Mechanical and Production Engineering

Dr. Mahbubul Muttakin

Research Interests

• Refrigeration and air-conditioning
• CFD
• Thermo-fluids

Educational Background

• Ph.D, (Energy and Environmental Engineering), Kyushu University, Japan
• Masters in Engineering (MEngg), (Mechanical Engineering), National University of Singapore (NUS)
• Bachelor of Science (BSc), (Mechanical Engineering), Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET)

Honors and Achievements

• Winner, Challenge and Creation grant of 500,000 JPY, Robert Huang Entrepreneurship Center (QREC), Kyushu University, 2019
• President’s Award, Kyushu University, 2019
• Best Oral Presenter, 10th International Meeting on Advances in Thermofluids (IMAT), 2018
• Winner, Global Challenge and Creation grant, Jump Out Challenge grant, Robert Huang Entrepreneurship Center (QREC), Kyushu University, 2018
• Winner, Hult Prize, National round (Japan) and Campus round (Kyushu University), Hult Prize Foundation, 2018
• Best Student Project Award, Bangladesh Society of Mechanical Engineers (BSME), 2004

Publications

1. Towards the Development of Compact and High Efficiency Adsorption Heat Pumps, Rapid Refrigeration and Water Protection: Next Generation Adsorbents, 2022, Springer. URL
2. Solar Thermal-Powered Adsorption Chiller, Tyagi H., Chakraborty P., Powar S., Agarwal A. (eds) Solar Energy. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, 2019, Springer. URL

1. A critical overview of adsorption kinetics for cooling and refrigeration systems, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021. URL
2. Study on optimized adsorption chiller employing various heat and mass recovery schemes, International Journal of Refrigeration, 2021. URL
3. Computational fluid dynamics modelling of the visible light photocatalytic oxidation process of toluene for indoor building materials with locally doped titanium dioxide, Indoor and Built Environment, 2020, SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England. URL
4. A comprehensive study to evaluate absolute uptake of carbon dioxide adsorption onto composite adsorbent, International Journal of Refrigeration, 2019, Elsevier. URL
5. A Statistical Approach to Determine Optimal Models for IUPAC-Classified Adsorption Isotherms, Energies, 2019, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. URL
6. Study on the influence of adsorbent particle size and heat exchanger aspect ratio on dynamic adsorption characteristics, Applied Thermal Engineering, 2018, Elsevier. URL
7. Theoretical framework to evaluate minimum desorption temperature for IUPAC classified adsorption isotherms, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2018, Elsevier. URL
8. Mathematical Modelling and Experimental Validation of Solar Assisted Heat Pump System, IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, 2014. URL

1. Solar thermal adsorption cooling system in Bangladesh: INSEL simulation and economic analysis, 7th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Renewable Energy (ICMERE), 2023.
2. A Statistical Approach Employing Bootstrap Sample to Determine Optimum Models for IUPAC Type-I and Type-V Isotherms, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Polygeneration (ICP), 2019.
3. Study of an adsorption chiller that incorporates mass and heat recovery schemes, International Conference on Polygeneration (ICP), 2019.
4. Experimental study on the effect of adsorbent height on adsorption dynamics, International Meeting on Advances in Thermofluids (IMAT), 2019, AIP Publishing. URL
5. Experimental study of CO\_2 adsorption kinetics onto activated carbon, International Exchange and Innovation Conference on Engineering & Sciences (IEICES 2018), 2018, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University. URL
6. A numerical study on the influence of adsorption heat exchanger geometry on its system performance, International Conference on Polygeneration (ICP), 2017.
7. CFD modelling to study the influence of activation energy and domain size on adsorption dynamics, International Exchange and Innovation Conference on Engineering & Sciences (IEICES), 2017, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University. URL