Rasikh Tariq

• Doctor of Engineering
• Research Professor at Interdisciplinary Research Group: Scaling Complex Thinking. Institute for the Future of Education. Tecnológico de Monterrey

Maisotsenko Humid Air Bottoming Cycle (MHABC) is a recently proposed waste heat recovery unit for gas turbine topping cycle. An air saturator is used for the waste heat recovery and air humidification purposes in the bottoming cycle. The humid air is used in bottoming cycle turbine. In this work, detailed heat transfer analysis of the MHABC is prop...

In this work, an innovative and novel integrated Maisotsenko cycle-based air saturator is proposed as a humi-difier in humidification-dehumidification type desalination system. The proposed system has unique flow characteristic within the heat and mass exchanger to maximize air saturation at the exit of humidifier; thus, maximizing the potential fo...

The incorporation of a Maisotsenko (M) Cycle into an indirect evaporative cooler has led to the achievement of sub-wet bulb temperature without any humidification, thus making it a possible green and sustainable alternative for handling the cooling load of a building. In this work, the thermal performance of a cross-flow heat and mass exchanger (HM...

In this work, an opportunity to improve the seasonal utilizability of an indirect evaporative cooler integrated air-conditioning system is presented. The improved design recovers the waste heat from wet air passages by supplying them to the comfort zone of produce commodities whilst supplying the dry air to human-occupants-comfort-zone i.e. operati...

In Mexico, around 2.4 million people (1.9% of the national population) are deaf, and Mexican Sign Language (MSL) support is essential for people with communication disabilities. Research and technological prototypes of sign language recognition have been developed to support public communication systems without human interpreters. However, most of...

We discuss a new construct called Industry 5.0, which has infiltrated the education sector, enabling us to explore Education 5.0. This concept is based on the use of advanced technologies that enable it to address global issues in contemporary society, many of which are related to sustainability. In line with the above, the aim of this research was...

The development of civilization has resulted in increasing waste, including plastic. Strict legal regulations enforce the limitation of waste storage. The best neutralization method is thermal utilization, with the possibility of heat recovery. The primary objective of this paper is to conduct a novel analysis of the results of thermal tests in the...

This chapter explores the optimization approach known as multivariate inverse artificial neural network (ANNim). This computational framework couples a metaheuristic algorithm with a feed-forward neural network to determine the optimal independent variables for a desired amount. The main objective of this approach is to reverse the direction of an...

The double facade solar chimney along with energy storage components is a sustainable building technology that harnesses the power of the sun to regulate indoor temperatures. Extensive research has been conducted on the theoretical simulation of such systems. The novelty of this work is to explore the potential of explainable artificial intelligenc...

This study presents the production, chemical characterization, and life cycle assessment (LCA) of biodiesel derived from various local waste feedstocks using experimental setup. Biodiesel was produced via transesterification in a 50-L batch reactor using oils sourced from a five-star restaurant (A), three-star café (B), rancid palm oil (C), and chi...

The double facade solar chimney along with energy storage components is a sustainable building technology that harnesses the power of the sun to regulate indoor temperatures. Extensive research has been conducted on the theoretical simulation of such systems. The novelty of this work is to explore the potential of explainable artificial intelligenc...

Despite the growing focus of educational institutions on students’ practical abilities beyond theoretical knowledge, the perception that students have of their competencies is crucial for their effective application in professional contexts. Accordingly, this paper reports a study of 435 university students attending ten universities in eight count...

The knowledge society exists mainly due to advancing technology and the exponential development of professionals’ capabilities. Digital transformation and new technologies generate complex environments demanding high-level skills. This work analyzes the current state of pedagogical approaches with a special focus on project-based learning that deve...

This article aims to evaluate university community members’ (faculty members and students, in this case) perceptions of their complex thinking competency and its sub-competencies – including systemic, scientific, critical, and innovative thinking – across various disciplines at eight universities in Pakistan (Objective). Using a validated eComplexi...

