Mechanical Engineering

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

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Education	Courses Taught
Research	Experience
Awards	Contact

Education

Ph. D. (Mechanical Engineering), University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, 1987.

M. S. (Mechanical Engineering), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 1979

B. S. (Mechanical Engineering), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 1976

Courses Taught

ME 203	Thermodynamics I
ME 204	Thermodynamics II

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Research

Areas:

Combustion, Heat Transfer, Air Pollution

Representative Publications:

A. A. Al-Farayedhi, P. Gandhidasan and A. S. Younas, "Regeneration of liquid desiccant using membrane technology," Energy Conversion and Management, 40, 1405, 1999.

A. A. Al-Farayedhi, "PC Program developed for estimating pipeline drying time," Oil and Gas Journal, 97(7), 52, 1999.

A. A. Al-Farayedhi, M. A. Antar and A. Khan, "Effect of equivalence ratio on the concentration of CH4/NO2/O2 combustion products," International Journal of Energy, 23, 1165, 1999.

A. A. Al-Farayedhi, "Flame propagation in a tent camp," International Journal of Energy Research, 1999, Accepted.

A. A. Al-Farayedhi, A. M. Al-Dawood and P. Gandhidasan, "Effects of blending MTBE with unleaded gasoline on exhaust emissions of SI engines," Transactions of the ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology, 2000, Accepted.

A. A. Al-Farayedhi, P. Gandhidasan and M. A. Al-Mutairi, "Evaluation of heat and mass transfer coefficients in a gauze-type structured packing air dehumidifier operating with liquid desiccant," International Journal of Refrigeration, 1999, Submitted.

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Experience

1998-2002	::	Chairman, Mechanical Engineering Department, KFUPM, Dhahran
1993-1997	::	Chairman, Technical Mechanical Committee, Saudi Arabian Standards Organization (SASO), Riyadh

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Awards

Nominated for the Best Teacher Award prize in 1994-1995 academic year.

Advisor of the senior design project entitled "Design and Testing of High Temperature Solid Lubricants," by Eidah Al-Yami, 1992, which had been selected for the ASME Senior Project Competition of Universities in USA, and won the First Position in the Sixth International Exposition for the YOUNG Men of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Oman, 1993.

Received a Medal of Kuwait Liberation granted by King Fahd ibn Abdulaziz Al-Saud, for participation in the Desert Storm for Kuwait Liberation, 1991.

Received a Medal of Battle granted by the Minister of Defence and Aviation and General Inspector of Saudi Arabia, for participation in the Desert Storm, 1991.

Contact

	Tel: 966-3-860 2540 (ME Department)
	Fax: 966-3-860 2949 (ME Department)
	E-mail: aghani@kfupm.edu.sa

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