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Journal Publications

  1. Kaniz Fatema Rahman, Md Farhatul Abrar, Sanjida Safa Tithi, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, and Kawnish Kirtania, “Life cycle assessment of hydrothermal carbonization of municipal solid waste for waste-to-energy generation“, Journal of Environmental Management (2024) Volume 370, 122850. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122850
  2. Musfekur Rahman Dihan, Troyee Naha, and Kawnish Kirtania, “Comparative assessment of waste-to-energy scenarios to mitigate GHG emission from MSW in a developing mega city“, Energy for Sustainable Development (2024) Volume 82, 101540. doi:10.1016/j.esd.2024.101540
  3. Chayan Kumer Saha, Rajesh Nandi, Shammi Akter, Samira Hossain, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, Kawnish Kirtania, “Technical prospects and challenges of anaerobic co-digestion in Bangladesh: A review“, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, (2024) Volume 197, 114412. doi:10.1016/j.rser.2024.114412
  4. Chayan Kumer Saha, Mst. Lucky Khatun, Jannatoon Nime, Kawnish Kirtania, and Md. Monjurul Alam, “Co-Digestion-Based Circular Bio-Economy to Improve Biomethane Generation and Production of Nutrient-Enriched Digestate in Bangladesh“, Sustainability 2024, 16(1), 104. doi:10.3390/su16010104
  5. Ishmamul Hoque Sadab, Mohammed Sakib Noor, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, and Kawnish Kirtania, “Development of a spatial optimization model for MSW management by hydrothermal carbonization: A case study on Dhaka“, Energy for Sustainable Development (2023) 76, 101258. doi:10.1016/j.esd.2023.101258
  6. Suprio Kamal, Md. Shahriar Hossain, Ishmamul Hoque Sadab, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, and Kawnish Kirtania, “Application of distributed activation energy model to predict hydrothermal carbonization kinetics of lignocellulosic biomass“, Fuel Communications (2023) 16, 100090. doi:10.1016/j.jfueco.2023.100090
  7. Al Ibtida Sultana, Samira Hossain, Swarna Saha, Kawnish Kirtania, and, Toufiq Reza, “Ultraporous superactivated hydrochars from food waste: comparing environmental impacts of char impregnation versus direct chemical activation method“, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (2023). doi:10.1007/s13399-023-04959-3
  8. Samira Hossain, Chayan Kumer Saha, Mohammad Ismail, Toufiq Reza, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, and, Kawnish Kirtania, “Prospects and challenges of renewable hydrogen generation in Bangladesh“, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2023) 48(54), 20588-20612. doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.03.059
  9. Samira Hossain, Shammi Akter, Chayan Kumer Saha, Mohammad Ismail, Toufiq Reza, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, and, Kawnish Kirtania, “A comparative life cycle assessment of anaerobic mono- and co-digestion of livestock manure in Bangladesh“, Waste Management (2023) 157, 100-109. doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2022.12.011
  10. M. Ismail, M. G. Mahmud, H.R. Ahmmed, M.S. Islam, and Kawnish Kirtania, “Waste Tyre Pyrolysis Oil: Production, Sulfur Removal and Fractionation for Value Added Products“, Journal of Science and Technology Research (2022) Volume 4, Issue 1, 59-70. doi:10.3329/jscitr.v4i1.67369
  11. Ijaz Hossain, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, Md. Shahinoor Islam, Kawnish Kirtania, “Recycled Plastic Based Industries of Bangladesh: Current Scenario and Future Prospect“, International Journal of SME Development (2022) Issue 5, 15-33.
