Mostafa Panahi

• Professor
• Head of Department at Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch

The present study evaluated carbon reduction policies (decarbonization) by comparing energy efficiency improvement in thermal power plants and the incremental development of renewable and clean power plants in different scenarios in the power generation sector. For this purpose, the optimal portfolio for power generation expansion was considered un...

Sediment yield (SY) is affected by many components, such as topography, climatic phenomena, land use (LU), and soil characteristics, but it is significantly influenced by complicated interactions between climate, LU, and topography. In the current research, InVEST SDR model was utilized to investigate the climate change (CC) and land use change (LU...

Electricity production has negative environmental effects. These effects cause costs (environmental costs) that are not considered in the calculation of the cost of electricity production. This study aimed to investigate the technical, environmental, and economic effects of internalizing these costs in total generation electricity costs. Accordingl...

Toluene enters waters from different industries and has a hazardous effect on the environment and humans. So, accurate determination of toluene in water must be evaluated by new technology. In this study, the carbon nanotube and nitrogen-doped porous graphene (CNTs/N-DPG) as a carbon nanostructure was used to extract toluene in waters and wastewate...

An advanced synthesis based on the phenylalanine (Phe) and task-specific ionic liquid (TSIL) functionalized on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (Phe/TSIL@MWCNTs), was used to extract benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, and xylene (BTEX) from cow's milk, powdered milk, and farm water samples. The BTEX was efficiently extracted by ultrasound-assisted disper...

This study analyzed the potential use of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) as a strategy for improving water supply management. This study focused on the Siminehroud Sub-basin due to its high importance to the Basin of Urmia Lake (UL). Siminehroud is the second provider of water (by volume) to Urmia Lake. To evaluate the technical and economic f...

A new functionalized Nano graphene with aminopropyl trimethoxysilane-phenanthrene-4-carbaldehyde (NGO@APTMS-PNTCA) as a novel adsorbent was used to extract toluene from water samples by the ultrasound-assisted dispersive solid-phase microextraction procedure (USA-D-SPME). So, 50 mg of NGO@APTMS-PNTCA adsorbent was added to water samples and sonicat...

Due to using fossil energy resources, power generation is the most important factor of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Considering the importance of the issue, seven scenarios for decreasing greenhouse gas emissions in the power industry, including the development of renewable energies, energy efficiency in thermal power plants, and decreas...

Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions induced environmental hazards is one of the most important goals of future research the energy economy and the environment. This challenge is becoming more important in developing countries, including Iran, with high energy intensity and is one of the leading countries in GHG emissions. This study aims to vis...

Toluene has a carcinogenic effect on the human body and causes environmental pollutants in surface and ground waters. So, the extraction and separation of toluene from water samples were needed by new technology. In this study, the carbon nanotube (CNTs) and nitrogen-doped porous graphene (N-DPG) as nanoadsorbents (1:1) were used for the extraction...

In recent years, escalating cost of generating electricity, substantial investments with the purpose of building power plants, and environmental pollution related to the power generation have underlined the importance of optimal power supply and demand management. Given that, by employing Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) software, the...

Groundwater quality management is a priority in arid and semi-arid zones where water is scarce. Leachate from open dumping of municipal solid wastes may threaten groundwater quality. This research aimed at assessing groundwater quality of the aquifer of Shur river basin in Tehran province, Iran. The pollution potential of leachate from a landfill,...

Undoubtedly, the environment is the bedrock of human individual and social life. The purpose of this study is to extract legal tools and look at the hidden angles and gaps of environmental law to enable the establishment of a broad interpretation of the stakeholder position in order to be able to file environmental claims regardless of climate and...

The inclusion of an index, which can be the representative of environmental quality from different aspects, seems to be of paramount significance. This issue is a major challenging one in the economic–environmental literature. This study investigates the role of financial development in economic growth effect on the composite environmental quality...

Given the complexity of the correlation of economic growth with financial development, and their interactive impacts on environmental quality, this study attempted to present new insights into indecisive outcomes from the contribution of financial development in determining the impressionability of environmental indicators under economic growth con...

Choosing an appropriate municipal waste management method is a very complicated environmental problem in cities. This research introduces an optimization model for waste management in the southwest region of Tehran province. It was developed by a metaheuristic algorithm that was used to minimize the economic and environmental costs. Incineration, c...

