Curriculum Vitae

DR. MEOR MOHD FAISAL BIN MEOR ZULKIFLI

Senior Lecturer
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Faculty of Engineering
  • meor
  • 01165281285

BIOGRAPHY

Meor Faisal Zulkifli received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Surrey, UK, and his Ph.D. in Engineering from Imperial College London. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, specializing in power generation and machine learning applications.

Meor Faisal Zulkifli has significant industry experience, having served as Project Leader and Principal Researcher at TNB Research, where he led multiple projects focused on improving the efficiency of gas turbine and coal-fired power plants using advanced technologies, including AI and machine learning. During his tenure at TNB Research, he successfully led 5 major projects that collectively amounted to more than RM 10 million. His expertise lies in fuels and combustion, clean energy, power plant operations, and AI integration.

Meor Faisal Zulkifli is currently working on projects related to hydrogen/ammonia combustion for industrial gas turbines, coal combustion enhancement using chemical additives, and developing intelligent systems for optimizing power plant operations.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • COMBUSTION AND FUEL ENGINEERING
    Coal, Natural Gas, Hydrogen, Ammonia, Biomass and Biofuel Combustion
  • POWER PLANT ENGINEERING
    CFD Applications in Fuels and Combustion (Solid Fuel Furnaces and Gas Turbine Combustors)
  • AI/ML APPLICATIONS IN POWER GENERATION PLANTS
    Solid Fuels Power Plants and Gas Turbine Power Plants

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • PhD (Kejuruteraan Mekanikal), (Kejuruteraan Mekanikal / Jentera)
    Imperial College London, UK
  • MEng (Kejuruteraan Mekanikal), (Kejuruteraan Mekanikal / Jentera)
    University of Surrey

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

  • Coordinator
    01 Feb 2024 - 31 Dec 2026 (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering)
  • Task Force Member
    11 Mar 2024 - 11 Mar 2025 (Department)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
  1. Hairul Hisham Hamzah, Najahtul Najihah Ahmad Kamal, Marta Meneghello, Saiful Arifin Shafiee, Turgut Sonmez, Mohamad Nurul Azmi Mohamad, Shazarizul Haziq Mohd Samsuri, Meor Faisal Zulkifli (2020), Hexanediamine Monolayer Electrografted at Glassy Carbon Electrodes Enhances Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Aqueous Neutral Media, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 167(16).
  2. Mohd Noor, N. A. W. ., Hasini, H. ., Mohd Samsuri, M. S. H. ., & Meor Zulkifli, M. M. F. . (2020). CFD Analysis on the Effects of Different Coal on Combustion Characteristics in Coal-fired Boiler. CFD Letters, 12(10), 128–138
  3. Mohd Samsuri, M. S. H., Hasini, H., Mohd Noor, N. A. W., & Meor Zulkifli, M. M. F. (2020). Temperature Profile Assessment of Sub-Bituminous Coal by Using a Single Burner Combustion Test Facility. Journal of Advanced Research in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences, 78(1), 1–10.
  4. Siti NIO, Zaidah ZA, Azlan Z, Muhd FS, Mohamed IAH, Rosmamuhamadani R, Zarif MS, Meor FZ, Muhammad FA, Mohd MM (2020) Electrically conductive fabric coated with polyaniline: physicochemical characterisation and antibacterial assessment. Emergent Materials. doi.org/10.1007/s42247-019-00062-4
  5. Zhenzhen Wang, Wangzheng Zhou, Junjie Yan, Takahiro Kamimoto, Kazuma Tsujimoto, Yi Li, Yoshihiro Deguchi, Nursalwa Ahmad Sani, Shazarizul Haziq Samsuri, Meor Faisal Zulkifli (2020), Application of 2D temperature measurement to a coal-fired furnace using CT-TDLAS, Measurement Science and Technology, 31(3), 0957-0233.
  6. Cheng Tung Chong, Jo-Han Ng, Mohd Shiraz Aris, Guo Ren Mong, Norshakina Shahril, Sing Tung Ting, Meor F. Zulkifli, Impact of gas composition variations on flame blowout and spectroscopic characteristics of lean premixed swirl flames, Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 128(1-13), 0957-5820.
  7. Meor F. Zulkifli, Franziska Hunger, Benjamin A. O. Williams, Frank Beyrau, Christian Hasse (2016), Comparative flame structure investigation of normal and inverse turbulent non-premixed oxy-fuel flames using experimentally recorded and numerically predicted Rayleigh and OH-PLIF signals, Proceedings of Combustion Institute 36(2).
  8. Hunger Franziska, Meor F. Zulkifli, Benjamin AO Williams, Frank Beyrau, Christian Hasse (2016). A Combined Experimental and Numerical Study of Laminar and Turbulent Non-piloted Oxy-fuel Jet Flames Using a Direct Comparison of the Rayleigh Signal, Flow Turbulence and Combustion 97, no. 1 (2016): 231-262
Article in Proceeding
  1. Hunger, F., Zulkifli, M., Williams, B., Beyrau, F., Hasse, C. "Numerical and experimental analysis of laminar and turbulent oxy-fuel jet flames using a direct comparison of the Rayleigh signal." 15th International Conference on Numerical Combustion, 2015.
  2. Zulkifli, Meor F, Franziska Hunger, Christian Hasse, Frank Beyrau, and Benjamin AO Williams. "Validation of a numerical model of oxy-fuel combustion in laminar and turbulent jet flames by direct prediction of experimental quantities." European Combustion Meeting, 2015

