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Faculté d'Ingénierie du Pétrole et de la Mine

PhD

Metallurgical Engineering

IME-RWTH-Aachen University, Germany

Thesis title: Packed Bed Electrolysis for Production of Electrolytic Copper Powder from Electronic Scrap

2003

MSc

Metallurgical Engineering

Suez Canal University, Egypt

Thesis title: Pre-Reduction of the Egyptian Manganese Ores for Application in Ferromanganese Industry

1995

BSc

Metallurgical Engineering, First Honors

Suez Canal University, Egypt

Project title: Carbon Injection in the Open-Hearth Furnace in NAMATIN Co. in Egypt

1991

August 2023 – Present

Head of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department

Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2018

Head of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department

Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

Dec. 2018 – Aug. 2019

 

Dean of the Canal High Institute of Engineering and Technology

Suez, Egypt

Nov. 2017 – Jul. 2018

Dean of Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering

Suez University, Egypt

Sep. 2016 – Aug. 2017

Dean of the Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology Alexandria, Egypt

Jan. 2016 – Present

Professor

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

Oct. 2015 – Aug. 2016

 

Dean of Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering

Suez University, Egypt

Aug. 2013 – Jul. 2015

 

Vice Dean of Education and Students Affairs

Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

Aug. 2011 – Jul. 2013

Head of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department

Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

Jan. 2010 – Jan. 2016

Associate Professor

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

Sep. 2007 – Aug. 2008

Postdoctoral Researcher

Institute of Nonferrous Metallurgy, Montan University, Leoben, Austria

Feb. 2004 – Jan. 2010

Assistant Professor

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

Jan. 2001 – Jul. 2003

Research Assistant

IME, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Dec. 1995 – Feb. 2004

Lecturer Assistant

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

May 1994 – Dec. 1995

Demonstrator

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

Mar. 1993 – May 1994

Research Student

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

                                              

Ashour Owais

Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department

Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering

Suez University

Suez, Egypt

Undergraduate

 

Graduate

Non-Ferrous Extractive Metallurgy

 

Advanced Extractive Metallurgy

Ferrous Extractive Metallurgy

 

Secondary Steelmaking

Extractive Metallurgy for Mining Engineering Students

Hydrometallurgy

 

Physical Chemistry of Iron & Steel Manufacture

Advanced Hydro and Electro Metallurgy

Advanced Electrochemistry

Ceramics Engineering

Powder metallurgy

 

Advanced Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Metallurgical Processes

Pollution in Industries

 

Advanced Powder Metallurgy

Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Metallurgical Processes

 

Advanced Ceramic Engineering

Advanced New Materials

Heat and Mass Transfer

 

 

Production of Ferroalloys

 

 

Electrochemistry

 

 

Engineering Furnaces

 

 

Journal Publications

  1. Ashour Owais, Karima Fathy, Mohamed Abdel-Hady Gepreel, and Essam Ahmed, Static-Bed Electrolysis for Production of Copper Powder from Copper Cables Scrap, World of Metallurgy – ERZMETALL, Vol. 74, No. 2, 2021, pp. 90-98.
  2. Ashour Owais, Essam Ahmed, Alaa Dardeir, and Mohamed Abdel Hady Gepreel, Production of Electrolytic Manganese Powder from Egyptian Low-Grade Manganese Ore, World of Metallurgy – ERZMETALL, Vol. 72, No. 5, 2019, pp. 285-292.
  3. Essam Ahmed, and Owais, A., Optimization of Packed Bed Electrolysis of Zinc Anode Casing of Spent Dry Cell Batteries, Hydrometallurgy, Vol. 163, 2016, pp. 176-191.
  4. Essam Ahmed, and Owais, A., Statistical Design of Zinc Packed Bed Electrolysis from Spent Dry Cell Batteries, Journal of Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering (JPME), Suez University, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2015, pp. 1-12.
  5. Owais, A., Gepreel, M. A., Essam Ahmed, Production of Electrolytic Zinc Powder from Zinc Anode Casing of Spent Dry Cell Batteries, Hydrometallurgy Vol. 157, 2015, pp. 60–71.
  6. Owais, A., Gepreel, M. A., Essam Ahmed, Effect of Thermal Treatment of Copper Anodes on Electrorefining Process, Hydrometallurgy, Vol. 152, 2015, pp. 55-60.
  7. Owais, A., Direct Electrolytic Refining of Lead Acid Battery Sludge, BHM Berg- und Hüttenmännische Monatshefte, Vol. 160, No. 3, 2015, pp. 134-144.
  8. Owais, A. and Gepreel, M. A., Direct Electrorefining of Secondary Lead Slag Anode Particles, World of Metallurgy- ERZMETALL, Vol. 66, No. 5, 2013, pp. 284-291.
  9. Owais, A., Electrowinning of Lead Powder from Chloride Leach Liquor, World of Metallurgy- ERZMETALL, Vol. 65, No. 6, 2012, pp. 361-367.
  10. Owais, A., Static-Bed Electrorefining of Copper Scrap Turnings, World of Metallurgy- ERZMETALL, Vol. 62, No. 4, 2009, pp. 230-234.
  11. Owais, A., Effect of Electrolyte Characteristics on Electrowinning of Copper Powder, Journal of applied electrochemistry, Vol. 39, 2009, pp. 1578-1595.
  12. Owais, A., Production of Electrolytic Copper Powder from Brass Scraps, Journal of Petroleum and Mining Engineering (JPME) of the Suez Canal University, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2007, pp. 35-43.
  13. Owais, A., Effect of Material and Shape of Starting Cathodes on Electrowinning of Copper Powder, Journal of Petroleum and Mining Engineering (JPME) of the Suez Canal University, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2007, pp. 13-21.
  14. Owais, A. and Friedrich B., Packed bed electrolysis for production of copper powder, ERZMETALL, Vol. 56, November 2003, pp. 668-677.

