Turn your draft manuscript into a submission-worthy paper

Turn your draft manuscript into a submission-worthy paper

A scientific manuscript writing workshop with the theme “Turn your draft manuscript into a submission-worthy paper’ was held on 28-29th Nov. 2017 at the Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Universiti Sains Malaysia with the participation of all lecturers and postgraduate students. Prof. Dr. Bassim H.Hameed from the School of Chemical Engineering was invited to provide participants with a systematic insight into the key elements of an excellent manuscript. 

Congratulations! Norhaslinda Nasuha successfully defended her PhD viva

Congratulations! Norhaslinda Nasuha successfully defended her PhD viva

Norhaslinda Nasuha was successfully defended her PhD viva on 12 July 2017 with minor correction and submitted Final Thesis on 14 August 2017. Nasuha worked under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, leader of the Reaction Engineering & Adsorption (READ) group, School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and her thesis entitled: Preparation and Characterization of Efficient and Reusable Iron Based-Silica Oxide Catalysts for Dark, UV and Visible Light-Assisted Fenton-Like Degradation of Reactive Black 5, Acid Blue 29 and Methylene Blue. Norhaslinda published the following two articles in ISI-indexed journals:

Publications:

1.      Nasuha, N., Ismail, S., Hameed, B. H. (2016). Activated electric arc furnace slag as an efficient and reusable heterogeneous Fenton-like catalyst for the degradation of Reactive Black 5. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, 67, 235-243.

2.      Nasuha, N., Ismail, S., Hameed, B. H. (2017). Activated electric arc furnace slag as an effective and reusable Fenton-like catalyst for the photodegradation of methylene blue and acid blue 29. Journal of Environmental Management, 196, 323–329.  

Congratulations to Dr. Patrick on his convocation

Congratulations to Patrick on his convocation

Congratulations to Dr. okoye ugochukwu on his convocation. Patrick is Reaction and Adsorption Engineering group member (READ) at the School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He worked under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed on “the development and characterization of reusable heterogeneous catalysts for glycerol upgrading to fine chemicals”. In recognition of his research skills, he was awarded the prestigious USM fellowship during his study. Dr. Patrick showed a great diligence and extensive knowledge capacity related to his field of research. Thus, he published over five articles in top ISI-indexed journals within 2.5 years of his Ph.D. study. His thesis was nominated for Universiti Sains Malaysia best thesis award from School of Chemical Engineering.  

List of Publications: 

1. P.U. Okoye, A.Z. Abdullah, B.H. Hameed, A review on recent developments and progress in the kinetics and deactivation of catalytic acetylation of glycerol—A byproduct of biodiesel, Renew. Sust. Energ. Rev. 74 (2017) 387-401.
2. P.U. Okoye, A.Z. Abdullah, B.H. Hameed, Stabilized ladle furnace steel slag for glycerol carbonate synthesis via glycerol transesterification reaction with dimethyl carbonate, Energy Convers. Manage. 133 (2017) 477-485.
3. P.U. Okoye, A.Z. Abdullah, B.H. Hameed, Synthesis of oxygenated fuel additives via glycerol esterification with acetic acid over bio-derived carbon catalyst, Fuel 209 (2017) 538-544.
4. P.U. Okoye, A.Z. Abdullah, B.H. Hameed, Glycerol carbonate synthesis from glycerol and dimethyl carbonate using trisodium phosphate, J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Eng. 67 (2016) 235-243.
5. P.U. Okoye, B.H. Hameed, Review on recent progress in catalytic carboxylation and acetylation of glycerol as a byproduct of biodiesel production, Renew. Sustainable Energy Rev. 53 (2016) 558-574. 

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed selected for the fourth consecutive year as Highly Cited Researcher for 2017

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed selected for the fourth consecutive year as Highly Cited Researcher for 2017

We are pleased to share that, for the fourth consecutive year, Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, School of ChemicalEngineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, has been listed in the top 1% of Engineering field for most Highly Cited Researcher 2017. The list of the Engineering field includes 176 scientists form different institutions in the world. Professor Bassim was first included in this prestige list in 2014, and has remained there since.

According to the report, released by Clarivate Analytics, the list includes more than 3,300 Highly Cited Researchers in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences. About 10 million research articles in 11,000 academic journals were analysed and how often these articles have been cited by other researchers were counted over a period of 11 years.

Last year, Prof. Bassim was listed as one of the Most Cited Researchers for Chemical Engineering and Environmental Science & Engineering Subjects of 2016 by Shanghai Global Rankings ofAcademic Subjects.

