Technical Portfolio & Selected Publications

Applied Physical Chemistry | Thermochemical Processes | Combustion & Reactive Systems | Modeling | Process Scale-Up
Sustainable Industrial Innovation

This portfolio presents selected scientific and technical work by Ahmad Saylam in applied physical chemistry, thermochemical processes, combustion, modeling, process development, scale-up, and sustainable industrial innovation.

The selected outputs demonstrate contributions across fundamental mechanisms, experimental and computational analysis, process optimization, and industrially relevant technology development.

Technical Focus

• Combustion, soot formation, nanoparticle inception, aerosols, and chemical kinetics
• Thermochemical conversion, biomass valorization, biochar, syngas, and waste-to-X pathways
• CFD, process modeling, reaction engineering, and scale-up analysis
• Wastewater treatment, advanced oxidation, resource recovery, and circular industrial systems
• Process intensification, desulfurization, cavitation, and sustainable energy systems

Selected Publications & Technical Outputs

Nanoparticle Inception, Combustion Aerosols and NDMS

• A Transient Nano-Dense Molecular State in Nanoparticle Inception: Bridging Physical Clustering and Chemical Stabilization
• Transient Nano-Dense Molecular States as a Persistence–Stabilization Closure for Combustion Nanoparticle Inception

Combustion, Soot, Engines and Chemical Kinetics

• Influence of lateral species diffusion and heat transfer on the evaluation of near-threshold sooting flames
• Near-threshold soot formation in premixed flames at elevated pressure
• Behavior of Premixed Sooting Flame in a High-Pressure Burner
• Methodology to reduce diesel engine pollutant emissions
• Reduction of large detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms for autoignition using joint analyses of reaction rates and sensitivities
• Degree centrality of combustion reaction networks for analysing and modelling combustion processes
• Characterization of a high-pressure flame facility using high-speed chemiluminescence and OH LIF imaging
• Benzene addition to a fuel-stoichiometric methane/O₂/N₂ flat flame and to n-heptane/air mixtures under rapid compression machine
• Modeling study of reactive species formation from C1–C3 alkanes in an HCCI engine
• HCCI Engine as chemical reactor to produce fuel/chemicals: An exploring study of n-alkanes low-temperature chemistry in an HCCI Engine
• Modelling studies of the oxidation and autoignition of alkanes, aromatics, and their mixtures at high pressure between 600 and 1500 K — Thesis.

Wastewater Treatment, Advanced Oxidation and Resource Recovery

• Advances in Wastewater Treatment: Energy Efficiency, Micropollutants, and Circular Resource Recovery
• A Unified Kinetic–Process Framework for Advanced Oxidation Processes: From Radical Chemistry to Reactor-Scale Performance in Wastewater Treatment

Desulfurization, Process Intensification and Hydrodynamic Cavitation

• Reaction–Transport Regime Analysis for Desulfurization of Gas and Petroleum Streams: An Engineering Diagnostic Framework
• Industrial Usefulness and Technology Selection in Process Intensification: Energy-Normalized Metrics for Hydrodynamic Cavitation

Thermochemical Process Development, Waste-to-X, Biochar and Carbon Management

• Thermochemical Process Development: From Mechanism to Scale-Up and Industrial Adoption
• Advancing Waste-to-X Technologies: Sustainable Thermochemical Pathways for Biomass Valorization and Carbon Credit Potential
• Catalytic Technologies for Waste Recycling and Conversion: Driving Sustainable Innovation
• Advancements in Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste: A Sustainable Path Forward
• Enhancing Biomass Conversion: Advanced Modeling and Process Optimization for Efficient Biochar and Heat Production

Energy Storage and Sustainable Energy Systems

• Future Energy Storage: Comparative Analysis of Key Battery Technologies

Engineering Scale-Up, Project Management and Complex Systems

• Engineering Scale-Up: Overcoming Challenges from Lab to Industry
• Cross-Cultural Project Management: Insights from Five Global Contexts
• From Disorder to Order: The Universal Dance of Entropy, Attraction, and Complexity

Access Note

Some listed journal articles are publisher-access publications. This page provides bibliographic information, DOI links, and short original technical summaries only. No restricted publisher PDFs or full-text files are hosted locally.

Profile Links

• GitHub: saylamah
• ORCID: 0000-0001-7484-1265
• ResearchGate: Ahmad Saylam on ResearchGate
• Academia.edu: Ahmad Saylam on Academia.edu
• Google Scholar: Ahmad Saylam on Google Scholar
• NDMS GitHub Repository: ndms-nanoparticle-inception