  12. Tahmid Islam, Al Ibtida Sultana, Cadianne Chambers, Swarna Saha, Nepu Saha, Kawnish Kirtania, and M. Toufiq Reza, “Recent Progress on Emerging Applications of Hydrochar“, Energies (2022) 15(24), 9340. doi:10.3390/en15249340
  13. Suprio Kamal, Md. Shahriar Hossain, Ummay Salma, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, and Kawnish Kirtania, “Pyrolysis kinetics of hydrochar using distributed activation energy model“, Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining (2022). doi:10.1002/bbb.2426
  14. A.K.M. Kazi Aurnob, Assame Arnob, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Mominur Rahman, and Kawnish Kirtania, “Hydrothermal cabonization of biogenic municipal waste for biofuel production“, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 12 (2022), 163-171. doi:10.1007/s13399-021-01437-6
  15. Sadia Siddika Dima, Assame Arnob, Ummay Salma, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, and Kawnish Kirtania, “Fate of nutrients during hydrothermal carbonization of biogenic municipal waste“, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 12 (2022), 71-80. doi: 10.1007/s13399-020-01016-1
  16. Flabianus Hardi, Erik Furusjö, Kawnish Kirtania, Akihisa Imai, Kentaro Umeki, and Kunio Yoshikawa, “Catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass with K2CO3 for production of gasification feedstock“, Bioifuels 12(2) (2021), 149-160. doi: 10.1080/17597269.2018.1461521
  17. Md. Shahriar Hossain, Suprio Kamal, Mahbub Chowdhury, Md. Tariful Islam and Kawnish Kirtania, “A Parametric Study on Co-Feeding of Municipal Solid Waste and Coal in An IGCC Power Plant with PreCombustion Carbon Capture“, Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 22 (2020), 37-42
  18. Nafisa Tarannum, Banhee Shikha Roy Bristi, Sadia Siddika Dima and Kawnish Kirtania, “Life-Cycle Impact Assessment of Fossil Power Plants with and Without CO2 Capture Evaluating the Possibility of CO2 Utilization“, Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 22 (2020), 88-93.
  19. K.M. Nazmus Sakib, S.M. Nafiz Ahmed, Abdullahil Mubdee and Kawnish Kirtania, “Biochar Production from Waste Biomass Using Modular Pyrolyzer for Soil Amendment“, Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 22 (2020), 14-19.
  20. AKM Kazi Aurnob, Assame Arnob, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, Md Saiful Islam, Md Mominur Rahman, Kawnish Kirtania, “Hydrothermal carbonization of biogenic municipal waste for biofuel production“. Biomass Conv. Bioref. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-021-01437-6
  21. Sadia Siddika Dima, Assame Arnob, Ummay Salma, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, and Kawnish Kirtania. “Fate of nutrients during hydrothermal carbonization of biogenic municipal waste”. Biomass Conv. Bioref. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-020-01016-1
  22. Akihisa Imai, Flabianus Hardi, Petter Lundqvist, Erik Furusjö, Kawnish Kirtania, Selhan Karagöz, Kubilay Tekin and Kunio Yoshikawa, “Alkali-catalyzed hydrothermal treatment of sawdust for production of a potential feedstock for catalytic gasification“, Applied Energy 231 (2018). 594-599
  23. Flabianus Hardi, Akihisa Imai, Sarut Theppitak, Kawnish Kirtania, Erik Furusjö, Kentaro Umeki, and Kunio Yoshikawa, “Gasification of char derived from catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction of pine sawdust under CO2 atmosphere“, Energy & Fuels (2018). doi: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.8b00589
  24. Flabianus Hardi, Erik Furusjö, Kawnish Kirtania, Akihisa Imai, Kentaro Umeki, and Kunio Yoshikawa, “Catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass with K2CO3 for production of gasification feedstock“, Biofuels (2018). doi: 10.1080/17597269.2018.1461521
  25. Youjian Zhu, Philip J. van Eyk, Christoffer Boman, Markus Broström, Kawnish Kirtania, Patrycja Piotrowska, Dan Bostrom, Rocky de Nys, Sankar Bhattacharya, Francesco G. Gentili and Peter J. Ashman, ‘Preliminary understanding on the ash behavior of algae during co-gasification in an entrained flow reactor’, Fuel Processing Technology 175 (2018), 26-34.
  26. Kazi Bayzid Kabir and Kawnish Kirtania, ‘An assessment of gasification of lipid-extracted algae by thermodynamic simulation’, Journal of Chemical Engineering 30 (2017), 59-63. doi: 10.3329/jce.v30i1.34799
  27. Albert Bach-Oller, Kawnish Kirtania, Erik Furusjö and Kentaro Umeki, ‘Co-gasification of black liquor and pyrolysis oil at high temperature: Part 1. Fate of alkali elements’, Fuel 202 (2017), 46-55. doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2017.04.013
  28. Albert Bach-Oller, Kawnish Kirtania, Erik Furusjö and Kentaro Umeki, ‘Co-gasification of black liquor and pyrolysis oil at high temperature: Part 2. Fuel conversion’, Fuel 197 (2017), 240-247. doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2017.01.108
  29. Kentaro Umeki, Gustav Häggström, Albert Bach-Oller, Kawnish Kirtania, and Erik Furusjö, ‘Reduction of Tar and Soot Formation from Entrained-Flow Gasification of Woody Biomass by Alkali Impregnation’, Energy & Fuels 31 (2017), 5104-5110. doi:10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b03480
  30. Lara Carvalho, Erik Furusjö, Kawnish Kirtania, Elisabeth Wetterlund, Joakim Lundgren, Marie Anheden and Jens Wolf, ‘Techno-economic assessment of catalytic gasification of biomass powders for methanol production’, Bioresource Technology 237 (2017), 167-177. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.02.019.
