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Dr. Meisam Babaie
School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Manchester, UK

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0 Low Emission And Smart Vehicles
0 Energy system analysis, modelling and optimization
0 Renewable/Alternative energy
0 Biofuel and hydrogen fuel
0 AI and Data Mining applications in automotive and energy systems

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I joined the university of Salford as a Lecturer and currently hold this position in School of Science, Engineering and Environment. I completed my PhD in School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. My PhD research was on emission reduction of diesel engines using a novel technique called non-thermal plasma technology and my BEng and MSc degrees were in mechanical and energy system engineering. I also have industrial work experience in automotive industry, disposable products manufacturing and cement industry to complement my academic carrier. As a Mechanical Engineer, my disciplines of expertise are in Automotive and Energy domains with the special interest on energy analytics and low emission and smart vehicles. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of my research, I also have worked with several universities and industries in other disciplines such as petroleum and gas engineering, aerospace engineering, environmental science, power engineering, robotics and computer science. My research has led to many publications in different prestigious journal of the field, several conference presentations, industrial reports and invited talks.

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Research article
Published: 20 August 2021 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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The drive mode is an important factor that affects the adjustment requirements for emission factors of the conventional simulation methods in multi-story car parks. In order to propose comprehensive emission factor adjustments for passenger cars based on the drive modes, the present study is aimed to investigate the effects of different drive modes on emission factors for multi-story car parks. Thus, to achieve this aim, the tailpipe emissions based on the on-board measurement and international vehicle emission (IVE) model are obtained. The results indicate that the drive modes significantly affect the emissions. Accordingly, the change in drive mode from minimum to maximum leads to an increase in the vehicle-specific power (VSP) by 106%. Furthermore, the results of emission factors show the discrepancy between on-board measurement and IVE model with the maximum and minimum adjustment factors by 3.28 and 1.28 for carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2), respectively.

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Seyed Milad Ataei; Iman Aghayan; Mohammad Amin Pouresmaeili; Meisam Babaie; Farhad Hadadi. The emission factor adjustments of the passenger cars in multi-story car parks under drive modes. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2021, 1 -19.

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Seyed Milad Ataei, Iman Aghayan, Mohammad Amin Pouresmaeili, Meisam Babaie, Farhad Hadadi. The emission factor adjustments of the passenger cars in multi-story car parks under drive modes. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2021; ():1-19.

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Seyed Milad Ataei; Iman Aghayan; Mohammad Amin Pouresmaeili; Meisam Babaie; Farhad Hadadi. 2021. "The emission factor adjustments of the passenger cars in multi-story car parks under drive modes." Environmental Science and Pollution Research , no. : 1-19.

Journal article
Published: 24 May 2021 in Sustainability
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In internal combustion engines, a significant share of the fuel energy is wasted via the heat losses. This study aims to understand the heat losses and analyze the potential of the waste heat recovery when biofuels are used in SI engines. A numerical model is developed for a single-cylinder, four-stroke and air-cooled SI engine to carry out the waste heat recovery analysis. To verify the numerical solution, experiments are first conducted for the gasoline engine. Biofuels including pure ethanol (E100), E15 (15% ethanol) and E85 (85% ethanol) are then studied using the validated numerical model. Furthermore, the exhaust power to heat loss ratio (Q˙ex/Q˙ht) is investigated for different compression ratios, ethanol fuel content and engine speed to understand the exhaust losses potential in terms of the heat recovery. The results indicate that heat loss to brake power ratio (Q˙ht/W˙b) increases by the increment in the compression ratio. In addition, increasing the compression ratio leads to decreasing the Q˙ex/Q˙ht ratio for all studied fuels. According to the results, there is a direct relationship between the ethanol in fuel content and Q˙ex/Q˙ht ratio. As the percentage of ethanol in fuel increases, the Q˙ex/Q˙ht ratio rises. Thus, the more the ethanol in the fuel and the less the compression ratio, the more the potential for the waste heat recovery of the IC engine. Considering both power and waste heat recovery, the most efficient fuel is E100 due to the highest brake thermal efficiency and Q˙ex/Q˙ht ratio and E85, E15 and E00 (pure gasoline) come next in the consecutive orders. At the engine speeds and compression ratios examined in this study (3000 to 5000 rpm and a CR of 8 to 11), the maximum efficiency is about 35% at 5000 rpm and the compression ratio of 11 for E100. The minimum percentage of heat loss is 21.62 happening at 5000 rpm and the compression ratio of 8 by E100. The minimum percentage of exhaust loss is 35.8% happening at 3000 rpm and the compression ratio of 11 for E00. The most Q˙ex/Q˙ht is 2.13 which is related to E100 at the minimum compression ratio of 8.

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Ali Qasemian; Sina Haghparast; Pouria Azarikhah; Meisam Babaie. Effects of Compression Ratio of Bio-Fueled SI Engines on the Thermal Balance and Waste Heat Recovery Potential. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5921 .

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Ali Qasemian, Sina Haghparast, Pouria Azarikhah, Meisam Babaie. Effects of Compression Ratio of Bio-Fueled SI Engines on the Thermal Balance and Waste Heat Recovery Potential. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):5921.

