Mechanical Engineering

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Dr. Ibrahim Dincer Adjunct Professor Mechanical Engineering Department King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Education	Courses Taught
Research	Contact

Education

Ph. D. (Mechanical Engineering), Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1993.

M. Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1991.

B. Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey, 1987.

Courses Taught

ME 203	Thermodynamics I
ME 204	Thermodynamics II
ME 315	Heat Transfer
ME 430	Air Conditioning
ME 431	Refrigeration
ME 499	Energy and the Environment
ME 557	Thermal Environment and Energy Analysis
ME 599	Seminar

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Research

Areas:

Drying, Energy, Exergy, Heat Transfer, Refrigeration, Thermal Energy Storage, Thermodynamics

Representative Publications:

Books, Book Contributions

I. Dincer, Refrigeration Systems and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, London, 2002.

I. Dincer and M. A. Rosen, Thermal Energy Storage Systems and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, London, 2002.

I. Dincer, "Thermal Processing in Food Preservation Technologies," in Handbook of Thermal Engineering, Ed. F. Kreith, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2000.

I. Dincer and M. A. Rosen, "The Intimate Connection Between Exergy and the Environment," in Thermodynamic Optimization of Complex Energy Systems, Eds. A. Bejan and E. Mamut, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1999.

I. Dincer and T. Ayhan, Energy and the Environment, Proceedings of the TIEES-98, Second Trabzon International Energy and Environment Symposium, Begell House, Inc., New York, 1999.

I. Dincer, Heat Transfer in Food Cooling Applications, Taylor & Francis, Washington, 1997.

Journal Publications

I. Dincer and M.M. Hussain, "Development of a new Bi-Di correlation for solids drying", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 45(15), 3065-3069, 2002.

A.Z. Sahin and I. Dincer, "Graphical determination of drying process and moisture transfer parameters for solids drying", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 45(16), 3267-3273, 2002.

I. Dincer, "Heat transfer models for practical cooling applications", International Journal of Transport Phenomena 3(4), 283-290, 2001.

I. Dincer, "The role of exergy in energy policy making", Energy Policy 30(2), 137-149, 2002

M.A. Rosen and I. Dincer, "Exergy as the confluence of energy, environment and sustainable development", Exergy-An International Journal 1(1), 1-11, 2001.

M.A. Rosen, I. Dincer and N. Pedinelli, "Thermodynamic performance of ice thermal energy storage systems", ASME-Journal of Energy Resources Technology 122(4), 205-211, 2000.

I. Dincer, "New Fourier-Reynolds correlations for refrigeration applications", International Journal of Energy Research 21(7), 661-666, 1997.

I. Dincer, "Development of new effective Nusselt-Reynolds correlations for air-cooling of spherical and cylindrical products", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 37(17), 2781-2787, 1994.

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Contact

	Tel: 966-3-860 4497 (Office)
	Fax: 966-3-860 2949 (ME Department)
	E-mail: idincer@kfupm.edu.sa

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