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Bassam Dally

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Physical Science and Engineering Division 
Center membership :
Clean Combustion

bassam.dally@kaust.edu.sa
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Technology Group


Affiliations

Education Profile

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Sydney, 1998
  • B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion, 1988

Research Interests

Bassam Dally is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KAUST, Saudi Arabia. He has been in academia for last 33 years, where he has contributed seminal work on a variety of research topics related to energy conversion, sustainability and decarbonization. He has expertise, in solar thermal, ocean power, combustion, hybrids and alternative fuels production and utilization. Lately, his work is particularly focused on the development of new technologies to decarbonize industrial processes, waste to value (plastic recycling), energy systems and fuel pyrolysis. He has published more than 380 peer reviewed papers in leading scientific journals and conferences, and his work attracted more than 11,034 citations (h-index=54), and he is named on four patents. He held many positions, including head of mechanical engineering, deputy director of the centre for energy technology (University of Adelaide) and stream co-lead in the KAUST circular carbon initiative. He won many awards over the years, including ‘Energy Professional of the Year in South Australia’, and recently was awarded a Fellowship of the Combustion Institute.

Selected Publications

  • A Alfazazi, AM Elbaz, J Li, S Abdelwahid, HG Im, B Dally, (2023) “Characteristics of ammonia-hydrogen nonpremixed bluff-body-stabilized flames”, Combustion and Flame 258, 113066

  • W Zhao, ZT Alwahabi, BB Dally, “Quantifying acetylene mole fraction in rich flat laminar premixed C2H4/air flames using mid-infrared polarization spectroscopy”, Applied Physics B 129 (8), 120E

  • Smadi, A Chinnici, B Dally, GJ Nathan, (2023) “Experimental study on the kinetics of magnesium carbonate calcination under elevated heating rates”, Chemical Engineering Journal Advances 16, 100570

  • M Gong, B Dally, (2023) “Numerical study on flow-induced vibration of an oscillating cylinder with an unattached downstream square plate at a low Reynolds number”, Ocean Engineering 288, 116072

  • O Behar, F Angikath, SM Sarathy, B Dally, “Experimental, CFD Simulation, and Techno-Economics of Solar Assisted Natural Gas Pyrolysis in Liquid Metal Bubble Column Reactors 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting els for sustainable and cleaner fuel production—An overview”, 2023, Energy Reports 9, pp. 3248-3272