Dr Saeid Baroutian

PhD, MEng, BSc, PGCert AcadPrac

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
CHEMMAT 757 - Engineering Biotechnology
FOODSCI 703 - Food Processing

Postgraduate supervision

PhD supervision:

Hooman Javaheri (PhD), Main supervisor
Sinemobong Essien (PhD), Main supervisor
Teck Nam Ang (PhD), Main supervisor
Mazdak Rasapoor (PhD), Main supervisor
Navid Taghavi (PhD), Main supervisor
Terrell Thompson (PhD), Main supervisor
Subhasree Bhaskar (PhD), Main Supervisor

PhD co-supervision:

Ehsan Shirkavand (PhD), main supervisor Prof. Brent Young
Hamid Kheirkhah (PhD), main supervisor A/Professor Siew-Young Quek
Najam Saqib (PhD), main supervisor A/Professor Ajit Sarmah
Yilin Li (PhD), main supervisor Prof. Bryony James
Gohar Gholamibozanjani (PhD), main supervisor Prof. Mohammed Farid

Masters:

Khai Phoon
Irene Hou
Nayan Kumath

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

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

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Baroutian, S., Syed, A. M., Munir, M. T., Gapes, D. J., & Young, B. R. (2018). Effect of hydrodynamic mixing conditions on wet oxidation reactions in a stirred vessel reactor. Bioresource technology, 262, 333-337. 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.05.029
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Brent Young, Tajammal Munir
Anyaoku, C. C., & Baroutian, S. (2018). Decentralized anaerobic digestion systems for increased utilization of biogas from municipal solid waste. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 90, 982-991. 10.1016/j.rser.2018.03.009
Munir, M. T., Kheirkhah, H., Baroutian, S., Quek, S. Y., & Young, B. R. (2018). Subcritical water extraction of bioactive compounds from waste onion skin. Journal of Cleaner Production, 183, 487-494. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.166
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Siew-Young Quek, Brent Young, Tajammal Munir
Rasapoor, M., Adl, M., Baroutian, S., Iranshahi, Z., & Pazouki, M. (2018). Energy performance evaluation of ultrasonic pretreatment of organic solid waste in a pilot-scale digester. Ultrasonics sonochemistry10.1016/j.ultsonch.2018.04.021
Baroutian, S., Munir, M. T., Sun, J., Eshtiaghi, N., & Young, B. R. (2018). Rheological characterisation of biologically treated and non-treated putrescible food waste. Waste Management, 71, 494-501. 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.10.003
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Brent Young, Tajammal Munir
Zhang, Z., Baroutian, S., Munir, M. T., & Young, B. R. (2017). Variation in metals during wet oxidation of sewage sludge. Bioresource Technology, 245 (A), 234-241. 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.08.164
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Tajammal Munir, Brent Young
Yousefifar, A., Baroutian, S., Farid, M. M., Gapes, D. J., & Young, B. R. (2017). Fundamental mechanisms and reactions in non-catalytic subcritical hydrothermal processes: A review. Water Research, 123, 607-622. 10.1016/j.watres.2017.06.069
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Mohammed Farid, Brent Young
Munir, M., Li, B., Boiarkina, I., Baroutian, S., Yu, W., & Young, B. (2017). Phosphate recovery from hydrothermally treated sewage sludge using struvite precipitation. Bioresource Technology, 239, 171-179. 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.04.129
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/34692
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Irina Boiarkina, Tajammal Munir, Wei Yu, Brent Young, Bing Li