Rate My Professor Mohammad Rasul

Professor Mohammad Rasul is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Technology within the Engineering faculty at Central Queensland University (CQUniversity) in Rockhampton, Australia. He obtained his PhD from the University of Queensland (UQ), Master of Engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand, and Bachelor of Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in Bangladesh. With more than 20 years of research experience in clean energy technologies, he leads CQUniversity's Fuel and Energy Research Group. Rasul has directed major initiatives, including the Fuel from Waste Plastic project supported by the Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship. He has supervised 25 PhD students to completion, contributed to professional organizations as a member of Engineers Australia, and delivered plenary and keynote presentations at international conferences on energy, environment, and thermodynamics.

Rasul's research focuses on sustainable energy solutions, encompassing pyrolysis of waste plastics, tyres, macadamia nutshells, and organic wastes for biofuel production; combustion and emission analysis of diesel engines fueled by biodiesel, plastic pyrolysis oil, ammonia, and hydrogen; hydrogen production and recovery from waste-derived syngas; biogas generation via anaerobic digestion; energy and exergy evaluations in cracking furnaces and de-coking processes; lithium-ion battery optimization; hybrid renewable energy systems for decarbonization; solar and wind resource assessments; and nanofluids or hybrid nanofluids for enhanced solar collector performance. He has authored or co-authored over 450 refereed journal and conference publications, accumulating more than 21,000 citations and an h-index of 60. His highly cited works include "Biofuels production through biomass pyrolysis—a technological review" (Energies, 2012, 1835 citations), "Influence of parameters on the heterogeneous photocatalytic degradation of pesticides and phenolic contaminants in wastewater: a short review" (Journal of Environmental Management, 2011, 1209 citations), "Heterogeneous photocatalytic degradation of phenols in wastewater: A review on current status and developments" (Desalination, 2010, 1134 citations), and "The future of hydrogen: Challenges on production, storage and applications" (Energy Conversion and Management, 2022, 851 citations). Among his honors is the Energies journal 10th anniversary best paper award in 2018.