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**Mahmood Ahmad Qazi**
Mahmood Ahmad Qazi
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Born	October 1, 1938; Lahore, British India, Present-day Pakistan
Residence	Johnstown,Pennsylvania United States
Nationality	Pakistani-American
Fields	Chemical Engineering
Institutions	Overseas Consultants; Concurrent Technologies Corporation; Abbott Laboratories; Ferro Corporation; Chicago Etching Corporation; University of London
Alma mater	Punjab University, Pakistan; Imperial College London, U.K
Known for	Plasma Arc Technology; electroplating; Segregation of particles in granular masses

Prof. Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Qazi or Dr. M. A. Qazi is a Pakistani-American Chemist, Chemical Engineer, Research Scientist, Inventor and an Islamic Author. He is also a noted Muslim Chaplain (Imam) and has been engaged in providing Islamic services to various educational and correctional institutions. Dr. Qazi is well known in the United States for his work on Pink Water Treatment Technology Research and Plasma Arc Technology. Dr. Qazi is the founding member and Vice President of Kazi Publications, Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Qazi has published numerous Islamic booklets,books and papers both for adults and young children, and became a leading distributors of the Holy Qur'an and Islamic literature in North America. He has written more than 15 books heavily focused on the issues on Islam.

Currently, as an inventor, Dr. Qazi has generated hydrgen-fuel, a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen in a stoichiometric ratio of 2:1, by splitting water using a proprietary catalyst. The process has been optimized. A final patent is pending. Based on his unique innovation, Dr Qazi intends to design, procure, build and operate a prototype pilot plant to collect data for scale-up purposes and for the cost benefit analysis. This technology will be available for commercialization to private parties by the end of 2009, God willing.

Dr. Qazi is the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Water-Hydrogen Energy Enterprises Limited (WHEEL, LLC), an American idea company, that is promoting hydrogen-fuel as a green low cost energy for the utilization of humanity at large.

[edit] Early Life and Education

Dr. Qazi was born in October 1, 1938 in Lahore, British India. He received his elementary, intermediate and higher education from there. In 1954, he attended University of the Punjab, majoring in chemistry. In 1958, he received his B.Sc with honor in applied chemistry. In 1960, DR. Qazi received his M.Sc in Chemical Technology from the same institution. From 1960-1961 he taught Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Lahore. In 1961, he went to United Kingdom with a scholarship from the Attock Oil Company, Rawalpindi, where he attended Imperial College of Science & Technology, London. At the Imperial College, he majored in Chemical Engineering. In 1962, he received his M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College. The same year, Qazi joined University of London as a graduate fellow where he pursued his research in Powder Technology chemical engineering. In 1966, he received his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from University of London. From 1968 to 1970, he was an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Baghdad, Iraq and from 1974 to 1978 at the University of Petroleum & Minerals (UPM) Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 1970, he migrated to United States where Qazi started his career as an educator and taught in several schools, colleges, and universities. He obtained American citizenship in 1981.

[edit] Life and Science Career

Dr. Qazi joined various chemical, engineering and military-purposed companies in the United States where he served as a chief research scientist and a chemical engineer. In 1993, Dr. Qazi joined a Defense Contractor, Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) in Johnstown, PA, as a Principal Technical Staff. Dr. Qazi worked for the National Defense Center for Environmental Excellence (NDCEE) Program, which CTC operates for the Department of Defense (DOD). Dr. Qazi managed three Tasks for the treatment and disposal of energetic materials. These involved hydrothermal chemistry (NitRem Process), plasma arc technology, and pink water treatment technology research. As part of the technology transitioning process, these techniques also were evaluated for other types of hazardous waste research. The first two tasks were completed by the end of 1997 and 1998. The third task was completed by the end of year 2000.

Dr. Qazi also provided technical support to other projects in the remediation, recycling and reuse (RRR) thrust areas. He had recently completed a unique sludge drying system for a private firm, Ecotechnology, Inc., of California. A patent is pending.

While at CTC, besides managing the three Tasks mentioned above, Dr. Qazi participated in a project to develop chromium-free conversion coatings, led by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) Ann Arbor, Michigan. He compiled a state-of-the-art technology report and surveyed vendors of new technologies in order to prepare a list of participants for coating trials. Other supporting, technical activities have related to the recycling of aluminum cans, the recycling of plastics, and the shredding and recycling of scrap tires along with contributing to numerous proposals for the United States Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy (DOE), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

He has designed plants for chemicals, petroleum, petrochemicals, coal conversion processes, solid waste disposal systems (incineration plants), desalination, and water treatment units. He has also developed new processes from laboratory bench-scale to pilot plant scale, including a new process for the manufacture of MgO/HCl from Texas Brines and developed a new anesthetic for Abbott Laboratories, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

His earlier contributions to environmental protection includes study of acid gas removal systems, ammonia waste disposal systems, removal of VOCs from reactors by incineration, and development of a complete medical (including biohazards and radioactive) waste disposal system for Abbott Park Facilities. Dr. Qazi has performed preliminary research work on an innovative idea to shred the used tires using laser technology, and recovering useful products from the used tires.

