Submissions from 2022
Torrefaction of densified woody biomass: The effect of pellet size on thermochemical and thermophysical characteristics, Sajid Riaz, Yasir M. Al-Abdeli, Ibukun Oluwoye, and Mohammednoor Altarawneh
Oxidative torrefaction of densified woody biomass: Performance, combustion kinetics and thermodynamics, Sajid Riaz, Ibukun Oluwoye, and Yasir M. Al-Abdeli
CRISPR/Cas-mediated editing of cis-regulatory elements for crop improvement, Sumbul Saeed, Babar Usman, Su-Hyeon Shim, Shahid Ullah Khan, Sabzoi Nizamuddin, Sundus Saeed, Yasira Shoaib, Jong-Seong Jeon, and Ki-Hong Jung
Hydrocarbon source rocks in Kazhdumi and Pabdeh formations—a quick outlook in Gachsaran oilfield, SW Iran, Majid Safaei-Farouji, Mohammadreza Kamali, and Mohammad Hail Hakimi
Intelligent task offloading for smart devices in mobile edge computing, Osama Saleem, Suleman Munawar, Shanshan Tu, Zaiwar Ali, Muhammad Waqas, and Ghulam Abbas
Application of a novel natural surfactant extracted from Avena Sativa for enhanced oil recovery during low salinity water flooding: Synergism of natural surfactant with different salts, Behnaz Sami, Amin Azdarpour, Bizhan Honarvar, Moein Nabipour, and Alireza Keshavarz
Modeling and economic analyses of graded particle injections in conjunction with hydraulic fracturing of coal seam gas reservoirs, Vanessa Santiago, Ayrton Ribeiro, Raymond Johnson, Suzanne Hurter, and Zhenjiang You
Deicer salt-scaling resistance of concrete using recycled concrete aggregates pretreated by silica fume slurry, Hossein Sasanipour, Farhad Aslani, and Javad Taherinezhad
Structural, surface electronic bonding, optical, and mechanical features of sputtering deposited CrNiN coatings with Si and Al additives, Tahrima Sathy, Hatem Taha, Khalil Ibrahim, M. Mahbubur Rahman, S. M. Amir-Al Zumahi, Nourin Arobi, Nusrat Jahan, Xiaoli Zhao, Humayun Kabir, Amun Amri, Zhi-feng Zhou, and Zhong-Tao Jiang
Contact angles of a brine on a bituminous coal in hydrogen atmosphere, Rossen Sedev, Hamed Akhondzadeh, Mujahid Ali, Alireza Keshavarz, and Sefan Iglauer
Contact angles of a brine on a bituminous coal in compressed hydrogen, Rossen Sedev, Hamed Akhondzadeh, Mujahid Ali, Alireza Keshavarz, and Stefan Iglauer
Performance analysis of tubular membrane distillation modules: An experimental and CFD analysis, Abdellah Shafieian, Mehdi Khiadani, and Masoumeh Zargar
Performance analysis of a solar-driven integrated direct-contact membrane distillation and humidification–dehumidification system, Abdellah Shafieian, Amin Roostaee, Pooria Behnam, and Mehdi Khiadani
Evaluating the spatiotemporal variations of daytime surface and canopy urban heat islands: an arid climate case study, Elham Shafieiyoun, Mahdi Gheysari, Mehdi Khiadani, and Jahangir Abedi Koupai
Cryogenic liquid nitrogen fracking effects on petro-physical and morphological characteristics of the sembar shale gas formation in the Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan, Abdul Majeed Shar, Muhammad Ali, Darya Khan Bhutto, Amer Alanazi, Hamed Akhondzadeh, Alireza Keshavarz, Stefan Iglauer, and Hussein Hoteit
Controllable synthesis of a hollow Cr2O3 electrocatalyst for enhanced nitrogen reduction toward ammonia synthesis, Lei Shi, Yu Yin, Hong Wu, Rajan Arjan Kalyan Hirani, Xinyuan Xu, Jinqiang Zhang, Nasir Rafique, Abdul Hannan Asif, Shu Zhang, and Hongqi Sun