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Ali Qasemian; Sina Haghparast; Pouria Azarikhah; Meisam Babaie. 2021. "Effects of Compression Ratio of Bio-Fueled SI Engines on the Thermal Balance and Waste Heat Recovery Potential." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 5921.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2021 in Processes
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The growing demand for fossil fuels, the rise in their price and many environmental concerns strengthen the incessant search for fuel alternatives. Recently, traffic noise has been described as a threat to human health and the environment, being responsible for premature deaths. In this context, the usage of alcohol/diesel fuel blends in diesel engines has gained increasing impact as a substitute fuel for use in internal combustion engines. Moreover, alcohol can be derived from environmentally friendly processes, i.e., fermentation. Furthermore, alcohols can enhance combustion characteristics due to a rise of the oxygen concentration, thus decreasing major emissions such as soot and reducing knock. The commonly used alcohols blended with diesel fuel are methanol and ethanol, recently followed by butanol. In contrast, there are very few studies about propanol blends; however, emissions reduction (including noise) could be remarkable. In the present work, an analytical literature review about noise and exhaust emissions from alcohol/diesel fuel blends was performed. The literature review analysis revealed a continuous increase in the number of publications about alcohol/diesel fuel blend exhaust emissions since 2000, confirming the growing interest in this field. However, only few publications about noise emission were found. Then, an experimental case study of noise emitted by an engine running on different alcohol (ethanol, butanol and propanol)/diesel fuel blends was presented. Experimental results showed that although diesel fuel provided the best results regarding noise emissions, butanol displayed the least deviation from that of diesel fuel among all tested alcohol blends. It may be concluded that tested alcohol/diesel fuel blends in general, and butanol blends in particular, could be a promising alternative to diesel fuel, considering noise behavior.

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MarĆ­a Redel-MacĆ­as; Sara Pinzi; Meisam Babaie; Ali Zare; Antonio Cubero-Atienza; M. Dorado. Bibliometric Studies on Emissions from Diesel Engines Running on Alcohol/Diesel Fuel Blends. A Case Study about Noise Emissions. Processes 2021, 9, 623 .

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MarĆ­a Redel-MacĆ­as, Sara Pinzi, Meisam Babaie, Ali Zare, Antonio Cubero-Atienza, M. Dorado. Bibliometric Studies on Emissions from Diesel Engines Running on Alcohol/Diesel Fuel Blends. A Case Study about Noise Emissions. Processes. 2021; 9 (4):623.

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MarĆ­a Redel-MacĆ­as; Sara Pinzi; Meisam Babaie; Ali Zare; Antonio Cubero-Atienza; M. Dorado. 2021. "Bibliometric Studies on Emissions from Diesel Engines Running on Alcohol/Diesel Fuel Blends. A Case Study about Noise Emissions." Processes 9, no. 4: 623.

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Published: 05 February 2021 in Applied Sciences
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This study aims to investigate the effect of the port injection of ammonia on performance, knock and NOx emission across a range of engine speeds in a gasoline/ethanol dual-fuel engine. An experimentally validated numerical model of a naturally aspirated spark-ignition (SI) engine was developed in AVL BOOST for the purpose of this investigation. The vibe two zone combustion model, which is widely used for the mathematical modeling of spark-ignition engines is employed for the numerical analysis of the combustion process. A significant reduction of ~50% in NOx emissions was observed across the engine speed range. However, the port injection of ammonia imposed some negative impacts on engine equivalent BSFC, CO and HC emissions, increasing these parameters by 3%, 30% and 21%, respectively, at the 10% ammonia injection ratio. Additionally, the minimum octane number of primary fuel required to prevent knock was reduced by up to 3.6% by adding ammonia between 5 and 10%. All in all, the injection of ammonia inside a bio-fueled engine could make it robust and produce less NOx, while having some undesirable effects on BSFC, CO and HC emissions.

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Farhad Salek; Meisam Babaie; Amin Shakeri; Seyed Hosseini; Timothy Bodisco; Ali Zare. Numerical Study of Engine Performance and Emissions for Port Injection of Ammonia into a Gasoline\Ethanol Dual-Fuel Spark Ignition Engine. Applied Sciences 2021, 11, 1441 .

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Farhad Salek, Meisam Babaie, Amin Shakeri, Seyed Hosseini, Timothy Bodisco, Ali Zare. Numerical Study of Engine Performance and Emissions for Port Injection of Ammonia into a Gasoline\Ethanol Dual-Fuel Spark Ignition Engine. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11 (4):1441.

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Farhad Salek; Meisam Babaie; Amin Shakeri; Seyed Hosseini; Timothy Bodisco; Ali Zare. 2021. "Numerical Study of Engine Performance and Emissions for Port Injection of Ammonia into a Gasoline\Ethanol Dual-Fuel Spark Ignition Engine." Applied Sciences 11, no. 4: 1441.

Journal article
Published: 14 January 2021 in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
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Hydrogen is one of the most promising options being considered as the fuel of future. However, injection of hydrogen into modern gasoline fueled engines can cause some issues such as power loss. This study, therefore, aims to address this challenge in a simulated hydrogen/gasoline dual-fueled engine by developing a novel and innovative approach without possible side effects such as NOx increment. To achieve this goal, the impacts of water injection and the start of the combustion (SOC) modification in a gasoline/hydrogen duel fueled engine have been rigorously investigated. In current methodology, an engine is simulated using AVL BOOST software and the model is validated against the experimental data. The Latin Hypercube design of experiments method was employed to determine the design points in 3-dimensional space. Due to the existing trade-off between NOx and BMEP, multi-objective optimization using genetic algorithm (GA) was implemented to determine the optimum values of water injection and SOC in various hydrogen energy shares and the effects of optimum design parameters on the main engine performance and emission parameters were investigated. The results showed that the proposed solution could recover the brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) and in some hydrogen energy shares even increase it above the level of single fueled gasoline engine with the added benefit of there being no increase in NOx compared to the original level. Furthermore, other emissions and engine performance parameters are improved including the engine equivalent Brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) which was shown to increased up to 4.61%.

