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School of Industrial Technology

Mahamad Hakimi Ibrahim

 Prof Hakimi
Prof. Dr. Mahamad Hakimi Ibrahim
Email : mhakimi@usm.my
Ext : 2511
Expertise :
Eco-process technology

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Prof Dr. Mahamad Hakimi Ibrahim graduated with a BSc (1981) and MSc (1982) in Chemical Engineering from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and PhD (Chemical Engineering, 1994) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Lecturing at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang  since 1982 with teaching, research and consultancy interests in Drying and Filtration Processes, Mathematical Modelling in Simultaneous Heat and Mass Transfer Problems, Air Pollution Technology, Environmental Technology Education, Environmental Political-Economy and also Gold Dinar Economy. His latest research interests are in Ecological Technology (involving composting, vermicomposting and vermifiltration of agricultural and domestic waste) and Strategic Environmental Rethinking (STEER) in relation to capitalism and environmental problems.

Prof. Dr. Hakimi is a member of an international research network in sustainable waste management called WASTENET based in University of Stuttgart, Germany (www.wastenet.de) and also the coordinator of the Gold Dinar Research Group (www.usm.my/dinar) as well as a founder member of a new gold dinar based cooperative called KoDinarMas (Suite 008, Rumah Alumni, Universiti Sains Malaysia).

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Environmental Technology Division, School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia .

Prof. Dr. Mahamad Hakimi Ibrahim.
Tel: +604-6532511.
Fax: +6046573678.
Email: mhakimi@usm.my, drhakimiusm@yahoo.com.

 

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IEK 312 Society and Environment Project

The course is based on proactive involvement in environmental social service projects while academically examining and rethinking societal systems and its relationship with environmental problems created by the exploitation of natural resources and the generation of waste by industrial society. The link between societal systems and the environment is made through an appreciation of environmental history and philosophy, environmental political-economy, as well as through understanding the connection between science and technology, culture and religions to the environment.

Special focus will be on capitalism, the societal system that currently dominats the world economic system and hence is the major driving force for global manufacturing (of products and waste) together with the associated environmental crisis. This includes a study of industrial capitalism, the question of usury, materialism, consumerism, international financial systems (IMF, World Bank, WTO) and environmentalists movements.

Environmentally challenging issues and themes like Beautiful Garbage, Pollution Prevention and Waste Minimisation versus ‘end of pipe’ pollution control technologies, Design for Environment (DfE), Green Chemistry/Engineering, the Limits to 3R, Strategic Rethinking in Environmental Management will be discussed.

Students will be exposed to alternative/traditional/natural development models to understand a holistic and environment friendly development. Hopefully the exposure to this course will instill environmental passion and caring attitudes toward the environment and the society.

Course includes guest lectures, video and film shows, student seminars and the environmental social service projects initiated by the students themselves.

Learning outcomes:
At the end of the course the students will be able to:
1. Examine societal systems and show relationship with environmental problems.
2. Discuss alternative or traditional models in relation to a holistic and environment friendly way of life.
3. Demonstrate environmental passion and caring attitudes through proactive involvement in environmental social service projects.

IEK 205 Air Pollution Control Technology

The course emphasises a study of industrial air pollution problems and abatement methods. Topics covered are:

Air pollution chemistry: review effects and sources of air pollutants, combustion processes and pollutant formation.

Air quality management: legislation and laws, environmental sampling and monitoring, measurement at ambient and stack emission, isokinetic sampling, analysis techniques.

Particulate pollutant: industrial sources and regulatory codes for particulate emissions; overview of particle/aerosol technology (particle characteristics and dynamics) ; process design of control devices: gravity settlers, cyclone, electrostatic precipitators, baghouse and scrubbers;

Gaseous pollutant: Industrial sources and regulatory codes for gaseous emissions, process design of control devices: absorber, adsorber and incinerator.
Sources and control of NOX, SOX, VOC's and odours.

Air pollution modelling: air pollution meteorology, lapse rate, stability classes, temperature inversions, types of plume behaviour, dispersion models, gaussian plume model, plume rise, line sources and stack design.
Other Air Pollution Sources: Indoor air pollution, vehicular pollution, fugitive emissions.

Course work may include:
Particulate and gaseous pollutants sampling work (PM10, PM2.5, SOX, NOX, CO, VOCs, landfill gases). Site visit to ASMA or industrial air monitoring station .

