• Experimental Measurement and Numerical Investigation of Thermophysical Properties of Binary Fuel Oxygenate Mixtures to Reduce Emission from Vehicles for a Greener Environment.
• Modelling Rare Earth Element Leaching and Residual Separation Systems.
• Development of a reactive distillation column prototype to convert acrylic acid in the petrochemical wastewater to valuable butyl acrylate through esterification.
• Transfer of Vacuum Assisted Separation process Knowledge for The Improvement of Thermo-Mechanical Process Using Steam Explosion Unit for the Cellulose production From Oil Palm Frond (OPF).
• Task-specific protic ionic liquids as a chelating agent for reservoir stimulator.
• Cheaper and More Durable Proton Exchange Membrane.
• Control and Operability Study of Dividing Wall Column (DWC) for Separation of Fatty Alcohol/Acid in Oleochemical Industries.
• Experimental and modelling studies of a dividing wall column used for the separation of high purity products in biodiesel production.

• Member:IChemE.
• Member:Persatuan Saintis Muslim (PERINTIS).
• Member:IKRAM Academia.
• Graduate Member:MBOT.
• Graduate Member:BEM.
• Certified Aspen Plus User.
• Accredited HRDC Trainer.

• Development of Renewable Natural Gas System Integrated with Dry Anaerobic Digester using Organic Waste (TNBR).
• Development of Academician Performance Management System (UMPSA).
• Hydrogenolysis of Biomass Hydrolysates - Lignin Recovery from the Biomass Pre-treatment and Production Purification Service (PRSB).
• Conceptual Design, Modeling and Sizing of Crude Algae Oil Extraction and Purification System (Tuah Energy).
• Conceptual Design for Clinical Waste (CW) Incinerator Air Pollution Control (APC) System.
• Process Monitoring, Artificial Neural Network and Sustainability Assessment Training & Performance Dashboard Development Supervision (BPC).
• Design of an integrated pilot plant training unit (Gadang Works).

• Material & Energy Balance.
• Cogeneration And Site Utility System.
• Industrial Sustainability and Decision Making.
• Process Modelling & Control.
• Introduction to Chemical Process Plant.
• Sustainability in Oil, Gas & Process Industries.
• Process, Operation and Control.

Associate Professor

Ir. Dr.-Ing. Mohamad Rizza bin Othman is an Associate Professor at Chem. Eng. Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP). He earned his Bachelor and Masters degree in Chem. Eng. from UTM and holds Dr.-Ing. from TU Berlin, Germany. His research area focuses on Process Systems Engineering (PSE) namely on advanced process modelling & simulation, intensified process design, tecno-economic and sustainability assessment, process control and artificial intelligence.

His simulation experience covers biodiesel production, hydrogen production, carbon capture systems, dividing wall columns, clinical waste incineration and air pollution control, biogas purification and oleochemical fractionation. He has authored over 28 papers and participated in more than 55 conferences and exhibitions. In 2024 he was awarded The JIPA Award for Best Invention in Design at ITEX. He has managed research grants and consulted projects with accumulated valued at more than RM 4 million. Notably, he recently completed a project on the development of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) System Integrated with Dry Anaerobic Digester using Organic Waste.

He had served in various managerial positions as Head for Process Systems Engineering and Safety Research Group, Deputy Dean of Research, Deputy Director for Strategic Planning, Control & Quality Unit and member of various committee at department and university level. In addition, he was appointed as Chair and organizing committee for several national and international conferences.

He is a CEng (UK), PEng (BEM), MIChemE, Certified Aspen Plus User and Accredited HRDC Trainer. He is the founder of Smart Integration Systems in Process Industries (SISPI), a competence center under MOHE. Currently at UTP, he spearheads and oversees the UTP-AspenTech collaboration.

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Publication List from UTP Scholars

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Helwani, Z. and Aziz, N. and Bakar, M.Z.A. and Mukhtar, H. and Kim, J. and Othman, M.R. (2013) Conversion of Jatropha curcas oil into biodiesel using re-crystallized hydrotalcite. Energy Conversion and Management, 73. pp. 128-134. ISSN 01968904

Ahmad, A.L. and Othman, M.R. and Mukhtar, H. (2004) H2 separation from binary gas mixture using coated alumina-titania membrane by sol-gel technique at high-temperature region. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 29 (8). pp. 817-828. ISSN 03603199

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