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Farhad Salek; Meisam Babaie; Seyed Vahid Hosseini; O. Anwar BƩg. Multi-objective optimization of the engine performance and emissions for a hydrogen/gasoline dual-fuel engine equipped with the port water injection system. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2021, 46, 10535 -10547.

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Farhad Salek, Meisam Babaie, Seyed Vahid Hosseini, O. Anwar BƩg. Multi-objective optimization of the engine performance and emissions for a hydrogen/gasoline dual-fuel engine equipped with the port water injection system. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2021; 46 (17):10535-10547.

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Farhad Salek; Meisam Babaie; Seyed Vahid Hosseini; O. Anwar BƩg. 2021. "Multi-objective optimization of the engine performance and emissions for a hydrogen/gasoline dual-fuel engine equipped with the port water injection system." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 46, no. 17: 10535-10547.

Journal article
Published: 27 September 2020 in Processes
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It has been proven that vehicle emissions such as oxides of nitrogen (NOx) are negatively affecting the health of human beings as well as the environment. In addition, it was recently highlighted that air pollution may result in people being more vulnerable to the deadly COVID-19 virus. The use of biofuels such as E5 and E10 as alternatives of gasoline fuel have been recommended by different researchers. In this paper, the impacts of port injection of water to a spark ignition engine fueled by gasoline, E5 and E10 on its performance and NOx production have been investigated. The experimental work was undertaken using a KIA Cerato engine and the results were used to validate an AVL BOOST model. To develop the numerical analysis, design of experiment (DOE) method was employed. The results showed that by increasing the ethanol fraction in gasoline/ethanol blend, the brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) improved between 2.3% and 4.5%. However, the level of NOx increased between 22% to 48%. With port injection of water up to 8%, there was up to 1% increase in engine power whereas NOx and BSFC were reduced by 8% and 1%, respectively. The impacts of simultaneous changing of the start of combustion (SOC) and water injection rate on engine power and NOx production was also investigated. It was found that the NOx concentration is very sensitive to SOC variation.

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Farhad Salek; Meisam Babaie; Maria Dolores Redel-Macias; Ali Ghodsi; Seyed Vahid Hosseini; Amir Nourian; Martin L Burby; Ali Zare. The Effects of Port Water Injection on Spark Ignition Engine Performance and Emissions Fueled by Pure Gasoline, E5 and E10. Processes 2020, 8, 1214 .

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Farhad Salek, Meisam Babaie, Maria Dolores Redel-Macias, Ali Ghodsi, Seyed Vahid Hosseini, Amir Nourian, Martin L Burby, Ali Zare. The Effects of Port Water Injection on Spark Ignition Engine Performance and Emissions Fueled by Pure Gasoline, E5 and E10. Processes. 2020; 8 (10):1214.

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Farhad Salek; Meisam Babaie; Maria Dolores Redel-Macias; Ali Ghodsi; Seyed Vahid Hosseini; Amir Nourian; Martin L Burby; Ali Zare. 2020. "The Effects of Port Water Injection on Spark Ignition Engine Performance and Emissions Fueled by Pure Gasoline, E5 and E10." Processes 8, no. 10: 1214.

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Published: 03 September 2020 in Journal of thermal analysis
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Number of hybrid vehicles has increased around the world significantly. Automotive industry is utilizing the hybridization of the powertrain system to achieve better fuel economic and emissions reduction. One of the options recently considered in research for hybridization and downsizing of vehicles is to employ waste heat recovery systems. In this paper, the addition of a turbo-compound system with an air Brayton cycle (ABC) to a naturally aspirated engine was studied in AVL BOOST software. In addition, a supercharger was modeled to charge extra air into the engine and ABC. The engine was first validated against the experimental data prior to turbo-compounding. The energy and exergy analysis was performed to understand the effects of the proposed design at engine rated speed. Results showed that between 16 and 18% increase in engine mechanical power can be achieved by adding turbo-compressor. Furthermore, the recommended ABC system can recover up to 1.1 kW extra electrical power from the engine exhaust energy. The energy and exergy efficiencies were both improved slightly by turbo-compounding and BSFC reduced by nearly 1% with the proposed system. Furthermore, installing the proposed system resulted in increase in backpressure up to approximately 23.8 kPa.

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Farhad Salek; Meisam Babaie; Ali Ghodsi; Seyed Vahid Hosseini; Ali Zare. Energy and exergy analysis of a novel turbo-compounding system for supercharging and mild hybridization of a gasoline engine. Journal of thermal analysis 2020, 145, 817 -828.

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Farhad Salek, Meisam Babaie, Ali Ghodsi, Seyed Vahid Hosseini, Ali Zare. Energy and exergy analysis of a novel turbo-compounding system for supercharging and mild hybridization of a gasoline engine. Journal of thermal analysis. 2020; 145 (3):817-828.

