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صفحه فارسی

 
        

  Associate  Professor

 Civil Engineering Faculty,

  K.N. Toosi University of Technology

  Tehran, Iran


Educations

·         Post Doctoral, Civil Engineering (Geotechnical-Environmental Eng.), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 1998 (Research Topic: Heavy metals transport through soil)

·         Ph. D. Civil Engineering (Geotechnical-Environmental Eng.), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 1996 (Thesis Topic: Inorganic contaminant movement through unsaturated clay soil)

·         M. Sc. Civil Engineering, Geotechnical (Geotechnique) Eng., Amir Kabir University of Technology (Poly Technique University de la Technologie), 1990

·         B. Sc. Civil Engineering, Amir Kabir University of Technology (Poly Technique University de la Technologie), 1987

 

 

  University Position

 

University position

Position

Date

Office location

from

until

Member of the University Publishing Council

2022

Now

Civil Engineering Faculty

K. N. Toosi University of Technology

Head of Environmental Laboratory

2021

Now

Civil Engineering Faculty

K. N. Toosi University of Technology

Member of the University HSE Council

2016

2020

Civil Engineering Faculty

K. N. Toosi University of Technology

Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Engineering

2016

2017

Civil Engineering Faculty

K. N. Toosi University of Technology

Graduate Program Director

2012

2014

Civil Engineering Faculty

K. N. Toosi University of Technology

Associate Professor

Full-Time

2014

Now

Civil Engineering Faculty

K. N. Toosi University of Technology

Assistant Professor

Full-Time

2002

2014

Civil Engineering Faculty

K. N. Toosi University of Technology

Assistant Professor

Part-Time

2001

2002

Civil Engineering Faculty

K. N. Toosi University of Technology

The Faculty member

Part-Time

1996

2000

Concordia University

Civil-Building-Environmental Engineering Department, Montreal, Canada

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                       

Other Positions:

 

Office location

Date

Position

 

 

until

 

 

 

 

from

 

 


Khaneh bonyad (Ati center) company


2003

2001

Deputy of Managing Director

 Khaneh bonyad (Ati center) company 2003 2002

 

Construction Manager

Residential towers, B12, 29 stories, Evin & Narges, 27 stories, Sohanak

(Ati saz company)

 

OWRC

(Organization of Waste Recycling & Composting)

Tehran Municipality

2005 2004  

World Bank Project Advisor

(Tehran Waste Management Optimization Project & its Landfilling BOT Contract)

 

 

OWRC

(Organization of Waste Recycling & Composting)

Tehran Municipality

2010

2005

Member of the Board of Directors

& Planning and Scheduling Deputy

WMOTM

(Waste Management Organization)

Tehran Municipality

2013

2011

Project Manager

Investigation, assessment, analysis and site-selection for Tehran final recycling and disposal sites project

Department of Environment (DoE)

&

Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology

2013

2012

 Member of the Leading Committee

Developing a larg-scale, countrywide strategy on human-caused pollution project

Department of Environment (DoE)

&

Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology

2013

2012

Project Manager

Developing a larg-scale, countrywide strategy on solid waste (Municipal, Industrial, Agricultural, Special,etc.)  management project

Department of Environment (DoE)

&

 

Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology

 

2021
2020

Project Manager

Environmental monitoring on countrywide industrial parks (zones) project

 

Shiraz waste management organization

 


now


2023
Waste collection and transportation technical committee member (ISO/TC297)

 

 

:Courses:

 1- Regular Courses (Master and Ph.D.) :

  •  Principles of Contaminant Transport, Dispersion, and Modeling
  •  Waste Management, processing and recycling
  •  Principles of solid waste Engineering and Management
  • Seminar Course
  •  Hazardous Waste Management
  •  Geo-Environmental Eng.
  •  Engineering Design of Incineration
  •  New and Renewable Energies
  •  Water Treatment
  •  Sustainable Development

 

2- Electronic (Online) Courses (Master and Ph.D.):
  • Principles of Contaminant transport, dispersion, and modeling
  • Principles of solid waste Engineering and Management
  • Hazardous Waste Management
  • Geo-Environment


Complementary Cources (SUCCESS Path):

 

