Mahmoud Sabah Hassan, a master student at the Chemical Engineering Department, has defended his thesis entitled:  Preparation of Activated Carbon from Iraqi Waste Date-Pits as an Adsorbent for Organic Pollutants in Petroleum Refinery Wastewater. The defense of his thesis was held on December 5, 2019, at Al-Khwarizmi Hall in the Department of the Chemical Engineering/University of Technology. Her discussion committee has consisted of the following members:

1. Prof. Dr. Wadud Taher Muhammad/Chair
2. Asst. Prof. Jenan Abdel Karim Abdel Razzaq/member
3. Asst. Prof. Dr. Khalid Turki Rashid/member
4. Prof. Dr. Thamer Jasim Mohamed/Advisor
5. Prof. Dr. Rafeh Rushdie Mohamed/Advisor

  Large quantities of water used in Petroleum refining to produce useful products. discharge of untreated Petroleum Refining Wastewater (PRW) into water bodies’ results in environmental and human health effects.  Adsorption is one of the most effective techniques of advanced wastewater treatment to decrease COD, oil, TPH and turbidity in wastewater. The most widely used method is adsorption using activated carbon. The Activated Carbon (AC) prepare from the Iraqi Date-pits by different methods of carbonization and activation. The optimum BET surface area has been predicted 519.37 m2/g. AC sample used in treatment of the PRW which is taken from Al-Qayyarah petroleum refinery in Mosul/Iraq. Different parameters, such as Adsorbent doses, pH, COD, Turbidity and TPH were studied within the Adsorption experiments.