Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering
The National Institute of Applied Science and Technology in Tunis

Mobile: 00-216-21497407
Email: binoushousam@yahoo.com

Education

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1998.
Thesis: The Motion of Small Particles in Viscoelastic Boger Fluids.
Advisor: Ronald Phillips.

Master of Science, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1991.
Thesis: Chromatographic Reactions of Three Components: Application to Separations.
Advisor: Benjamin McCoy.

Bachelor of Science, Biotechnology, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 1988.
Thesis: Production and Preservation of Condensed Lactic Ferments for the Dairy Industry.
Advisor: Gilbert Frade.

Industrial Experience

Internship, Shell Tunisia, Tunis, 1/99-9/99.

·        Participated in the development of a financial computer application operating under Oracle environment.

·        Supervisor: Fadhel Barguellil.

 

Chemical Engineer, R&D Geoservives, France, 9/91-10/93.

·        Evaluated new methods and instruments for field detection of hydrocarbons ( High Speed Gas Chromatography, Liquid Chromatography, UV-vis Luminescence, FTIR Spectroscopy, Mass Spectroscopy and Photo-acoustic Spectroscopy ).

·        Participated in a Mud Logging training at an oil exploration on-shore rig, France, 2/92-3/92.

·        Tested a micromachined gas chromatograph for on-line hydrocarbon detection, Houston, 3/93-6/93.

·        Supervisor: Bruno Burban.

 

Research Experience

 

Chemical Engineering Educational programs, INSAT, Fall 2004-2008

 

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Doctoral Research, UC Davis, 3/95-8/98

·        Developed a new simulation based on Stokesian Dynamics to study of the motion of spheres in viscoelastic Boger fluids.

·        Obtained rheological properties of FENE dumbbell suspensions using Brownian Dynamics simulations.

Masters Research, UC Davis, 1/90-1/91.

·        Computed moment expressions using Mathematica for several problems in chemical reaction engineering and separations.

Internship, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique INRA, France, 3/88-6/88.

·        Produced lactic ferments with a 10 liter bioreactor.

·        Concentrated lactic bacteria with a 1 meter ultrafiltration unit.

·        Supervisor: Christian Bouillanne.

Internship, Istituto per le Ricerche di Tecnologia Meccanica e per l'Automazione RTM,  Italy, 9/87-10/87.

·        Used lasers to impress letters and symbols on computer keyboard caps.

·        Supervisor: Giuseppe Ricciardi.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, INSAT, 9 years.

·        Chemistry of Perfumes and Aromas ( CI58, Fall 1999-2008 )

·        Regulation and Maintenance in Bio-industry ( BI57, Fall 1999-2008 )

·        Industrial Production of Organic Compounds ( CI82, Winter 2000-2008 )

·        Applied Math ( CI61, Winter 2000-2006 )

·        Industrial Organic Chemistry Laboratories (CI41, Winter 2000-2003 )

·        Industrial Organic Chemistry Laboratories (BI76, Fall 2001-2008 )

·        Numerical Methods Laboratory (Winter 2007-2008 )

·        Heat Transfer and Energetics (Winter 2007-2008 )

·        Chemistry of Paint Materials (CI 59, Fall 2000-2008 )

 

 

Teaching Assistant, UC Davis, 4 quarters.

·        Catalysis, Diffusion and Heat transfer Laboratories ( ECH155A, Fall 1997 )

·        Drying and Process Control Laboratories ( ECH155B and ECH157L, Winter 1996 )

·        Fluid Mechanics ( ECH150A, Winter 1991 )

·        Heat Transfer ( ECH153, Spring 1991 )

Computer Laboratory Assistant, Engineering Academic Computing Services (EACS), UC Davis, 6/90-6/91.

 

 

Publications

 

Z. Nasri and H. Binous, Rigorous Distillation Dynamics Simulations using a Computer Algebra, Computer Applications in Engineeering Education Journal , accepted for publication, to be published in 2010.

Z. Nasri and H. Binous, Applications of the Peng-Robinson Equation of State using Matlab^®, Chemical Engineering Education, accepted for publication, to be published in Spring issue 2009.

A. Hasseine, A. Azzouz, H. Binous and M.S. Remadna, Study of the transfer function of a thermocouple, International Journal of Materials Sciences, 3 (3) 2008.

H. Binous, Equilibrium Staged Separations using Matlab^® and Mathematica^®, Chemical Engineering Education, published in Spring Issue 2008.

 

H. Binous, Applications of the Peng-Robinson Equation of State using Mathematica^®, Chemical Engineering Education, published in Winter Issue 2008.

 

Z. Nasri and H. Binous, Applications of the Soave-Redlich-Kwong Equation of State using Mathematica^® , Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, Published in June 2007.

 

H. Binous, Introducing non-Newtonian fluid mechanics computations with Mathematica^® in the undergraduate curriculum, Chemical Engineering Education, Winter Issue 2007.