Informal education via social media plays a crucial role in modern learning, offering self-directed and community-driven opportunities to gain knowledge, skills, and attitudes beyond traditional educational settings. These platforms provide access to a broad range of learning materials, such as tutorials, blogs, forums, and interactive content, mak...

Purpose This remastered analysis focuses on the impact of entrepreneurial interventions in higher education institutions (HEI), particularly in social entrepreneurship. The study evaluated the effectiveness of such interventions through a pre-and post-test approach, examining various skill sets in students. The primary goal was to analyze the influ...

Academic success in higher education has attracted interest from the scientific community because of its implications for personal development and societal progress. Programmes such as Tecnologico de Monterrey’s Leaders of Tomorrow aim to nurture students’ potential and promote academic success. This study examines the attributes from participating...

The presence of toxic chemicals in water, including heavy metals like mercury and lead, organic pollutants such as pesticides, and industrial chemicals from runoff and discharges, poses critical public health and environmental risks leading to severe health issues and ecosystem damage; education plays a crucial role in mitigating these effects by e...

Oil refineries play a crucial role in meeting global energy demands, and optimizing the efficiency of critical processes is vital for economic feasibility and environmental sustainability. Simulation is an essential tool for the optimization of valuable products. This work presents the rigorous simulation of a vacuum distillation unit (VDU) based o...

Future education requires fostering high-level competencies to enhance student talent, and artificial intelligence (AI) can help in profile analysis. The aim was to determine the variables that predict the GPA of students in the ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ program through an integrated methodology of data analytics, machine learning modeling, and feature...

Energy consumption of constructed educational facilities significantly impacts economic, social and environment sustainable development. It contributes to approximately 37% of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with energy use and procedures. This paper aims to introduce a study that investigates several artificial intelligence-based models to...

Education's evolution in the context of energy systems is essential for addressing sustainable energy challenges and developing a workforce equipped for future innovations, emphasizing both formal curricula and informal lifelong learning through successful energy case studies. As the global energy sector transforms to reduce carbon emissions and re...

This work aimed to describe the adsorption behavior of Congo red (CR) onto activated biochar material prepared from Haematoxylum campechianum waste (ABHC). The carbon precursor was soaked with phosphoric acid, followed by pyrolysis to convert the precursor into activated biochar. The surface morphology of the adsorbent (before and after dye adsorpt...

Water contamination is a major problem nowadays which can not only be solved through technological innovations but also requires educational innovation. The contamination of water is caused by discharging harmful pollutants into the water. These harmful contaminants cause different diseases. The significance of water filtration has grown in recent...

This paper endeavors to utilize the numerical modeling method to evaluate the energy, economic, and environmental performances of a new hybrid PV-FC system for green hydrogen and electricity production. The proposed system consists of photovoltaic panels, fuel cells, an electrolyzer, a converter, and a hydrogen storage tank. A robust techno-enviro-...

In this era of heightened environmental awareness, the global community faces the critical challenge of climate change. Renewable energy (RE) emerges as a vital contender to mitigate global warming and meet increasing energy needs. Nonetheless, the fluctuating nature of renewable energy sources underscores the necessity for efficient conversion and...

The dominant phenomenon in laser welding processes is heat transfer by conduction, making it crucial to gain insights into energy distribution within the heat-affected region, including the melt pool.Thermal analysis enables the description of thermo-mechanical, metallurgical aspects, and also addresses studies related to fluid flow and energy tran...

This paper reports the Maisotsenko's cycle-based waste heat recovery system with enhanced humidification to exploit the maximum waste heat recovery potential of the gas turbine. This research uses an integrated methodology coupling thermodynamic balances with heat transfer model of air saturator. The performance of the system is deduced which are a...