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Fuels and Combustion (Hydrogen, Ammonia, Natural Gas, Coal, Biomass and Biofuel)
  • Power Plant Combustion Technology (Gas Turbines and Coal-Fired Power Plants, and CFD)
  • Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (Applications of ML/AI in Combustion and Power Generation)

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2024 - 2027, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS)
    Comprehensive Investigation Of Ternary Fuel Blending: Characterizing Hydrogen-ammonia-methane Combustion At Elevated Pressures Through Experimental And Numerical Approaches ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  2. 2024 - 2025, UM Living Labs @ UMSDC
    Reducing Energy Consumption of Air Conditioner Via a Synergy of Superhydrophobic Evaporator and Machine Learning-Enabled Performance Monitoring ( Co-Researcher)
Private
  1. 2017 - 2020, Tenaga Nasional Berhad
    Development of a sensing system for online 2-d temperature profiling in coal-fired furnace using laser-based technique ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  2. 2019 - 2020, Tenaga Nasional Berhad
    Intelligent laser-based surface defect scanning system ( Co-Researcher)
  3. 2018 - 2019, Tenaga Nasional Berhad
    Intelligent gas turbine combustion monitoring system ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  4. 2017 - 2019, Tenaga Nasional Berhad
    Coal-blending application in coal-fired power plants ( Co-Researcher)
  5. 2017 - 2018, Tenaga Nasional Berhad
    Enhancement of gas supply quality specifications for gas turbine power plants ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  6. 2017 - 2018, Tenaga Nasional Berhad
    Application of chemical additive to reduce slagging and fouling formation in coal-fired power plants operation ( Co-Researcher)

CONSULTANCY PROJECT

  • Coal Quality Assessment and Trial Burn - Tnb Janamanjung, Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Project Leader/Lead Consultant
    01 Jul 2018 - 14 Jul 2020 (National)
  • Coal Quality Assessment and Trial Burn - Tnb Janamanjung, Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Project Leader/Lead Consultant
    01 Aug 2018 - 30 Jun 2020 (National)

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
  1. (2024) STATE ESTIMATION AND SENSORS-FUSION WITH ITS APPLICATION TO ASSISTANCE FOR PEOPLE WITH IMPAIRED VISION, BANAFSHE AKBARINIA
  2. (2024) COAL COMBUSTION ENHANCEMENT: THE IMPACT OF ADDITIVES, NUR SALWA AHMAD SANI

TEACHING

Bachelor
  1. (2024) KIG2013 - Computer Programming
  2. (2024) KIG4068 - Machine Learning