Dr. Dhawal Shah is an assistant professor in the department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Nazarbayev University (NU) since August 2015. He received his B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and Ph. D. degree in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering from Singapore-MIT Alliance at National University of Singapore. Prior to joining NU, he has been working as lecturer and assistant professor at Middle East Technical University in Cyprus and in Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, respectively.
His research interest is on molecular dynamics simulations of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents to explore the underlying interactions of/within these solvents, and to correlate these interactions to their thermophysical and chemical properties. In addition, he also performs molecular/quantum simulations on biomolecules to understand and enhance their structural stability.
- Molecular dynamics simulations
- Ionic liquids, Deep eutectic solvents
- Adsorption over nanomaterials
- Protein aggregation and bio-molecular stability
- Aerosol Chemistry
He has taught a variety of courses related to breadth and depth of chemical engineering. The list includes
- Thermodynamics (Graduate; Undergraduate)
- Chemical Plant Design and Optimization (Undergraduate)
- Chemical Process Calculations (Undergraduate)
- Computer Aided Design (Aspen Plus; Undergraduate)
- Heat Transfer and Exchanger Design (Undergraduate)
- Physical Chemistry (Undergraduate)
- Process Control and Dynamics (Undergraduate)
- Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety (Undergraduate)
- Engineering Economics (Undergraduate)
- Surface and Colloid Sciences (Graduate; Undergraduate)
- Plant Economics and Design (Graduate)
- Resource Engineering (Includes Green Engineering, Biotechnology) (Graduate; Undergraduate)
- Unit Operation Laboratories (Undergraduate)
- Fluid Mechanics (Undergraduate)
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Contributions of burner, pan, meat and salt to PM emission during grillingAmouei Torkmahalleh, M., Ospanova, S., Baibatyrova, A., Nurbay, S., Zhanakhmet, G., Shah, D.,
2018 In : Environmental Research. 164, p. 11-17
Hydrothermal synthesis of zeolite production from coal fly ash: A heuristic approach and its optimization for system identification of conversionTauanov, Z., Shah, D., Inglezakis, V., Jamwal, P.,
2018 In : Journal of Cleaner Production. 182, p. 616-623
Molecular dynamics simulations to design novel solvents for deep desulfurizationGapeyenko, D., Jamwal, P., Shah, D.,
2018 Advanced Materials - Proceedings of the International Conference on "Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications", PHENMA 2017. Springer Science and Business Media, LLC, 207, p. 119-124
Optimized Production of Coal Fly Ash Derived Synthetic Zeolites for Mercury Removal from WastewaterTauanov, Z., Shah, D., Itskos, G., Inglezakis, V.,
2017Optimized Production of Coal Fly Ash Derived Synthetic Zeolites for Mercury Removal from WastewaterTauanov, Z., Shah, D., Itskos, G., Inglezakis, V.,
2017 In : IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 230, 1,
Formation of type III Deep Eutectic Solvents and effect of water on their intermolecular interactionsZhekenov, T., Toksanbayev, N., Kazakbayeva, Z., Shah, D., Mjalli, F.,
2017 In : Fluid Phase Equilibria. 441, p. 43-48
Intermolecular interactions and its effect within Cr3+-containing atmospheric particulate matter using molecular dynamics simulationsShah, D., Aldamzharov, B., Bukayeva, A., Amouei Torkmahalleh, M., Ahmadi, G.,
2017 In : Atmospheric Environment. 166, p. 334-339
Interaction of arginine, lysine, and guanidine with surface residues of lysozyme: Implication to protein stabilityShah, D., Shaikh, A.,
2016 In : Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 34, 1, p. 104-114
Simulation based insight into solvation properties of ferric chloride based eutectic solventMjalli, F., Shah, D.,
2015 Chemical Engineering Transactions. Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC, 43, p. 1843-1848
Arginine-Amino acid interactions and implications to protein solubility and aggregationShaikh, A., Shah, D.,
2015 In : Journal of Engineering Research. 12, 2, p. 1-14
Effect of water on the thermo-physical properties of Reline: An experimental and molecular simulation based approachShah, D., Mjalli, F.,
2014 In : Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16, 43, p. 23900-23907
Arginine-aromatic interactions and their effects on arginine-induced solubilization of aromatic solutes and suppression of protein aggregationShah, D., Li, J., Shaikh, A., Rajagopalan, R.,
2012 In : Biotechnology Progress. 28, 1, p. 223-231
Effects of arginine on heat-induced aggregation of concentrated protein solutionsShah, D., Shaikh, A., Peng, X., Rajagopalan, R.,
2011 In : Biotechnology Progress. 27, 2, p. 513-520
Effects of polydisperse crowders on aggregation reactions: A molecular thermodynamic analysisShah, D., Tan, A., Ramakrishnan, V., Jiang, J., Rajagopalan, R.,
2011 In : Journal of Chemical Physics. 134, 6,
Solubilization of aromatic and hydrophobic moieties by arginine in aqueous solutionsLi, J., Garg, M., Shah, D., Rajagopalan, R.,
2010 In : Journal of Chemical Physics. 133, 5,