This study explored the effects of solution pH, biosorbent dose, contact time, and temperature on the Pb(II) biosorption process of natural and chemically treated leaves of A. compressa K. (Raw-AC and AC-OH, respectively). The results show that the surface characteristics of Raw-AC changed following alkali treatment. FT-IR analysis showed the prese...

Social houses are built around the world to fulfill the basic needs of the growing population, especially middle-income families. Owing to the low budget available for such houses around the globe, necessary energy codes are often compromised. This research, through a methodological sustainability framework, presents the case study of Mexico with t...

Augmentation of energy efficiency in the power generation systems can aid in decarbonizing the energy sector, which is also recognized by the International Energy Agency (IEA) as a solution to attain net-zero from the energy sector. With this reference, this article presents a framework incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) for improving the i...

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the humid air turbine-based waste heat recovery system with respect to different flow configurations in the air saturator. The novelty of this work is to provide a holistic approach to the environmental and thermoecological assessment of Maistosenko cycle-based waste heat recovery units by consideri...

The building sector is targeting net-zero emissions through the integration of renewable energy technologies, especially for space cooling and heating applications. In this regard, the use of solar thermal concentrating collectors is of vital importance. The performance of these collectors increases by using an efficient fluid such as a nanofluid d...

Desiccant evaporative cooling systems pave the path towards energy and environmental sustainability in buildings especially; however, the direct evaporative coolers in such configurations result in high water consumption. The application of modern computational intelligence tools, including artificial intelligence and meta-heuristic optimization al...

Reducing energy consumption in buildings has received intensified research impetus since the introduction of the decarbonization goals set in the Paris agreement. Many domestic and specialized applications require clean rooms (indoor built environments) for safe and clean operation. Energy efficiency in clean room spaces depends on maintaining liva...

Industrial development with the growth, strengthening, stability, technical advancement, reliability, selection, and dynamic response of the power system is essential. Governments and companies invest billions of dollars in technologies to convert, harvest, rising demand, changing demand and supply patterns, efficiency, lack of analytics required f...

This research targets to present a case study on the annual comparative assessment of photovoltaic thermal collectors (PV/T) by using water and Ag/water nanofluid for five different cities in Pakistan. The assessment is conducted at monthly, daily, and hourly resolutions. PV/T collector is imitated through a set of energy balance based physical mod...

For a well-developed, efficient and feasible system, it is necessary to produce power generation enormously with a reduction in harmful emissions like Carbon dioxide (CO 2), Carbon monoxide (CO), Nitrogen (N), Nitrogen oxide (NOx), and Sulphur dioxide (SO 2). Waste heat gases emit directly into an environment, it has many adverse effects on the env...

A large power generation facility is a complex multi-criteria system associated with multivariate couplings, high dependency, and non-linearity among the operating variables which present a major challenge to ensure efficient power production. In this research, an integrated artificial intelligence (AI) and response surface methodology (AI-RSM) fra...

The present study investigated the performance of natural Moroccan zeolites and clay in the removal of methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solutions. The deposits of the samples are extracted from the Teteoune (sample 1), Kenitra (sample 2), Khroubga (sample 3), and Benghrir (sample 4) regions of Morocco. The samples were characterized by the X-ray di...

Geothermal energy-driven systems with integrated waste heat recovery units such as the use of fuel cells and thermoelectric module can help to improve the renewable energy contribution in the energy mix. Data-driven optimization can improve their economic and environmental performance and their macro-projection can help in the achievement of net-ze...

Current research on solar chimneys has focused on developing regression-based empirical models, which might not be correct enough compared to the soft computing tools i.e., techniques of artificial intelligence. Current research has also published the search algorithm-based single-objective optimization of solar chimneys, whereas the latest genetic...

The use of phase change materials (PCM) and its efficient integration can significantly lower the carbon emissions of building sector. However, optimal integration of thermal energy storages, including PCM, in the buildings is a challenging problem. Digital engineering offers a reliable mechanism to optimize such integration. In order to realize th...