 1- Theoretical courses

  • Seminar and thesis writing
  • ISI paper writing and publication
  • Admission from reputable universities (Applying)
 
2- Workshop courses
 
  • ISI paper writing (detailed) in English
  • Bibliometric and Review Papers
  • Design of Experiments (DoE)
  • Neural Network Analysis (NNA)
  • Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
 
 
 

* The above-mentioned courses were offered live and are available offline now

 

  Field of Interest:

  •   Solid Waste Management (Production, Collection, Transportation, Disposal)
  •   Geotechnical-Environmental (Geo-Environmental) Eng.
  •  Numerical Modeling and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Usage in Waste Management and Remediation
  • Environmental Impacts of Different New Construction Materials Usage Such as Light-Weight Concrete
  • CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) and Sustainable Development
  • EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) and SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment)
  •  LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)
  • AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) and ANP (Analytical Network Process)
  • Renewable Energy such as Electricity Generation from Urban Waste Anaerobic Digestion
  • Solar Energy Systems and Photovoltaic Systems
  • Waste Recycling and Processing such as PET, Paper, and Plastic
  • Incineration for Municipal, Special and Hazardous Wastes along with Energy Recovery
  • Design, Implementation, and Monitoring of Landfill Sites along with Methane Gas Extraction and Leachate Treatment
  • Management and Recycling of Construction and Demolition Waste
  • Experiment Design Methods
  • Sustainable Development

Research Projects:

  •  Management of projects with waste priorities in northen provinces of  Iran and Karun River, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Department of  Enviroment, 2003
  • Pilot design of aerobic biological reactor for landfill leachate treatment (Tehran), Tehran Waste Management Organization (TWMO), 2004
  • Feasibility analysis of methane production from municipal landfill leachate, Tehran Waste Management Organization (TWMO), 2005
  • Identification and selection of appropriate treatment and disposal method for the leachate out of solid waste processing center in Tehran, in order to obtain design and construction parameters, Tehran Waste Management Organization (TWMO), 2006 
  • Assessment and classification of hydrocarbon effluent characteristics of the raw water used in refineries, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, 2006 
  • Effectiveness of lightweight concrete in energy consumption reduction of residential buildings, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, 2007
  • Feasibility analysis, site selection and environmental impact assessment of central processing, transfer stations, compost plant and waste disposal site in the Mazandaran province, 2011
  • Study, analysis and site selection of final processing facilities of municipal solid waste in Tehran, Tehran Waste Management Organization (TWMO), 2011
  • Waste management studies of Shams-Abad industrial park, Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization (ISIPO), 2012
  • A comprehensive plan of solid waste monitoring, protection, and management (as a part of the Comprehensive Plan of Environment Protection), Department of Environment (DOE), 2013

 

 Publiacations:

The following books can be used for enthusiasts, specialists and researchers that possess an active role in the following centers:

I) Environmental faculties in different universities of the Ministry of Science, and environmental health faculties in different universities of the Ministry of Health, II) Department of Environment and their general offices in different provinces, III) Municipalities across the country, and IV)The Ministries of Energy, Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade (MIMT), which have played a leading role among other ministries in the field of environment and new energies and the conversion of waste into energy and the removal of pollutants in their centers.

1- Books:

 1- Waste management and resource recovery, 2011, (576 pages)

2- Fundamentals of waste incineration complex design, 2011, (470 pages)

3- Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, 2012, (574 pages)

4- Design, implementation, and monitoring of landfill sites, 2013, (440 pages)

5- Pollutants Transport Phenomena, 2015, (408 pages)

* Best book of the environmental festival at the 4th National Conference and Exhibition of the Environment

6- Remediation Engineering (Design Concepts), 2016, (512 pages)

* Best book of the environmental festival at the 4th National Conference and Exhibition of the Environment
Semi-final choice for the “ Book of the Year” title

7- *Experiment Design Methods in Environmental Engineering, 2019, (223 pages)

8-Recycling, Construction, and Demolition of Wastes, 2020, (529 pages)

9-  Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC) Encyclopedia, (Sections of Solid Waste Management and Waste Energy Conservation), 2019

10- *Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Environmental Engineering, 2020, (344 pages)

11- Pollutants Transport Phenomena (second version with supplementary contents), 2021, (670 pages)