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Farhad Salek; Meisam Babaie; Ali Ghodsi; Seyed Vahid Hosseini; Ali Zare. 2020. "Energy and exergy analysis of a novel turbo-compounding system for supercharging and mild hybridization of a gasoline engine." Journal of thermal analysis 145, no. 3: 817-828.

Journal article
Published: 08 July 2020 in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
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Environmental crisis requires using cleaner energy sources for different sectors including the transportation. Hydrogen can support the transition of the automotive industry from petrol and diesel into a sustainable fuel. It could be the main source of energy or the auxiliary fuel in vehicles. As an auxiliary fuel, it has recently been considered in hydroxyl (HHO) form for reducing the emissions from transportation fleet. In this study, an HHO generator with the optimum power consumption was utilised for HHO injection into the intake manifold of a petrol engine as the case study. High concentration of CO is expected to be produced during idling, so the experiments were designed to inject ultra-low HHO for reducing CO emissions. The results were very promising, and it was shown that the CO emission could be reduced by about 98%. Furthermore, a novel design was developed based on the concept of waste heat recovery (WHR) for powering the HHO unit. Engine was simulated in AVL software to design a thermo-electric generators (TEG) for running the HHO unit. Based on the results, TEG can provide the energy required for HHO unit as the energy output of the TEG was between 91 kJ and 169 kJ for the case study while the energy consumption of the proposed HHO generator was just about 22.5 kJ. The results of this study are recommending a practical solution for bringing HHO injection from laboratory research into the real practice.

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Farhad Salek; Mohammad Zamen; Seyed Vahid Hosseini; Meisam Babaie. Novel hybrid system of pulsed HHO generator/TEG waste heat recovery for CO reduction of a gasoline engine. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2020, 45, 23576 -23586.

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Farhad Salek, Mohammad Zamen, Seyed Vahid Hosseini, Meisam Babaie. Novel hybrid system of pulsed HHO generator/TEG waste heat recovery for CO reduction of a gasoline engine. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2020; 45 (43):23576-23586.

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Farhad Salek; Mohammad Zamen; Seyed Vahid Hosseini; Meisam Babaie. 2020. "Novel hybrid system of pulsed HHO generator/TEG waste heat recovery for CO reduction of a gasoline engine." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 45, no. 43: 23576-23586.

Journal article
Published: 07 March 2020 in Energy Conversion and Management
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This study investigates the effect of engine temperature during cold start and hot start engine operation on particulate matter emissions and engine performance parameters. In addition to a fundamental study on cold start operation and the effect of lubricating oil during combustion, this research introduces important knowledge about regulated particulate number emissions and particulate size distribution during cold start, which is an emerging area in the literature. A further aspect of this work is to introduce waste lubricating oil as a fuel. By using diesel and two blends of diesel with 1 and 5% waste lubricating oil in a 6-cylinder turbocharged engine on a cold start custom test, this investigation studied particle number (PN), friction losses and combustion instability with diesel and waste lubricating oil fuel blends. In order to understand and explain the results the following were also studied: particle size distribution and median diameter, engine oil, coolant and exhaust gas temperatures, start of injection, friction mean effective pressure (FMEP), mechanical efficiency, coefficient of variation (CoV) of engine speed, CoV of indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) and maximum rate of pressure rise were also studied. The results showed that during cold start the increase in engine temperature was associated with an increase in PN and size of particles, and a decrease in FMEP and maximum rate of pressure rise. Compared to a warmed up engine, during cold start, PN, start of injection and mechanical efficiency were lower; while FMEP, CoV of IMEP and maximum rate of pressure rise were higher. Adding 5% waste lubricating oil to the fuel was associated with a decrease in PN (during cold start), decreased particle size, maximum rate of pressure rise and CoV of IMEP and was associated with an increase in PN and nucleation mode particles (during hot start) and FMEP.

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Ali Zare; Timothy A. Bodisco; Puneet Verma; Mohammad Jafari; Meisam Babaie; Liping Yang; Mostafizur Rahman; Andrew Banks; Zoran D. Ristovski; Russell Brown; Svetlana Stevanovic. Emissions and performance with diesel and waste lubricating oil: A fundamental study into cold start operation with a special focus on particle number size distribution. Energy Conversion and Management 2020, 209, 112604 .

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Ali Zare, Timothy A. Bodisco, Puneet Verma, Mohammad Jafari, Meisam Babaie, Liping Yang, Mostafizur Rahman, Andrew Banks, Zoran D. Ristovski, Russell Brown, Svetlana Stevanovic. Emissions and performance with diesel and waste lubricating oil: A fundamental study into cold start operation with a special focus on particle number size distribution. Energy Conversion and Management. 2020; 209 ():112604.

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Ali Zare; Timothy A. Bodisco; Puneet Verma; Mohammad Jafari; Meisam Babaie; Liping Yang; Mostafizur Rahman; Andrew Banks; Zoran D. Ristovski; Russell Brown; Svetlana Stevanovic. 2020. "Emissions and performance with diesel and waste lubricating oil: A fundamental study into cold start operation with a special focus on particle number size distribution." Energy Conversion and Management 209, no. : 112604.

