Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed's Publications in ResearchGate Reached 25,000 Reads

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed's, Leader of Reaction Engineering & Adsorption (READ) Research Group publications listed in ResearchGate, a social networking site for scientists and researchers, has reach over 25,000 reads. Presently there are over 240 of his articles listed in ResearchGate with impact point of over 800. Congratulations!

Latest Published Research Articles

The following two articles are our group latest published research articles. Both articles are

published in Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers published by Elsevier. The 2014 Impact Factor of the Journal is 3.000. The work published are carried out by the 2 PhD students H. Amani and Y. Syamsuddin. Congratulations!

H. Amani, M. Asif, B.H. Hameed, Transesterificationof waste cooking palm oil and palm oil to fatty acid methyl ester usingcesium-modified silica catalyst, Journal of the Taiwan Institute of ChemicalEngineers, 58 (2016) 226–234.

DOI information: 10.1016/j.jtice.2015.07.009

The following is a free access to the article, and is valid for 50 days, until February 12, 2016.

http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1SF-k6gayqC9pN

Y. Syamsuddin, B.H. Hameed, Synthesis ofglycerol free-fatty acid methyl esters from jatropha oil over Ca-La mixed-oxidecatalyst, Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, 58 (2016) 181–188.

DOI information: 10.1016/j.jtice.2015.06.041

The following is a free access to the article, and is valid for 50 days, until February 12, 2016.

http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1SF-k6gayqC9nx

PhD Student Patrick U. Okoye Won Universiti Sains Malaysia Fellowship

The Reaction Engineering and Adsorption (READ) Research Group, School of chemical engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia is pleased to congratulate PhD Student Patrick U. Okoye on being awarded with a prestigious Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Fellowship. Patrick is currently working on the catalytic upgrading of a glycerol—a by-product of biodiesel industry to value-added chemicals.

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed Appointed Associate Editor for Energy, Ecology and Environment

Energy, Ecology and Environment

URL: http://www.springer.com/energy/journal/40974

Congratulations to Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, who has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the Energy, Ecology and Environment Journal, a newly published journal by Springer. For more information about the journal, visit the Aims and Scope page of the journal. 

Congratulations! Our article reached 40 citations

Congratulations! According to the ResearchGate recent report, our article entitled “Adsorption of pesticides fromaqueous solution onto banana stalk activated carbon” published in ChemicalEngineering Journal reached 30 citations. The work published in this article was carried out by my PhD student J.M. Salman and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. V.O. Njokuo.

J.M. Salman, V.O. Njokua, B.H. Hameed, Adsorption of pesticides from aqueous solution onto banana stalkactivated carbon, Chemical Engineering Journal, 174 (2011) 41–48.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1385894711009715

Our Research is in the Spotlight

According to a recent report by ResearchGate, a social networking site for scientists and researchers, Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed has been reported as the most highly cited researcher from the Universiti Sains Malaysia in October 2015. To date, Prof. Bassim has published more than 210 articles in ISI-indexed journals. His publications have been cited more than 11,100 times (Scopus database) and 33 of his articles were cited more than 100 times each. He has an author h-index of 57, and an i10-index of 158. 

Most Cited Journal of Hazardous Materials Articles

Ahmad, A.A., Hameed, B.H, Fixed-bedadsorption of reactive azo dye onto granular activated carbon prepared fromwaste, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 175 (2010) 298-303.

According to the recent report of Journal of Hazardous Materials published by Elsevier, our above-mentioned research article has been reported as one of the most cited Journal of Hazardous Materials articles published since 2010, extracted from Scopus. The article has been cite 155 times since its publication. The work reported in this article was carried out by A.A. Ahmad (PhD student) on the utilization of bamboo granular activated carbon was used to adsorb C.I. Reactive Black (RB5) in a fixed-bed adsorption column.

Keywords: Bamboo waste; Granular activated carbon; Reactive dye; Fixed-bed column; Adsorption; Breakthrough

Most Cited Chemical Engineering Journal Article Since 2010

                                Source: Scopus

Foo, K.Y., Hameed, B.H, Insights into the modeling ofadsorption isotherm systems, Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 156, Issue 1, 1 January 2010, Pages 2-10.

Our above-mentioned article has been reported by Chemical EngineeringJournal as the most cited articles published in the journal since 2010, extracted from Scopus. According to Scopus, the article has been cited 721 times. 

Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed recognized in Thomson Reuters list of 2015 Highly Cited Researchers

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, a professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, has been recognized in Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers 2015 list, which identifies the world’s most influential contemporary researchers across 21 scientific fields. He was recognized for his work in the Engineering field. Professor Bassim is currently leading the Reaction Engineering and Adsorption (READ) research group. He is the only one to receive such recognition from Thomson Reuters in Universiti Sains Malaysia. Congratulations!

Previously in 2014, Professor Dr Bassim H. Hameed was listed in the prestigious list of Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers 2014. In addition, his name was included in The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014 book by Thompson Reuters for his contribution in the field of Chemical Engineering.

New Published Article

New Published Article

P.U. Okoye, B.H. Hameed, Review on recent progress incatalytic carboxylation and acetylation of glycerol as a byproduct of biodieselproduction, Renewable and Sustainable Energy ReviewsVolume 53, January 2016, Pages 558–574.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032115009272

Awareness for green energy sources has led to increasing demand of Biodiesel, BD as a renewable energy alternative to fossil fuel. Glycerol is a major byproduct of BD and considered an oversupplied commodity because of few applications characterized by its crude nature. Acetylation and carboxylation pathways to upgrade glycerol using Heterogeneous catalysts proves promising as its products have vast applications. However, heterogeneous catalyst often deactivates and limits industrial application of these pathways. Therefore, our recent article has dwelt in these two pathways, discussing in details various conditions that may lead to pitfall or promote their reaction.

Welcome to the blog of the READ research group

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