Publications by authors named "Ahmad Mohaddespour"

The growing application of carbon dioxide (CO) in various environmental and energy fields, including carbon capture and storage (CCS) and several CO-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques, highlights the importance of studying the phase equilibria of this gas with water. Therefore, accurate prediction of CO solubility in water becomes an important thermodynamic property. This study focused on developing two powerful intelligent models, namely gradient boosting (GBoost) and light gradient boosting machine (LightGBM) that predict CO solubility in water with high accuracy.

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Ionic liquids (ILs) are more widely used within the industry than ever before, and accurate models of their physicochemical characteristics are becoming increasingly important during the process optimization. It is especially challenging to simulate the viscosity of ILs since there is no widely agreed explanation of how viscosity is determined in liquids. In this research, genetic programming (GP) and group method of data handling (GMDH) models were used as white-box machine learning approaches to predict the viscosity of pure ILs.

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As an emerging desalination technology, forward osmosis (FO) can potentially become a reliable method to help remedy the current water crisis. Introducing uncomplicated and precise models could help FO systems' optimization. This paper presents the prediction and evaluation of FO systems' membrane flux using various artificial intelligence-based models.

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When nanoparticles are dispersed and stabilized in a base-fluid, the resulting nanofluid undergoes considerable changes in its thermophysical properties, which can have a substantial influence on the performance of nanofluid-flow systems. With such necessity and importance, developing a set of mathematical correlations to identify these properties in various conditions can greatly eliminate costly and time-consuming experimental tests. Hence, the current study aims to develop innovative correlations for estimating the specific heat capacity of mono-nanofluids.

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Ionic liquids (ILs) have drawn much attention due to their extensive applications and environment-friendly nature. Refractive index prediction is valuable for ILs quality control and property characterization. This paper aims to predict refractive indices of pure ILs and identify factors influencing refractive index changes.

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In the context of gas processing and carbon sequestration, an adequate understanding of the solubility of acid gases in ionic liquids (ILs) under various thermodynamic circumstances is crucial. A poisonous, combustible, and acidic gas that can cause environmental damage is hydrogen sulfide (HS). ILs are good choices for appropriate solvents in gas separation procedures.

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Recently, electrochemical reduction of CO into value-added fuels has been noticed as a promising process to decrease CO emissions. The development of such technology is strongly depended upon tuning the surface properties of the applied electrocatalysts. Considering the high cost and time-consuming experimental investigations, computational methods, particularly machine learning algorithms, can be the appropriate approach for efficiently screening the metal alloys as the electrocatalysts.

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Knowledge of the solubilities of hydrocarbon components of natural gas in pure water and aqueous electrolyte solutions is important in terms of engineering designs and environmental aspects. In the current work, six machine-learning algorithms, namely Random Forest, Extra Tree, adaptive boosting support vector regression (AdaBoost-SVR), Decision Tree, group method of data handling (GMDH), and genetic programming (GP) were proposed for estimating the solubility of pure and mixture of methane, ethane, propane, and n-butane gases in pure water and aqueous electrolyte systems. To this end, a huge database of hydrocarbon gases solubility (1836 experimental data points) was prepared over extensive ranges of operating temperature (273-637 K) and pressure (0.

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Ionic liquids (ILs) have emerged as suitable options for gas storage applications over the past decade. Consequently, accurate prediction of gas solubility in ILs is crucial for their application in the industry. In this study, four intelligent techniques including Extreme Learning Machine (ELM), Deep Belief Network (DBN), Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS), and Boosting-Support Vector Regression (Boost-SVR) have been proposed to estimate the solubility of some gaseous hydrocarbons in ILs based on two distinct methods.

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Tetracyclines (TCs) have been extensively used for humans and animal diseases treatment and livestock growth promotion. The consumption of such antibiotics has been ever-growing nowadays due to various bacterial infections and other pathologic conditions, resulting in more discharge into the aquatic environments. This brings threats to ecosystems and human bodies.

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Accurate prediction of the solubility of gases in hydrocarbons is a crucial factor in designing enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations by gas injection as well as separation, and chemical reaction processes in a petroleum refinery. In this work, nitrogen (N) solubility in normal alkanes as the major constituents of crude oil was modeled using five representative machine learning (ML) models namely gradient boosting with categorical features support (CatBoost), random forest, light gradient boosting machine (LightGBM), k-nearest neighbors (k-NN), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost). A large solubility databank containing 1982 data points was utilized to establish the models for predicting N solubility in normal alkanes as a function of pressure, temperature, and molecular weight of normal alkanes over broad ranges of operating pressure (0.