To date, he has published more than 250 articles in ISI-indexed journals. He has also published 100 articles in other international and national journals and proceedings. Professor Bassim’s publications have been cited over 18,000 times (Scopus database). He has an author h-index of 73, and an i10-index of 195.

Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed’s publications reached 60,000 reads in ResearchGate

Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed’s publications reached 60,000 reads in ResearchGate

Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed’s publications reached 60,000 reads on 30^th October 2017 according ResearchGate, a social networking site for scientists and researchers. Presently, Prof. Bassim has 295 listed documents in this platform and received more than 18,750 citations. 

Recipient Sanggar Sanjung (Hall of Fame) Award 2016, Journal Publication Category

Recipient of Sanggar Sanjung (Hall of Fame) Award 2016, Journal Publication Category

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, group leader of Reaction Engineering & Adsorption (READ) research group, School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia received Universiti Sains Malaysia Sanggar Sanjung (Hall of Fame) Award 2016, Journal Publication Category.

The event held on 25^th November 2017 at Hotel Equatorial Penang. The award recognizes his achievement to published research articles in top 10 indexed-journals.

Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed invited by UniKL MICET as a speaker for a workshop on “The Art of Writing Publishable Scientific Manuscripts”

Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed invited by UniKL MICET as a speaker for a workshop on “The Art of Writing Publishable Scientific Manuscripts”

Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, group leader of Reaction Engineering & Adsorption (READ) research group, School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia was invited last Wednesday, 25^th October 2017, by the Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Institute of Chemical& Bioengineering Technology (UniKL MICET), Malacca, as a speaker for one-day workshop on  “The Art of Writing Publishable Scientific Manuscripts” to share his experience with 30 lecturers and postgraduate students. The program of the workshop included six sessions; strategy and steps for publishing in top ISI-indexed journals, structure of research manuscript, how to write publishable review article, writing the first draft, selecting select the right journal for your manuscript, and dealing with reviewers’ & Editors’ comments.

Prof. Bassim has conducted this workshop more than 50 times so far and they were attended by more than 1,500 university lecturers, postgraduate students, and researchers from more than 45 institutions, universities, industries, and research centers from Malaysia and other countries.

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed received Malaysia’ Research Star Award 2017

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed received Malaysia’ Research Star Award 2017

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, group leader of Reaction Engineering & Adsorption (READ) research group, received Malaysia’s Research Star Award 2017 from YB Dato 'Seri Idris bin Jusoh, Minister of Higher Education, Malaysia. The event held on 5th October 2017 at Putrajaya International Convention Center (PICC), Putrajaya. The award recognizes his achievement as a Highly Cited Researcher according to Elsevier and Clarivate Analytics. 

Professor Bassim has been already listed as Thomson Reuters’ the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds and Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researcher 2016, 2015 and 2014 in Engineering. This time last year, He received Malaysia’ Rising Star Award 2016, Most Cited Researcher 2016 in Chemical Engineering (Shanghai Ranking) and most Cited Researcher 2016 in Environmental Science & Engineering (Shanghai Ranking).

To date, he published more than 260 articles in indexed journals and his publications have been cited over 17,500 times (Scopus database), and 48 of these articles were cited more than 100 times each. Professor Bassim’s author h-index is 71, and his i10-index is 192.

According to Chemical Engineering Journal, the Top 5 Journal in Chemical Engineering with an Impact Factor of 6.216, my published article titled “Insights into the modeling of adsorption isotherm systems” is the most downloaded article from Chemical Engineering Journal in the last 90 days. To date, this article has been cited 1,638 time since its publication in 2010. 

Congratulations to Yanna Syamsuddin on a successful PhD viva

Congratulations to Yanna Syamsuddin on a successful PhD viva

READ's latest PhD graduate Yanna Syamsuddin, successfully defended her PhD on Thursday 20^th April  2017.  Her thesis, entitled "Synthesis, Characterization and Catalytic Activity of CaO-based Catalysts in Transesterification of Non-edible and Waste Cooking Oils into Glycerol-free Fatty Acid Methyl Ester ", was supervised by Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed.

Yanna published the following three articles in ISI-indexed journals.