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the course the students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate general understanding of industrial air pollution problems and air pollution management system.
2. Do basic process design calculations in relation to particulate and gaseous pollutant control equipment.
3. Relate meteorological aspects with air pollution dispersion modelling.

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Ecological Technology

 

ECOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY – ‘a technology without technology’.

Currently on a journey into composting, vermicomposting and vermifiltration of agricultural waste in an integrated/ecological farming situation.

Ecological technology is a technology reapplied to benefit people, animals and the environment. The approach is based on basic skills; doing everything with the simplest means possible. Modern technology is complicated enough. There is a need for simpler alternatives creating a way-of-life that allows people to be less dependent on modern technological systems and to enable individuals to solve their technical problems themselves, becoming more self-sufficient and ecologically responsible in the process.

An Ecological Technology – vermicomposting overview

 

 

Strategic Environmental Rethinking

Strategic Environmental Rethinking (STEER).

This is a rethinking on the appreciation and reevaluation of ‘nature’and the current deen or way of life…that is…capitalism.

Capitalism is the societal system that currently dominates the world economic system and hence is the major driving force for global manufacturing (of products and waste) together with the associated environmental crisis.

Research is also done through intellectual discourses while visiting and keeping company with those on the same path and criss-crossing with others on different paths.

STEER includes a proposed study of the gold dinar as an alternative to the dollar in, promoting a real wealth ecology-based economy.

 
     

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Wastenet

Multilateral Network to Promote Research on Sustainable Solid Waste Management for INCO Target Countries: Latin America.

European Union EU-FP6 funded networking activity to support and intensify co-operation and partnership with Latin America and Asia.

The WasteNet consortium consists of 12 participants that come from different countries.  In this sense, WasteNet consists of representatives from Latin America, Asia and Europe.

 
First WASTENET Meeting in Stuttgart, Germany April 2007     WASTENET – Malaysian connection, Stuttgart April 2007


The WasteNet consortium consists of 12 participants that come from different countries.  In this sense, WasteNet counts with representatives of Latin America, Asia and Europe.

The Gold Dinar Research Group

The Gold Dinar Research Group (GDRG – USM), based in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang undertakes to promote the use of the gold dinar, silver dirham through public lectures, seminars/workshops, exhibitions, R&D, dissemination of information through the internet and media and networking with organisations committed to the same cause.

 

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Reading List

 

The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way of Science
Henri Bortoft, Floris Book 1996

The author examines the phenomenological and cultural roots of Goethe’s way of science. He argues that Goethe’s insights, far from belonging to the past, represent the foundation for a future science. This new science of nature, involving other human faculties besides the analytical mind, can provide understanding and explanation in a way which our present scientific attitudes, and the culture they serve, desperately lack.

     
 

The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
Amy Stewart

The New York Times called it "a completely original combination of science and passion." This is a fascinating exploration of the underground world and one of its most amazing denizens. The earthworm may be small, spineless, and blind, but its role in the ecosystem is profound. It tills the soil, destroys microscopic organisms that cause plant disease, breaks down toxins, and turns the ground into rich compost, creating the most fertile areas on earth. In her witty and offbeat style, Amy Stewart shows just how much depends on the humble worm.

     

For The Coming Man
Shaykh Abdalqadir al-Murabit

From the back cover: “It is no longer an extreme point of view that the human race and the planet itself are in danger of extinction as a result of the actions of human species. Self destruction is abhorrent to reason, how much more so is the willed destruction of the whole of mankind and the ground of human life itself, the planet Earth. No intelligent person today can deny this proposition except to object to the phrase “willed destruction”, yet while one may protest that one does not will this and that it is happening against one’s will, where responsibility lies becomes an uncomfortable and unexplored affair. If we are to resist this will to destruction, we must find those who are the party of annihilation in order to confront them and oppose them and thus save the human project in our time.”

     

The Turning Point
Fritjof Capra

Our clinging to the mechanistic world view of Newton and Descartes has brought us perilously close to destruction. Fritcjof Capra shows how these ideas are now obsolete and looks forward to a new vision more consistent with the findings of modern physics, as described in his innovative and controversial bestseller, The Tao of Physics: a holistic, systems-based approach which in this book he extends to include important areas of contemporary life.