Dr. Qazi also has experience in procuring equipment and complete process plants, starting with specification, vendor contact, bids evaluation, and writing engineering requisitions leading to purchase orders. Major plants procured included an all-glass Clarithromycin Plant for Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Illinois, and a Petroleum Additive Plant for Keil Chemical Company (Ferro Corporation), Hammond, Indiana.

He also has worked as a chemist with Chicago Etching Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, performing routine tests of electroplating and etching baths, maintaining their pH, and developing new formulations for various etching processes used in the company.

[edit] Islamic Background

Through out this period, Dr. Qazi has also been engaged in providing Islamic services to various institutions. Dr. Qazi volunteered as a Muslim Chaplain (Imam) at Great Lakes Naval Training Center near Chicago, Illinois, Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto, PA, State Correctional Institution (SCI), Cresson, PA, South West Secure Treatment Unit (SWSTU), Torrance, PA, Laurel Highlands SCI and Somerset SCI at Somerset, PA. Currently, Dr. Qazi is providing Islamic services at the Torrance State Hospital, Torrance, PA, Cresson Secure Treatment Unit (CSTU), Cresson, PA, and Cambria County Prison, Ebensburg, PA as a volunteer.

Dr. Qazi is the founding member and Vice President of Kazi Publications, Inc., a Chicago-based, not-for-profit organization and a trust (Waqf fi Sabilillah), in the cause of Almighty God (Allah). Kazi Publications, Inc. is one of the oldest and the largest printers, publishers, and distributors of the Holy Qur’an and Islamic literature in North America. Since founding Kazi Publications in 1974, Dr. Qazi has also written a series of books and booklets, both for children and adults, on various topics of Islam. From 1978 to 1983, Dr. Qazi taught Islamic studies in Sunday schools at the Muslim Community Center (MCC) in Chicago and at the Islamic Cultural Center (ICC) in Northbrook, Illinois. From 1982 to 1993, Dr. Qazi served as a volunteer Muslim Chaplain for the U.S. Navy at the U.S. Great Lakes Naval Training Center near Chicago, Illinois.

In 1993, Dr. Qazi moved to Johnstown, PA from Chicago, where he lived for 23 years. He recognized the necessity for establishing a mosque in Johnstown, PA and founded the Islamic Center of Johnstown in his basement. The mosque served the Islamic needs of approximately thirty (30) Muslim families in the Greater Johnstown area, Altoona, Bedford, and Somerset and is still in operation. The Greater Johnstown area Muslim community later established two Islamic Centers, the first in Altoona, PA and the second in Windber, PA in the years 2000 and 2005, respectively.

Since moving to Johnstown, Dr. Qazi had been providing Islamic services as a volunteer at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Loretto, the State Correctional Institution (SCI) in Cresson till 2003. Currently, he is a Muslim Chaplain at the Cambria County Prison in Ebensburg, all in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Dr. Qazi is a registered vendor as an Imam with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He worked as an Imam at the Southwest Secure Treatment Unit (SWSTU) in Blairsville, PA under a contract with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from January 2003 until the center’s closure in June 2006.

Since October 2003, he has been providing Islamic services as an Imam at the Cresson Secure Treatment Unit (CSTU) in Cresson, PA, where, he teaches the fundamentals of Islam, Islamic faith and practice, ethics and morality in Islam, and Islamic jurisprudence to a class of up to fifteen juveniles, both Muslims and non-Muslims.

In March 2005, Dr. Qazi was hired by the Department of Correction (DOC) of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a Muslim Chaplain (Imam) for the two State Correctional Institutions, SCI Laurel Highlands, PA and SCI Somerset, both in Somerset County, PA, where he provided Islamic Services to the Muslim inmates till June 2007.

Since September 11, 2001, Dr. Qazi has regularly been invited as a speaker on Islam and has actively participated in lectures and seminars delivered to schools, colleges, universities, mosques, churches and synagogues in and around Johnstown, PA, explaining to the American people the basic fundamental principles of Islam, which guarantee freedom, justice and equality to all, irrespective of their color, creed, gender, national origin, race or religion.

Dr. Qazi has regularly contributed articles on Islam to a number of journals, television, radio media and newspaper in the United States and overseas. Some of Dr. Qazi's famous articles, e.g., Why Blame Islam, Tolerant Islam, and Islam in U.S. Prisons, are being circulated on the Internet.

Dr. Qazi’s mission in life is to promote mutual understanding between the followers of the three (3) great Abrahamic religions (i.e. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) by emphasizing the common basis that they all share - their belief in One God. Dr. Qazi hopes and prays that we can all live in peace and harmony with each other as one nation under Almighty God. May Allah accept his humble efforts in His Way, and bless all those who share a common interest in this Cause, Amen.