A comprehensive review on performance improvement of solar desalination with applications of heat pipes, Shahin Shoeibi, Seyed Ali Agha Mirjalily, Hadi Kargarsharifabad, Mehdi Khiadani, and Hitesh Panchal
A review on evaporation improvement of solar still desalination using porous material, Shahin Shoeibi, Mohammad Saemian, Hadi Kargarsharifabad, Siamak Hosseinzade, Nader Rahbar, Mehdi Khiadani, and Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi
Seven research mantras: A short guide for researchers, Sanjay Kumar Shukla
Electro‐driven materials and processes for lithium recovery—A review, Anna Siekierka, Marek Bryjak, Amir Razmjou, Wojciech Kujawski, Aleksandar N. Nikoloski, and Ludovic F. Dumée
Evaluation of geosynthetic reinforcement in unpaved road using moving wheel load test, Meenakshi Singh, Ashutosh Trivedi, and Sanjay Kumar Shukla
Review of thermoelastic, thermal properties and creep analysis of functionally graded cylindrical shell, Ghassan F. Smaisim, Mostafa Omidi Bidgoli, Kheng Lim Goh, and Hamed Bakhtiari
Applications of nanofluids in chemical and bio-medical process industry, Shriram S. Sonawane, Hussein A. Mohammed, Arvind Kumar Mungray, and Sonawane
Synergy of intermolecular Donor-Acceptor and ultrathin structures in crystalline carbon nitride for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution, Huimin Song, Xiaoming Liu, Yixuan Wang, Lin Chen, Jinqiang Zhang, Chaocheng Zhao, Fengting He, Pei Dong, Bin Li, Shuaijun Wang, Shaobin Wang, and Hongqi Sun
Towards a digital twin for characterising natural source zone depletion: A feasibility study based on the Bemidji site, Kaveh Sookhak Lari, Greg B. Davis, and John L. Rayner
A critical review on microbial degradation of petroleum-based plastics: Quantitatively effects of chemical addition in cultivation media on biodegradation efficiency, Yong Sun, Jing Hu, Abubakar Yusuf, Yixiao Wang, Huan Jin, Xiyue Zhang, Yiyang Liu, Yunshan Wang, Gang Yang, and Jun He
Concentration polarization controlin stand-alone and hybrid forward osmosis systems: Recent technological advancements and future directions, W. Suwaileh, Masoumeh Zargar, A. Abdala, F. A. Siddiqui, Mehdi Khiadani, and A. Abdel-Wahab
Pore structure and fluid distribution of tight sandstone by the combined use of SEM, MICP and X-ray micro-CT, Yang Su, Ming Zha, Lin Jiang, Xiujian Ding, Jiangxiu Qu, Jiehua Jin, and Stefan Iglauer
Improving TC drill bit's efficiency and resistance to wear by graphene coating, Reza Taheri, Mohsen Jalali, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, and George Yabesh
Sustainable toxic dyes removal with advanced materials for clean water production: A comprehensive review, Siow Hwa Teo, Chi Huey Ng, Aminul Islam, G. Abdulkareem-Alsultan, Collin G. Joseph, Jidon Janaun, Yun Hin Taufiq-Yap, Shahjalal Khandaker, Gazi Jahirul Islam, Hussein Znad, and Md. Rabiul Awual
Kinetics and mechanism of synergistic adsorption and persulfate activation by N-doped porous carbon for antibiotics removals in single and binary solutions, Wenjie Tian, Jingkai Lin, Huayang Zhang, Xiaoguang Duan, Hao Wang, Hongqi Sun, and Shaobin Wang
Production engineering and robust control, Majid Tolouei-Rad, Pengzhong Liu, and Liang Luo
Adaptive attenuation of hierarchical composition fluctuations augments the plastic strain of a high entropy steel, Simon Tsianikas, Yujie Chen, Ashley Slattery, Jonathan Peters, and Zonghan Xie
Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption for securing IoT devices in fog computing, Shanshan Tu, Fengming Huang, Shengju Zhang, Akhtar Badshah, Hisham Alasmary, and Muhammad Waqas
