Curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae
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Nihel
BEN AMAR
26th of March 1964 at Sfax - Tunisia
Tunisian
Married, 2 children.
Professional address:
INSAT, Département Génie Biologique et Chimique,
BP 676 - 1080 Tunis cedex
[email protected]
(216 1) 703 829
(216 1) 704 329
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Professional state: Associate professor in chemical engineering in “ Institut National
des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie de Tunis (INSAT) ”.
Education
1993: Ph.D. Engineering of industrial process. Université
de
Technologie de
Compiègne, France and Laboratoire d’informatique pour la mécanique et les
sciences de l’ingénieur du Centre National de recherche scientifique (LIMSI-CNRS),
France.
1989: M.Sc (DEA).
Engineering
Technologie de Compiègne, France.
of
industrial
1987: B.Sc. (Engineering diploma).
d’Ingénieurs de Monastir, Tunisia.
Energetic
process.
engineering at
Université
de
Ecole Nationale
Research
In my research activity, I studied the temperature front adsorption heat pumps. An
analytical model was first developed to determine the conditions of establishment of
temperature front. Then a mathematical model was developed in order to simulate
dynamically the mode of operation of an adsorption heat pump with heat recovery
(regenerative heat pump). The model is bidimentional and takes into account heat and mass
transfers in the packed bed heated by an external fluid and convective heat transfer due to
fluid flow, represented by the Ergun law. The working pairs used in calculations were
zeolite-water and zeolite-ammonia, which differ by their operating pressures. The numerical
results show the importance of taking the hydrodynamics into consideration in system at low
operating pressure (the case of zeolite-water).
Professional experiences
From 1995 to 1996, I worked in the CEntre NAtional de Formation de Formateurs et
d'Ingénierie de Formation (CENAFFIF-Tunisia), which depends of the Tunisian Ministry of
Professional education and employment.
Academic experiences
1997–1998: At Institut National des Sciences Appliquées
(INSAT, Tunis) in first and second degree:
- Chemical technology.
- Fluid mechanic.
- Thermodynamic of open and closed systems.
- Heat transfer.
1994–1996: At
in first degree:
Institut
supérieur
d’enseignement
et
de Technologie.
technologique. (ISET, Nabeul)
- General thermodynamic.
- General physics.
- Electrical circuit.
I supervise two final year project in the engineering school (Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de
Monastir, Tunisia):
- Automation of two industrial refrigerating system (ammonia and R134a).
- Realization of a training software used for teaching the function of
commercial cooling machine with a mechanical compression.
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Communications and Publications
(of the last three years)
C : Communication
A : Article
C : Modélisation des transferts de masse et de chaleur dans une colonne adsorbante. V ème
colloque national de recherche en physique. N. Ben Amar, Hammamet, March 1995.
A : Numerical study on coupled heat and mass transfers in an adsorber heated with an external
fluid heating. L.M Sun , N. Ben Amar, F.Meunier , Heat Recovery Systems & Combined
Heat Power 15 (1), 19-29 (1995).
A : Numerical Analysis of Adsorptive Temperature Wave Regenerative Heat Pump, N. Ben
Amar, L.M Sun, F.Meunier, Applied Thermal Engineering 16, 405-418 (1996).