Dr MOHAMED ADAM's Outputs (8)

Rapid Gram-Scale Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Organic Anodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries with Environmental Impact Assessment (2025)
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Puscalau, C., Desai, A. V., Lizundia, E., Ettlinger, R., Adam, M., Morris, R., Armstrong, A. R., Tokay, B., & Laybourn, A. (2025). Rapid Gram-Scale Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Organic Anodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries with Environmental Impact Assessment. Green Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4gc05530f

Development of sustainable synthesis methods of organic electrode materials (OEMs) for sodium (Na)-ion batteries must take hold rapidly in large scale-synthesis if subsequent commercialisation is to occur. We report a facile and rapid gram-scale synt... Read More about Rapid Gram-Scale Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Organic Anodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries with Environmental Impact Assessment.

Understanding Microwave Interactions with Polymers to Enable Advanced Plastic Chemical Recycling (2024)
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Adam, M., Hjalmarsson, N., Lee, C. S., Irvine, D. J., Robinson, J., & Binner, E. (2024). Understanding Microwave Interactions with Polymers to Enable Advanced Plastic Chemical Recycling. Polymer Testing, 137, Article 108483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2024.108483

The widespread adoption of plastics has led to substantial production and waste generation, raising environmental concerns. Chemical recycling offers a promising solution to enhance recycling rates, with microwave heating emerging as an attractive te... Read More about Understanding Microwave Interactions with Polymers to Enable Advanced Plastic Chemical Recycling.

Unravelling the mechanisms of microwave pyrolysis of biomass (2021)
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Robinson, J., Binner, E., Vallejo, D. B., Perez, N. D., Al Mughairi, K., Ryan, J., Shepherd, B., Adam, M., Budarin, V., Fan, J., Gronnow, M., & Peneranda-Foix, F. (2022). Unravelling the mechanisms of microwave pyrolysis of biomass. Chemical Engineering Journal, 430(Part 3), Article 132975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.132975

This study uses empirical observations and mass transfer simulations to establish a new mechanism for microwave pyrolysis of biomass. Experiments were conducted on cellulose and hemicellulose, using microwave equipment that could vary the observed he... Read More about Unravelling the mechanisms of microwave pyrolysis of biomass.

In-situ Microwave-assisted Catalytic Upgrading of Heavy Oil: Experimental Validation and Effect of Catalyst Pore Structure on Activity (2020)
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Adam, M., Anbari, H., Hart, A., Wood, J., Robinson, J. P., & Rigby, S. P. (2021). In-situ Microwave-assisted Catalytic Upgrading of Heavy Oil: Experimental Validation and Effect of Catalyst Pore Structure on Activity. Chemical Engineering Journal, 413, Article 127420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.127420

In-situ combustion alone may not provide sufficient heating for downhole, catalytic upgrading of heavy oil in the Toe-to-Heel Air Injection (THAI) process. In this study, a new microwave heating technique has been proposed as a strategy to provide th... Read More about In-situ Microwave-assisted Catalytic Upgrading of Heavy Oil: Experimental Validation and Effect of Catalyst Pore Structure on Activity.

Development of a continuous-flow system for microwave-assisted extraction of pectin-derived oligosaccharides from food waste (2020)
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Arrutia, F., Adam, M., Mao, Y., Ángel Calvo-Carrascal, M., & Binner, E. (2020). Development of a continuous-flow system for microwave-assisted extraction of pectin-derived oligosaccharides from food waste. Chemical Engineering Journal, 395, Article 125056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.125056

This paper addresses the current lack of a scalable process for the extraction of “hairy” pectins to upcycle biomasses, by describing the design methodology, building and testing of a continuous microwave-assisted process for potato waste pectin extr... Read More about Development of a continuous-flow system for microwave-assisted extraction of pectin-derived oligosaccharides from food waste.

Impact of oil composition on microwave heating behavior of heavy oils (2018)
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Zhang, Y., Adam, M., Hart, A., Wood, J., Rigby, S. P., & Robinson, J. P. (in press). Impact of oil composition on microwave heating behavior of heavy oils. Energy and Fuels, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b03675

Electromagnetic heating techniques have recently received significant attention as alternatives to conventional heating methods for thermal processing of viscous and heavy oils. One of the benefits of electromagnetic heating is that the electromagnet... Read More about Impact of oil composition on microwave heating behavior of heavy oils.

Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part II: Effect of process parameters (2017)
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Adam, M., Beneroso, D., Katrib, J., Kingman, S., & Robinson, J. P. (in press). Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part II: Effect of process parameters. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1781

The microwave fluidized bed process developed in Part I (DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1780), in which the heating heterogeneity issues are overcome, has been applied to the pyrolysis of biomass. The degree of pyrolysis was established by studying the behavior of... Read More about Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part II: Effect of process parameters.

Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part I: Process design (2017)
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Adam, M., Beneroso, D., Katrib, J., Kingman, S., & Robinson, J. P. (in press). Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part I: Process design. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1780

The production of bio-oils from microwave pyrolysis has received increasing attention from bioenergy researchers, but no studies reported to date have proposed reliable solutions to avoid thermal runaway. The motivation of this paper is to develop an... Read More about Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part I: Process design.