Journal article
Published: 20 August 2019 in Energy Conversion and Management
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This study uses the first and second laws of thermodynamics to investigate the effect of oxygenated fuels on the quality and quantity of energy in a turbo-charged, common-rail six-cylinder diesel engine. This work was performed using a range of fuel oxygen content based on diesel, waste cooking biodiesel, and a triacetin. The experimental engine performance and emission data was collected at 12 engine operating modes. Energy and exergy parameters were calculated, and results showed that the use of oxygenated fuels can improve the thermal efficiency leading to lower exhaust energy loss. Waste cooking biodiesel (B100) exhibited the lowest exhaust loss fraction and highest thermal efficiency (up to 6% higher than diesel). Considering the exergy analysis, lower exhaust temperatures obtained with oxygenated fuels resulted in lower exhaust exergy loss (down to 80%) and higher exergetic efficiency (up to 10%). Since the investigated fuels were oxygenated, this study used the oxygen ratio (OR) instead of the equivalence ratio to provide a better understanding of the concept. The OR has increased with decreasing engine load and increasing engine speed. Increasing the OR decreased the fuel exergy, exhaust exergy and destruction efficiency. With the use of B100, there was a very high exergy destruction (up to 55%), which was seen to decrease with the addition of triacetin (down to 29%).

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Chukwuka Odibi; Meisam Babaie; Ali Zare; Nurun Nabi; Timothy A. Bodisco; Richard J Brown. Exergy analysis of a diesel engine with waste cooking biodiesel and triacetin. Energy Conversion and Management 2019, 198, 111912 .

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Chukwuka Odibi, Meisam Babaie, Ali Zare, Nurun Nabi, Timothy A. Bodisco, Richard J Brown. Exergy analysis of a diesel engine with waste cooking biodiesel and triacetin. Energy Conversion and Management. 2019; 198 ():111912.

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Chukwuka Odibi; Meisam Babaie; Ali Zare; Nurun Nabi; Timothy A. Bodisco; Richard J Brown. 2019. "Exergy analysis of a diesel engine with waste cooking biodiesel and triacetin." Energy Conversion and Management 198, no. : 111912.

Original paper
Published: 05 June 2019 in Indian Journal of Physics
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A mathematical model is presented for laminar, steady natural convection mass transfer in boundary layer flow from a rotating porous vertical cone in anisotropic high-permeability porous media. The transformed boundary value problem is solved subject to prescribed surface and free stream boundary conditions with a Maple 17 shooting method. Validation with a Chebyshev spectral collocation method is included. The influence of tangential Darcy number, swirl Darcy number, Schmidt number, rotational parameter, momentum (velocity slip), mass slip and wall mass flux (transpiration) on the velocity and concentration distributions is evaluated in detail. The computations show that tangential and swirl velocities are enhanced generally with increasing permeability functions (i.e., Darcy parameters). Increasing spin velocity of the cone accelerates the tangential flow, whereas it retards the swirl flow. An elevation in wall suction depresses both tangential and swirl flow. However, increasing injection generates acceleration in the tangential and swirl flow. With greater momentum (hydrodynamic) slip, both tangential and swirl flows are accelerated. Concentration values and Sherwood number function values are also enhanced with momentum slip, although this is only achieved for the case of wall injection. A substantial suppression in tangential velocity is induced with higher mass (solutal) slip effect for any value of injection parameter. Concentration is also depressed at the wall (cone surface) with an increase in mass slip parameter, irrespective of whether injection or suction is present. The model is relevant to spin coating operations in filtration media (in which swirling boundary layers can be controlled with porous media to deposit thin films on industrial components), flow control of mixing devices in distillation processes and also chromatographical analysis systems.

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O. Anwar BƩg; Jashim Uddin; T. A. BƩg; A. Kadir; Shamshuddin; Meisam Babaie. Numerical study of self-similar natural convection mass transfer from a rotating cone in anisotropic porous media with Stefan blowing and Navier slip. Indian Journal of Physics 2019, 94, 863 -877.

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O. Anwar BƩg, Jashim Uddin, T. A. BƩg, A. Kadir, Shamshuddin, Meisam Babaie. Numerical study of self-similar natural convection mass transfer from a rotating cone in anisotropic porous media with Stefan blowing and Navier slip. Indian Journal of Physics. 2019; 94 (6):863-877.

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O. Anwar BƩg; Jashim Uddin; T. A. BƩg; A. Kadir; Shamshuddin; Meisam Babaie. 2019. "Numerical study of self-similar natural convection mass transfer from a rotating cone in anisotropic porous media with Stefan blowing and Navier slip." Indian Journal of Physics 94, no. 6: 863-877.

Research article mechanical engineering
Published: 24 October 2018 in Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
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Nano-polymeric solar paints and sol–gels have emerged as a major new development in solar cell/collector coatings offering significant improvements in durability, anti-corrosion and thermal efficiency. They also exhibit substantial viscosity variation with temperature which can be exploited in solar collector designs. Modern manufacturing processes for such nano-rheological materials frequently employ stagnation flow dynamics under high temperature which invokes radiative heat transfer. Motivated by elaborating in further detail the nanoscale heat, mass and momentum characteristics, the present article presents a mathematical and computational study of the steady, two-dimensional, non-aligned thermo-fluid boundary layer transport of copper metal-doped water-based nano-polymeric sol–gels under radiative heat flux. To simulate real nano-polymer boundary interface dynamics, thermal slip is analysed at the wall. A temperature-dependent viscosity is also considered. The conservation equations for mass, normal and tangential momentum and energy are normalized via appropriate transformations to generate a multi-degree, ordinary differential, nonlinear, coupled boundary value problem. Numerical solutions are obtained via the stable, efficient Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg scheme with shooting quadrature in MATLAB symbolic software. Validation of solutions is achieved with a variational iterative method utilizing Lagrangian multipliers. The impact of key emerging dimensionless parameters, i.e. obliqueness parameter, radiation–conduction Rosseland number (Rd), thermal slip parameter \((\alpha )\), viscosity parameter (m), nanoparticles volume fraction \((\phi )\), on non-dimensional normal and tangential velocity components, temperature, wall shear stress, local heat flux and streamline distributions is visualized graphically. Shear stress and temperature are boosted with increasing radiative effect, whereas local heat flux is reduced. Increasing wall thermal slip parameter depletes temperatures.

