Dr. Baharak Sajjadi
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PETROLEUM AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
Major Areas of Interest
Advanced refinery processes; renewable energies; carbon capture, conversion, & utilization; carbon functionalization & modification; hydrogen production; computational fluid dynamics.
Education
B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, University of Arak
M.Sc. Chemical Engineering, University of Arak
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Malaya
Bio
Dr. Baharak Sajjadi is an Assistant Professor at the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological engineering, University of Oklahoma (OU). She leads the Sustainable Energy and Environment Group (SEEG) at OU. Previously, Dr. Sajjadi worked as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi. She earned her BSc and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arak, Iran, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. She then joined the University of Malaya (UM) to pursue her Ph.D. degree and completed her dissertation in Chemical Engineering under the Bright Sparks Scholarship in 2015. Dr. Sajjadi has authored or coauthored more than 60 research and technical articles. Her main field of research includes advanced refinery processes; renewable energies; carbon capture, conversion, utilization; carbon functionalization, and modification; hydrogen production; and computational fluid dynamics (CFD Simulation). Her current projects focus on catalytic non-thermal plasma, and catalytic chemical looping for carbon capture and conversion, natural gas conversion and biomass conversion. Dr. Sajjadi is an editor-in-chief of the third and fourth editions of the 5-volume “Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation”. She also serves as the associate editor for the Elsevier Journal FUEL.
Selected Publications
Dawa T, Silva Martinez MP, Sajjadi B. Enhanced Production of Hydrogen through Modified Brownmillerite Ca2Fe2-xMxO5 (M: Co, Cu, Ni) for Chemical Looping Gasification. Fuel 2025;390:134490.
Abdullah M, Sajjadi B. Sustainable conversion of natural gas to hydrogen using transition metal carbides. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2024;90:61-103.
Chopra S, Sajjadi B. A mechanistic analysis of particles flow in a turbulent circulating dual fluidized bed for chemical looping technology based on CFD-DEM simulation. Powder Technology 2023:119260.
Sajjadi B, Chen W-Y. Catalytic non-thermal milli-pulse plasma for methanation of CO2 without carbon deposition and catalyst deactivation. Chemical Engineering Journal 2023;469:143428.
Sajjadi B, Chen W-Y, Fan M, Rony A, Saxe J, Leszczynski J, et al. A techno-economic analysis of solar catalytic chemical looping biomass refinery for sustainable production of high purity hydrogen. Energy Conversion and Management 2021;243:114341.