Social phenomena and fog computing networks: A novel perspective for future networks, Shanshan Tu, Muhammad Waqas, Sadaqat Ur Rehman, Talha Mir, Zahid Halim, and Iftekhar Ahmad
Life-cycle assessment of fibre-reinforced polymers dwellings compared to traditional structures, Afsaneh Valizadeh and Farhad Aslani
Application of Neuromorphic Olfactory Approach for High-Accuracy Classification of Malts, Anup Vanarse, Adam Osseiran, Alexander Rassau, and Peter van der Made
Evaluation of the production of hydrochar from spent coffee grounds under different operating conditions, Srikanth Venkatesan, Humair Ahmed Baloch, Imtiaz Ali Jamro, and Nasir Rafique
Heterogeneous learning method of ensemble classifiers for identification and classification of power quality events and fault transients in wind power integrated microgrid, Arangarajan Vinayagam, Veerapandiyan Veerasamy, Mohd Tariq, and Asma Aziz
Predictive surface complexation model of the calcite-aqueous solution interface: The impact of high concentration and complex composition of brines, Jan Vinogradov, Miftah Hidayat, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, Jos Derksen, David Vega-Maza, Stefan Iglauer, Damien Jougnot, Mohamed Azaroual, and Philippe Leroy
Development of 3D printable cementitious composite for electromagnetic interference shielding, Dimuthu Wanasinghe, Farhad Aslani, and Guowei Ma
Effect of carbon fibres on electromagnetic-interference-shielding properties of geopolymer composites, Dimuthu Wanasinghe, Farhad Aslani, and Guowei Ma
Experimental and numerical investigation on the dynamic damage behavior of gas-bearing coal, Chen Wang, Xiaomeng Xu, Yihuai Zhang, Muhammad Arif, Qiang Wang, and Stefan Iglauer
Comparison of microstructure and mechanical behavior of Ti-35Nb manufactured by laser powder bed fusion from elemental powder mixture and prealloyed powder, Jincheng Wang, Y. J. Liu, Shunxing Liang, Y. S. Zhang, L. Q. Wang, T. B. Sercombe, and Laichang Zhang
Self-sensing performance of cementitious composites with functional fillers at macro, micro and nano scales, Lining Wang and Farhad Aslani
Development of 3D printable self-sensing cementitious composites, Lining Wang, Farhad Aslani, and Abhijit Mukherjee
A framework of lightweight deep cross-connected convolution kernel mapping support vector machines, Qi Wang, Zhaoying Liu, Ting Zhang, Shanshan Tu, Yujian Li, and Muhammad Waqas
Adaptive feature fusion for time series classification, Tian Wang, Zhaoying Liu, Ting Zhang, Syed Fawad Hussain, Muhammad Waqas, and Yujian Li
Joint tuning the morphology and oxygen vacancy of Cu₂O by ionic liquid enables high-efficient CO₂ reduction to C₂ products, Wenhang Wang, Zhengguang Ma, Xiang Fei, Xiaoshan Wang, Zhongxue Yang, Yang Wang, Jinqiang Zhang, Hui Ning, Noritatsu Tsubaki, and Mingbo Wu
Clean process to utilize the potassium-containing phosphorous rock with simultaneous HCl and KCl production via the steam-mediated reactions, Yunshan Wang, Lufang Shi, Houli Li, Yixiao Wang, Zhiying Wang, Xuebin An, Mingzhu Tang, Gang Yang, Jun He, Jing Hu, and Yong Sun
Multiphysics responses of coal seam gas extraction with borehole sealed by active support sealing method and its applications, Zhiming Wang, Yuning Sun, Zhenhua Li, Yonglong Wang, and Zhenjiang You
Enhancing the capabilities of electronic performance tracking system for applications in sports, Adnan Waqar
