Kallaf

City - LA ROCHELLE

Country - France Metropolitan

Role - Research & Academia

About - Pr. Karim ALLAF, Director of a Research team on ?ECO-PROCESSES AND AGRO-INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES? at the University of La Rochelle, 57 years, born in Tripoli ? Lebanon, was graduated in 1976 from Paris-XI University where he primed a Doctorate in Physics of low temperature Plasmas, after which he spent five years as a Researcher at the CNRS completing a PhD in Thermodynamics and Chemical Engineering in 1981 before commencing a career as an Associated Professor. He was the scientific responsible of Agro-industrial Technologies research team DTAI at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Compiegne University of Technology. In 1994, Pr. Allaf joined La Rochelle University as a Professor ? head of the Department of Process Engineering and Director of Laboratory Mastering Technologies For Agro-Industries LMTAI where he has developed specific activities on the technology of instant controlled pressure drop DIC, which he has defined, optimized, and transferred towards various industrial sectors using it in drying, texturing, extraction and decontamination operations. Pr. ALLAF has 9 Patents and 17 extensions (concerning mainly DIC technology), 216 international papers and numerous European and industrial reports (34). Pr. ALLAF has been the supervisor of 28 PhD works.