Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office: Bldg 63-Room 104
Office Phone: +966- 13 -860- 1295
Fax: +966-13-860 -2949 (ME Dept)
Personal Page address
Education
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA, USA, Center of clean water and clean energy, 2010-2011.
Ph.D. King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Mechanical Engineering, 2009
M. Sc. King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mechanical Engineering, 2005
B. Sc. Minoufiya University, Egypt, Mechanical power Engineering, 1998
Teaching Courses
- ME 203 Thermodynamics
- ME 311 Fluid Mechanics
- ME 315 Heat Transfer
- ME 316 Thermo-fluids Lab
- ME 452 Measurements and Lab Project
- ME 606 Independent research
- ME 532 Advanced Fluid Mechanics-I
Research Areas
- Pumping machinery
- Leak detection in pipelines
- Water desalination
- Combustion
- General thermo-fluids sciences
Representative Publications (Recent appreciated)
- Lawal, DU; Khalifa, AE ; Experimental investigation of an air gap membrane distillation unit with double-sided cooling channel ;2016
- Dahiru U. Lawal & Atia E. Khalifa ; Experimental investigation of an air gap membrane distillation unit with double-sided cooling channel ;2015
- Khalifa, AE; Antar, MA; Farag, MS ; Experimental and Theoretical Comparative Study of Performance and Emissions for a Fuel Injection SI Engine with Two Octane Blends ;2015
- Khalifa, A; Lawal, D; Antar, M; Khayet, M ; Experimental and theoretical investigation on water desalination using air gap membrane distillation ;2015
- A. Khalifa, D. Lawal, M. Antar, M. Khayet ; Experimental and Theoretical Investigation on Water Desalination Using Air Gap Membrane Distillation ;2015
- Khalifa, AE; Lawal, DU ; Performance and Optimization of Air Gap Membrane Distillation System for Water Desalination ;2015
- A. E. Khalifa and Dahiru U. Lawal ; Performance and Optimization of Air Gap Membrane Distillation System for Water Desalination ;2015
- Khalifa, AE ; Water and air gap membrane distillation for water desalination - An experimental comparative study ;2015
- Dahiru U. Lawal, Binash A. Imteyaz, Mohamed A. Antar, Atia E. Khalifa ; Performance of Spark Ignition Engine using Gasoline-91 and Gasoline-95 ;2014
- Khalifa, Atia E. ; Effect of Blade Exit Shape on Performance and Vibration of a Double Volute Centrifugal Pump ;2014
- Habib, MA; Said, SA; Khalifa, A; Nemitallah, MA; Ayinde, T ; Experimental Investigation of the Flow Maldistribution Inside an Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger ;20
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- Dahiru U. Lawal and Atia E. Khalifa ; Flux Prediction in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation ;2014
- Dahiru U. Lawal and Atia E. Khalifa ; Theoretical and Statistical Models for Predicting Flux in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation ;2014
Patents
- Atia Khalifa and Samir Mekid, “PIPELINE LEAK DETECTION AND REPAIR DEVICE”
US8925590B2- Jan. 2015. - Rached Ben-Mansour, Dimitris Chatzigeorgiou, Atia Khalifa, Changrak Choi, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, " Leak Detection System based on Force Transduction ", US patent No. 8869599, Oct. 2014.
