Dr. Hilal Ali Zahir Al-Hinai

Secretary General

The Reserach Council

PO Box: 1422, PC 130 Al-Athaiba

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Tel: 24509814 / 99335137

Fax: 24509820

Email: hilal@trc.gov.om

Dr. Al-Hinai is the Secretary General of The Research Council. He was the Director of the Water Research Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrail Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University. He obtained his B.Eng. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Bradford University in 1986 and joined Sultan Qaboos University as a Maintenance Engineer. He obtained his M.Sc. (1988) and Ph.D. (1992) from the Applied Energy Department at Cranfield Institute of Technology in the UK. Beside his teaching duty, he was appointed as an Academic Assistant for Innovation and Industrial Links at SQU.

Dr. Al-Hinai’s research interests are in Solar Energy and Water Desalination with emphasis on solar water desalination and on Solar Cooling Techniques for Buildings in Hot Climates.