Green and Renewable Technologies

Name

ORCID

School / Department

Research fields

• Mechanical engineering
• Rubbers, soft materials, biocomposites, shape memory polymers
• Finite element analysis, mechanical behavious, mechanical modelling

Anurita Selvarajoo

0000-0001-7765-9565

Chemical and Environmental Engineering

• Biomass conversion technologies
• Biochar synthesis from agriultural waste
• Water and wastewater treatment

Chiew Lin Yap

0000-0001-6196-2885

Foundation in Science

• Organic compounds synthesis, biomass conversions
• Catalysis, sustainable production technologies
• Kinetic and thermodynamic studies, process optimisation, soil remediation

Christina Chin

0000-0003-1906-4955

Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering

• Project engineering management, LCA sustainability and environmental impact
• Renewable energy policies and security, battery storage SOC and SOH
• Pollution management in river restoration, remediation and prevention programme

Christina Supramaniam

0000-0003-1604-1950

Biosciences

• Sustainable palm oil, environmental microbiology, plant-microbe interaction
• Molecular phytopathology, soil microbiome, biomass composting and industrial biotechnology

• Process integration
• Waste minimisation, CO2 reduction
• Carbon capture and storage, combined heat and power

• Photocatalysis, water and wastewater treatment, microbial fuel cell
• Circular economy (composting, material recycling, waste management, life cycle assessment)
• Process simulation

• Biofuels and biomass processing
• Combustion and emissions
• Environmental remediation

• Antenna
• Energy harvesting, rectennas
• Metamaterial, optical communication, microwave filters

• Image and signal processing
• Optimisation
• Edge computing, fog computing, artificial intelligence, embedded system

• Process synthesis and optimisation
• Green operational management

• Chemical kinetics modelling of diesel/biodiesel combustion
• Biofuels production and combustion, engine testing
• Parallel processing and neural network analysis of engine performance/emissions
• Soil remediation using extraction and advanced oxidation processes (AOP), thermal system analyses, biomechanical system

• Thermophysical properties
• Separation and purification, synthesis of new ionic liquids
• Molecular dynamic simulations

• Biomedical signal processing
• Gait analysis, dynamics and vibrations
• Robotics, computer vision, eergy harvesting, smart materials

• Hybrid renewable energy systems, stand alone and grid connected photovoltaic systems
• Energy management, distributed generation and distributed energy resources
• Micro grids, power system

• Mechanical engineering, fluid mechanics, Computational fluid dynamics
• Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), mesh-less method, particle method
• Numerical computing, object-oriented programming, parallel computing (GPGPU)
• Fluid structural interaction, ocean energy harvesting, virtual surgery, physiological flow modelling

• Continuum micromechanics, computational mechanics
• Mechanics of lightweight architected/sandwich/smart additively manufactured structures
• Finite element analysis, data-driven material modelling, MEMs

• Fibre reinforced composites, nanocomposites, polymer synthesis
• Characterisation and structural analysis, moulding processes and optimisation
• Biomaterials, smart, functional and renewable materials, fire retardant polymer, finite element analysis

• Energy harvesting
• Vibro-impact systems
• Nonlinear dynamics

• Engineering eesign, product eesign and innovation
• Sustainable product engineering
• Computer vision, intelligent systems, robotics, assembly and manufacturing planning   

• Water and wastewater treatment
• Air pollution - volatile organic compounds (VOC) removal
• Crbon nanotubes and graphene-based composite synthesis, biochar and bio-oil synthesis from agricultural waste

• Coatings, corrosion, fouling
• Drug delivery, electrochemical sensing
• Wastewater treatment, nanocomposites, graphene, mesoporous and microporous materials

• Electric vehicles (green charging)
• Nanomaterials
• Renewable energy harvesting

• Process and product design
• Solvent design and the design of integrated bio-refineries

• Eco Design, sustainable manufacturing, sustainable material selection, design for recovery oriented
• Energy security, environmental impact asessment tool in design
• Computer vision based system, inteligent systems, resource recovery for electric vehicles batteries

• Food processing
• Bioprocessing, algea research
• Bioproduct recovery

• Computational fluid dynamics, combustion fundamentals
• Fluid mechanics, visualization techniques in fluid mechanics
• Pollution analysis, aerosol dynamics

• Enzymatic polymerization
• Artificial neural networks, process modelling, simulation
• Process control, model predictive control

• Nanomaterials, nanotechnologies, nanoprocessing
• Ultrasound, water treatment, hydrodynamic cavitation
• Nanobiosensors, graphene

• Sustainable energy technologies
• Biofuel production
• Pollutant treatments, and pilot-plant scale investigations

• Biomass conversion technologies
• Biofuel upgrading
• Extraction of chemicals

• Dynamic systems and control, nonlinear dynamics
• Vibration, system identification, nonlinear optimisation
• Energy harvesting, parametric pendulum, describing function

• Embedded systems, nano electronics
• IOT, integrating digital systems into the manufacturing process, methods include artificial intelligence

• Nanomaterials and nanocomposites materials in photocatalysis and wastewater treatments

• Catalysis
• Power ultrasound
• Air pollution, waste recovery

• Water and wastewater treatment using green technologies and materials
• Environmental remediation

• Battery management system (BMS)
• Data mining and machine learning, smart manufacturing
• Bio-medical signal, intelligent control system, optimisation, robotics

Xinwei Cheng

0000-0001-6317-2633

Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering

• Chemical kinetics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Diesel, alternative fuels
• Internal combustion engines, spray/flame development, soot, exhaust emissions, reduction schemes

• Artificial intellligence, Image processing
• Control systems, big data analytics, IOT
• Robotics

• Renewable energies, solar thermal, low speed wind, biomass pyrolysis and gasification
• Thermoacoustics, heat transfer, arospace propulsion systems
• Energy harvesting and energy storage 

• Non-communicable diseases
• Infections and immunity
• Advanced Materials and formulations, natural products and medicinal chemistry