bioremediation of petroleum contaminated sites by indigeneous bacteria". By Feras Salamah, ENVS Program, Earth Science Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.(2011) 11. Chairman, MSc. Thesis titled” Quantitative Assessment of Disinfection By-Products Formed by Chlorine, Chlorine Dioxide and Ozone in Saudi Arabian Drinking Water. By Mohammed Al- Mutair. Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.(2011) 12. Chairman, MSc. Thesis titled” Management of the Drilling Waste in Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. By Ali Al-Zahrani, ENVS Program, Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. (2012) 13. Chairman, MSc. Thesis titled” Degradation of MTBE using photo-TiO2 and CNTs”, By Musah Muhyeddin, ENVS Program, Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.(2012) 14. Member, MSc. Thesis titled” Determination of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Organophosphate Pesticides (OPPs) in the Arabian Gulf”, By Jamal Al Amri, ENVS Program, Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. (2013) 15. Chairman, MSc. Thesis titled” Removal of MTBE From Water Using Non-Modified and Modified Fly Ash. By Adepayo Segun. ENVS Program. Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. (2014) 16. Chairman, MSc. Thesis titled” Treatment of Fuel Oxygenate in Water Using UV/Chlorine Photochemical Degradation Method. By Jemal Amana. ENVS Program. Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. (2014) 17. Chairman, MSc. Thesis titled” Spatial Distribution of the levels of trace metals in the Topsoil of Dammam area, Eastern, Saudi Arabia. By Adetoro John. ENVS Program. Earth Sciences Department, KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.( On-going) 18. Chairman, MSc. Thesis titled” Investigating the Phytoremediation Potential of Selected Saudi Arabian Plants In Removing Pollutants From Contaminated Waters. By Akeem Bello.