PROFILE DETAILS
Tafsirul Hassan is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET), a role he has held since December 19, 2024. Previously, he served as a lecturer in the same department from July 17, 2022, to December 18, 2024.
He earned his B.Sc. (May 2021) and M.Sc. (June 2023) in Mechanical Engineering from CUET. Before joining the faculty, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at CUET from September 30, 2021, to June 30, 2022, where he contributed to research on sustainable and carbon-neutral energy technologies.
His research focuses on the decarbonization of internal combustion engines through the use of sustainable fuels, including biofuels, e-fuels, green hydrogen, biohydrogen, and ammonia. His current work explores decarbonization strategies and ultra-low emission solutions for compression ignition engines, with an emphasis on Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) combustion using hydrogen, investigated through computational fluid dynamics simulations.
He is the recipient of the DRE Research Project Award (2025–2026) as Principal Investigator for the project “Decarbonizing diesel engines with biomass-derived hydrogen: Gasification and combustion studies,” funded by the Directorate of Research and Extension (DRE), CUET (Grant Amount: BDT 0.5 million). He also contributed as a team member to the HEAT Project—Window 2, Academic Transformation Fund, awarded by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the World Bank (Total Grant Amount: BDT 50 million).
Beyond his research and teaching responsibilities, Tafsirul Hassan actively contributes to the academic community as a peer reviewer for several high-impact journals, including Applied Energy, Industrial Crops and Products, Heliyon, Energy Reports, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, Journal of Engineering, Fuel Communications, and others. He is also a member of the editorial board of Transport, Mobility & Society.
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Schematic arrangement of the engine test bed (Heat Engine Lab, CUET) |
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| A flowchart representing the portion of Tafsirul Hassan's M.Sc. Engg. thesis work |
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| Simulated fuel spray visualization of biofuel blends using the quasi-dimensional multi-zone RK model in Diesel-RK software |
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CFD Simulation, Biodiesel, Alternative Fuels, Diesel Engine, Combustion, and Emission Control
Research Profiles
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (CUET)
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (CUET)
Certificates and Awards
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Memberships and Other Activities
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Theory Courses Offered
| Course Code | Course Title |
| ME 311 | Conduction and Radiation |
| ME 371 | Heat and Mass Transfer |
| BME 215 | Biofluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer |
| ME 417 | Refrigeration and Air-conditioning |
| ME 381 | Numerical Methods in Engineering |
| ME 241 | Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering (Thermodynamics part) |
Lab Courses Offered
| Course Code | Course Title |
| ME 312 | Conduction and Radiation |
| ME 372 | Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory |
| BME 216 | Biofluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Sessional |
| ME 382 | Numerical Methods in Engineering and MATLAB |
| ME 242 | Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering |
| ME 282 | MATLAB |
| ME 122 | Mechanical Engineering Drawing |
| Serial No | Title | Authors | Informations | Year |
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| 1 | Combustion and emission trade-offs in a heavy-duty diesel engine fueled with hydrotreated microalgal oil and Chlorella vulgaris biodiesel blends: Effect of injection timing and piston bowl geometry | T Hassan, MNU Chy, MM Rahman, ARI Ali | Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 201: 107560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2025.107560 | 2025 |
| 2 | Effect of Ni and Al nanoadditives on the performance and emission characteristics of a diesel engine fueled with diesel-castor oil biodiesel-n-butanol blends | T Hassan, MM Rahman, AR Adib, HM Meraz, MA Rahman, MSHK Tushar | Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 8: 100531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cscee.2023.100531 | 2023 |
| 3 | Effect of injection timing on combustion, performance, and emissions of a diesel engine fueled with novel biomass-to-liquid diesel and Spirulina microalgae biodiesel blends | M. Ahmed*, T. Hassan*, M.M. Rahman, MA Rahman, MS Rabbi | Energy Conversion and Management: X, 27: 101182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecmx.2025.101182 | 2025 |
| 4 | Novel biofuel blends for diesel engines: Optimizing engine performance and emissions with C. cohnii microalgae biodiesel and algae-derived renewable diesel blends | A R Adib*, M M Rahman*, T Hassan*, M Ahmed, A A Rifat | Energy Conversion and Management: X, 23: 100688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecmx.2024.100688 | 2024 |
| 5 | Opportunities and challenges for the application of biodiesel as automotive fuel in the 21st century | T Hassan, MM Rahman, MA Rahman, MN Nabi | Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 16 (5): 1353-1387. https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.2375 | 2022 |
| 6 | Recent advancement in the application of metal based nanoadditive in diesel/biodiesel fueled compression ignition engine: A comprehensive review on nanofluid preparation and stability, fuel property, combustion, performance, and emission characteristics | T Hassan, MM Rahman, MS Rabbi, MA Rahman, RM Meraz | Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, 42 (2): e13976. https://doi.org/10.1002/ep.13976 | 2023 |
| 7 | A review on algae biodiesel as an automotive fuel | RM Meraz, MM Rahman, T Hassan, A Al Rifat, AR Adib | Bioresource Technology Reports, 24: 101659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biteb.2023.101659 | 2023 |
| 8 | Advancing sustainable lubricating oil management: Re-refining techniques, market insights, innovative enhancements, and conversion to fuel | MRI Sazzad, MM Rahman, T Hassan, A Al Rifat, A Al Mamun, AR Adib, HM Meraz, M Ahmed | Heliyon, 10 (20): e39248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39248 | 2024 |
| 9 | Characterization and Performance Analysis of Syngas from Corn Cob Gasification Using Aspen Plus Simulation | RM Meraz, MM Rahman, T Hassan, MS Ali, MA Salam | Mechanical Engineering Research Journal, 13: 94-100 https://www.v2.cuet.ac.bd/merj/vol13/MERJ-V-13-11.pdf | 2024 |
| 10 | Heat Transfer Performance and Flow Dynamics of Al2O3/Water Nanofluid in Turbulent Regime | ARI Ali, T Hassan, B Salam, T Akter | Journal of Engineering Advancements, 5(02), 56–63. https://doi.org/10.38032/jea.2024.02.004 | 2024 |
| 11 | Evaluation of Different Turbulence Models at Low Reynolds Number for the Flow over Symmetric and Cambered Airfoils | T Hassan, MT Islam, MM Rahman, ARI Ali, A Al Ziyan | Journal of Engineering Advancements, 3 (01): 12-22. https://doi.org/10.38032/jea.2022.01.003 | 2022 |
| 12 | Development of a Fuzzy Risk Model for Criticality Analysis of TSP Complex Limited | K Ahsan, T Hassan, MM Rahman, MA Rahman | Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, 5 (1): 09-22 | 2021 |
| 13 | Numerical Analysis on Cavitation-noise and Fluid-structure Interaction of AU-Outline GAWN Series and B-Series Marine Propellers | MI Alam, AR Adib, AA Rifat, T Hassan, MM Rahman | Journal of Engineering Advancements, 4 (01): 25-34. https://doi.org/10.38032/jea.2023.01.005 | 2023 |
| 14 | An Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of Stir Casted Hybrid Al Metal Matrix Composite Reinforced with Al2O3 and TiO2 | MI Hossain, M Ahmed, T Hassan | Journal of Engineering Advancements, 06(01): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.38032/jea.2025.01.001 | 2025 |
| 15 | Transesterification of vegetable oil with ethanol using different catalysts | MM Rahman, T Hassan, MF Rabbi, MF Shakil, MA Khan | AIP Conference Proceedings, 2324 (1): 050003. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0037587 | 2021 |