BEng (Petroleum Eng.), MSc (Chemical Eng.) (UTM), PhD (Strathclyde)
Faculty of Petroleum and Renewable Energy Engineering and Advanced Membrane Technology Research Center (AMTEC) Universiti Teknologi MalaysiaTEL: +60 (7) 5535592
FAX: + 60(7) 5535925
E-MAIL: afauzi@utm.my or fauzi.ismail@gmail.com
Research Interest:
Development of membrane technology for reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, membrane contactor, gas separation and development of nanofibers and carbon nanostructured materials for energy related application.
Professor Ismail has been the Founder and Head of Advanced Membrane Technology Research Center (AMTEC). This center is focused on research in development of membrane technology for reverse osmosis, nanofiltration and ultrafiltration for water and wastewater treatment including desalination, membrane contactor, gas separation and development of nanofibers and carbon nanostructured materials for energy related application.
Professor Ismail has published more than 100 articles in refereed publications. His work has also been published widely in refereed international conference proceedings and invited book chapters. He has also developed strong international links with renowned researchers worldwide. Linkages with industries have also developed and a number of contract researches from industries have been secured.
Professor Ismail has been the founding chairman of the ASEAN Membrane Science and Technology Society which have been organizing the International Conference Membrane Science and Technology for the past 8 years. He has also been invited to act as a member of the scientific committees in international conferences and delivered in numerous plenary, keynote and invited lectures internationally. He is also on the Editorial Board Member for Desalination journal, Membrane Water Treatment, Journal of Rubber Research, Jurnal Teknologi and the advisory panel for Institution of Engineers Malaysia journal. He has also been on the panel of referee for the research proposal in Belgium, USA and Middle East and for more than 20 international journals.
In the year 2000, Professor Ismail won the ASEAN Young Scientist and Technologist Award and Malaysian Young Scientist Award. He has also won more than 60 awards based on his research output of which 24 are at the international level.
Professor Ismail has also received the Prime Minister Initiative Award (PMI2) for Strategic Alliances and Partnership Project, a two years research grant in collaboration with Imperial College, London, sponsored by The British Council.
In 2009, Professor Ismail was awarded the Grand Prize Winner for the National Intellectual Property in Patent Category and the National Innovation Award winner in the Waste to Wealth Category.
Current Research
Professor Ismail current research activity focuses on water and wastewater treatment, solvent resistance reverse osmosis membrane, application of membrane technology in degumming and deacidification process in palm oil refining, novel membrane materials and processes for acid gas removal, membrane contactor for acid gas separation, carbon hollow fiber membrane for gas separation, mixed matrix membrane for gas separation and nanostructed materials for energy application.
Brief Description Professor Ahmad Fauzi Ismail
BSc., MSc., PhD.
Ahmad Fauzi Ismail is a Professor of Membrane Technology in Faculty of Petroleum and Renewable Energy Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia and Head of Advanced Membrane Technology Research Center (AMTEC). Currently he is the Dean of Research for Materials and Manufacturing Research Alliance of UTM.
In 1994, he was awarded the Association of Commonwealth University Scholarship to pursue his doctoral studies and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1997. Professor Ismail hold a US Patent (US Patent 6,521,025 B1), European Patent and eleven Malaysian Patents have been filed from his research works.
He has a particular interest in gas separation processes especially CO2 removal from natural gas, O2/N2 separation, H2 recovery, H2/N2 separation using polymer materials, inorganic materials as well as hybrid or composite materials. In addition, he also has a special interest in developing reverse osmosis, nanofiltration and ultrafiltration membrane for water and wastewater treatment and for biotechnology application. Recently, he developed an interest in developing nanocomposite materials from carbon fibers and carbon nanotube for gas separation and energy application. Professor Ismail has received numerous government research grants, and contract research from various industries. Currently, he has been appointed as the expert reviewer for all research grant funded by Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Malaysia.
He has more than 250 publications in academic journals, conference proceedings, original books and book chapters. He has also delivered more than 30 Plenary/Keynote/ Invited papers. In the year 2000, Professor Ismail won the ASEAN Young Scientist and Technologist Award and Malaysia Young Scientist Award. Professor Ismail has also received more than 60 awards of which 24 are at the international level. He has also been awarded the first Distinguished Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Researcher in 2008.
He has been appointed as the Editorial Board member for Desalination journal, Membrane Water Treatment journal and Journal of Rubber Research. Professor Ismail has also been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Applied Membrane Science and Technology, an international journal published by UTM press. From December 1, 2010, Professor Ismail has been appointed as Editor for Desalination journal published by Elsevier.
Professor Ismail received the prestigious Prime Minister Initiatives Award (PMI2) for Strategic Alliances and Partnership Project, a research grant for two years in collaboration with Imperial College, London, sponsored by The British Council. At present, he is supervising 20 PhD students and 10 MSc students.
Recently, Professor Ismail was awarded the Grand Prize Winner for the National Intellectual Property in the Patent Category and recently (2009) and the National Innovation Award winner in the Waste to Wealth Category (2009).