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  • Researchers developed hybrid membranes using nitrogen-rich polyethylenimine-functionalized halloysite nanotube nanoparticles embedded in polyvinyl chloride for effective wastewater purification, particularly for protein and dye filtration.
  • Comprehensive analysis techniques (like FTIR, XRD, SEM) showed that these membranes had improved porosity and reduced surface roughness, enhancing properties such as hydrophilicity and flexibility.
  • The best performance in terms of water permeability and dye rejection (up to 99.97%) was achieved with 2% weight ratio of HNT-SiO-PEI, leading to significant antifouling improvements and a high flux recovery ratio of 96.8%.
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Simulation of thermal properties of graphene hetero-nanosheets is a key step in understanding their performance in nano-electronics where thermal loads and shocks are highly likely. Herein we combine graphene and boron-carbide nanosheets (BC3N) heterogeneous structures to obtain BC3N-graphene hetero-nanosheet (BC3GrHs) as a model semiconductor with tunable properties. Poor thermal properties of such heterostructures would curb their long-term practice.

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Due to industrial development, designing and optimal operation of processes in chemical and petroleum processing plants require accurate estimation of the hydrogen solubility in various hydrocarbons. Equations of state (EOSs) are limited in accurately predicting hydrogen solubility, especially at high-pressure or/and high-temperature conditions, which may lead to energy waste and a potential safety hazard in plants. In this paper, five robust machine learning models including extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), adaptive boosting support vector regression (AdaBoost-SVR), gradient boosting with categorical features support (CatBoost), light gradient boosting machine (LightGBM), and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) optimized by Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm were implemented for estimating the hydrogen solubility in hydrocarbons.

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In recent years, new developments in controlling greenhouse gas emissions have been implemented to address the global climate conservation concern. Indeed, the earth's average temperature is being increased mainly due to burning fossil fuels, explicitly releasing high amounts of CO into the atmosphere. Therefore, effective capture techniques are needed to reduce the concentration of CO.

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  • * This study investigates the combination of MoS with carbon nanotubes (CNT) to enhance MoS's electronic properties and overall catalytic performance for HER, using Density Functional Theory simulations.
  • * Findings reveal that the MoS/CNT heterostructure shows a lower energy barrier for the HER process and a weak binding interaction, suggesting that this combination could significantly boost the performance of MoS as an electrocatalyst.
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Carbon-based materials are broadly used as the active component of electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs) in energy storage systems with a high power density. Most of the reported computational studies have investigated the electrochemical properties under equilibrium conditions, limiting the direct and practical use of the results to design electrochemical energy systems. In the present study, for the first time, the experimental data from more than 300 published papers have been extracted and then analyzed through an optimized support vector machine (SVM) by a grey wolf optimization (GWO) algorithm to obtain a correlation between carbon-based structural features and EDLC performance.

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Accurate determination of the physicochemical characteristics of ionic liquids (ILs), especially viscosity, at widespread operating conditions is of a vital role for various fields. In this study, the viscosity of pure ILs is modeled using three approaches: (I) a simple group contribution method based on temperature, pressure, boiling temperature, acentric factor, molecular weight, critical temperature, critical pressure, and critical volume; (II) a model based on thermodynamic properties, pressure, and temperature; and (III) a model based on chemical structure, pressure, and temperature. Furthermore, Eyring's absolute rate theory is used to predict viscosity based on boiling temperature and temperature.

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The cure kinetics analysis of thermoset polymer composites gives useful information about their properties. In this work, two types of layered double hydroxide (LDH) consisting of Mg and Zn as divalent metal ions and CO as an anion intercalating agent were synthesized and functionalized with hydroxyapatite (HA) to make a potential thermal resistant nanocomposite. The curing potential of the synthesized nanoplatelets in the epoxy resin was then studied, both qualitatively and quantitatively, in terms of the as well as using isoconversional methods, working on the basis of nonisothermal differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) data.

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The epoxy/clay nanocomposites have been extensively considered over years because of their low cost and excellent performance. Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) are unique 1D natural nanofillers with a hollow tubular shape and high aspect ratio. To tackle poor dispersion of the pristine halloysite (P-HNT) in the epoxy matrix, alkali surface-treated HNT (A-HNT) and epoxy silane functionalized HNT (F-HNT) were developed and cured with epoxy resin.

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