Professor Mohammad Zandi

BSc, MSc, PhD, CSci, MEI, AMIChemE, AIEMA, FHEA

School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering

Professor of Chemical Engineering Education

Director of Learning and Teaching

Mo Zandi
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m.zandi@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 8265
Room F60, Sir Robert Hadfield Building

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Professor Mohammad Zandi
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Room F60
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
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After completing a degree in Chemical Engineering, followed by an MSc with Distinction from the University of Bradford in Advanced Chemical Engineering, I moved to the University of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ to carry out research for a PhD in coal combustion and its environmental impacts. I was awarded the 2005 Foxwell Memorial Prize for my research on Leaching Behaviour of Trace Elements in UK Pulverised Coal Ash Fly.

Following my PhD, I started working with Professor Will Zimmerman on building and testing a novel swirl gas burner. From 2006 to 2008 I carried out my post-doctoral studies as a Research Associate studying heavy metals and trace elements mobility from waste and waste and their leaching behaviour.

I joined Environment Department at Tata Steel RD&T in 2008. Over there my research focus was alternative fuels for iron making and CO2 sequestration technologies. I led two strategic research projects in Tata Steel, one on using biomass for iron making and sintering in collaboration with major European steel manufacturers and the other one was using algae technology for sequestrating steel plant CO2. In January 2010 I re-joined º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½.

Research interests
  • Environmental Engineering & Monitoring
  • Energy Engineering
  • Alternative fuels, biomass and biofuels
  • CO2 Sequestration Technologies
Publications

Journal articles

  • Ntamo D, Lopez-Montero E, Mack J, Omar C, Highett MI, Moss D, Mitchell N, Soulatintork P, Moghadam PZ & Zandi M (2022) . Digital Chemical Engineering, 100025-100025. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Balzer C, Oktavian R, Zandi M, Fairen-Jimenez D & Moghadam PZ (2020) . Patterns, 1(8). RIS download Bibtex download
  • James G, Ying K, Bangert K, Zandi M, Wilkinson S & Zimmerman W (2012) Applications of the airlift loop effect in the cultivation of microalgae. Current Topics in Biotechnology, 7. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zimmerman WB, Zandi M, Hemaka Bandulasena HC, TesaÅ™ V, James Gilmour D & Ying K (2011) Design of an airlift loop bioreactor and pilot scales studies with fluidic oscillator induced microbubbles for growth of a microalgae Dunaliella salina. Applied Energy. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zimmerman WB, Zandi M, Hemaka Bandulasena HC, TesaÅ™ V, James Gilmour D & Ying K (2011) . Applied Energy, 88(10), 3357-3369. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zandi M, Martinez-Pacheco M & Fray TAT (2010) . MINER ENG, 23(14), 1139-1145. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zandi M, Russell NV, Edyvean RGJ, Hand RJ & Ward P (2007) . J Environ Monit, 9(12), 1426-1429. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zandi M & Russell NV (2007) . Environ Monit Assess, 131(1-3), 509-526. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Allen L, Atkinson J, Cordiner J, Zandi M & Moghadam PZ (2022) , Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 1747-1752). Elsevier RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Zandi M, Patwardhan S, Kotta L & Litster J (2018) A New Curriculum to Train Chemical Engineers to Solve 21st Century Grand Challenges. 5 TH Annual Symposium of the United Kingdom & Ireland Engineering Education Research Network: RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hamzah N, Zandi M, Tokimatsu K & Yoshikawa K (2017) . Energy Procedia, Vol. 105 (pp 413-418) RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Balzer C, Octavian R, Zandi M, Fairen-Jimenez D & Moghadam PZ () . RIS download Bibtex download
Teaching activities
  • CPE6310       Applied Energy Engineering
  • CPE6010/11  PGT Research Projects
  • CPE1002       Chemical Engineering Design
  • CPE321         Design Project
  • CPE421         Design Project
  • CPE6390       Process Safety & Loss Prevention Project
Awards
  • Award for Excellence in Learning & Teaching, Faculty of Engineering, University of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½, 2014
  • Foxwell Memorial Prize in Fuel Technology, Energy Institute, 2005