School of Chemical & Materials Engineering (SCME)
Faculty Iftikhar Ahmad 1

Iftikhar Ahmad

HOD Department of Chemical Engineering
  • School of Chemical & Materials Engineering
  • 5190855108
Summary

Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad is expert in virtual sensing, uncertainty quantification, reliability analysis, and automation of process energy management systems (EnMS).

Academic Background
PhD (Chemical Engineering) Kyoto University April 04, 2011 - March 24, 2014
Honours and Awards
Outstanding Paper of the Outstanding Paper of the Year 2014 Award from The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan. August 12, 2015
ORIC Innovation Award ORIC Innovation Award at 3rd National Conference on Sustainability in Process Industries (SPI-16), Peshawar.
Won NRPU grants Won NRPU grant in 2017 for research project on “Uncertainty Quantification for Efficient Process Design and Operation of Naphtha Reforming Process”
Member of IPC PSE 2021 Member of the International Program Committee (IPC) for PSE 2021 Kyoto, Japan. This PSE symposium is a triennial international conference series on process systems engineering. It is the pioneering events’ series that formally introduced the term PSE in 1982.
Publications
Application of Intelligent Systems in CO2 Management: State of the Art and Future Prospects June 04, 2026 CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology - Accepted
Process Modeling and Cost Estimation of CO2 and H2 Recovery From Syngas Using Exergy Analysis March 24, 2026 Green House Gases - Science and Technology - Pages 19
Machine Learning-Based Optimization of Thermodynamic Performance of Combustion Processes in a Cement Manufacturing Plant November 01, 2025 ACS Engineering Au - Pages 1-14
Experimental validation and optimization of bendable linear shaped charges with degressive explosive thickness for aerospace and defense applications April 24, 2025 Journal of Energetic Materials - 1-33
Quantification of Impact of Uncertainty on Emissions in a Cement Manufacturing Plant: Surrogate Modeling-Based Approach March 11, 2025 ACS Omega - Volume:10, Issue:9, Pages 9453-9462
Artificial intelligence assisted prediction of optimum operating conditions of shell and tube heat exchangers: A grey-box approach October 24, 2024 CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology - Volume:10, Issue:02, Pages:349-358
Grey-box modelling for estimation of optimum cut point temperature of crude distillation column October 07, 2024 CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology - Pages 1-15
Modelling and Optimization of an existing Onshore Gas Gathering Network using PIPESIM August 15, 2024 Heliyon - Volume 10, Issue 15, Article Number e35006
Integrative CFD and AI/ML-based modeling for enhanced alkaline water electrolysis cell performance for hydrogen production August 15, 2024 International Journal of Hydrogen Energy - Volume 83, Pages 1120-1131
A data-driven multi-objective optimization approach for enhanced methanol yield and exergy loss minimization in direct hydrogenation of CO2 August 15, 2024 Applied Thermal Engineering - Volume 251, Article Number 123517
Plant Wide Modelling and Thermodynamic Optimization of a Petroleum Refinery for Improvement Potentials August 01, 2024 Process Safety and Environmental Protection - Volume 188, Pages 64-72
Prediction and optimization of emissions in cement manufacturing plant under uncertainty by using artificial intelligence‑based surrogate modeling June 03, 2024 Environment Development and Sustainability - Pages 1-25
Prediction and optimisation of gasoline quality in petroleum refining: The use of machine learning model as a surrogate in optimisation framework May 13, 2024 CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology - Pages 1-14
Analysis of processed natural gas injection on hydrate formation in high pressure refrigerated condensate lines February 29, 2024 Heliyon - Volume 10, Issue 4, Article Number; e25811
Artificial intelligence based prediction of optimum operating conditions of a plate and fin heat exchanger under uncertainty: A gray-box approach December 15, 2023 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer - Volume 217, Article Number 124653
Prediction and optimization of exergetic efficiency of reactive units of a petroleum refinery under uncertainty through artificial neural network-based surrogate modeling September 01, 2023 Process Safety and Environmental Protection - Volume 177, Pages 1403-1414
Thermodynamic analysis of cumene production plant for identification of energy recovery potentials May 01, 2023 Energy - Volume 270, Article Number 126840
Prediction of optimum operating conditions of a furnace under uncertainty: An integrated framework of artificial neural network and genetic algorithm December 15, 2022 Fuel - Volume 330, Article Number 125563
An intelligent sensing system for estimation of efficiency of carbon-capturing unit in a cement plant December 01, 2022 Journal of Cleaner Production - Volume 377, Article Number 134359
An integrated approach of artificial neural networks and polynomial chaos expansion for prediction and analysis of yield and environmental impact of oil shale retorting process under uncertainty December 01, 2022 Fuel - Volume 329, Article Number 125351
Comparative hydrodynamics study of fluidized bed gasifier incorporating static and rotating air distributor plates: A CFD approach June 01, 2022 Powder Technology - Volume 405, Article Number 117500
Process modeling and simulation of ethylene oxide production by implementing pinch and cost analysis May 01, 2022 Ain Shams Engineering Journal - Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 101585 (1-9)
Process Modeling, Optimization and Cost Analysis of a Sulfur Recovery Unit by Applying Pinch Analysis on the Claus Process in a Gas Processing Plant December 27, 2021 Mathematics - Volume 10, Issues 1, Article Number 88
