Argonne National Laboratory

Ahmed Amin E. Abdelhameed

Nuclear Engineer

Biography

Dr. Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed is a nuclear engineer with the Nuclear Science and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Ahmed’s research interest includes designing and analyzing innovative technologies for nuclear fission reactors with main research focus on neutronics and dynamic multi-physics modeling, analysis, and code development. Dr. Ahmed’s works support the high-fidelity Multiphysics analyses of microreactors, SMRs, and SFRs under the DOE-NE NEAMS program. Previously, Dr. Ahmed worked with the center of autonomous SMR Research (CASMRR) at KAIST, South Korea where he pioneered the so-called ​‘passively autonomous operation’ of a soluble-boron-free SMR.

Education

  • Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea.
  •  M.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Alexandria, Egypt.
  • B.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Alexandria, Egypt.

Publications

  • Ahmed Abdelhameed, Yan Cao, Daniel Nunez, Yinbin Miao, Kun Mo, Changho Lee, Emily Shemon, Nicolas E. Stauff ​“High-Fidelity Multiphysics Modeling of Load Following for 3-D Gas-Cooled Microreactor Assembly using NEAMS Codes”– submitted to ANS Winter 2022 meeting, November (2022).
  • Ahmed Amin E. Abdelhameed, Chihyung Kim, and Yonghee Kim, Improved FAST Device for Inherent Safety of Oxide-Fueled Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors. Energies 2021, 14, 4610.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, and Yonghee Kim, Three-dimensional simulation of passive frequency regulations in the soluble-boron- free SMR ATOM. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2020: p. 110505.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, Khurrum S. Chaudri, and Yonghee Kim, Three-D Core Multiphysics for Simulating Passively Autonomous Power Maneuvering in Soluble - boron-free SMR with Helical Steam Generator, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, May 2020.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, Xuan Ha Nguyen, Jeongik Lee, and Yonghee Kim, ​“Feasibility of Passive Autonomous Frequency Control Operation in a Soluble-Boron- Free Small PWR”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 116, pp. 319-333, June 2018.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, Jeongik Lee, and Yonghee Kim, Physics conditions of passive autonomous frequency control operation in conventional large-size PWRs. Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2020. 118: p. 103072.
  • Ahmed Amin E. Abdelhameed, Yunseok Jeong, and Yonghee Kim, ​“Three-D TH- coupled Simulation of Load-follow Operation in a Low-boronAPR1400”, Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting 2020, online meeting, December 16-18.
  • Ahmed Amin E. Abdelhameed, and Yonghee Kim, ​“Time-dependent 3-D Multi- physics Simulation of the Passively Autonomous Daily Load-follow in ATOM SMR”, Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting 2020, online meeting, December 16-18.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, Mohd-Syukri Yahya, and Yonghee Kim, ​“Feasibility of Cold Nuclear Startup in Autonomous Soluble-Boron-Free SMR”, Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting, Gyeongju, Octerber 26-28, 2016.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, and Yonghee Kim ​“Optimization of Reactivity Feedbacks for Autonomous Small PWR”, Transactions of International Technical Meeting on Small Reactors, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, November 2-4, 2016.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, Chihyung Kim, and Yonghee Kim, ​“Soluble-Boron- Free SMR Design with Centrally Shielded Burnable Absorbers”, Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Spring Meeting, Jeju, May 17-19, 2017.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, Haseeb ur Rehman, and Yonghee Kim, ​“A Physics Study for Passively Autonomous Daily Load-Follow Operation in Soluble-Boron-Free SMR” Proceedings of ICAPP 2017, Fukui and Kyoto, Japan, April 24-28, 2017.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed and Yonghee Kim ​“A Fully Passive Daily Load-follow Operation in a Small PWR System”, Transactions of ANS annual meeting, San Francisco, USA, June 11-15, 2017.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, and Yonghee Kim, ​“Feasibility of Passive Primary Frequency Control in Soluble-Boron-Free SMR, Proceedings of GLOBAL 2017 Conference, Seoul, Korea, September 24-29, 2017.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, and Yonghee Kim, ​“Passive Secondary Frequency Control Operation in a Soluble-boron-free PWR”, RPHA 2017, Chengdu, China, August 24-25, 2017.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, Hwanyeal Yu, and Yonghee Kim, ​“Feasibility of Passive Frequency Control Operation in Conventional PWRs for Nuclear and Renewables Cogenerations”, the 6th International Conference on Nuclear and Renewable Energy Resources (NURER2018), Jeju, Korea, 30 Sep. - 03 Oct. 2018.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, Xuan Ha Nguyen, and Yonghee Kim, ​“Three- dimensional Analysis of Passive Frequency Control in a Soluble-boron-free SMR ATOM” Global and Top Fuel 2019, Seattle, Washington USA. September 22-27, 2019.
  • Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed, S Jang, and Yonghee Kim, ​“Three-dimensional Simulations of Passively Autonomous Load-follow Operation” Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting Goyang, Korea, October 24-25, 2019.
  • Guillaume L. Giudicelli, Abdalla Abou-Jaoude, April J. Novak, Ahmed Abdelhameed, Paolo Balestra, Lise Charlot, Jun Fang, Bo Feng, Thomas Folk, Ramiro Freile, Thomas Freyman, Derek Gaston, Logan Harbour, Thanh Hua, Wen Jiang, Nicolas Martin, Yinbin Miao, Jason Miller, Isaac Naupa, Dan O’Grady, David Reger, Emily Shemon, Nicolas Stauff, Mauricio Tano, Stefano Terlizzi, Samuel Walker & Cody Permann (2023) The Virtual Test Bed (VTB) Repository: A Library of Reference Reactor Models Using NEAMS Tools, Nuclear Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1080/00295639.2022.2142440.
  • N.E. Stauff, A. Abdelhameed, M. Atz, P. Shriwise, Y.S. Jung, R. Lefebvre, ​“PyARC -- A User-Friendly Open-Source Reactor Physics Framework for Fast Reactor Design and Analysis”, International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2022 (PHYSOR 2022).
  • Yunseok Jeong, Ahmed Amin E. Abdelhameed, and Yonghee Kim, ​“ATOM Core Startup Simulation with 3-D TH-Coupled Quasi-Static Nodal Method”, submitted for oral presentation in the Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting 2020, online meeting, December 16-18.

Awards
 

• ATOM award from CASMRR (Center for Autonomous SMR Research), KAIST, South Korea, Jan. 2019.
• Best Paper award from the International Conference of Nuclear and Renewable Energy Resources (NURER), Jeju, South Korea, Oct. 2018.