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R. Mehmood; Rabil Tabassum; S. Kuharat; O. Anwar BƩg; Meisam Babaie. Thermal Slip in Oblique Radiative Nano-polymer Gel Transport with Temperature-Dependent Viscosity: Solar Collector Nanomaterial Coating Manufacturing Simulation. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 2018, 44, 1525 -1541.

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R. Mehmood, Rabil Tabassum, S. Kuharat, O. Anwar BƩg, Meisam Babaie. Thermal Slip in Oblique Radiative Nano-polymer Gel Transport with Temperature-Dependent Viscosity: Solar Collector Nanomaterial Coating Manufacturing Simulation. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. 2018; 44 (2):1525-1541.

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R. Mehmood; Rabil Tabassum; S. Kuharat; O. Anwar BƩg; Meisam Babaie. 2018. "Thermal Slip in Oblique Radiative Nano-polymer Gel Transport with Temperature-Dependent Viscosity: Solar Collector Nanomaterial Coating Manufacturing Simulation." Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 44, no. 2: 1525-1541.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2016 in IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
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In this paper, a comprehensive study of a DBD reactor is conducted to investigate the optimum operating conditions of the reactor for NOx treatment. For each parameter, the objective is to find the maximum NOx removal efficiency with the minimum consumed power. Different effective parameters of the reactor i.e. electrode length and diameter, electrode and dielectric materials as well as parameters of power generator, i.e. voltage and frequency, are investigated. The results show that for this configuration, the electrode with 20 cm length and 10 mm diameter has the best performance. Aluminum as the inside electrode material and quartz as the dielectric material are selected. Furthermore, the optimum value for the pulse frequency is 16.6 kHz. For the mentioned optimum conditions, the NOx removal efficiency achieved is equal to almost 82% at the input power of 486 W. Furthermore, the highest achieved NOx removal is almost 92% at the input power of 864 W. The results of this paper can be used to reduce the energy consumption of NTP systems to acceptable levels.

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P. Talebizadeh; H. Rahimzadeh; S. Javadi Anaghizi; H. Ghomi; Meisam Babaie; R.J. Brown. Experimental study on the optimization of dielectric barrier discharge reactor for NOxtreatment. IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation 2016, 23, 3283 -3293.

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P. Talebizadeh, H. Rahimzadeh, S. Javadi Anaghizi, H. Ghomi, Meisam Babaie, R.J. Brown. Experimental study on the optimization of dielectric barrier discharge reactor for NOxtreatment. IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation. 2016; 23 (6):3283-3293.

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P. Talebizadeh; H. Rahimzadeh; S. Javadi Anaghizi; H. Ghomi; Meisam Babaie; R.J. Brown. 2016. "Experimental study on the optimization of dielectric barrier discharge reactor for NOxtreatment." IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation 23, no. 6: 3283-3293.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2016 in International Journal of Exergy
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For complex energy systems, due to non-linear and usually non-explicit variable relationships on the one hand and incomplete mathematical model on the other, the term optimisation implies improvement rather than calculation of an overall optimum point. Therefore, the improvement procedure is performed based on the experiences of experts that can be translated into a class of soft computing technique so-called the fuzzy inference system (FIS). In this paper, a cogeneration power plant which generated the net electric power of 30.0 MW and could provide 14.0 kg s

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Hoseyn Sayyaadi; Mostafa Baghsheikhi; Meisam Babaie. Improvement of energy systems using the soft computing techniques. International Journal of Exergy 2016, 19, 315 .

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Hoseyn Sayyaadi, Mostafa Baghsheikhi, Meisam Babaie. Improvement of energy systems using the soft computing techniques. International Journal of Exergy. 2016; 19 (3):315.

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Hoseyn Sayyaadi; Mostafa Baghsheikhi; Meisam Babaie. 2016. "Improvement of energy systems using the soft computing techniques." International Journal of Exergy 19, no. 3: 315.

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Published: 23 October 2015 in PLOS ONE
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Non-thermal plasma (NTP) has been introduced over the last few years as a promising after- treatment system for nitrogen oxides and particulate matter removal from diesel exhaust. NTP technology has not been commercialised as yet, due to its high rate of energy consumption. Therefore, it is important to seek out new methods to improve NTP performance. Residence time is a crucial parameter in engine exhaust emissions treatment. In this paper, different electrode shapes are analysed and the corresponding residence time and NOx removal efficiency are studied. An axisymmetric laminar model is used for obtaining residence time distribution numerically using FLUENT software. If the mean residence time in a NTP plasma reactor increases, there will be a corresponding increase in the reaction time and consequently the pollutant removal efficiency increases. Three different screw thread electrodes and a rod electrode are examined. The results show the advantage of screw thread electrodes in comparison with the rod electrode. Furthermore, between the screw thread electrodes, the electrode with the thread width of 1 mm has the highest NOx removal due to higher residence time and a greater number of micro-discharges. The results show that the residence time of the screw thread electrode with a thread width of 1 mm is 21% more than for the rod electrode.

