The Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Technology awarded a PhD degree to the student Reham Raad Abdullah, Department of Materials Engineering/ University of Technology for her thesis titled
"Fabrication of Nano/Composites Membranes for Environmental Protection Applications"
Where the discussion took place in the postgraduate hall in Building B in the department on Monday, 7/4/2022 at nine in the morning, and the discussion committee consisted of Messrs.
1. Prof. Dr .Alaa Abdel Hassan Attia, Chairman
2. Prof. Dr. Emad Abdul-Hussein Youssef, member
3. Asst. Prof Dr. Abbas Khalaf Muhammad a member
4. Asst. Prof Dr. Laith Qais Abbas Member
5. Asst. Prof Dr. Qahtan Adnan Hamad Member
6. Asst. Prof Dr. Kazem Matar Shabib is a Supervising member
7. Prof. Dr. Aseel Bassem Abdul-Hussein is a Supervising member
8. Prof. Dr. Qusai Fadel Abdel Hamid. a Supervising member
As well as evaluating the thesis scientifically by Prof. Dr. Nisreen Rahim Jabr/ Al-Nahrain University/ College of Science, and Prof. Dr. Khaled Turki Rashid/ University of Technology/ Department of Chemical Engineering, and linguistically by Asst Prof.Dr. Laith Waddah Ismail/ University of Technology/ Materials Engineering Department.
After the discussion ended, the discussion committee recorded their observations on the thesis, which were divided between explanation , correction and the student’s defense of her thesis and the committee decided to evaluate the thesis, and decided to grant the student a doctorate degree with a full grade.
Abstract:
Merging membrane technology with the photocatalytic activity of nanomaterials is a promising approach towards minimizing membrane fouling consequences. In this work, nanocomposite membranes were synthesized by non-solvent induced phase inversion process, by immobilizing Tungsten Oxide (WO2.89) nanoparticles (NPs) in polyether sulfone matrix. The results showed that membrane's properties and pollutants' rejection, flux recovery ratio, and flux were improved after NPs addition. It was also found that after exposing the samples to UV light irradiation, the flux recovery ratio was improved for the NPs modified membranes compared to neat membranes. It was found that the flux value at longer time for the NPs modified membranes after irradiation were higher compared to the modified membranes with same NPs loading without irradiation.