Research Labs

Mission:

Mission:

1. Membrane for water and wastewater treatment (MD, UF, NF)

2. Membrane for gas separation process (membrane contactor)

3. Membrane for fuel cell application

4. Modification of polymers for fabrication of membrane

5. Combination of membrane technology with other technologies (such as adsorption)

6. Fabrication of various hollow fiber and flat sheet membranes

No. of Graduate Students: 9

Achievements:

1. Membrane distillation system for production of high purity water

2. Treatment of different wastewaters such as oily water, whey etc.

3. Fabrication of different hollow fiber membranes for various applications

Equipment:

1. Electrospinning machine

2. Contact angle measurement

3. GC

4. Spectrophotometer

5. UF membrane test system

6. Membrane contactor test system

7. Membrane distillation system

8. NF membrane test system

9. Multimeter (pH. TDS. conductivity)

10. Water heater/cooler

11. Oven

12. Vacuum oven

13. Furnace

14. Mixer

15. Common lab equipments such as hood, bain-marie, heater-stirrer, etc.

Contact info:

Tel: +98 912 526 5739

Email: ghr_bakeri@yahoo.com; bakeri@nit.ac.ir

Mission:

1. Microbial fuel cell
2. Biosensor
3. Tissue engineering
4. Biological synthesis of nanomaterials
5. Production of biosurfactants

No. of Graduate Students:

25

Achievements:

1. Construction of various microbial and sedimentary fuel cell
2. Construction of new electrodes, including composite and polymer electrodes
3. Construction of different biosensors

Equipment:

1. Potentiostat/galvanometer (ivium)
2. Digital weigh indicator
3. Rotary evaporator
4. Centrifuge
5. Refrigerator centrifuge
6. Ph meter
7. Shaker incubator
8. Incubator
9. Spectrophotometer
10. Microscope
11. Ultrasonic cleaner
12. Cod meter
13. Laboratorial fume hood
14. Biological fume hood
15. Autoclave
16. Germinator
17. Oven
18. Potentiostat/galvanometer (sama)
19. Circulator
20. Digital data logger

Contact info:

Address: Biofuel & renewable energy research center.
Faculty of chemical engineering, babol noshirvani university of technology, babol, iran
web page: bfc.nit.ac.ir
email: rahimnejad@nit.ac.ir

Mission:

1. Environmental biotechnology
2. Microbial fuel cell
3. Fermentation process
4. Biological sensors
5. Food and drug technology

No. of Graduate Students:

24

Achievements:

1. Membrane casting machine
2. Upflow anaerobic bioreactor
3. Quadratic chamber desalination fuel cell

Equipment:

1. HPLC
2. GC
3. Potensiostate
4. Membrane casting machine
5. Ultrasonicate
6. Rotary evaporator
7. Microwave
8. UV-Vis spectroscopy
9. Subcritical Water extraction

Contact info:
Address: Biotechnology Research Lab., Shaariati st., Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran.

Tel: +981132310975

Email: najafpour@nit.ac.ir

Mission:

1. Catalysis

2. Kinetics and reactor design

3. Hydrogen production and purification

4. Methanol to olefins

5. Isomerization

6. Biodiesel

7. Molecularly imprinted polymers

No. of Graduate Students:

20

Achievements:

1. Steam reforming of alcohols in microchannel reactors

2. Catalytic conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons over mesoporous ZSM-5 and SAPO-34 zeolites

3. Fast and selective separation of heavy metal ions using magnetic ion-imprinted polymers

Equipment:

1. Cata test

2. Gas chromatograph (GC)

3. Viscometer

4. Calcination furnace

5. Ultrasonic

6. Universal centrifuge

7. Microwave

8. Oven

9. Sieve shaker

10. pH meter

11. Rotary evaporator

12. Double distillation water

13. Mixer

14. Vacuum oven

15. Pump

16. UV analyzer

17. Air compressor

18. Stirrer

19. Circulator pump

Contact info:

Email: taghizadeh@nit.ac.ir

Mission:

