Dr Mohammad Zandi
BSc, PhD, CSci, MEI, AMIChemE
University Teacher
Course Director of MSc Environmental and Energy Engineering
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 8265
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 7501
email : m.zandi@sheffield.ac.uk
Chemical and Biological Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Research Interests
- Environmental Engineering & Monitoring
- Energy Engineering
- Alternative fuels, biomass and biofuels
- CO2 Sequestration Technologies
Biography
After completing a degree in Chemical Engineering, followed by a MSc with Distinction from University of Bradford in Chemical Engineering, I moved to The University of Sheffield to carry out research for a PhD in coal combustion and its environmental impacts, for which I was awarded the 2005 Foxwell Memorial Prize for my research on Leaching Behaviour of Trace Elements in UK Pulverised Coal Fly Ash.
Following my PhD, I started working with Prof 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 waste disposal and recycling, determinations of heavy metals and trace elements mobility from waste and waste leaching behaviour.
I joined the Environment Department at Tata Steel RD&T in 2008. Here, 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 The University of Sheffield.
Key Papers
Biomass for iron ore sintering
Mohammad Zandi, Maria Martinez-Pacheco and Trevor A.T. Fray, Minerals Engineering, Articles in Press, doi:10.1016/j.mineng.2010.07.010
Interpretation of standard leaching test BS EN 12457: Is your sample hazardous or inert?
Mohammad Zandi, Nigel V. Russell, Robert G. J. Edyvean, Russell J. Hand and Philip Ward, J. Environ. Monit., DOI:10.1039/b712957b, 2007
Design of a leaching test framework for coal fly ash: accounting for environmental conditions
M. Zandi & N. V. Russell, Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, Dec 2006.
Effects of re-firing pulverised fly ash on trace element leaching behaviour
M. Zandi & N. V. Russell, World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Jul 2005, Glasgow, UK.
Fate of Ca, Mg and Trace elements in re-fired fly ash
M. Zandi & N.V. Russell, Waste 2003, Jul 2003, Sheffield, UK.
Teaching
- CPE6310 Laboratory Practicals
- CPE6010 EEE Research Projects