Sustainable Hybrid Cooling and Dehumidification Strategies for Controlled Environments. Emerging Technologies and Materials in Thermal Engineering

Authors

Uzair Sajjad Postdoctoral Fellow, Interdisciplinary Research Center of Sustainable Energy Systems, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Uzair Sajjad is a postdoctoral fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Center of Sustainable Energy Systems at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Energy and Refrigerating Air-Conditioning Engineering at the National Taipei University of Technology in Taiwan for two and a half years. He completed his PhD at National Chiao Tung University Taiwan and, for his research excellence, was awarded two science and technology awards by CTCI Taiwan. He is investigating different topics of heat transfer, energy, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, surface engineering, heat pump and vacuum freeze-drying, and additive manufacturing. He has won 3.5 million NTD grants from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in Taiwan, China. He has published over 80 SCI articles and book chapters in these areas, garnering over 3400 citations. He has also served as a reviewer and guest editor for many respected journals. Hafiz Muhammad Ali Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Renewable Energy Laboratory, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Ali is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of Institute of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) UK, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) UK and Editor in Chief of Emerging Technologies and Materials in Thermal Engineering (Elsevier). He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS), Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom. He was a postdoc at Water and Energy Laboratory of University of California at Merced, United States. Recently, he has been serving as the Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, and as Director of Renewable Energy Laboratory at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Muhammad Sultan Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan. Dr. Sultan is an Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Engineering at Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa and INTI International University, Malaysia. He has contributed to research at WPI-I2CNER, Japan, and CORE, Canada. Holding a PhD and postdoctoral research experience from Japan and Canada, he has been recognized among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University/Elsevier. Dr. Sultan has authored over 200 journal articles, 15 books, and 25 book chapters, with more than 6,500 citations. As an editor for 20 journals and a reviewer for over 100, his research focuses on sustainable energy systems, advanced cooling technologies, and agricultural engineering innovations, contributing to both academic excellence and global sustainability