Electricity price forecasting is fundamental for energy market orientation, providing information contributing to decision making in the short term. Electricity prices are affected by the seasonal, environmental, operational, and regional factors that introduce complex nonlinearities to the prediction process. This work presents a novel hybrid appr...

The selection of operating conditions in the oil and gas separation plants is obtained through data monitoring or through the experience of the operating personnel which can bring operational difficulties leading to inefficiencies and capital loss. The modern techniques of soft computing including artificial intelligence and genetic algorithm-based...

Mass production of solar (photovoltaic PV) panels exhibits a socioenvironmental threat owing to their end-of-life waste which is projected to be in millions of tons by mid-century. It brings vulnerability among the low-income countries who are still debating on the acceptability of renewable energies then how could they accept an advanced form i.e....

In the present work a comparative exergy analysis, multi-objective optimization, as well as extended environmental analysis for a geothermal-based power and refrigeration system, is carried out. Different arrangements with the ammonia-water refrigeration cycle, organic Rankine cycle (ORC), and thermoelectric generator (TEG) are investigated. The cu...

Water is an essential resource demanded worldwide and it is quite debatable owing to the economic, political, and energy characteristics of any region. Off-grid water filtration plants are an alternative for communities where transportation of freshwater becomes a real challenge due to a lack of infrastructure for the water potabilization processes...

In the coming decades, a large portion of the world population is expected to embrace urbanization. The demand for thermal comfort in populous and congested urban centres, especially in developing countries across the globe, is expected to rise many folds. Alternates to conventional air-cooling systems are water-based evaporation cooling. Recently...

Within recent decades, the chemistry and physics of light-induced processes in zeolite materials have been as a field of research, in particular by considering the role of zeolite materials and its derivatives, as well as intrazeolitic electrical fields that have an influence on excited state features. In addition, zeolite compounds can create meta...

Water desalination presents a need to address the growing water-energy nexus. In this work, a literature survey is carried out, along an application of a mathematical model is presented to enhance the freshwater productivity rate of a solar-assisted humidification-dehumidification (HDH) type of desalination system. The prime novelty of this work is...

This study focused on investigating the bottoming power cycles operating with CO2-based binary mixture, taking into account exergetic, economic and exergo-environmental impact indices. The main intent is to assess the benefits of employing a CO2-based mixture working fluid in closed Brayton bottoming power cycles in comparison with pure CO2 working...

Sustainable development is an integrated blend of energetic, economic, social, environmental, and governmental actors, making it one of the most challenging and subjective aims of the United Nations. A sustainability project that does not consider any of these parameters can generate resistance among different actors of society. In this work, we ha...

The integration of a PVT-air collector with phase changing material is subjected to local climatic dynamics. The prime novelty of this work is to include the climatic dynamics for PCM selection specifically for Mexico and analyzing the system based on multidisciplinary parameters. In this work, yearly equivalent analysis is carried out for three di...

The integration of a photovoltaic-thermal-air collector with phase changing material is subjected to local climatic dynamics. The prime novelty of this work is to include the climatic dynamics for the selection of phase changing material specifically applied for Mexico and to analyze the system based on multidimensional parameters. In other words,...

In this work, an empirical correlation to predict the thermal conductivity of CuO-water nanofluid is developed. The prime novelty of this work is to include the size of the nanoparticles and to utilize the techniques of artificial intelligence on this problem. The experimentation is carried out for the following operating range: working temperature...

A perforated-type regenerative type evaporative humidifier is presented which has an innovative flow configuration. Such a flow configuration prevents the moist air from achieving quick saturation, and as a result, it maximizes the humidification capacity. A control volume formulation based mathematical model is developed which is simulated using n...

Maisotsenko Humid Air Bottoming Cycle (MHABC) is a viable option for the waste heat recovery of gas turbine topping cycle to attain a higher efficiency point of the combined cycle power plant; thus, having a potential of lower CO2 emissions towards environment. In this work, instead of the typically proposed counter flow configuration of the air sa...