12- Life Cycle Assessment Theory and Practice, 2022, (352 Pages)

13- Variuos Methods of Utilizing Solar Energy (with a special focus on photovoltaic systems), 2022, (386 pages)

14- Fundementals of sustainable development in environement engineering, 2023, (435)

15- Life cycle and risk fo industrial procceses and products, 2023,(682 pages)

16-Life cycle assessment of lighting equipments,2023, (143 pages)

17-Toturial of Openlca and SimaPro softwares for Life Cycle Assessment, 2023, (700 pages)

* These two books can be useful and practical in other fields of civil engineering, and other fields of engineering, including mechanical engineering and electrical engineering, and various fields of science such as chemistry, physics, and biology for academics and experts 
 

 
 
 
 
   
 
2- Journal Papers:
3- Conference Papers:

More than 120 Persian papers are listed in “Persian Personal Web Site”, as well.  Please have a look at “http://wp.kntu.ac.ir/sabour/indexfa.html

  1. Experimental investigation on adsorption process of soil, Conference on Civil Engineering, Montreal Canada, 1996
  2. Sorption Process Investigation In Contaminated Soil, Quebec Canada, 1996
  3. Soil Contamination Investigation Through Heavy Metals Adsorption/Desorption Processes, Tehran Iran, 1997
  4. Experimental investigation on Desorption of Heavy Metals from Fine Particles, Quebec Canada, 1998
  5. Hydraulic conductivity of partially saturated clay soils, Water Resources Conference, USA, 2002
  6. Experimental investigation on time effect in adsorption process of soil, Water Resources Conference, USA, 2002
  7. Investigation on batch reactors efficiency used for biological treatment of solid waste leachate, Second Conference on Civil Engineering, Iran, 2004
  8. Design of the first industrial landfill in Iran first section: environmental considerations, 7th International Conference on Civil Engineering, Iran, 2006
  9. Energy element recovery from municipal solid waste treatment facilities, Biomass and Waste to Energy Symposium, Italy, 2006
  10. Feasibility study of the implementation of integrated solid waste management in three northern provinces of Iran, R'07 conference, Swiss, 2007
  11. Application of Self-Compacting Concrete, Worldwide Experiences, 5th SASTech conference, Iran, 2011
  12. Environmental and technical modeling of industrial solid waste management using analytical network process, a case study: Gilan-Iran, World Academy of Science Conference, Singapore, 2011
  13. Effects of surfactants on cleaning up sandy soil contaminated with kerosene through soil washing, International Conference on Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban Sustainable Development, Tabriz, Iran, 2013
  14. Probabilistic Investigation of Unsaturated Soil Slope Stability, 2nd International Congress On Structure, Architecture & Urban development, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz Iran, 2014
  15. A life cycle approach for environmental assessment of waste management strategies, 3rd International Conference on Architecture, Civil, Agriculture and Environment, Bulgaria, Sofia, 2019
  16. Cost-Benefit Analysis of using sulfur concrete and conventional concrete in sewage treatment systems, considering corrosion and operation lifetime, 2nd International Conference on Materials Science & Engineering (Mat Science -2020), USA, San Francisco, 2020.
  17. Effect of Thermal Reclamation on Compressive Strength of OPC Mortar using Waste Foundry Sand as aggregate, 3rd International Conference on Civil, Archtecture, and Urbanaity Engineering, Iran, Tehran, 2020.
  18. A review on environmentally friendly buildings as a solution to the current environmental problems, 1st International Conference on Urban Planning, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment, 2021.
  19. Bibliometric analysis of research trends on construction and demolition waste recycling, 7th International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Natural Resource, Iran, Tehran, 2021.
  20. Investigating avenues of wetland research via bibliometric analysis, 7th International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Natural Resource, Iran, Tehran, 2021.