In this study, an integrated hybrid polygeneration system based on solar and biogas energy is developed for simultaneous heat and power generation and hydrogen production. A heat recovery system is employed, which can recover the waste heat from the flue gas for effective utilisation in the steam network. The devised system, comprising solar, bioga...

The power generation sector is increasingly affecting global warming due to its greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions. Hence, improving the efficiency of thermal power plants is effective action in mitigating national and global GHG emissions. Accordingly, Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning has been used to the prediction of electricity consumptio...

The decline in Urmia Lake basin’s water resources has resulted in a severe drought of the lake. The drought of this hyper-saline lake has put lives of 6.4 million inhabitants at risk. This study was conducted to assess the technical and economic employability of a payment for ecosystem services (PES) method as a policy tool to improve water resourc...

The present study was conducted to predict the electricity status based on scenario design and energy modelling using optimization approach by 2050 in Khuzestan, Iran. Two scenarios were proposed, one investigating the current trend called the BAU (Business as Usual) and the other SMD (Sustainable Management and Development scenario). According to...

A multi-generation system has been considered to meet different purposes in recent years. Two main purposes of this system are producing various products, as well as the improved performance of this system, simultaneously. In this paper, a new cogeneration hybrid cycle is introduced to provide electricity and urea production. This system includes g...

Water security, a key policy objective for sustainable development, is under stress as a result of land use and climate change, especially in (semi-)arid areas like Iran. Land use change alters surface runoff and affects basin-wide hydrological processes and water consumption, while climate change modifies precipitation and temperature patterns and...

Water security, a key policy objective for sustainable development, is under stress as a result of land use and climate change, especially in (semi-)arid areas like Iran. Land use change alters surface runoff and affects basinwide hydrological processes and water consumption, while climate change modifies precipitation and temperature patterns and...

In this study, the impact of MSW landfill on the surface and groundwater resources pollution in Tehran Province was investigated using a multivariate statistical technique concerning multiple water quality indicators. To assess the role of the landfill on surface and groundwater pollution, a statistical approach was designed in a way that the dista...

Water security, a key policy objective for sustainable development, is under stress as a result of land use and climate change, especially in (semi-)arid areas like Iran. Land use change alters surface runoff and affects basin-wide hydrological processes and water consumption, while climate change modifies precipitation and temperature patterns and...

The current system of fuel consumption subsides payments of fossil power plants in Iran has initiated substantial challenges such as controversies on real price and total costs of the electricity in Iran. The main objective of this study is the calculation and assessment of the total costs of electricity generation in different existing power plant...

The power supply and demand have been studied, modelled, analysed, and foresighted as one of the most important energy carriers. The Business as usual (BAU) scenario was compared based on continuing the status quo with seven other proposed possible scenarios up to the horizon 2050. Possible solutions such as demand management, increased productivit...

Contaminated and carcinogenic sludge including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds with hydrophobic properties is formed during wastewater treatment process in lubricant refineries. This sludge will cause environmental pollution in case of landfill or if incinerated. In the present study, an anaerobic digestion system based on the degradabili...

Buildings are one of the most important emitters of CO2, causing climate change. This fact, together with the finiteness of conventional energy, results in the Zero Energy Building (ZEB) being future buildings. Although ZEB is a simple concept, but there is no valid universal definition. This is one of the significant building's energy systems chal...

The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have toxic effect on human health and environmental matrixes. So, determination and removal VOCs from the environmental samples such as water, wastewater and air are very important as toxicology effect on humans. Many chemistry techniques such as; analytical methods for sorbents (extraction, adsorption), sole g...

Over the past few years, the pace of fossil fuel consumption has witnessed an accelerating trend across the world which has been really noticeable especially for the power generation sector. With regard to its global importance, the environment must be also preserved and emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHGs) as well as environmental c...

Groundwater resources management is one of the most important issues of natural resources management. Lack of proper management of these resources has caused serious problems such as land subsidence, aquifer salinity and the annihilation of wetlands. With population growth, has increased demand groundwater and led to water scarcity in many parts of...

This study proposes a hybrid interval-stochastic framework to create robust programming of energy hub which thermal energy market, thermal demand response program (TDRP) and electrical demand response program (EDRP) are considered to manage flexible energy management in order to reduce operation cost. In the proposed work, deviation cost is added t...

Floods are natural hazards with serious impact on many aspects of human life. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that climate change already has significant impact on magnitude and frequency of flood events worldwide. Thus, it is suggested to adopt strategies to manage damage impacts of climate change. For this, involving...