Physical layer authentication using ensemble learning technique in wireless communications, Muhammad Waqas, Shehr Bano, Fatima Hassan, Shanshan Tu, Ghulam Abbas, and Ziaul Haq Abbas
The role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in wireless networks security: Principle, practice and challenges, Muhammad Waqas, Shanshan Tu, Zahid Halim, Sadaqat Ur Rehman, Ghulam Abbas, and Ziaul Haq Abbas
A lithium ion selective membrane synthesized from a double layered Zrbased metalorganic framework (MOF-on-MOF) thin film, Huan Xiao, Milton Chai, Mojtaba Abdollahzadeh, Hadi Ahmadi, Vicki Chen, Damian B. Gore, Mohsen Asadnia, and Amir Razmjou
Temperature profile, microstructural evolution, and wear resistance of plasma-sprayed NiCrBSi coatings under different powers in a vertical remelting way, Hao-Nan Xuan, Liang-Yu Chen, Nan Li, Haiyang Wang, Cuihua Zhao, Maksym Bobrov, Sheng Lu, and Lai-Chang Zhang
Bioactive performances of surface modification of Ti–6Al–4V jointly using ultrasonic-assisted microarc oxidation and hydrothermal treatment, Cheng Xu, Liang-Yu Chen, Chuanbo Zheng, Zheng-Yi Zhang, Ruifeng Li, Hong-Yu Yang, Jinhua Peng, Lina Zhang, and Lai-Chang Zhang
Dynamic fracture width prediction for lost circulation control and formation damage prevention in ultra-deep fractured tight reservoir, Chengyuan Xu, Xinglin Yang, Chuan Liu, Yili Kang, Yingrui Bai, and Zhenjiang You
Dynamic mechanical response characteristics of coal upon exposure to KCl brine, Xiaomeng Xu, Jiafeng Liu, Xinfeng Jin, Yihuai Zhang, Muhammad Arif, Chen Wang, and Stefan Iglauer
Characterization of heating behaviour of a microwave reactor during mixing, Ryohei Yakata, Satoshi Sonobe, Yusuke Asakuma, Anita Hyde, Chi Phan, and Tushar Kanti Sen
Multi-scale reconstruction of porous media from low-resolution core images using conditional generative adversarial networks, Yongfei Yang, Fugui Liu, Jun Yao, Stefan Iglauer, Mozhdeh Sajjadi, Kai Zhang, Hai Sun, Lei Zhang, Junjie Zhong, and Vadim Lisitsa
Review on physical and chemical factors affecting fines migration in porous media, Yulong Yang, Weifeng Yuan, Jirui Hou, and Zhenjiang You
Metal-based adsorbents for lithium recovery from aqueous resources, Hanwei Yu, Gayathri Naidu, Chunyao Zhang, Chen Wang, Amir Razmjou, Dong Suk Han, Tao He, and Hokyong Shon
The rock mechanical properties of lacustrine shales: Argillaceous shales versus silty laminae shales, Hongyan Yu, Maxim Lebedev, Jinyu Zhou, Minghui Lu, Xiaolong Li, Zhenliang Wang, Tongcheng Han, Yihuai Zhang, Lukman M. Johnson, and Stefan Iglauer
A multi-model ensemble to investigate uncertainty in the estimation of wave-driven longshore sediment transport patterns along a non-straight coastline, Amin Reza Zarifsanayei, José A.A. Antolínez, Amir Etemad-Shahidi, Nick Cartwright, and Darrell Strauss
Uncertainties in the projected patterns of wave-driven longshore sediment transport along a non-straight coastline, Amin Reza Zarifsanayei, José A. A. Antolínez, Amir Etemad-Shahidi, Nick Cartwright, Darrell Strauss, and Gil Lemos
Effect of fluid-shale interactions on shales micromechanics: Nanoindentation experiments and interpretation from geochemical perspective, Lingping Zeng, Hamed Akhondzadeh, Muhammad Atif Iqbal, Alireza Keshavarz, Reza Rezaee, and Quan Xie
Hydrogen wettability in carbonate reservoirs: Implication for underground hydrogen storage from geochemical perspective, Lingping Zeng, Mirhasan Hosseini, Alireza Keshavarz, Stefan Iglauer, Yunhu Lu, and Quan Xie