[edit] Memberships and honors

American Chemical Society, Washington, DC (USA)
American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, NY (USA)
Institution of Chemical Engineers, London (UK)
Chartered Chemical Engineer (C.Eng.), London (UK)

[edit] Scientific Publications

M. A. Qazi, Role of Research and Development Cell in the West Regional Laboratories, presented at the All Pakistan Science Conference held in Dacca, East Pakistan (1968)
M. A. Qazi, Segregation of particles in granular masses, Arabian Journal of Science and Technology (1978)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Destruction of Hazardous Military Wastes Using Plasma Arc Technology,” presented at the Symposium of Environmental Technologies, Atlanta, GA (1995)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Destruction of Hazardous Military Wastes Using Plasma Arc Technology,” presented at the 189th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Los Angeles, CA (1996)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Destruction of Hazardous Military Wastes Using Plasma Arc Technology,” presented at the Spectrum ‘96 Conference - Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management International Topical Meeting, Seattle, WA (1996)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Destruction of Hazardous Military Wastes Using Plasma Arc Technology,” presented at the First International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, CA (1998)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Treatment Technology Research,” presented at the 1995 Defense Manufacturing Conference, at Dallas, TX
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Treatment Technology, Bench Scale Testing,” presented at the American Chemical Society Symposium on Emerging Technologies in Hazardous Waste Management, Birmingham, AL (1996)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Treatment Technology Options,” presented at the 22nd Environmental Symposium & Exhibition of American Defense Preparedness Association, Orlando, FL (1996)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Technologies for Waste Water Treatment,” presented at the Envirotech Biotech ‘96, Philadelphia, PA (1996)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Treatment Technology Evaluations,” presented at the Second Tri-Service Environmental Technology Workshop, MO (1997)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Treatment Technology Evaluations,” presented at the Third Tri-Service Environmental Technology Workshop, San Diego, CA (1998)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Treatment Technology Evaluations,” to be presented at the Defense Manufacturing Conference ‘98, New Orleans, LA (1998)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Treatment Technology Research,” presented at the Army Environmental Quality (EQ) Information Exchange Meeting, Williamsburg, VA (2000)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Treatment Technology Research,” presented at the 5th Joint Services P2/HWM Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, TX (2000)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Treatment Technology Research,” presented at the 8th International Activated Carbon Conference, Pittsburgh, PA (2000)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Treatment Technology Research,” presented at the Poster Session, Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing Conference, Iowa City, IA (2000)
M. A. Qazi and Louis Kanaras, “Pink Water Treatment Technology Research,” presented at the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC 2000) at Tampa, FL (2000)

[edit] Islamic Experience

Founder and Vice President, Kazi Publications, Inc., Chicago, IL, 1974
Teacher, Sunday School, Muslim Community Center, Chicago, IL, 1978-80
Teacher, Sunday School, Islamic Cultural Center, Northbrook, IL, 1980-83
Volunteer, Islamic Service, Great Lakes, NTC, U.S. Navy, 1982-93
Founder and President, Islamic Center of Johnstown, Johnstown, PA, 1993
Volunteer, Federal Correctional Institution (FCI), Loretto, PA, 1994-2001
Volunteer, State Correctional Institution (SCI), Cresson, PA, 1995-2001
Volunteer, Cambria County Prison, Ebensburg, PA, 1998-2001
Volunteer, Torrance State Hospital, Torrance, PA, 2000-2001
Founder Member, Islamic Center of Altoona, Hollidaysburg, PA, 2000-Present
Imam, Youth Development Center, Blairsville, PA January, 2003-June 2006
Imam, Juvenile Correction Center, Cresson, PA, October 1, 2003-Present
Imam, SCI Laurel Highlands, Somerset, PA, March 2005-July 2007
Imam, SCI Somerset, Somerset, PA, March 2005-July 2007
Imam, Cambria County Prison, Ebensburg, PA, January 2008-Present
Imam, Torrance State Hospital, Torrance, PA December 2008-Present

[edit] Islamic Publications and Bibliography

Glossary of Qurʼan and Ḥadith, Al Saadawi Publications, 1998
Book of Muslim Names, Library of Islam, 1995
Short Surahs for Prayers (with audiovisual aids), Kazi Publications, 1994
Color & Learn Islamic Terms, Kazi Publications, 1992
A Concise Dictionary of Islamic Terms, Noor Publishing House, 1989
Bilal in Hadith, Kazi Publications, 1988
Arabic Alphabet Coloring Book, Kazi Publications, 1984
What's in a Muslim Name, Kazi Publications, 1982
ABC Islamic Reader, Kazi Publications, 1982
Miracles of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Kazi Publications, 1979
Bilal, the First Muadhdhin of the Prophet of Islam, Kazi Publications, 1976
Holy Quran: Translation and Transliteration
A Comprehensive Index of the Holy Qur’an
‘Amma, 30th Part of the Holy Qur’an, Transliteration, Translation and Arabic Text
Arabic for Daily Use
Mukhtasar Sahih Muslim (A Summarized Version of Sahih Muslim)

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