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Pouyan Talebizadeh; Hassan Rahimzadeh; Meisam Babaie; Saeed Javadi Anaghizi; Hamidreza Ghomi; Goodarz Ahmadi; Richard J Brown. Evaluation of Residence Time on Nitrogen Oxides Removal in Non-Thermal Plasma Reactor. PLOS ONE 2015, 10, e0140897 .

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Pouyan Talebizadeh, Hassan Rahimzadeh, Meisam Babaie, Saeed Javadi Anaghizi, Hamidreza Ghomi, Goodarz Ahmadi, Richard J Brown. Evaluation of Residence Time on Nitrogen Oxides Removal in Non-Thermal Plasma Reactor. PLOS ONE. 2015; 10 (10):e0140897.

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Pouyan Talebizadeh; Hassan Rahimzadeh; Meisam Babaie; Saeed Javadi Anaghizi; Hamidreza Ghomi; Goodarz Ahmadi; Richard J Brown. 2015. "Evaluation of Residence Time on Nitrogen Oxides Removal in Non-Thermal Plasma Reactor." PLOS ONE 10, no. 10: e0140897.

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Published: 01 September 2015 in Chemical Engineering Journal
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This study is seeking to investigate the effect of non-thermal plasma technology in the abatement of particulate matter (PM) from the actual diesel exhaust. Ozone (O3) strongly promotes PM oxidation, the main product of which is carbon dioxide (CO2). PM oxidation into the less harmful product (CO2) is the main objective whiles the correlation between PM, O3 and CO2 is considered. A dielectric barrier discharge reactor has been designed with pulsed power technology to produce plasma inside the diesel exhaust. To characterise the system under varied conditions, a range of applied voltages from 11 kVPP to 21kVPP at repetition rates of 2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10 kHz, have been experimentally investigated. The results show that by increasing the applied voltage and repetition rate, higher discharge power and CO2 dissociation can be achieved. The PM removal efficiency of more than 50% has been achieved during the experiments and high concentrations of ozone on the order of a few hundreds of ppm have been observed at high discharge powers. Furthermore, O3, CO2 and PM concentrations at different plasma states have been analysed for time dependence. Based on this analysis, an inverse relationship between ozone concentration and PM removal has been found and the role of ozone in PM removal in plasma treatment of diesel exhaust has been highlighted

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Meisam Babaie; Pooya Davari; Pouyan Talebizadeh; Firuz Zare; Hassan Rahimzadeh; Zoran Ristovski; Richard Brown. Performance evaluation of non-thermal plasma on particulate matter, ozone and CO2 correlation for diesel exhaust emission reduction. Chemical Engineering Journal 2015, 276, 240 -248.

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Meisam Babaie, Pooya Davari, Pouyan Talebizadeh, Firuz Zare, Hassan Rahimzadeh, Zoran Ristovski, Richard Brown. Performance evaluation of non-thermal plasma on particulate matter, ozone and CO2 correlation for diesel exhaust emission reduction. Chemical Engineering Journal. 2015; 276 ():240-248.

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Meisam Babaie; Pooya Davari; Pouyan Talebizadeh; Firuz Zare; Hassan Rahimzadeh; Zoran Ristovski; Richard Brown. 2015. "Performance evaluation of non-thermal plasma on particulate matter, ozone and CO2 correlation for diesel exhaust emission reduction." Chemical Engineering Journal 276, no. : 240-248.

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Published: 04 August 2015 in International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
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The effect of non-thermal plasma technology for particulate matter removal and nitrogen oxide emission reduction from diesel exhaust has been investigated. A sample of exhaust was cooled to the ambient temperature and passed through a dielectric barrier discharge reactor. This reactor was employed for producing plasma inside the diesel exhaust. A range of discharge powers by varying the applied voltage from 7.5 to 13.5 kV (peak–peak) at a frequency of 50 Hz has been evaluated during the experiments. Regarding the NOx emission concentration, the maximum removal efficiency has been achieved at energy density of 27 J/L. Soot, soluble organic fraction and sulphate components of diesel particulate matter have been analysed separately, and the consequence of plasma exposure on particle size distribution on both the nucleation and accumulation modes has been studied. Plasma was found to be very effective for soot removal, and it could approach complete removal efficiency for accumulation mode particles. However, when applied voltage approached 12 kV, the total number of nucleation mode particles increased by a factor of 50 times higher than the total particle numbers at the reactor inlet. This increase in nucleation mode particles increased even more when applied voltage was set at 13.5 kV.

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Meisam Babaie; T. Kishi; M. Arai; Y. Zama; T. Furuhata; Zoran Ristovski; H. Rahimzadeh; Richard J Brown. Influence of non-thermal plasma after-treatment technology on diesel engine particulate matter composition and NOx concentration. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 2015, 13, 221 -230.

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Meisam Babaie, T. Kishi, M. Arai, Y. Zama, T. Furuhata, Zoran Ristovski, H. Rahimzadeh, Richard J Brown. Influence of non-thermal plasma after-treatment technology on diesel engine particulate matter composition and NOx concentration. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 2015; 13 (1):221-230.