Remarkable proven reserves of approximately 1200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, with an unprecedented growth in global demand, have led Iranian policymakers to look for optimal natural gas export programs. This paper attempts to provide a novel conceptual framework to evaluate the natural gas export portfolio. In this regard, the present study...

In recognition of the importance of nature, its contributions to people and role in underpinning sustainable development, governments adopted a Strategic Plan on Biodiversity 2011-2020 through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) containing 20 ‘Aichi Biodiversity Targets’ and integrated many of these into the Sustainable Development Goals (...

This study assessed the impact of climate change on flood frequency and flood source area at basin scale considering Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 General Circulation Models (CMIP5 GCMs) under two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) scenarios (2.6 and 8.5). For this purpose, the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) hydrolog...

Today, climate change is taking place as an irrefutable reality of international community. This phenomenon is one of the most important challenges of the contemporary age. In fact, the negative effects of climate change and its harmful effects to the human health and environment itself, conducted international community to accept some internationa...

This study attempts to provide a novel analytical framework for assessing Iran’s gas export portfolio risk considering the aggregate dependency index of natural gas of importing countries and geopolitics factor. After providing indicators related to each of the natural gas transmission methods, the aggregate dependency index of each country is dete...

Background and aims: Planning to increase production and tends to increase the efficiency of human resources in productive organizations without estimating the economic costs imposed on the organization, cause the actual value of safety is ignored in workplaces. Among the financial cost of the productive organizations, the subject of safety promoti...

This is a fact that border region association particularly those operating under difficult circumstances need a border geographical and political base of support, that this transboundary cooperation would be an appropriate model for the region e.g. among Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan and other places in the world.

Among well-known managerial practices to protect scarce biological resources, Payment for Ecosystem Services is an efficient and effective policy tool to manage such resources and its use is facing a growing interest in the world. This is why, in addition to clarifying the role of such a policy tool to encourage farmers to modify their irrigation s...

Because the various algorithms have been developed for the land use classification by using remote sensing, the suitable algorithm selection plays an important role in achieving good results. For this purpose, by efficiency comparison of two algorithms classification i.e. support vector machines (SVM) and maximum likelihood (ML), the more precision...

Since agricultural sector is considered as the biggest user of freshwater resources in Iran, one of the major factors of Lake Urmia drying might be attributed to unsustainable development of agricultural activities. Therefore, it would be of interest to focus the lake restoration measures on water usage management in agricultural sector. It seems t...

Due to the importance of transpor sector, particularly road transport in economic growth and development of the nations, analysis of the causes and factors affecting the performance of the sector will lead in achieving reliable information to develop corrective strategies and improvement of management plans to this end. For this reason, the quantit...

One of the most significant discussion and challenges propounded in the macroeconomics is the effects of fluctuations of exchange rate on the macroeconomic variables (production, employment, inflation and … etc).In this direction, the important and noticeable point is the factors which lead to fluctuations in the exchange rate which, from amongst t...

Ecosystems supply and distribute a wide range of services which human communities depend on all around the world. They seem to be among the most important elements of our economic welfare and personal well-being. Today, the prerequisite of any effort aimed at preventing the dire consequences of ecosystem mismanagement is implementing a sound ecosys...

The present study attempts to investigate technical, economic and scale efficiency in Power Distribution companies of Tehran including 21 regions, productivity growth of all factors through Malm-Quist method during 2007-2012 as well as specifying the affective factors using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Considering the importance of efficiency i...

Power plants are counted as one of the sources of constant pollutants. In the dissipated from this sector, the year 1390 (solar calendar) 634884 tons of NO x which can impose direct and indirect influence over human health. In this study the aim is to estimate external costs of nitrogen oxides which is dissipated from one thermal power plant over t...

Forest ecosystem services contribute to human welfare, both directly and indirectly. Here the economic value of water conservation by Bazoft basin located in Zagros forests in western Iran was estimated, using simulation models and Geographic Information System (GIS) as a tool for analyzing the effects of ecological factors on ecosystem services. R...

Lack of scientific knowledge about quantitative and qualitative dimensions of ecosystem products and services provided by Caspian forests, in line with other factors accelerating forest degradation, has caused forest land use changes. In Iran, like many other developing countries, this has been led to the large obscurities to political and economic...

The present document is the first National Report of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Convention o n Biological Diversity. It was drawn up with support from UNDP/GEF as an Enabling Activity through the "National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan" (NBSAP) Project, under the supervision of a Steering Committee, including representatives of the...