  31. Jim Andersson, Kentaro Umeki, Erik Furusjö, Kawnish Kirtania and Fredrik Weiland, ‘Multiscale Reactor Network Simulation of an Entrained Flow Biomass Gasifier: Model Description and Validation’, Energy Technology 5 (2017), 1484-1494. doi: 10.1002/ente.201600760
  32. Yawer Jafri, Erik Furusjö, Kawnish Kirtania and Rikard Gebart, ‘A study of black liquor and pyrolysis oil co-gasification in pilot scale’, Biomass Conversion & Biorefinery, doi: 10.1007/s13399-016-0235-5.
  33. Kawnish Kirtania, Joel Axelsson, Leonidas Matsakas, Paul Christakopoulos, Kentaro Umeki and Erik Furusjö, ‘Kinetic study of catalytic gasification of wood char impregnated with different alkali salts’, Energy 118 (2017), 1055-1065. doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.10.134.
  34. Kawnish Kirtania, Gustav Häggström, Markus Broström, Kentaro Umeki and Erik Furusjö, ‘Co-gasification of crude glycerol and black liquor blends – char morphology and gasification kinetics’, Energy Technology 5 (2017), 1272-1281. doi: 10.1002/ente.201600569.
  35. Yawer Hussain Jafri, Erik Furusjö, Kawnish Kirtania, and Rikard Gebart, ‘Performance of a pilot-scale entrained-flow black liquor gasifier’, Energy & Fuels 30 (2016), 3175-3185. doi: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b00349
  36. Kawnish Kirtania and Sankar Bhattacharya, ‘CO2 gasification behavior of biomass chars in an entrained flow reactor’, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 6 (2016), 49-59. doi:10.1007/s13399-015-0174-6
  37. Kazi Bayzid Kabir, Arash Tahmasebi, Sankar Bhattacharya and Jianglong Yu, ‘Intrinsic kinetics of CO2 gasification of a Victorian coal char’, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 123 (2016), 1685-1694. doi: 10.1007/s10973-015-5060-8
  38. Mominur Rahman, Mirza Md. Rashiduzzaman, Fazle Zawad Akhand and Kazi Bayzid Kabir, ‘Compressed stabilized earth block: a green alternative for non-load bearing building block in developing countries like Bangladesh’, American Chemical Science Journal 12 (2016), 1-10. doi: 10.9734/ACSJ/2016/23071
  39. Mominur Rahman, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, Md. Masudur Rahman and Zannatul Ferdous, ‘Quick release nitrogenous fertilizer from human hair’, British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, 14 (2016), 1-11. doi: 10.9734/BJAST/2016/23454
  40. Kawnish Kirtania and Sankar Bhattacharya, ‘Coupling of a distributed activation energy model with particle simulation for entrained flow pyrolysis of biomass’, Fuel Processing Technology 137 (2015), 131-138.
  41. Kawnish Kirtania and Sankar Bhattacharya, ‘CO2 Gasification Kinetics of Algal and Woody Char Procured under Different Pyrolysis Conditions and Heating Rates’. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 3-2 (2015), 365-373.
  42. Joanne Tanner, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, Michael Müller and Sankar Bhattacharya, ‘Low temperature entrained flow pyrolysis and gasification of a Victorian brown coal’, Fuel 154 (2015), 107-113.
  43. Mohd Asyraf Kassim, Kawnish Kirtania, David de la Cruz, Nasser Cura, Srikanth Chakravartula Srivatsa and Sankar Bhattacharya, ‘Thermogravimetric analysis and kinetic characterization of lipid-extracted Tetraselmis suecica and Chlorella sp.’ Algal Research 6 (2014), 39-45.
  44. Kawnish Kirtania, Joanne Tanner, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, Sharmen Rajendran and Sankar Bhattacharya, ‘In situ synchrotron IR study relating temperature and heating rate to surface functional group changes in biomass’. Bioresource Technology 151 (2014), 36-42.
  45. Kawnish Kirtania, Janik Joshua, Mohd Asyraf Kassim and Sankar Bhattacharya, ‘Comparison of CO2 and steam gasification reactivity of algal and woody biomass chars’, Fuel Processing Technology 117 (2014), 44-52.
  46. Kazi Bayzid Kabir, Helen E Maynard-Caserly and Sankar Bhattacharya, ‘In situ studies of structural changes in DME synthesis catalyst with synchrotron powder diffraction’, Applied Catalysis A: General 486(2014), 49-54.
