Research Publications 2017

[1].       Z. Khan,  S. Yusup,  P. Kamble, I. Watson, Assessment of Energy Flows in Integrated Catalytic Adsorption (ICA) Steam Gasification for Hydrogen Production. Energy Procedia. 142 (2017) 1577-1581.
[2].       M. Ashfaq,  K. Nawaz Khan,  M. Saif Ur Rehman,  G. Mustafa,  M. Faizan Nazar,  Q. Sun,  J. Iqbal,  S.I. Mulla, C.-P. Yu, Ecological risk assessment of pharmaceuticals in the receiving environment of pharmaceutical wastewater in Pakistan. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 136 (2017) 31-39.
[3].       A. Inayat,  M.M. Ahmad,  M.A. Mutalib,  S. Yusup, Z. Khan, Economic analysis and optimization for bio-hydrogen production from oil palm waste via steam gasification. Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy. 12 (2017) 158-165.
[4].       S.Y. Khawaja,  M.R. Usman,  M. Nasif,  M.S. Akram,  W. Afzal, N.A. Akhtar, Mass transfer efficiency of a tall and low plate free area liquid pulsed sieve-plate extraction column. International Journal of Industrial Chemistry. 8 (2017) 397-410.
[5].       M.Z. Shahid,  M.R. Usman,  M.S. Akram,  S.Y. Khawaja, W. Afzal, Initial Interfacial Tension for Various Organic–Water Systems and Study of the Effect of Solute Concentration and Temperature. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data. 62 (2017) 1198-1203.
[6].       M.A. Ahmed,  M.S.U. Rehman,  R. Terán-Hilares,  S. Khalid, J.-I. Han, Optimization of twin gear-based pretreatment of rice straw for bioethanol production. Energy Conversion and Management. 141 (2017) 120-125.
[7].       H. Waqas,  A. Shan,  Y.G. Khan,  R. Nawaz,  M. Rizwan,  M.S.-U. Rehman,  M.B. Shakoor,  W. Ahmed, M. Jabeen, Human health risk assessment of arsenic in groundwater aquifers of Lahore, Pakistan. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal. 23 (2017) 836-850.
[8].       M. Ashfaq,  N. Noor,  M. Saif‐Ur‐Rehman,  Q. Sun,  G. Mustafa,  M. Faizan Nazar, C.P. Yu, Determination of Commonly used pharmaceuticals in Hospital waste of Pakistan and evaluation of their ecological risk assessment. CLEAN–Soil, Air, Water. 45 (2017).
[9].       W. Yang,  G. Chen,  P. Wang,  J. Qiao,  F. Hu,  S. Liu,  Q. Zhang,  M. Hussain,  R. Dong, G. Wu, Enhanced thermal conductivity in Diamond/Aluminum composites with tungsten coatings on diamond particles prepared by magnetron sputtering method. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 726 (2017) 623-631.
[10].     M. Usman,  J. Akhtar, J. Iqbal, Adsorption of Gold onto γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane Grafted Coconut Pith. Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan. 39 (2017).
[11].     T. Fazal,  A. Mushtaq,  F. Rehman,  A.U. Khan,  N. Rashid,  W. Farooq,  M.S.U. Rehman, J. Xu, Bioremediation of textile wastewater and successive biodiesel production using microalgae. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. (2017).
[12].     Y. Liu,  F. Rehman, W.B. Zimmerman, Reaction engineering of carbon monoxide generation by treatment with atmospheric pressure, low power CO2 DBD plasma. Fuel. 209 (2017) 117-126.
[13].     T. Sultan,  Z. Ahmad,  Z. Anwar, M.S. Khurram, Impact of asymmetric lamp positioning on the performance of a closed-conduit UV reactor. Ain Shams Engineering Journal. 8 (2017) 225-235.
[14].     P. Kamble,  Z. Khan,  S. Capper,  J. Sharp, I. Watson, Improving downdraft gasifier stability by robust instrumentation and control systems. Energy Procedia. 142 (2017) 2214-2217.
[15].     R. Ur Rehman,  S. Rafiq,  N. Muhammad,  A.L. Khan,  A. Ur Rehman,  L. TingTing,  M. Saeed,  F. Jamil,  M. Ghauri, X. Gu, Development of ethanolamine‐based ionic liquid membranes for efficient CO2/CH4 separation. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 134 (2017).
[16].     S. Capper,  Z. Khan,  P. Kamble,  J. Sharp, I. Watson, Progression towards Online Tar Detection Systems. Energy Procedia. 142 (2017) 892-897.
[17].     I. Munnawar,  S.S. Iqbal,  M.N. Anwar,  M. Batool,  S. Tariq,  N. Faitma,  A.L. Khan,  A.U. Khan,  U. Nazar, T. Jamil, Synergistic effect of Chitosan-Zinc Oxide Hybrid Nanoparticles on antibiofouling and water disinfection of mixed matrix polyethersulfone nanocomposite membranes. Carbohydrate polymers. 175 (2017) 661-670.