The incorporation of Maisotsenko (M) Cycle in an indirect evaporative cooler has led it to achieve sub-wet bulb temperature without any humidification; thus, making it a possible green and sustainable alternative to handle the cooling load of a building. In this work, the thermal performance of the cross-flow heat and mass exchanger (HMX) is enhanc...

For developing a sustainable power system, the key is to maximize the use of available resources with a minimal impact on the environment. One technique for achieving this is exhaust heat recovery. In this paper, three gas turbine exhaust heat recovery supercritical carbon dioxide combined power cycles are presented. They are combined gas turbine-r...

This paper introduces a novel design of a double glazed box type solar cooker having an L-shaped absorber plate with one internal (bottom) and two external plane reflectors. A series of experiments were performed to access the cooker's thermal performance at the location of Taxila (33.74°N, 72.80°E) in Pakistan during the year 2017. The cooker's pe...

Growing concerns of environmentalists have led the researchers to improve the performance of the gas turbines by reducing its carbon footprints. Besides increasing the turbine inlet temperature and pressure ratio of the gas turbine, one suitable way is to recover the exhaust heat from gas turbine using a waste heat recovery unit or units and employ...

Nano-fluids have stable suspended nano-sized solid particles in a liquid base fluid which exhibit high thermo-physical properties as compared to base fluid alone. Since solids have higher thermal conductivity; therefore, suspended solid particles enhance the heat and mass characteristics of the base fluid. In this work, an experimental and analytic...

In this work, an analysis is carried out by using nanofluid in tube side of SOLTEQ heat exchanger. The analysis is carried out using effectiveness-NTU method. The influence of the nanofluids on the overall heat transfer coefficient is calculated using appropriate heat transfer correlations. The results of the analysis are benchmarked by using only...

In this research paper, a regenerative cooling system of a cryogenic rocket engine is numerically simulated. The simulation is carried out for the number of channels and aspect ratio of each of the channel for optimal cooling and pressure drop. Fluid flow is considered turbulent, steady state and three dimensional, therefore, momentum and heat cons...

Maisotsenko Cycle (M-Cycle) is a recently patented and novel thermodynamic cycle which utilizes the renewable latent heat of evaporation of humid air to attain a temperature below the wet-bulb. In contrast, existing evaporative cooling methods can only cool an air to around its wet-bulb temperature. However, the modification in an indirect evaporat...

Evaporative coolers has a minimum potential to reach the wet-bulb temperature of intake air which is not enough to handle a large cooling load; therefore, it is not a feasible option to overcome cooling requirement of a building. The invention of Maisotsenko (M) cycle has led evaporative cooling technology to reach the sub-wet-bulb temperature of t...

Evaporative coolers has a minimum potential to reach the wet-bulb temperature of intake air which is not enough to handle a large cooling load; therefore, it is not a feasible option to overcome cooling requirement of a building. The invention of Maisotsenko (M) cycle has led evaporative cooling technology to reach the sub-wet-bulb temperature of t...

In this research paper, a solar assisted desalination unit is numerically simulated. Saline water is heated using flat-plate solar collector. Heated saline/brackish water is used to humidify the atmospheric air in a humidification chamber. Condensate/fresh water is collected from the humid air in dehumidification chamber. In this research paper, a...

The purpose of this work is to study a specific case of Rayleigh-Benard convection. Convection undergoes transition time-dependent regime on a sufficiently high Rayleigh Number. The critical Rayleigh value is calculated where antisymmetric-symmetric mode switches. This mode exhibits an odd number of rolls along x and an even number of cells in the...

Air-Conditioning accounts roughly for 40% of building energy consumption across the world. The consumption of non-renewable energy resources is not a feasible option to fulfill all the energy requirements across the world; so, renewable energy resources for HVACR applications are in research. One of the renewable energy resources is the use of wate...