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UoB Holds a Specialized Training Course for Bapco Engineers: 3 October 2023

The College of Engineering at the University of Bahrain (UoB) held a specialized training course in the presence of 15 engineers and technicians from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) titled: “Basics of Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers”, which aimed to provide participants with the basic sciences of chemical engineering, according to which chemicals processing plants are designed and operated, such as oil refineries.

The course was held over four days in cooperation with the Center for Community Service and Continuing Education, with academic professors from the College of Engineering giving its lectures, which discussed several topics, including: chemistry applied in factories, quantitative calculations of materials, energy, fluid sciences, matter transfer sciences, separation and purification sciences, heat transfer sciences, heating processes, industrial furnaces, and corrosion sciences.

For his part, the Vice President for Community Service and Alumni Affairs, Dr. Mohammed Saleh Al-Ansari, indicated that the Center for Community Service and Continuing Education, affiliated with the Office of the Vice President for Community Service and Alumni Affairs, continuously seeks to offer various programs and training courses to empower, develop and empower individuals to serve the needs of the labor market. Pointing out that several major companies and institutions in the Kingdom are keen to train their employees at UoB to develop their functional capabilities for the development of their institutions and companies. He also stressed the University’s readiness to train government and private sector employees in all the University’s colleges with their various specialisations.

The course was presented by a group of faculty members in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the College of Engineering at UoB, namely: Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor Dr. Mohamed Ali bin Shams, Associate Professor Dr. Shaker Mohammed Haji, Associate Professor Dr. Hosni Mohammed Al-Zubeir, and Assistant Professor Dr. Sabri Mohammed Mrayed, in addition to the Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Dr. Omar Abdulaziz Al-Abbasi.

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UOB Organizes a Workshop for GPIC Employees on Heat Exchangers

The Community Service and Continuing Education Center, affiliated with the Office of the Vice President for Community Service and Alumni Affairs at the University of Bahrain, held a training workshop for employees of the Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (“GPIC”). The workshop was titled: “Evaluation and Maintenance of Heat Exchangers.”

The workshop aimed to develop the participants’ capabilities in dealing with precise thermal equipment, enhance their technical skills, link theoretical technical information with practical applications, and foster a constructive environment for communication between the university and various industrial establishments in the Kingdom.

The workshop covered several key topics, including: the fundamentals of heat exchangers and their types, their evaluation according to the approved standards followed in industrial plants, the impact of operational conditions on the efficiency of heat exchangers, technical problems associated with operations, failure analysis and finding appropriate solutions, methods for maintaining heat exchangers, the procedures followed during maintenance, methods for inspecting heat exchangers and conducting necessary tests in accordance with quality systems, and modeling and simulating heat exchangers using modern software.

The workshop was presented by two professors from the Department of Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering at UOB: Associate Professor Husny Mohammed Al-Zubair and Assistant Professor Sabri Mohamed Mrayed.