STAFF PROFILE
Professor Bahman Shabani
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Phone:
+61399254353
Email:
bahman.shabani@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora East
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Research supervision
Professor Bahman Shabani is a research and teaching active academic in the School of Engineering.
Professor Bahman Shabani has an extensive experience in tertiary level teaching and conducting applied and fundamental industrial and academic research since 1999. His research is generally focused on energy/exergy and thermal analysis of various renewable energy systems with a particular focus on hydrogen fuel cell technologies and hydrogen-based energy storage solutions since 2006. Prof. Shabani was the chief investigator of numerous funded projects on fuel cell systems.
Leader of Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Laboratory (SHEL) research group.
Course coordination and teaching
- Sustainable Energy Fundamentals
- Electrical Energy Storage Systems
Recent research activities and supervisions
- Nanofluid-based coolants for PEM fuel cells
- Hybrid fuel cell/battery/super-capacitor solutions for mobile applications
- Fuel cell and MH thermal management using heat pipes
- Integrated solar-hydrogen CHP and solar-thermal systems for combined heat and power supply
- Unitised regenerative fuel cell (URFC) systems
- Hot plate thermal conductivity measurement
- Hydrogen refuelling stations
- Proton flow batteries
- Innovative bulk hydrogen storage and exporting solutions
- Gas diffusion layers for URFCs
- PCM thermal storage solutions with enhanced thermal conductivity
- Hydrogen for large-scale and long-term energy storage applications
- Thermal management of metal hydride systems
- Novel fuel cell gas flow field solutions
- PhD (Mech. Eng.), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- M.Sc. (Mech. Eng.), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- B.Sc. (Mech. Eng.), Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- Graduate Certificate (Tertiary Teaching and Learning), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Employment history
- 2022-Present: Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2019-2021: Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2019-2020: Discipline Leader (Mechanical Engineering), School of Engineering, RMIT University
- 2016-2018: Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2013-2018: Program Manager for Master of Engineering (Sustainable Energy)
- 2012-2015: Lecturer, SAMME, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2010-2012: Research fellow, SAMME, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2006-2010: PhD research, course coordination, and lecturing, SAMME, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2005-2006: Mechanical Engineer expert, engineering consultancy
- 2003-2005: Mechanical Engineer, engine expert, SAIPA automotive manufacturing Group, Tehran, Iran
- 1999-2003: Engine, and engine cooling systems Mechanical Engineer design expert, Automotive Industries Research and Innovation Centre (AIRIC), Tehran, Iran
Membership
- Member of World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies
Peer review and scientific committee contributions
- Editorial and advisory boards
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE)
- Energies (MDPI)
- Journal of Sci (MDPI)
- Topic Editor-in-Chief ‘Hydrogen Energy Technologies’, Energies, Sci, Hydrogen (mdpi)
- Frontiers in Chemical Engineering
- Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Special Issue on Sustainable and Renewable Energy
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE)
- Scientific and indsutry committees
- Fuel cell working group, Standard Australia ME093
- 11th Australian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (2018)
- 2nd International Conference of Energy and Power (2018)
- 1st International Conference of Energy and Power (2016)
Achievements
- Executive Dean's Research Excellence Award for highest 2018 research performance in School of Engineering, RMIT University
- Top 2% Scientists in the field of ENERGY (Mendeley Data, published in Oct. 2020)
- School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT award (2014) for the highest Good Teaching Scale (GTS) and Overall Satisfaction Index (OSI) in small classes (under 50 students)
- School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT award (2013) for the highest Good Teaching Scale (GTS) and Overall Satisfaction Index (OSI) in small classes (under 50 students)
- Demonstration of the first Australian hydrogen fuel cell truck scaled model (2011/2012)
- The 1st Australian Institute of Energy (AIE) National Award/Prize for the best postgraduate energy project; Adelaide, Australia (2010)
- The 1st AIE Victorian Award/Prize for the best postgraduate renewable energy research; Melbourne, Australia (2010)
- The best PhD research paper publication, School of Aerospace, Mechanical, and Manufacturing (SAMME), RMIT University (2009)
- Scholarship award, Iranian Industries and Mining Ministry (1999)
- Aramesh, M.,Shabani, B. (2024). Thermal Energy Storage In: Thermal Energy, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, United States
- Gharapetian, D.,Fini, M.,Asgari, M.,Shabani, B. (2024). A nanofluid-based hybrid photovoltaic-thermal -thermoelectric generator system for combined heat and power applications In: Energy conversion and management, 301, 1 - 14
- Schopen, O.,Narayan, S.,Beckmann, M.,Najmi, A.,Esch, T.,Shabani, B. (2024). An EIS approach to quantify the effects of inlet air relative humidity on the performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cells: A pathway to developing a novel fault diagnostic method In: International journal of hydrogen energy, 58, 1302 - 1315
- Mourshed, M.,Nguyen, H.,Shabani, B. (2023). Using electrical conductivity to determine particle sedimentation status of carbon-based slurry electrodes in electrochemical energy storage systems In: Materials Science for Energy Technologies, 6, 290 - 300
- Mourshed, M.,Niya, S.,Shabani, B. (2023). Electronical Conductivity Improvement of Carbon-Based Slurry Electrodes Using Carbon Foams for Enhanced Performance in Advanced Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems In: ACS OMEGA, 8, 10525 - 10544
- Aramesh, M.,Shabani, B. (2023). Experimental evaluation of a self storage integrated evacuated tube solar thermal collector In: Journal of Energy Storage, 62, 1 - 15
- Darbari, B.,Derikvand, M.,Shabani, B. (2023). Thermal performance improvement of a LS-2 parabolic trough solar collector using porous disks In: Applied Thermal Engineering, 228, 1 - 16
- Aramesh, M.,Shabani, B. (2023). Performance evaluation of an enhanced self-storing evacuated tube solar collector in residential water heating application In: Journal of Energy Storage, 71, 1 - 15
- Edwards, H.,Pereira, M.,Gharaie, S.,Omrani, R.,Shabani, B. (2023). (In Press) Computational fluid dynamics modelling of proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Accuracy and time efficiency In: International journal of hydrogen energy, , 1 - 29
- Sarafraz, M.,Christo, F.,Rolfe, B.,Shabani, B.,Tran, N.,Fulcheri, L.,Escribà-Gelonch, M.,Hessel, V. (2023). Thermal plasma-driven looping for metal scrap processing with hydrogen In: Energy Conversion and Management, , 1 - 13
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
15 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions5 PhD Current Supervisions
Hydrogen technologies: fuel cells/electrolysers/storage/combined heat and power systems, Renewable/sustainable energy technologies, Integrated renewable energy systems, Thermal analyses, Thermodynamics of internal combustion engines, Alternative fuels.
- Developing the proton battery and proton flow reactor systems for energy storage. Funded by: Study Melbourne Research Partnerships Program from (2021 to 2022)
- A prototype portable, rechargeable and silent power supply based on a reversible hydrogen fuel cell. Funded by: Department of Defence Contract from (2020 to 2024)
- A proton flow reactor system for large-scale electrical energy storage and bulk export of hydrogenated carbon based material. Funded by: 073-Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) R&D Grants 2018 onwards from (2018 to 2021)