1. Syamsuddin, Y., Murat, M.N., Hameed, B.H. (2016). Synthesis of fatty acid methyl ester from the transesterification of high- and low-acid-content crude palm oil (Elaeis guineensis) and karanj oil (Pongamia pinnata) over a calcium–lanthanum–aluminum mixed-oxides catalyst. Bioresource Technology, 214, pp 248-252.
2. Syamsuddin, Y., Hameed, B.H. (2016). Synthesis of glycerol free-fatty acid methyl esters from Jatropha oil over Ca-La mixed-oxide catalyst. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of ChemicalEngineers, 58, pp 1-8.
3. Syamsuddin, Y., Murat, M.N., Hameed, B.H. (2015). Transesterification of Jatropha oil with dimethyl carbonate to produce fatty acid methyl ester over reusable Ca–La–Al mixed-oxide catalyst. Energyconversion and management, 106, pp 1356-1361.

MY EXPERIENCE IN REACTION ENGINEERING AND ADSORPTION (READ) RESEARCH GROUP

MY EXPERIENCE IN REACTION ENGINEERING AND ADSORPTION (READ) RESEARCH GROUP

I was in Reaction Engineering & Adsorption(READ) Research Group at the School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia for my Ph.D. research under the Leadership and Supervision of Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed.

What immediately caught my fancy was that Professor Bassim’s Reaction Engineering & Adsorption (READ) Research Group was a clear representation of a mini world. Nearly every part of the world was represented in that laboratory and is co-existing peacefully and in an uncommon care, helping one another in love. Each one was willing to render help to the other without stress. There were Malaysian students and international students from Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, etc working in uncommon harmony. I think Professor Bassim should indeed be given an award for such rare achievement.

As time went by, Professor Bassim’s personality and character for which students loved to work with him became clearer. He is a very accommodating personality, never angry at “stupid” opinions (in fact does not see any opinion as stupid either), outstandingly patient with every student and ever willing to answer “irrelevant” questions (though he does not see any question as irrelevant also). Professor Bassim was always available and accessible to his students.

For someone like me from a beautiful and very wealthy country like Nigeria, but never experienced constant electricity since I was born and never ever saw most of the equipment I was now using personally for my work, and who may probably never see them again to work with immediately I stepped my feet into Nigeria, I was in a terrible hurry to learn. Hence, I would request for those characterization tests of my samples which were directly relevant to my work Professor Bassim would generously approve of such tests. This is notwithstanding that most of these characterizations are quite expensive.

I most sincerely express my deepest appreciation to Professor Bassim and indeed, the entire Management of Universiti Sains Malaysia for given me such opportunity to become a proud scientist I have ever dreamt to be. THANK YOU ALL!

Dr. Moses Okeahialam Ekeoma

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed appointed as Visiting Professor at the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP)

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed appointed as Visiting Professor at the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP)

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, has been appointed as Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) from April 2017 to April 2019. 

Presently, Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed is a professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He leads the Reaction Engineering & Adsorption (READ) research group. His research interest is in Reaction Engineering and Adsorption Technology, especially issues related to Energy and Environment. Professor Bassim has been included by Thomson Reuters in their prestigious list of Highly Cited Researchers 2016, 2015 & 2014. Professor Bassim has been also listed in Thomson Reuters’s “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 & 2014”. Recently, Prof. Bassim has been listed as one of the Most Cited Researchers for Chemical Engineering and Environmental Science & Engineering Subjects of 2016 by Shanghai Global Rankings of Academic Subjects.

Recent Published Article

Recent Published Article 

H. Hassan, J.K. Lim, B.H. Hameed, Recent progress on biomass co-pyrolysis conversion into high-quality bio-oil, Bioresource Technology, 221 (2016) 645-655.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.09.026

Highlights

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Co-pyrolysis of biomass with plastics and coal, for the production of bio-oils is reviewed.

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The progress of catalytic co-pyrolysis on upgrading of biomass-derived bio-oils is introduced.

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The reaction mechanism between biomass and plastic in catalytic co-pyrolysis is described.

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The functions of various acidic catalysts towards enhancement of bio-oil are addressed.

Abstract

Co-pyrolysis of biomass with abundantly available materials could be an economical method for production of bio-fuels. However, elimination of oxygenated compounds poses a considerable challenge. Catalytic co-pyrolysis is another potential technique for upgrading bio-oils for application as liquid fuels in standard engines. This technique promotes the production of high-quality bio-oil through acid catalyzed reduction of oxygenated compounds and mutagenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons. This work aims to review and summarize research progress on co-pyrolysis and catalytic co-pyrolysis, as well as their benefits on enhancement of bio-oils derived from biomass. This review focuses on the potential of plastic wastes and coal materials as co-feed in co-pyrolysis to produce valuable liquid fuel. This paper also proposes future directions for using this technique to obtain high yields of bio-oils.