Design and Development of a Computational Tool for a Dialyzer by Using Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Model November 24, 2021 Membranes - Volume 11, Issues 12, Article Number 916
Model-Based Quality, Exergy, and Economic Analysis of Fluidized Bed Membrane Reactors October 03, 2021 Membranes - Volume 11, Issues 10, Article Number 765
Machine Learning Applications in Biofuels’ Life Cycle: Soil, Feedstock, Production, Consumption, and Emissions August 18, 2021 Energies - Volume 14(16), Article Number 5072
Computational Analysis of the Hydrodynamic Behavior for Different Air Distributor Designs of Fluidized Bed Gasifier July 28, 2021 Frontiers in Energy Research - Volume 9, Issues 1, Article Number 692066
A comprehensive study on upgradation of pyrolysis products through co-feeding of waste tire into rice straw under broad range of co-feed ratios in a bench-scale fixed bed reactor March 15, 2021 Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery - Pages 1-15
Lightweight Protective Configurations against Blast and Fragments Impact- Experimental and Numerical Studies September 17, 2020 AIP Advances - Volume 10, Article Number 095221
Drivers and Barriers for Efficient Energy Management Practices in Energy-Intensive Industries: A Case-Study of Iron and Steel Sector September 17, 2020 Sustainability - Volume 12(18), Article Number 7703
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling and Simulation of Flow Regulatory Mechanism in Artificial Kidney Using Finite Element Method July 03, 2020 Membranes - Volume 10, Issue no. 7, Article 139
Gray-box Soft Sensors in Process Industry: Current Practice, and Future Prospects in Era of Big Data February 20, 2020 Processes - Volume 8(2), Article Number 243
Quantitative analysis of product quality of naphtha reforming process under uncertain process conditions July 17, 2019 Chemical Engineering Communications - Pages 1-12
Model Development and Exergy Analysis of a Microreactor for the Steam Methane Reforming Process in a CFD Environment April 15, 2019 Entropy - Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Article Number: 399
Modeling of a Nickel-based Fluidized Bed Membrane Reactor for Steam Methane Reforming Process April 01, 2019 Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan - Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 219-229
Data-Based Prediction and Stochastic Analysis of Entrained Flow Coal Gasification under Uncertainty April 01, 2019 Sensors - Volume: 19, Issue: 7, Article Number: 1626
Data-Based Sensing and Stochastic Analysis of Biodiesel Production Process January 01, 2019 Energies - Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Article Number: 63
An Artificial Intelligence Method for Energy Efficient Operation of Crude Distillation Units under Uncertain Feed Composition November 01, 2018 Energies - Volume: 11, Issue: 11, Article Number: 2993
Dimensions and Analysis of Uncertainty in Industrial Modeling Process July 07, 2018 JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING OF JAPAN - NULL
Exergy analysis and optimisation of naphtha reforming process with uncertainty June 29, 2018 International Journal of Exergy - Vol.26 No.3, Pages:247-262
Computational fluid dynamics based model development and exergy analysis of naphtha reforming reactors October 21, 2017 International Journal of Exergy - Vol. 24, No. 2-4, Pages:344-363
Prediction of Molten Steel Temperature in Steel Making Process with Uncertainty by Integrating Gray-Box Model and Bootstrap Filter November 01, 2014 Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan - Volume: 47, Issue: 11, Pages: 827-834
Gray-box modeling for prediction and control of molten steel temperature in tundish April 02, 2014 Journal of Process Control - Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 375-382
Data-Based Ground Fault Diagnosis of Power Cable Systems July 01, 2013 SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration - Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 290-297, July 2013
High-Performance Prediction of Molten Steel Temperature in Tundish through Gray-Box Model January 01, 2013 ISIJ International - Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 76-80
Conferences
Artificial Intelligence-Based Exergy analysis of Kiln and Calciner Sections of a Cement Plant under uncertainty May 14, 2024 - May 15, 2024 Muhammad Usman, Iftikhar Ahmad, 1st International Conference on Innovative Engineering Sciences and Technological Research, ICIESTR 2024 - Proceedings
Sensitivity Analysis of Oil Shale Retorting Process through Sobol and Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test (FAST) July 06, 2021 - July 08, 2021 Hasan Qayyum Chohan , Iftikhar Ahmad, EUROCON 2021 - 19th IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies, Proceedings
Data based sensing of Shale Oil yield in Oil Shale Retorting process June 09, 2020 - June 10, 2020 Hasan Qayyum Chohan, Iftikhar Ahmad, 3rd Pak-Turk International Conference ETSE2020
Sensitivity Analysis of Entrained Flow Coal Gasification Process through Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test (FAST) and Sobol Techniques September 04, 2018 - September 05, 2018 Iftikhar Ahmad, Ahsan Ayub, Muhammad Hamza Rasheed, Fahad Ansari, Nisar Mohammad, In 2018 International Conference on Applied and Engineering Mathematics (ICAEM)
An integrated mechanism of genetic algorithm and Taguchi method for cut-point temperatures optimization of crude distillation unit March 03, 2018 - March 04, 2018 Muhammad Amin Durrani, Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad, Alcantara Avila, 2018 International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies (iCoMET)
Virtual sensing of catalytic naphtha reforming process under uncertain feed conditions March 03, 2018 - March 04, 2018 Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad, Muhammad Bilal, Gul Sayyar Ali, Dr. Arshad Hussain , 2018 International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies (iCoMET)