Biography

Prof. Veena Sahajwalla

Strategic Industry Relations, Faculty of Science

University of New South Wales, Australia

Director of Sustainable Materials Research & Technology


Email: veena@unsw.edu.au


Qualifications
PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, USA
MASc, Metals and Materials Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada

BTech, Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, India


Publications (selected)
  1. Lundgren, M., Khanna, R., Ökvist, L.S., Sahajwalla, V., Björkman, B., 2014. The evolution of structural order as a measure of thermal history of coke in the blast furnace, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, (DOI) 10.1007/s11663-013-9977-7.
  2. Rajarao, R., Mansuri, I., Dhunna, R., Khanna, R., Sahajwalla, V., 2014. Characterisation of gas evolution and char structural change during pyrolysis of waste CDs, J. Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, Vol. 105, pp. 14-22.
  3. Farzana R, Rajarao R, Sahajwalla V, (2014) “Synthesis of ferrosilicon alloy using waste glass and plastics” Materials Letters, 116, pp. 101-103.
  4. Park H, Sahajwalla V (2013) “Influence of CaO-SiO2-Al2O3 ternary oxide system on the reduction behaviour of carbon composite pellets: Reaction kinetics” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B 44B, pp. 1379-1389.
  5. Kumar A, Khanna R, Spink J, Sahajwalla V (2013) “Fundamental investigations on the corrosion of ZrO2–C refractories during interaction with a casting mould meniscus slag” Steel Research International, 84, pp. 1-9.
  6. Sharma S, Khanna R, Mishra DD, Agarwala V, Sahajwalla V (2013) “Thermal Degradation Behaviour of Mechanically Alloyed Mixtures of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) and Petroleum Coke”, Plastics and Polymer Technology, 4, pp. 87-91.(2012).
  7. Wechsler A, Zaharia M, Crosky A, Jones H, Ramírez M, Ballerini A, Nuñez M, Sahajwalla V, (2013) “Macadamia shell and castor oil-based sustainable particleboard: a comparison of its properties with conventional wood based particleboard”, Materials and Design, 50, pp. 117-123.(2012).
  8. Gupta S., Ye, Z, Kerkkonen, O., Kanniala, R. and Sahajwalla, V. (2013), “Coke graphitization and degradation across the tuyere regions in a blast furnace” Fuel 113, pp. 77–85.(2011).
  9. Zaharia M, Sahajwalla V, Saha-Chaudhury N, O’Kane P, Fontana A, Skidmore C, and Knights D (2013) "Recycling of Rubber Tires in Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking: Carbon/Slag Reactions of Coke/Rubber Blends" High Temperature Materials and Processes, 31, pp. 593–602.
  10. Shahnaz S, Khanna R, Sahajwalla V, Hussin K, Zulkepli NN, Ting SS (2013) “Characterizations on the effect of processing of polymer blend with Petroleum coke” Advanced Materials Research, 795, pp. 644-648.
  11. Khanna, R., and Sahajwalla, V., 2013. Atomistic simulations of properties and phenomena at high temperatures, Treatise on Process Metallurgy, Vol. I, pp. 245-351. Elsevier, ed. S. Seetharaman, A. Mclean, R. Gutherie and S. Sridhar.
  12. Sahajwalla, V., Zaharia, M., Mansuri, I., Rajarao, R., Dhunna, R., Nur Yunos, F., Khanna, R., Saha-Chaudhury, N., O’Kane, P., Fontana, A., Jin, Z., Skidmore, C., Vielhauer, P., O’Connell, D. and Knights, D., 2013. The Power of Steelmaking – harnessing high temperature reactions to transform waste into raw material resources, AIST Howe Memorial Lecture, Pittsburgh, PA, US, 6-9 May.
  13. Yunos, NFM., Zaharia, M., Idris, AM., Nath, D., Khanna, R. and Sahajwalla, V., 2012 .Recycling Agricultural Waste from Palm Shells during Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking, Energy and Fuels, vol. 26., no. 1, pp. 278-86.
  14. Syed Bakar SS, Khanna R, Kamarudin H, Sahajwalla V, (2012), “Wettability and interfacial phenomena investigations on high-density polyethylene and petroleum coke” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 125, no. 3, pp. 2056-2062.
  15. Katharina K P, Khanna R, Sahajwalla V (2012) “Resource and Energy Recovery from Wastes – Perspectives for a Green Economy” Environmental Policy and Law, 42 (6), pp. 344-349.
  16. Grigore M, Sakurovs R, French D, Sahajwalla V, (2012) “Properties and CO2 reactivity of the inert and reactive maceral-derived components in cokes” International Journal of Coal Geology, 98, pp. 1–9.
  17. Nath D, Mansuri I, Zaharia M, Chaudhury N, Sahajwalla V (2012) "Recycling of end-of-life Melamine at 1600 °C for Carbon Dissolution into Liquid Iron” ISIJ international, 52(5) pp. 922-927.
  18. Khanna, R., Mahjoub, R. and Sahajwalla, V., 2011. Atomistic Monte Carlo simulations in steelmaking: high temperature carburization and decarburization of molten steel, Applications of Monte Carlo method in science and engineering, edited by S Mark and S Mordechai, Intech, Crotia , pp. 629-652. ISBN 978-953-307-691-1.
  19. Nath, D. and Sahajwalla, V., 2011 .Application of fly ash as a catalyst for synthesis of carbon nanotube ribbons, Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 192, pp. 691-7.
  20. Khanna, R., Sahajwalla, V., Simento, N. and Seetharaman, S., 2010. Atomistic Monte Carlo simulations on the influence of sulphur during high temperature decarburization of molten iron-carbon alloys, Acta Materiala, vol. 58., no. 6, pp. 2225-36.
  21. Sahajwalla, V., Zaharia, M., Kongkarat, S., Khanna, R., Saha-Chaudhury, N. and O‘Kane, P., 2010. Recycling Plastics as a Resource for Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Steelmaking: Combustion and Structural Transformations of Metallurgical Coke and Plastic Blends, Energy and Fuels, vol. 24, pp. 379-91.
  22. Zaharia, M., Sahajwalla, V., Khanna, R., Koshy, P. and O’Kane, P., 2009. Carbon/slag interactions between coke/rubber blends and EAF slag at 1550 °C, ISIJ International, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 1513-21.


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