Patents

  1. Owais, A., A New Cell for Production of Electrolytic Metal Powders, accepted patent at the Egyptian Patent Office, under the number of 25040.
  2. Owais, A., Electrorefining of Brass Scraps for production of Electrolytic Powders, accepted patent at the Egyptian Patent Office, under the number of 25885.
  3. Owais, A., Direct Electrorefining of Copper Scrap Turnings for Production of Electrolytic Copper Powder, accepted patent at the Egyptian Patent Office, under the number of 26368.

Member of the Standing Committee at the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education for the promotion of professor and assistant professor in Egyptian universities and institutes in the field of mining, petroleum and materials engineering. From September 2022- now.

LANGUAGES:

English, German and Arabic (Mother language)

INDUSTRIAL CONSULTANCY

  • Consultant for Technoegypt Company in Egypt from September 2008 until now.
  • Consultant for Sinai Manganese Company in Egypt from September 2013 until now.

  • Organizing committee of the 12th International conferences on Mining, Petroleum and Metallurgical Engineering in Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez Canal and Suez Universities, 2014, Suez, Egypt.
  • Organizing committee of the 12th International conferences on Mining, Petroleum and Metallurgical Engineering in Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez Canal and Suez Universities, 2009, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
  • Organizing committee of the 8th Syrian - Egyptian Conference on Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Elbath University, 2009, Hems, Syria.
 

Technical Reviewer for the following journals:
  • Journal of Hydrometallurgy
  • Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
  • Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
  • Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Journal of Sustainable Chemical Engineering
  • Journal of Petroleum and Mining Engineering
  • JES. journal of Engineering Sciences

  1. Main supervisor of Ph.D. thesis with the title of: “Optimization of the Electrowinning Process for Manganese Recovery from Spent Zn-MnO2 Primary Batteries”, at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Suez Canal University, from January 2021 – now
  2. Main supervisor and referee of M.Sc. thesis with the title of: “Static-Bed Electrolysis for Production of Ultra-Fine Copper Powder from Copper Cables Scrap”, at Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University. in July 2021.
  3. Main supervisor and referee of M.Sc. thesis with the title of: Production of Electrolytic Manganese Powder from Mn-Bearing Materials in Sinai Manganese Company, at Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University. 2017
  4. Main supervisor of Ph.D. thesis with the title of: “Recovery of Valuable Metals Contained in the Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking Dust” at Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University.

 

Referee
  • An external arbitrator to arbitrate the promotion file of Professor Dr. Hossam Halfa, Department of Steel Technology, Central Metallurgical R&D Institute (CMRDI), Helwan, Egypt., in November 2023.
  • Ph.D. thesis with the title of: "Fabrication and Characterization of Hybrid Aluminum Nano-Composites Produced by Solid State Additive Manufacturing Techniques", at Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University. in November 2023.
  • An external arbitrator to arbitrate the promotion file of Dr. Abdul Khaleq Mohammad Ismail Ismail, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia, in August 2023.
  • An external arbitrator to arbitrate the promotion file of Dr. Sagr Alamri, College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia, in November 2022.
  • An external arbitrator to arbitrate the promotion file of Dr. Diab Khalafallah Hasan Ahmed, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Design, Production and Materials Engineering Section, Faculty of Energy, Aswan University, Egypt, in February 2022.
  • M.Sc. thesis with the title of: “Static-Bed Electrolysis for Production of Ultra-Fine Copper Powder from Copper Cables Scrap”, at Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University. in July 2021.
  • An external arbitrator to arbitrate the promotion file of Professor Dr. Abdulaziz Salem Al-Ghamdi, College of Engineering, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia, in May 2018.
  • M.Sc. thesis with the title of: Production of Electrolytic Manganese Powder from Mn-Bearing Materials in Sinai Manganese Company, at Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, 2017.
  • M.Sc. Thesis with the title: Fabrication and Characterization of Copper/Silicon Nitride Composites, in Department of Mechanical Engineering - Faculty of Industrial Education, Suez University, in January 2016.
  • M.Sc. Thesis with the title: Recycling of an Electric Arc Furnace Steel Making Dusts and Reduce Its Adverse Environmental Impact, in Department Metallurgical and Materials Engineering - Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez Canal University, in December 2011.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Ashour Owais, Essam Ahmed, Alaa Dardeir, and Mohamed Abdel Hady Gepreel, Production of Electrolytic Manganese Powder from Egyptian Low-Grade Manganese Ore, The 13th International   Conference   on   Mining, Petroleum   and   Metallurgical Engineering (MPM13), Suez, 25-27 October 2019.
  2.  Owais, A., Static-Bed Electrorefining of Copper Scrap Turnings, The 8th Syrian - Egyptian conference on Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. Elbath University, Hems, Syria, 13-15 October 2009.
  3. Owais, A., Production   of Electrolytic   Copper   Powder   in a Cathode   Basket, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mining, Petroleum and Metallurgical Engineering (MPM11), Sharm El-Sheikh, 15-19 March 2009, pp. 416-429.