Thesis Supervised:

   Students :


1-      Ph. D. Students

  • Candidates:
  1. Abolghasemi, Hossein
  2. Rezaee, Alireza
  3. Parvin azar, Iman
  • Graduated:
  1. Morabi Heravi, Helen (University Putra Malaysia, UPM)
  2. Amiri, Allahyar
  3.  Kamalan, Hamidreza
  4. Shokri, Morteza
  5. Ghanbarzadeh Lak, Mehdi
  6.  Dezvareh, Ghorban Ali
  7. Ghorbani, Mona
  8. Mostafa Hatami, Amir
 2-      M. Sc. Graduated Students :

 

1. Afkhami, Kazem; 2. Afshari, Meysam; 3. Aghaziarati, Saeedeh; 4. Ajam, Mohammad; 5. Akbari, Mohammad Amin; 6. Alam, Ehsan; 7. Arab, Golnaz; 8. Ardestani, Peyman; 9. Azizi, Ali; 10. Babaei, Samaneh; 11. Bavafa, Amirhossein; 12. Beyg Amiri, Vahid; 13. Besharati, Morteza; 14. Boorboor Azhdari, Elena; 15. Dadashzadeh Ahari, Daryush; 16. Daneshgar, Sepehr; 17. Dolati, Siavash; 18. Fallah, Banafsheh; 19. Farahani, Mohammad reza; 20. Fatemi,Sahar; 21. Fathollahi Kalanpa, Zahra; 22. Ghafari, Elnaz; 23. Gharoon Dastjerdi, Niloofar; 24. Ghasemnezhad, Maryam; 25. Ghavimi, Ghobad; 26. Ghorban, Amir; 27. Hamedani, Abolfazl; 28. Jafargholi, Amin; 29. Jafari, Mohammad Amin; 30. Jazani, Ghazale; 31. Jivar, Mohammad Ali; 32. Kahoukar, Nima; 33. Karbakhsh, Mohsen; 34. Khabbazi Beyrami, Keyvan; 35. Khanpour Aghdam, Somayeh; 36. Khorshid Ahmadi, Maryam; 38. Moftakhari, Saman; 39. Moshrefzadeh, Ali Akbar; 40. Mostafa Hatami, Amir; 41. Naseri, Mehran; 42. Nezhadi, Saena; 43. Nikkhah Monfared, Mohammad; 44. Noori, Daryush; 45. Parhamfar, Amir Behzad; 46. Rabbani, Omid; 47. Ramezani, Peyman; 48. Ramezanianpour, Mohammad; 49. Rezaei, Behjat; 50. Roshan, Maryam; 51. Salimi, Ali; 52. Salehi nia, Mahsa; 53. Seyyed Jalali, Seyyed Homam; 53. Shahi, Mahsa; 54. Shojaee, Marzieh; 55. Tabiatnejad, Bardia; 56. Yekelar, Mina; 57. Zangbari, Niloofar; 58. Safaee pour, Ahmad; 59. Safarinezhad Langroodi, Neda; 59. Shokri, Mehran; 60. Darhamjani, Ghazale; 61. Babaei, Shamim; 62. Ansari, Melika; 63. Fayyaz, Siavash; 64. Mesghali, Hasan; 65. Ramezani Moziraji, Maziar; 66. Kasaeipour, Sahand; 67. Sharifzadeh, Pegah; 68. Asgari, Hadi; 69. Eslami Moshknani, Elham; 70. Sharifian, Faezeh; 71. Nabavi, Erfan; 72. Hajbabaie, MohammadReza; 73. Beheshti, Alireza 74.Minaee,Majid 75.Zarabi,hamid 76.Asheghian,Ehsan 77.Ahmadi,Fateme 78. Bagheri,mohammadhossein 79. Tajvar,Arsham 80. Zeidabadi Nezhad,Zeinab 81. Sadeghi sheshdeh,Amin 82. Amron,Ramin 83. Sakhaee,Parasto 84. Abdalmaleki,Alireza 85. Saharsadat,Hosseini 86.Alireza,Ghazanfari 87.Masoumeh, Asadzadeh 88. Majid, Minaeegohar 89. Ashkan, Behbood

 Contacts :

Address: Civil Engineering Faculty, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, No. 1346, ValiAsr Street, Mirdamad Intersection, Tehran, Iran, Postal Code: 15875-4416
P.O. Box: 1996715433                           
Email: mrsbr@hotmail.com, sabour@kntu.ac.ir
Phone: +98 (21) 88779474-5 (EXT. 409)
Mobile: +98 912 108 5562
Fax: +98 (21) 88779476