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Meisam Babaie; T. Kishi; M. Arai; Y. Zama; T. Furuhata; Zoran Ristovski; H. Rahimzadeh; Richard J Brown. 2015. "Influence of non-thermal plasma after-treatment technology on diesel engine particulate matter composition and NOx concentration." International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 13, no. 1: 221-230.

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Published: 27 August 2014 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
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Non-thermal plasma (NTP) has been introduced over the past several years as a promising method for nitrogen oxide (NOx) removal. The intent, when using NTP, is to selectively transfer input electrical energy to the electrons, and to not expend this in heating the entire gas stream, which generates free radicals through collisions, and promotes the desired chemical changes in the exhaust gases. The generated active species react with the pollutant molecules and decompose them. This paper reviews and summarizes relevant literature regarding various aspects of the application of NTP technology on NOx removal from exhaust gases. A comprehensive description of available scientific literature on NOx removal using NTP technology is presented, including various types of NTP, e.g. dielectric barrier discharge, corona discharge and electron beam. Furthermore, the combination of NTP with catalyst and adsorbent for better NOx removal efficiency is presented in detail. The removal of NOx from both simulated gases and real diesel engines is also considered in this review paper. As NTP is a new technique and is not yet commercialized, there is a need for more studies to be performed in this field.

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P. Talebizadeh; Meisam Babaie; Richard J Brown; H. Rahimzadeh; Zoran Ristovski; M. Arai. The role of non-thermal plasma technique in NOx treatment: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2014, 40, 886 -901.

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P. Talebizadeh, Meisam Babaie, Richard J Brown, H. Rahimzadeh, Zoran Ristovski, M. Arai. The role of non-thermal plasma technique in NOx treatment: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2014; 40 ():886-901.

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P. Talebizadeh; Meisam Babaie; Richard J Brown; H. Rahimzadeh; Zoran Ristovski; M. Arai. 2014. "The role of non-thermal plasma technique in NOx treatment: A review." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 40, no. : 886-901.

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Published: 08 July 2013 in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
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Nonthermal plasma (NTP) treatment of exhaust gas is a promising technology for both nitrogen oxides $({\rm NO}_{\rm X})$ and particulate matter (PM) reduction by introducing plasma into the exhaust gases. This paper considers the effect of NTP on PM mass reduction, PM size distribution, and PM removal efficiency. The experiments are performed on real exhaust gases from a diesel engine. The NTP is generated by applying high-voltage pulses using a pulsed power supply across a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor. The effects of the applied high-voltage pulses up to 19.44 kVpp with repetition rate of 10 kHz are investigated. In this paper, it is shown that the PM removal and PM size distribution need to be considered both together, as it is possible to achieve high PM removal efficiency with undesirable increase in the number of small particles. Regarding these two important factors, in this paper, 17-kVpp voltage level is determined to be an optimum point for the given configuration. Moreover, particles deposition on the surface of the DBD reactor is found to be a significant phenomenon, which should be considered in all plasma PM removal tests.

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Meisam Babaie; Pooya Davari; Firuz Zare; Mostafizur Rahman; Hassan Rahimzadeh; Zoran Ristovski; Richard J Brown. Effect of Pulsed Power on Particle Matter in Diesel Engine Exhaust Using a DBD Plasma Reactor. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 2013, 41, 2349 -2358.

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Meisam Babaie, Pooya Davari, Firuz Zare, Mostafizur Rahman, Hassan Rahimzadeh, Zoran Ristovski, Richard J Brown. Effect of Pulsed Power on Particle Matter in Diesel Engine Exhaust Using a DBD Plasma Reactor. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 2013; 41 (8):2349-2358.

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Meisam Babaie; Pooya Davari; Firuz Zare; Mostafizur Rahman; Hassan Rahimzadeh; Zoran Ristovski; Richard J Brown. 2013. "Effect of Pulsed Power on Particle Matter in Diesel Engine Exhaust Using a DBD Plasma Reactor." IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 41, no. 8: 2349-2358.

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Published: 03 January 2012 in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
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This article focuses on the efficient multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm to solve multidisciplinary design optimization problems. The objective is to extend the formulation of collaborative optimization which has been widely used to solve single-objective optimization problems. To examine the proposed structure, racecar design problem is taken as an example of application for three objective functions. In addition, a fuzzy decision maker is applied to select the best solution along the pareto front based on the defined criteria. The results are compared to the traditional optimization, and collaborative optimization formulations that do not use multi-objective particle swarm optimization. It is shown that the integration of multi-objective particle swarm optimization into collaborative optimization provides an efficient framework for design and analysis of hierarchical multidisciplinary design optimization problems.

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Mohammad Reza Farmani; Jafar Roshanian; Meisam Babaie; Parviz M Zadeh. Multi-objective collaborative multidisciplinary design optimization using particle swarm techniques and fuzzy decision making. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 2012, 226, 2281 -2295.

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Mohammad Reza Farmani, Jafar Roshanian, Meisam Babaie, Parviz M Zadeh. Multi-objective collaborative multidisciplinary design optimization using particle swarm techniques and fuzzy decision making. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. 2012; 226 (9):2281-2295.

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Mohammad Reza Farmani; Jafar Roshanian; Meisam Babaie; Parviz M Zadeh. 2012. "Multi-objective collaborative multidisciplinary design optimization using particle swarm techniques and fuzzy decision making." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 226, no. 9: 2281-2295.