 

Undergraduate Projects

  1. Recycling of Li-Ion Batteries by hydrometallurgical techniques. 2023/2024.
  2. Production of electrolytic nano zinc powder from spent batteries, 2022/2023.
  3. Production of electrolytic iron powder from spent cans. 2022/2023.
  4. Effect of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) addition on particles refinement of electrolytic copper powder produced by static bed electrorefining of low-grade copper cables scrap, 2019/2020.
  5. Production of electrolytic silver powder from electric switches scrap, 2019/2020.
  6. Production of electrolytic Mn powder from spent dry cell Batteries, 2018/2019.
  7. Production of nano- copper powder from electrolysis of cables scrap, 2017/2018.
  8. Production of electrolytic Mn powder from Mn-bearing materials in Sinai manganese Company, 2015/2016.
  9. Production of electrolytic copper powder by cementation process, 2015/2016.
  10. Hydrometallurgical treatment of aluminum bearing materials in sulfuric acid, 2014/2015.
  11. Direct electrorefining of Fe-Mn alloy for production of electrolytic Mn, 2013/2014.
  12. Recovery of manganese metal from slag obtained from Sinai ferro-manganese plant, 2013/2014.
  13. Hydrometallurgical treatment of low-grade Sinai manganese ore, 2013/2014.
  14. Recovery of electrolytic zinc powder from wastes of secondary batteries, 2012/2013.
  15. Recovery of metallic silver from fixer solution and X-Ray films wastes, 2012/2013.
  16. Production of dentistry amalgam alloy by mechanical alloying technique, 2012/2013.
  17. Electrorefining of heat-treated copper anodes, 2012.
  18. Hydrometallurgical treatment of lead acid battery sludge, 2011.
  19. Batch hot dip galvanization in Energia Steel Fabrication Co. in 10th of Ramadan City, 2009 & 2011.
  20. Hydrometallurgical treatment of light aluminum scrap, 2009.
  21. Hydrometallurgical extraction of zinc from EAF steelmaking dust, 2009.
  22. Thermal treatment of copper anodes during electrolytic refining process, 2009.

(This project obtained the prize from Nahdet El Mahrousa Organization, Egypt for the best applicable B. Sc. Project).

  1. Recycling of electronic scrap, 2007.
  2. Production of electrolytic copper powder from copper alloy scraps, 2007.
  3. Continuous casting of steel in Ezz Co. in Suez, 2006 & 2007.
  4. Improvement of steel cleanliness in Ezz Co. in Suez, 2007.
  5. Production of clean steel in Ezz Co. in Suez, 2006.
  6. Reduction of low-grade Egyptian Mn-ore in CMRDI-Helwan, 2005.
  7. Electro-slag refining of micro alloyed steel in CMRDI-Helwan, 2005.

August 2023 – Present

Head of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department

Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2018

Head of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department

Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

Dec. 2018 – Aug. 2019

 

 

Dean of the Canal High Institute of Engineering and Technology

Suez, Egypt

Nov. 2017 – Jul. 2018

Dean of Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering

Suez University, Egypt

Sep. 2016 – Aug. 2017

 

Dean of the Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology Alexandria, Egypt

Oct. 2015 – Aug. 2016

 

Dean of Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering

Suez University, Egypt

Aug. 2013 – Jul. 2015

 

Vice Dean of Education and Students Affairs

Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

Aug. 2011 – Jul. 2013

Head of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department

Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

 

Owais, Ashour

 

ashour.owais@suezuniv.edu.eg

ashour.owais@yahoo.com

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=VrYZGM0AAAAJ

 

 

https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?query=Owais+ashour&type=researcher

 

https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?query=Owais+ashour&type=publication

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Web of Science ResearcherID: JWA-1301-2024

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Date de publication

13/07/2011 00:00:00

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