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Dr Saeid Baroutian

PhD, MEng, BEng, PGCert AcadPrac

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Senior Lecturer
In: Chemical and Materials Engineering » Faculty of Engineering

Biography

Saeid is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering. He worked at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (Senior Lecturer 2010-2011), the Crown Research Institute Scion (Research Fellow 2011-2013) and then at the University of Auckland (Research Fellow 2014-2016). 

Saeid's research interests lie in the area of Process Engineering and the research that has an applied focus and able to apply his skills to provide solutions to problems and improve or integrate processes.

Research | Current

Saeid research group (Waste & Biomass Processing Group) has focused on waste reduction and value recovery from biomass, municipal solid waste and industrial residues and by-products. His aim is to develop cleaner, safer and more energy-efficient processes for development of high-value products from biological raw materials and waste.

Current Research Projects:

Deconstruction Processes

  • Wet oxidation of wastewater treatment sludge
  • Thermal hydrolysis of wastewater treatment sludge
  • Catalytic wet oxidation 
  • Wet oxidation of biomass: Fundamental investigation of reactions
  • Hydrothermal treatment of putrescible food waste
  • Hydrothermal treatment of municipal solid waste

Conversion Processes

  • Hydrothermal carbonisation of woody biomass and food waste
  • Hydrothermal conversion of plastic waste
  • Hydrothermal liquefaction of plastic waste

Separation Processes

  • Extraction of bioactive antioxidant using subcritical water extraction
  • Supercritical fluid extraction
  • Capture and recovery of volatile anaesthetic gas

Biological Processes

  • Fungal pretreatment of biomass
  • Improving landfill methanogenesis efficiency

Teaching | Current

  • CHEMMAT 212 - Energy and Processing
  • CHEMMAT 772 - Advanced Food Process Engineering (Course Director)
  • CHEMMAT 757 - Engineering Biotechnology (Course Director)
  • CHEMMAT 751 A & B - Research Project (Course Director)

Postgraduate supervision

Postdoctoral Mentorship:

  • Dr Xing Xin

PhD supervision:

  • Sinemobong Essien, Main supervisor
  • Teck Nam Ang, Main supervisor
  • Mazdak Rasapoor, Main supervisor
  • Navid Taghavi, Main supervisor
  • Terrell Thompson, Main supervisor
  • Subhasree Bhaskar, Main Supervisor
  • Phuong Linh Ngo, Main Supervisor
  • Tian Kun, Main Supervisor

PhD co-supervision:

  • Yilin Li, main supervisor: Prof. Bryony James
  • Soniya Mohammadi, main supervisor:Dr Ali Seyfoddine (AUT)
  • Beli Ebrahimi, main supervisor:Prof Jun Lu (AUT) 

Distinctions/Honours

  • Early Career Research Excellence Award - The University of Auckland, April 2018
  • Teaching Portfolio Development Award - Faculty of Engineering, The University of Auckland, December 2015
  • Engineering Excellence Award - Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd), October 2013

Areas of expertise

  • Hydrothermal processing
  • Bioenergy
  • Separation and reaction systems
  • Wastewater treatment
  • Solid waste treatment
  • Resource recovery

Committees/Professional groups/Services

  • Research Committee, Faculty of Engineering
  • Safety Committee, Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering 
  • Research Committee, Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering 
  • Teaching Committee, Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering 
  • IChemE Auckland Branch Committee

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

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  • Rasapoor, M., Young, B., Brar, R., & Baroutian, S. (2021). Enhancement of landfill gas generation from aged waste by a combination of moisture adjustment and application of biochar and neutral red additives: A field-scale study. Fuel, 283.10.1016/j.fuel.2020.118932
    Other University of Auckland co-authors: Brent Young
  • Ang, T. N., Young, B. R., Taylor, M., Burrell, R., Aroua, M. K., Chen, W.-H., & Baroutian, S. (2020). Enrichment of surface oxygen functionalities on activated carbon for adsorptive removal of sevoflurane. Chemosphere, 26010.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127496
    Other University of Auckland co-authors: Teck Nam Ang, Brent Young
  • Ang, T. N., Young, B. R., Taylor, M., Burrell, R., Aroua, M. K., & Baroutian, S. (2020). Tailoring of activated carbon with ammonia for enhanced anaesthetic sevoflurane adsorption. SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY, 25110.1016/j.seppur.2020.117404
    Other University of Auckland co-authors: Brent Young, Teck Nam Ang
  • Thompson, T. M., Young, B. R., & Baroutian, S. (2020). Efficiency of hydrothermal pretreatment on the anaerobic digestion of pelagic Sargassum for biogas and fertiliser recovery. FUEL, 27910.1016/j.fuel.2020.118527
    Other University of Auckland co-authors: Terrell Thompson, Brent Young
  • Taghavi, N., Singhal, N., Zhuang, W.-Q., & Baroutian, S. (2020). Degradation of plastic waste using stimulated and naturally occurring microbial strains. Chemosphere, 26310.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127975
    Other University of Auckland co-authors: Naresh Singhal
  • Thayagaraja, R., Cheng, S. Y., Jones, M. I., & Baroutian, S. (2020). Catalytic wet oxidation of glucose as model compound of wastewater over copper/rare earth oxides catalysts. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 3610.1016/j.jwpe.2020.101251
    URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/51494
    Other University of Auckland co-authors: Mark Jones
  • Rasapoor, M., Young, B., Brar, R., & Baroutian, S. (2020). Improving biogas generation from aged landfill waste using moisture adjustment and neutral red additive – Case study: Hampton Downs’s landfill site. Energy Conversion and Management, 216.10.1016/j.enconman.2020.112947
    URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/51615
    Other University of Auckland co-authors: Brent Young
  • Chen, W.-H., Lin, Y.-Y., Liu, H.-C., & Baroutian, S. (2020). Optimization of food waste hydrothermal liquefaction by a two-step process in association with a double analysis. ENERGY, 19910.1016/j.energy.2020.117438
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ENGINEERING BLOCK 5 - Bldg 405
Level 10, Room 1067
5 GRAFTON RD
AUCKLAND CENTRAL
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand

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