  47. Kawnish Kirtania and Sankar Bhattacharya, ‘Pyrolysis kinetics and reactivity of algae-coal blends’. Biomass and Bioenergy 55 (2013), 291-298.
  48. Sankar Bhattacharya, Kazi Bayzid Kabir and Klaus Hein, ‘Dimethyl ether synthesis from Victorian brown coal through gasification–Current status, and research and development needs’, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 39(2013), 577-605.
  49. Kazi Bayzid Kabir, Klaus Hein and Bhattacharya, S., ‘Process modeling of Dimethyl Ether (DME) production from Victorian brown coal – integrating drying, gasification and DME synthesis processes’, Computers & Chemical Engineering 48(2013), 96-104.
  50. Kawnish Kirtania and Sankar Bhattacharya ‘Application of the distributed activation energy model to the kinetic study of pyrolysis of the fresh water algae Chlorococcum humicola’, Bioresource Technology 107 (2012), 476-481.
  51. Kentaro Umeki, Kawnish Kirtania, Luguang Chen and Sankar Bhattacharya ‘Fuel Particle Conversion of Pulverized Biomass during Pyrolysis in an Entrained Flow Reactor’, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 51 (2012), 13973-13979.
  52. Kawnish Kirtania and Md Ali Ahammad Shoukat Choudhury, ‘A novel dead time compensator for stable processes with long dead times’, Journal of Process Control 22-3 (2012), 612-625.
  53. Kazi Bayzid Kabir and Iqbal Mahmud, ‘Study of Erosion-Corrosion of Stainless Steel, Brass and Aluminum by Open Circuit Potential Measurements’, Journal of Chemical Engineering 25(2010), 13-17.
  54. Mominur Rahman and Kazi Bayzid Kabir, ‘Wastewater treatment options for paper mills using recycled paper/imported pulps as raw materials: Bangladesh perspective’, Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 14(2010), 65-68.
  55. Bipro Ranjaon Dhar and Kawnish Kirtania, ‘Excess Methanol Recovery in Biodiesel Production Process Using a Distillation Column: A Simulation Study’, Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 13 (2009), 55-60.
  56. Dil Afroz Begum, Anisur Rahman and Kawnish Kirtania, ‘Condensate Fractionation: A Design Variation Study by Simulation’, Journal of Chemical Engineering 25 (2010) 66-70.
  57. Kawnish Kirtania and Devjyoti Nath, ‘Preparation of Rice Based ORS by Solution Method’, Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 13 (2009), 47-50.
  58. Kazi Bayzid Kabir, Mohidus Samad Khan and Iqbal Mahmud, ‘Novel Ideas on Engineering Education in Bangladesh’, Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 12 (2008), 11-19. doi: 10.3329/cerb.v12i0.1492
  59. Mominur Rahman, TA Siddique, S Samdani and Kazi Bayzid Kabir, ‘Effect of Operating Variables on Regeneration of Base-oil from Waste Lubricating Oil’, Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 12(2008), 24-27. doi: 10.3329/cerb.v12i0.1494

Book Chapters

  1. A.K.M. Kazi Aurnob, Ahaduzzaman Nahid, Kazi Bayzid Kabir and Kawnish Kirtania, Multiscale modeling approaches for waste biorefinery. In: Bhaskar, T., Pandey, A., Rene, E. and Tsang, D.C.W. (editors), Waste Biorefinery: Integrating Biorefineries for Waste Valorisation, Elsevier, 2020: pp. 425-453
  2. Kawnish Kirtania, Thermochemical Conversion Processes for Waste Biorefinery. In: Bhaskar, T., Pandey, A., Mohan, S.V.,  Lee, D.-J. and Khanal, S.K. (editors), Waste Biorefinery: Potential and Perspectives, Elsevier, 2018: pp. 129-156
  3. Kazi Bayzid Kabir and M.A.A.S. Choudhury, Automation and Process Control. In: Ahmed, J. and Rahman, M.S. (editors), Handbook of Food Process Design, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012: pp. 211-238

Reserach Reports

  1. Kawnish Kirtania, Pre-study: Liquefaction and upgrading of industrial by-products, wastes and residues, submitted to Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten), 2017.
  2. B Evans, LA Fletcher, MA Camargo-Valero, S Balasubramanya, CK Rao, S Fernando, R Ahmed, Md A Habib, SM Asad, Md Mominur Rahman, Kazi Bayzid Kabir, MH Emon, VeSV – Value at the end of the Sanitation Value Chain, 2015.