Hydrogen storage in Majiagou carbonate reservoir in China: Geochemical modelling on carbonate dissolution and hydrogen loss, Lingping Zeng, Alireza Keshavarz, Quan Xie, and Stefan Iglauer
Non-uniform distributed energy storage systems allocation in unbalanced distribution networks, Dong Zhang, G. M. Shafiullah, Choton K. Das, and Kok W. Wong
A systematic review of optimal planning and deployment of distributed generation and energy storage systems in power networks, Dong Zhang, G. M. Shafiullah, Choton K. Das, and Kok Wai Wong
Single-atom catalysts on metal-based supports for solar photoreduction catalysis, Huayang Zhang, Wenjie Tian, Xiaoguang Duan, Hongqi Sun, Yingping Huang, Yanfen Fang, and Shaobin Wang
Carbon nitride-based Z-scheme photocatalysts for non-sacrificial overall water splitting, Huayang Zhang, Wenjie Tian, Jinqiang Zhang, Xiaoguang Duan, Shaomin Liu, Hongqi Sun, and Shaobin Wang
Regulation of energetic hot carriers on Pt/TiO2 with thermal energy for photothermal catalysis, Jinqiang Zhang, Yunguo Li, Jiaming Sun, Haijun Chen, Yuezhao Zhu, Xiaoli Zhao, Lai Chang Zhang, Shuaijun Wang, Huayang Zhang, Xiaoguang Duan, Lei Shi, Shu Zhang, Peng Zhang, Guosheng Shao, Mingbo Wu, Shaobin Wang, and Hongqi Sun
Microstructure evolution and deformation mechanism of α+ β dual-phase Ti-xNb-yTa-2Zr alloys with high performance, Ting Zhang, Daixiu Wei, Eryi Lu, Wen Wang, Kuaishe Wang, Xiaoqing Li, Lai-Chang Zhang, Hidemi Kato, Weijie Lu, and Liqiang Wang
Effect of Ti and B additions on the microstructure and properties of FeCoCrNi high entropy alloys prepared by hot pressing, Yichen Zhang, Yanru Yang, Jifeng Zhang, Jiawen Li, Heguo Zhu, and Zonghan Xie
Resource allocation for blockchain-enabled fog computing with deep reinforcement learning, Yihe Zhang, Shanshan Tu, Muhammad Waqas, Yongjie Yang, Aiming Wu, and Xuetao Bai
Fine-grained ship image recognition based on BCNN with inception and AM-Softmax, Zhilin Zhang, Ting Zhang, Zhaoying Liu, Peijie Zhang, Shanshan Tu, Yujian Li, and Muhammad Waqas
Selective laser melting of bulk immiscible alloy with enhanced strength: Heterogeneous microstructure and deformation mechanisms, Shengfeng Zhou, Min Xie, Changyi Wu, Yanliang Yi, Dongchu Chen, and Laichang Zhang
The utilization of algae and seaweed biomass for bioremediation of heavy metal-contaminated wastewater, Hussein Znad, Md Rabiul Awual, and Sri Martini
Theses from 2021
Simultaneous machining of aerospace structural materials using poly-drills, Muhammad Aamir
The effect of TiN-, TiCN-, TiAlN-, and TiSiN coated tools on the surface defects and geometric tolerances of holes in multi-spindle drilling of Al2024 alloy, Muhammad Aamir, Adrian Davis, William Keeble, Ugur Koklu, Khaled Giasin, Ana Vafadar, and Majid Tolouei Rad
Effect of cutting parameters and tool geometry on the performance analysis of one-shot drilling process of AA2024-t3, Muhammad Aamir, Khaled Giasin, Majid Tolouei-Rad, Israr Ud Din, Muhammad I. Hanif, Ugur Kuklu, Danil Y. Pimenov, and Muhammad Ikhlaq
Multi-spindle drilling of Al2024 alloy and the effect of TiAlN and TiSiN-coated carbide drills for productivity improvement, Muhammad Aamir, Majid Tolouei-Rad, and Khaled Giasin
Evaluation of the surface defects and dimensional tolerances in multi-hole drilling of AA5083, AA6061, and AA2024, Muhammad Aamir, Majid Tolouei Rad, Khaled Giasin, Ana Vafadar, Ugur Koklu, and William Keeble