1- Synthesis and performance evaluation of membranes for gas separation

2- IFT analysis for different application

3- Enhanced oil recovery process

4- Filtration and desalination processes

5- Pinch/Exergy analysis of process

No. of Graduate Students:

16

Achievements:

1. Core-Flood setup

2. High pressure IFT

3. Low pressure IFT

4. Contact angle setup

5. Porosity meter

6. Supercritical setup

7. Constant volume/varying pressure gas permeation setup

8. Dead-End filtration setup

9. Oven

10. Stirrer

Equipment:

1. Core-Flood setup

2. High pressure IFT

3. Low pressure IFT

4. Contact angle setup

5. Porosity meter

6. Supercritical setup

7. Constant volume/varying pressure gas permeation setup

8. Dead-End filtration setup

9. Oven

10. Stirrer

Contact info:

Phone: +98 (11) 32331707,

Tel: +98 (11) 32331707

Email: abedini@ait.ac.ir.

Email: m.lashkarbolooki@anit.ac.ir

Mission:

1. Biological wastewater treatment
2. Making Nano emulsion for food industry
3. Making Nano particle for drug delivery industry
4. Making Nano particle as antibacterial function
5. Air pollution treatment

No. of Graduate Students:

10

Achievements:

1. Clove oil nanoemulsion as an effective antibacterial agent: Taguchi optimization method, Desalination and Water Treatment

2. Treatment of a low-strength bilge water of Caspian Sea ships by HUASB technique,

Ecological Engineering journal

3. Treatment of paper-recycling wastewater by electrocoagulation using aluminum and iron electrodes. Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering

4. A comparative study of the anaerobic baffled reactor and an integrated anaerobic baffled reactor and microbial electrolysis cell for treatment of petrochemical wastewater. Biochemical Engineering Journal

Equipment:1. Ultrasonic homogenizer - UP 400
2. Spectrophotometer
3. Shaker
4. Biological hood
5. Chemical hood
6. Autoclave
7. Centrifuge
8. Oven
9. Furnace

Contact info:
Address: Babol Noshirvani University of Technology Internal Tel. Nr.1612 & 1503
Tel: +98 (11) 355011503
Tel: +98 (11) 35501612
Tel: 09113120630
Email: m.hosseini@nit.ac.ir

Mission:

1- Membrane distillation
2- Membrane bio-reactor
3- Gas separation
4- Waste water treatment
5- Forward Osmosis

No. of Graduate Students:

10

Achievements:1- Synthesis of novel membranes for gas separation 
2- Fabrication of new types of membrane for FO
3- Design of hybrid FO-MBR process
4- Synthesis of super-hydrophobic membranes for desalination

Equipment:1. Micro centrifuge
2. Gas chromatography
3. Electrospinning apparatus
4. UV-spectrophotometer
5. BOD and COD reactor
6, Oven/furnace 7. Gas membrane separation set-up
8. Vacuum pump
9. pH/conductivity meter

Contact info:

www.armembranelab.com
Email: ahmadrahimpour@nit.ac.ir

Mission:

1. Filtration by membrane (adsorptive membrane; membrane distillation, thin film composite mem- brane: dynamic membrane: ultrafiltration mem- brane)
2. Water desalination and purification
3. Wastewater treatment.
4. Advanced oxidation and photo-catalysis reaction
5. Atomistic simulation by density functional theory

No. of Graduate Students:

5

Achievements:

1. Chromium removal from tannery wastewater by Dynamic membrane
2. Design and fabrication of units for landfill leachate (anjilci babol)
3. Co-digestion of septage and domestic wastewater by membrane bio-reactor

Equipment:

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Contact info:

Email: majidpeyravi@nit.ac.ir

Mission:

1. The production of polymer dyes with very good anti-corrosion properties.
2. Synthesis of conductive polymers such as polyaniline, polypyrrole, polythiophene, palyacrylonitrile, polystyrene, polyvinyl acetate. polyhydanine and poly dopamine by chemical, electrochemical and colloidal methods.
3. Structural and electrochemical, photocatalytic and photochemical properties of Nanocomposites.
4. Application of different nanocomposites in the removal of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
5. Study of the loading, toxicity, absorption and release of polymer nanocarticles.