     

Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
Amy Stewart

A New York Times Bestseller! Flower Confidential is an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought--for better and worse to achieve perfection. What has been gained-and what has been lost-in tinkering with Mother Nature? Should we care that roses have lost their scent? Or that most flowers are sprayed with pesticides? In a global marketplace, is there such a thing as a socially responsible flower? At every turn, Stewart discovers a fascinating intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce. You'll never look at a cut flower the same way again.

     

The Hundred Steps
Shaykh Abdalqadir al-Murabit

This book contains a description of the conditions, states and stations of the path of Tasawwuf, and for each of these, instructions, warnings and guidance for the seeker.

     

Teacher Man
Frank McCourt

The Globe And Mail [Toronto] James Howden .

[McCourt's] internal dialogues are biting, and his comments on education caustic and informed (if slightly repetitive). But his superb ear for the classroom experience is the centre of Teacher Man. [24 Dec 2005, p. D5].

     

Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. the class met on Tuesday. It began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life. It was taught from experience. No grades were given, but there were oral exams each week. You were expected to respond to questions, and you were expected to pose questions of your own. You were also required to perform physical tasks now and then, such as lifting the professor's head to a comfortable spot on the pillow or placing his glasses on the bridge of his nose. Kissing him good-bye earned you extra credit. No books were required, yet many topics were covered, including love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and, finally, death. The last lecture was brief, only a few words.

     

Letter to An Arab Muslim
Shaykh Abdalqadir As-Sufi

This book presents an analysis of the decline of the Arab people into nation states and their adoption of the usurist political model.

     

Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas: The First Foundation of Islamic Law
Translated by: Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley

The first formulation of Islamic Law based on the behaviour of the people of Madinah during the time of the great Companions, Al-Muwatta is the blueprint for a just and radiant society: the earliest, clearest, cleanest record of salafi Islam.

     

Zakat -  Raising a Fallen Pillar
Abdalhaqq Bewley & Amal Douglas

The clearest indication yet that Zakat, a pillar of the deen, is for the most part not being either collected or distributed properly. It is the non-collection of Zakat that keeps the Muslims weak and its proper collection will begin to make the Muslims strong again. The book gives a clear and practical guide to beginning the process in earnest.

     

Darqawi Way
Shaykh Mawlay al-Arabi ad-Darqawi

Letters from one of the greatest shaykhs of sufism to his pupils, a constant source of renewal and inspiration to the wayfarer. "Man is helped by books while he does not see the Beloved. when he sees the Beloved, books are helped by him."

     

Technique of the Coup de Banque
Shaykh Abdalqadir As-Sufi

Shaykh Abdalqadir As-Sufi’s penetrating look into modern day banking and showing how the Muslim community alone can identify the enemy of Islam and life itself, indicating the bankers as the force to be stripped of their power and their magical usury expropriation of our wealth. The Muslims must now acquire the technique of the Coup de Banque.

     

The Basic Research : English translation of al Futuhat al Ilahiyya fi Sharh al Mabaahith al-Asliyya
Shaykh Ahmad Ibn' Ajiba

To travel the path of courtesy and instruction is before everything and the mightiest means to Allah. The most direct access for the slave of his Lord is to keep company with the gnostics, those who have high yearning and prophetic instruction, and to have courtesy between the hands of the shaykhs.

     

The Return of the Gold Dinar
Umar Ibrahim Vadillo

A call to the Muslims to re-establish their currency, thereby freeing themselves completely of the usurious system. “The banking system commands the inter-nationalist institutions of the world today. Political independence and social reformation are governed by the categorical imperatives of the stock exchanges and currency manipulation. The end to the enslavement of the Muslim masses does not require a jihad in the traditional sense but a struggle to obey Allah, restore Zakat, the fallen pillar of Islam - an empowered tax collection not a charity gift- and abolish usury. It is this author's achievement to indicate the necessary method for such a program.”

Shaykh Abdalqadir As-Suf

     

The Esoteric Deviation in Islam
Umar Ibrahim Vadillo

In this magisterial study of the current state of Islam the author survey's situation in the light of sociology and doctorines that have affected the world Muslim community over the last 150 years. Based on a vast research, a carefully argued case is put which is both a critique and analysis of deviation, and a construct for Islamic's future.

     

The Way of Muhammad
Shaykh Abdalqadir As-Sufi

An exposition on the religion of Islam, the "deen," and the way of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

     

The Return of The Khalifate
Shaykh Abdalqadir As-Sufi

This brief survey of the fall of the Khalifate is a reading of history which opens the discourse of return.

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