Effect of rock wettability on the electric resistivity of hydrate formations: An experimental investigation, Ghazanfer Raza Abbasi, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, Abubakar Isah, Alireza Keshavarz, and Stefan Iglauer
Influence of rock wettability on THF hydrate saturation and distribution in sandstones, Ghazanfer Raza Abbasi, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Abubakar Isah, Alireza Keshavarz, and Sefan Iglauer
CO2/Basalt's interfacial tension and wettability directly from gas density: Implications for carbon geo-sequestration, Hesham Abdulelah, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Muhammad Ali, Ausama Giwelli, Berihun Mamo Negash, and Mohammad Sarmadivaleh
Drastic enhancement of CO2 adsorption capacity by negatively charged sub-bituminous coal, Hussein R. Abid, Stefan Iglauer, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, and Alireza Keshavarz
Striking CO2 capture and CO2/N2 separation by Mn/Al bimetallic MIL-53, Hussein R. Abid, Zana H. Rada, Lihong Liu, Shaobin Wang, and Shaomin Liu
Numerical assessment of the overall heat transfer and pressure drop performances of an aqueous ammonia base-nanofluids in rectangular microchannel heat sinks, Ahmed Mohammed Adham and Hussein A. Mohammed
Liquid nitrogen fracturing efficiency as a function of coal rank: A multi-scale tomographic study, Hamed Akhondzadeh, Alireza Keshavarz, Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, Muhammad Ali, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Changfu Liu, Yongfei Yang, Stefan Iglauer, Boris Gurevich, and Maxim Lebedev
Enhancing the adhesion strength and wear resistance of nanostructured NiCrN coatings, Rumana Akhter, Zhifeng Zhou, Zonghan Xie, and Paul Munroe
Harmonizing mechanical responses of nanostructured CrN coatings via Ni additions, Rumana Akhter, Zhifeng Zhou, Zonghan Xie, and Paul Munroe
Measurement of micro burr and slot widths through image processing: Comparison of manual and automated measurements in micro‐milling, Fatih Akkoyun, Ali Ercetin, Kubilay Aslantas, Danil Yurievich Pimenov, Khaled Giasin, Avinash Lakshmikanthan, and Muhammad Aamir
Synergistic effect of nanoparticles and polymers on the rheological properties of injection fluids: Implications for enhanced oil recovery, Sarmad Al-Anssari, Muhammad Ali, Mobarak Alajmi, Hamed Akhondzadeh, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Azim Kalantariasl, Stefan Iglauer, and Alireza Keshavarz
Graphene nanoplatelets suspended in different basefluids based solar collector: An experimental and analytical study, Omer A. Alawi, Haslinda Mohamed Kamar, Abdul Rahman Mallah, Hussein A. Mohammed, Mohd Aizad Sazrul Sabrudin, Omar A. Hussein, Salim Newaz Kazi, and Gholamhassan Najafi
Nanofluids for flat plate solar collectors: Fundamentals and applications, Omer A. Alawi, Haslinda Mohamed Kamar, A. R. Mallah, Hussein A. Mohammed, S. N. Kazi, Nor Azwadi Che Sidik, and Gholamhassan Najafi
Investigating the mechanism of microbiologically influenced corrosion of carbon steel using X-ray micro-computed tomography, Mohammed Bassil Albahri, Ahmed Barifcani, Stefan Iglauer, Maxim Lebedev, Connor O’Neil, Silvia J. Salgar-Chaparro, and Laura L. Machuca
Charging infrastructure for commercial electric vehicles: Challenges and future works, Bassam Al-Hanahi, Iftekhar Ahmad, Daryoush Habibi, and Mohammad A. S. Masoum