[18].     A. Ilyas,  N. Muhammad,  M.A. Gilani,  K. Ayub,  I.F.J. Vankelecom, A.L. Khan, Supported protic ionic liquid membrane based on 3-(trimethoxysilyl)propan-1-aminium acetate for the highly selective separation of CO2. Journal of Membrane Science. 543 (2017) 301-309.
[19].     S. Park,  M. Yasin,  J. Jeong,  M. Cha,  H. Kang,  N. Jang,  I.-G. Choi, I.S. Chang, Acetate-assisted increase of butyrate production by Eubacterium limosum KIST612 during carbon monoxide fermentation. Bioresource technology. 245 (2017) 560-566.
[20].     M. Ghauri,  K. Shahzad,  M.S. Khurram,  M.H. Jaffery,  N. Ali,  W.A. Khan, K.R. Cliffe, Development of a Temperature Programmed Identification Technique to Characterize the Organic Sulphur Functional Groups in Coal. Energies. 10 (2017) 782.
[21].     A. Jamshaid,  A. Hamid,  N. Muhammad,  A. Naseer,  M. Ghauri,  J. Iqbal,  S. Rafiq, N.S. Shah, Cellulose‐based Materials for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater–An Overview. ChemBioEng Reviews. (2017).
[22].     M. Saeed,  S. Rafiq,  L.H. Bergersen, L. Deng, Tailoring of water swollen PVA membrane for hosting carriers in CO2 facilitated transport membranes. Separation and Purification Technology. 179 (2017) 550-560.
[23].     K. Majeed,  A. Hassan, A. Abu Bakar, Barrier, Biodegradation, and mechanical properties of (Rice husk)/(Montmorillonite) hybrid filler-filled low-density polyethylene nanocomposite films. J. Vinyl additTechnol. 23 (2017) 162-171.
[24].     M. Hussain,  P. Akhter,  J. Iqbal,  Z. Ali,  W. Yang,  N. Shehzad,  K. Majeed,  R. Sheikh, N. Russo, VOCs photocatalytic abatement using nanostructured titania-silica catalysts. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. (2017).
[25].     W. Yang,  G. Chen,  J. Qiao,  S. Liu,  R. Xiao,  R. Dong,  M. Hussain, G. Wu, Graphene nanoflakes reinforced Al-20Si matrix composites prepared by pressure infiltration method. Materials Science and Engineering: A. 700 (2017) 351-357.
[26].     W.-S. Yang,  G.-Q. Chen,  P. Wu,  M. Hussain,  J.-B. Song,  R.-H. Dong, G.-H. Wu, Electrical Discharge Machining of Al2024-65 vol% SiC Composites. Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters). 30 (2017) 447-455.
[27].     N. Jang,  M. Yasin,  S. Park,  R.W. Lovitt, I.S. Chang, Determination of volumetric gas–liquid mass transfer coefficient of carbon monoxide in a batch cultivation system using kinetic simulations. Bioresource technology. 239 (2017) 387-393.
[28].     F. Ahmed,  J.-K. Kim,  A.U. Khan,  H.Y. Park, Y.K. Yeo, A Fast Converging and Consistent Teaching-Learning-Self-Study Algorithm for Optimization: A Case Study of Tuning of LSSVM Parameters for the Prediction of NOx Emissions from a Tangentially Fired Pulverized Coal Boiler. Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan. 50 (2017) 273-290.
[29].     L. Xin,  W. Yang,  Q. Zhao,  R. Dong,  P. Wu,  Z. Xiu,  M. Hussain, G. Wu, Strengthening behavior in SiC nanowires reinforced pure Al composite. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 695 (2017) 2406-2412.
[30].     L. Xin,  W. Yang,  Q. Zhao,  R. Dong,  X. Liang,  Z. Xiu,  M. Hussain, G. Wu, Effect of extrusion treatment on the microstructure and mechanical behavior of SiC nanowires reinforced Al matrix composites. Materials Science and Engineering: A. 682 (2017) 38-44.
[31].     H.-J. Cho,  F. Ahmed,  T.Y. Kim,  B.S. Kim, Y.-K. Yeo, A comparative study of teaching-learning-self-study algorithms on benchmark function optimization. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering. 34 (2017) 628-641.
[32].     A.M. Abu-Jrai,  F. Jamil,  H. Ala'a,  M. Baawain,  L. Al-Haj,  M. Al-Hinai,  M. Al-Abri, S. Rafiq, Valorization of waste Date pits biomass for biodiesel production in presence of green carbon catalyst. Energy Conversion and Management. 135 (2017) 236-243.
[33].     M.A. Akhtar,  S. Riaz,  A. Hayat,  M. Nasir,  N. Muhammad,  A. Rahim, M.H. Nawaz, Poly (ethylene oxide) tethered trans-porphyrin: Synthesis, self-assembly with fullerene (C60) and DNA binding studies. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 225 (2017) 235-239.