RESEARCH STATEMENT

PROCESS ENERGY EFFICIENCY | PROCESS ENERGY INTEGRATION | PROCESS MODELING, SIMULATION AND CONTROL | ENGINEERING EDUCATION

SMART Chemical Manufacturing – Energy Efficient Factory of the Future

My research interest focuses on the development of a SMART chemical manufacturing for positioning the Malaysian chemical industries to the Industry 4.0 challenges. The Industry 4.0 holds the promise of increased flexibility in manufacturing along with mass customization for better quality and improved productivity. Intelligent manufacturing plays an important role in the vision to introduce Industry 4.0 concepts in the local industries.

My current research progress for SMART chemical manufacturing can be observed by four basic projects related to:

1. Intelligent Sensing and Integration of Information:

1. • Palm Oil Quality Predictor:

     • • Multivariate Statistical Analysis (MSA) (Azmer, 2021)

       • Adaptive Multivariate SPC (Adihah, 2021)

       • Dynamic MSA (Atikah, 2020)

       • Nonlinear Dynamic MSPC (Khu Wai Hoong)

1. • Diesel Quality Predictor:

     • • Hybrid SPC (Mahendran)

2. Data and Knowledge Driven Decision Making for Scheduling and Management.

3. Cyber-Physical Interaction-Based Plant-Wide Control and Optimization:

• Modelling and Design Optimization:

  • • Fluidized Bed Polymerization Reactor (Vahid, 2014)

    • PEM Electrolyzer (Kazemi, 2015)

• Flexibility and Operability:

  • • HEN (Suraya Hanim, 2016)

    • Heat Integrated Distillation Columns (Munawar, 2021)

• Process Operation Improvement:

  • • Palm Oil Refining (Aiman)

4. Integration of an Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Process:

• Energy-Efficient Distillation Columns Sequence (EEDC):

  • • Energy Retrofitting (Faris, 2015)

    • Sustainable EEDC (Zakwan, 2016)

    • Synthesis and Design Framework (Afiq, 2020)

    • Process Sensitivity EEDC (Nafais, 2021)

    • Flexibility and Controllability (Fakhrul)

• Energy-Efficient Separation System

  • • Extractive Distillation System (Aqila)

    • Flash System (Faizul Hakim)

• Integrated Process Design and Control (IPDC):

  • • Sustainable IPDC for Reactors (Aminah, 2015)

    • Sustainable IPDC for Distillation Columns (Zulkhairi, 2015)

• Living Safety Concept

  • • Offshore O&G Operation (Taram, 2021)

In addition, my research also dedicated towards Engineering Education research especially the implementation of Student Centred Learning in chemical engineering class.