 

H. Binous, A. Wakad and S. Ben Achour, Residue Curve Map Calculations of a Ternary Mixture, Computers in Education Journal, published in Fall issue 2006.

 

H. Binous, Residue Curve Map for Homogeneous Reactive Quaternary Mixtures, Accepted in Computer Applications in Engineeering Education Journal in 2006; published in first issue of this journal in 2007.

 

H. Binous, Gas Permeation Computations with Mathematica^®, Chemical Engineering Education, Published in Spring issue 2006.

 

A. Huq, P.W. Stephens, N. Ayed, H. Binous, L. Burgio, R. J.H. Clark and M. Pantos, Combined technique analysis of the composition of Punic make-up materials, Applied Physics A, published in 2006

 

H. Binous, Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium and Extraction using Mathematica^®, Computers in Education Journal, Published in Fall issue 2005.

 

P. Colomban, G. Sagon, A. Louhichi, H. Binous et N. Ayed, Identification par Microscopie Raman des Tessons et Pigments de Glaçures de Céramiques de l'Ifriqiya (Dougga, XI-XVIII^eme sciècles), Revue d'Archéométrie, vol 25, pp 101-112, 2001.

H. Binous and R. J. Phillips, The Effect of Sphere-Wall Interactions on Particle Motion in a Viscoelastic Suspension of FENE Dumbbells, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 85, pp 63-92, 1999.

H. Binous and R. J. Phillips, Dynamic Simulation of One and Two Particles Sedimenting in Viscoelastic Suspensions of FENE Dumbbells, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 83, pp 93-130, 1999.

H. Binous and B. J. McCoy, Chromatographic Reactions of Three Components: Application to Separations. Chemical Engineering Science, Vol 17, No 17/18, pp 4333-4343, 1992.

H. Binous and B. J. McCoy, Moments with Mathematica^®. Chemical Engineering Education, Winter 1992, pp 12-17.

Abstracts, Workshops and Presentations

Merzougui A., Hasseine A., Binous H, Liquid-Liquid Equilibria of n-Heptane+Toluene+Aniline Ternary System, 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, August 2009, Montréal, Canada.

B. G. Higgins and H. Binous, Arclength Continuation Methods, 9th International Mathematica Symposium, June 20-24, 2008, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

H. Binous, Separation Problems using Mathematica, Oral Presentation, 18^th International Conference on Chemical Education, Istambul 2004.

H. Binous, T. Karmous and N. Ayed, Recent Studies of Cartheginian Era Tyrian Purple Artifacts, Applications of Synchrotron Techniques in Art and Archaeology Workshop, 27^th Annual SSRL Users Meeting, Stanford, 2000

H. Binous, T. Karmous and N. Ayed, Poster Presentation, Rehabilitation of Natural Dyes of Textile Fibers: Animal and Vegetal Purples, 16^th International Conference on Chemical Education, Budapest 2000.

H. Binous, R. J. Phillips, S. Porter and S. Bobroff, Oral Presentation, Particle Motion in Newtonian and Viscoelastic Fluids: Simulation and Experiment, Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Rheology, Monterey 1998.

H. Binous and R. J. Phillips, Oral Presentation, Dynamic Simulation of Particle Motion in FENE Dumbbell Solutions: Two-Sphere and Wall Effects, Presented at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, LosAngeles 1997.

H. Binous and R. J. Phillips, Oral Presentation, The Motion of Small Particles in Viscoelastic Boger Fluids, Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Rheology, Columbus 1997.

H. Binous and R. J. Phillips, Oral Presentation, Dynamic Simulation of Particle Motion in FENE Dumbbell Solutions: Single Sphere in an Unbounded Fluid, Presented at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Chicago 1996.

 

 

Computational Skills

·        Stokesian and Brownian Dynamics.

·        Parallel Programming using Message Passing Interface with workstation clusters.

·        Graphics Programming on Silicon Graphics workstations.

·        Fortran, Pascal and C languages.

·        MathCad, COMSOL, POLYMATH, Berkeley-Madonna, DISTIL, Mathematica and Matlab, ChemSep,

HYSYS, ASPEN, Gproms, GAMS … 

·        DOS, Mac, Unix and Windows platforms.

Professional Affiliations

Member of The Society of Rheology 1997-2000.

 

Honors and Awards

Undergraduate scholarships from Tunisian and French Governments.
Graduate scholarship from USAID ( Transfer of Technology Program ).

Hobbies

Sea and Whitewater Kayaking, Weight Lifting and Aerobics.

References

Brian Higgins         bghiggins@ucdavis.edu

Ron Phillips            rjphillips@ucdavis.edu

Reviewer

* Transport in Porous media 

* Chemical Engineering Education

* Chemical Product and Process Modeling

* Computer Applications in Engineering Education

* International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering

* Environmental Technology