CURRICULUM VITAE
Nakisa Yaghobi

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION                                                                    
Name: Nakisa
Surname: Yaghobi
Status: Iranian Citizen
Address: Iran Polymer Institute
I.R.IRAN
Tel: +98 21 44580029
Fax: +98 21 6026501
Email: N.Yaghobi@ippi.ac.ir


EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION                                                               
Amir Kabir University (Tehran Polytechnic) M.Sc. degree in chemical engineering.
Ph.D. student in IPPI.


POSITION HELD                                                                                     
Member of Academic Staff of Iran Polymer and Petrochemical  Institute (IPPI) in Gas Conversion Department.
Work Experiences at Iran Polymer Institute:
Place Year Job Type Position
IPPI 1997- 1998 Design Engineer _
IPPI 1998-1999 Member of Academic staff Senior
IPPI 1999- 2004 Member of Academic staff Head of OCM Lab & gas conversion department



CURRENT RESEARCH                                                                             
-Conversion Process of Natural Gas to Ethylene
-Production of chitosan from shrimp shells for medical application
-Pilot Plant of medical grade pyrocarbon
-Production of styrene divinylbenzene as ion exchanger



LIST OF PUBLICATIONS                                                                          
1-N.Yaghobi et al., Optimization of Chitin Isolation from Shrimp Shells: Study of Parameters Influence on Chitin Deacetylation Reaction and Biocompatibility Evaluation (in vitro) Iranian Journal of Polymer Science and Technology 15, 55-63, 2002.
2-N.Yaghobi et al.,, Conversion process of Natural Gas to Ethylene, Proceedings of 3rd Iran Petrochemical Forum (IPF) pp 245-258, Tehran, 5-6 May 2001.
3- N.Yaghobi et.al, "In Vivo Study of Microcrystalline Chitosan as a Blood Hemostasis Agent, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2001) Symposium B, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, (1-6 July2001), Singapore.
4- N.Yaghobi et.al, Preparation of Chitosan Derived from Shrimp’s Shell of Persian Gulf as a Blood Homeostasis Agent: in vivo, Iranian Polymer Journal 11 1 63-68 (2002)
5- N.Yaghobi et.al. , Experimental Study of Particle Size Distribution in Suspension Polymerization, Iranian Polymer Journal 14 3 165-169 (2001)
6- N.Yaghobi et.al, "Methane Conversion to Ethylene by Oxidative Coupling Reaction, 6rd National Conference on Chemical Engineering, 245-253 (2001), Isfahan, Iran.
7- N.Yaghobi et al., Deacetylation of Chitin by Multistage alkali treatments, submitted to the Iranian Polymer Journal (2002).
8- N. Yaghobi et al., Experimental Kinetic Model of Oxidative Coupling of Methane under Different Operating Conditions over Perovskite Catalyst. 12th International Gas, Oil & Petrochemical Congress, Feb 2003.
 
9- Nakisa Yaghobi, Mir Hamid Reza Ghoreishy, “Oxidative Coupling of Methane in a Fixed Bed Reactor over Perovskite Catalyst: A Simulation Study Using Experimental Kinetic Model”, Journal of Naturak Gas Chemistry, 2008, 17, 8-12.
 
10- Nakisa Yaghobi, Mir Hamid Reza Ghoreishy, Vahid Eslamimanesh, “An experimental kinetic model for the oxidative coupling of methane using a  bench scale reactor”Asia Pacific of Chemical Engineering, in press.
 
11- Nakisa Yaghobi, Mir Hamid Reza Ghoreishy, “ Comparative Study on the Modeling of Kinetic of the Oxidative Coupling of Methann Laboratory and Bench scales”Chemical Product and Process Modeling, 2008, 3,1,16.
 
12- Nakisa Yaghobi, Mir Hamid Reza Ghoreishy, “Natural Gas Conversion to Ethylene: An Experimental and Numerical Study” Annual Gas Processing Symposium, accepted.
 
13- Nakisa Yaghobi, Mir Hamid Reza Ghoreishy, “CFD simulation of reactive flows: Oxidative coupling of methane”1st National conference on CFD Application in Chemical Engineering, Razi University, accepted.
 
14- Nakisa Yaghobi, Mir Hamid Reza Ghoreishy, “Oxidative Coupling of Methane: Interaction of Transport Phenomena  and Chemical Reaction” 2nd Natinal Conference on Natural Gas Conversion, accepted.