No. of Graduate Students:

8

Achievements:1. Application of polyrhodanine modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes for high efficiency removal of pb(II) from aqueous solution
2. Synthesis and characterization of polymer-based magnetic nanocomposite with uniformly distributed hematite nanoparticles on the Surface of polystyrene aromatic compound 
3. Antibacterial surface modified of novel nanocomposite sulfonated polyethersulfone/polyrhodanine membrane

Equipment:

1. Digital scale 4 zero
2. Digital scale 3 zero
3. Magnetic stirrer
4. PH meter
5. Shaker
6. Ultrasonic
7. Centrifuge machine.
8. Oven
9. Furnace
10. Autoclave
11. Sterilized autoclaves
12. Vacuum pump
13. Pervasive pump
14. Reactor under visible light
15. Spectrophotometry
16. Optical microscope

Contact info:

Tel: +98 (11) 35501640 
Email: m.ghorbani@nit.ac.ir

Mission:

1. Wastewater treatment
2. Drug delivery
3. Extraction
4. Nanofluid heat transfer
5. Fuel desulfurization

No. of Graduate Students:

12

Achievements:

1. Synthesis of bio-magnetic adsorbent
2. Synthesis of nan cellulose and evaluation of its application.
3. Heavy metal removal from aqueous solution by pectin.
4. Drug delivery by MOF.
5. Synthesis of zein based carrier for piperine delivery.

Equipment:

1. Oven
2 Ultrasonic cleaner
3. pH Meter
4. Furnace
5. Soxhlet
6. Vacuum pump
7. Digital weight indicator
8. Centrifuge
9. Magnetic stirrer

Contact info:

Tel: (+98)113550-1622
Email: m.nikzad@nit.ac.it
Email: shabanian@nit.ac.ir

Mission:

1. Hydrogen purification and CO, capture
2: Pervaporation and liquid separation
3. Membrane technology and membrane bioreactor
4. Nano-porous materials
5. Fuel-cell

No. of Graduate Students:

12

Achievements:

1. Hydrogen purification and CO, capture using MOFs
2. Industrial wastewater treatment using membrane bio-reactor and nano-porous materials
3. Fabrication of high-quality activated carbon driven from agricultural wastes

Equipment:

1. Uv-Vis Spectrophotometer
2. Oven Shaker Incubator
3. Horizontal Electric Furnace
4. Ultrasonic
5. Centrifuge 
6. pH Meter
7. Dissolved Oxygen Analyzer

Contact info:

Tel: +98(11)32331664
Email: aa_ghoreyshi.nit.ac.ir

Mission:

1. Drying
2. Gas absorption
3. Ultrasonic applications 
4. Extraction
5. Determination of thermodynamic properties

No. of Graduate Students:

4

Achievements:

1. Production of different simple and hybrid dryers such as fixed bed and fluidized bed convective infrared-microwave dryers.
2. Experimental study, modeling and determination of optimum conditions for drying process of important agricultural crops in the Northern part of Tran such as rice, citrus fruits, kiwi, tomato and so on.
3. Inventing an instrument for determination of sound velocity in liquids and experimental set-ups for ultrasonic extraction.

Equipment:

1. Spectrophotometer 
2. Infrared drying
3. Gas solubility measuring device
4. Ultrasonic
5. Universal Centrifuge
6. Microwave
7. Oven
8. Moisture Analyzer
9. Water Bath
10. Microwave, infrared assisted fluidized bed mixed dryer
11. Convective, infrared assisted microwave mixed dryer
12. Tray dryer
13. Sieve shaker
14. Freeze dryer
15. PH meter
16. Rotary dryer
17. Distillation tower
18. Gas absorption & desorption unit
19. Cooling tower
20. Hot wire anemometer
21. Infrared psychrometer
22. Solid-liquid extractor

Contact info:

Phone number: +98 (11) 32332071
Phone number: +98 (11) 35501666
Email: k-movaghar@nit.ac.ir