Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri 2017 dari staf Fakulti Kejuruteraan Kimia dan Kejuruteraan Tenaga (FKT)

Alhamdulillah, I have been awarded the UTM’s Best Academic Advisor Award today in Citra Karisma 2016 today.

Quote from one of my Ph.D Students, Dr. Nurul Aini:

Million thanks to Dr Mazura Jusoh for being a very supportive supervisor along our postgraduate study. We are nobody without you. Semoga Allah pelihara kita dlm rahmatnya dan kurniakan kejayaan dunia akhirat. Amin!

1) Effect of Coolant Temperature on Desalination Process via Progressive Freeze Concentration

2) Progressive Freeze Concentration of Coconut Water: Effect of Coolant Temperature on Process Efficiency and Heat Transfer

3) Behaviour of Ice Crystal Growth in a Vertical Finned Cylindrical Freeze Concentrator

4) Effect of Circulation Flowrate on the Performance of a Spiral Finned Freeze Concentrator

5) Synthesis and Application of Carbon Cryogel Beads using Coconut Husk for Dye Removal

6) Renewable coconut shell activated carbon based for ethyl orange dye removal

7) Removal of reactive black 5 dye using a new polyacrylamide grafted cellulose flocculant derived from Pandan leaves: Optimization study

8) Removal of Ethyl Orange Dye Using Hybrid Chitosan and Zinc Oxide

9) Isolation, Characterization, and Application of Nanocellulose from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch Fiber as Nanocomposites

10) Enhancement of Sugar Content through Progressive Freeze Concentration: Effect of Initial Concentration

11) Effect of Coolant Temperature on Progressive Freeze Concentration of Refined, Bleached and Deodorised Palm Oil

12) Process Sequence Development for Automated Progressive Freeze Concentration System

13) Effect of Flowrate and Circulation Time on Fractionation of Refined Bleached and Deodorised Palm Oil using Progressive Freeze Concentration Method

14) Progressive Freeze Concentration of Coconut Water

15) Effect of Coolant Temperature on Desalination Process via Progressive Freeze Concentration

16) Progressive Freeze Concentration of Coconut Water: Effect of Coolant Temperature on Process Efficiency and Heat Transfer

17)Behaviour of Ice Crystal Growth in a Vertical Finned Cylindrical Freeze Concentrator

18)Effect of Circulation Flowrate on the Performance of a Spiral Finned Freeze Concentrator

19) Prediction of Crystal Mass through Heat Transfer Study for a Progressive Freeze Concentration System

This is one thing I have been sweeping under the carpet for quite a while. The forms have all been filled out but oh my…is it so hard to go back to it and run a final check through it Mazura? Lol…that’s me talking to myself. This is my New Year resolution…I will finish up the procedure by end of January. Please God help me!! *Note: There’s no year quoted…hopefully 2015.

Call me lady freeze….lol. This is my passion since 2006. It has been my love in the first sight since I saw that article published by a Japanese professor about separating water component from a solution through freezing. To easily understand the concept, just imagine on the formation of iceberg from seawater, trust me the icebergs are not salty. That is the result of freeze concentration y’all….the cold temperature freezes only the water component because water in solid form (ice) is a form of crystal which discards any imputirties to form its crystal lattice (the bond). Now, I am a proud phD holder in Freeze Concenteration!! Syukur….

It’s that time of the year again…time to reflect and flick through the pages of my memories all through out 2014. Teaching, research, publication, professional service, consultation….what else is new! Come on babe….

Behaviour of Ice Crystal Growth in a Vertical Finned Cylindrical Freeze Concentrator (Full paper at WVCARMEA2014-ID-129 (Nurul Aini))

Effect of Coolant Temperature on Desalination Process via Progressive Freeze Concentration (Full paper at WVCARMEA2014-ID-131 (Shafirah Samsuri))

Effect of Coolant Temperature on Desalination Process via Progressive Freeze Concentration (Full paper at WVCARMEA2014-ID-127 (Farah Hanim))

Effect of circulation flowrate on the performance of a spiral finned freeze concentrator (Full paper at WVCARMEA2014-ID-128 (Nor Zanariah))

 Name                                             Matrix No.

1) Nurul Aini Binti Amran                              PK113020

2) Shafirah Binti Samsuri                               PK113019

3) Nor Zanariah Binti Safiei                           PK113021

4) Farah Hanim Binti Ab. Hamid                  PK113023

Dr. Mazura Jusoh is a senior lecturer of Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering (FKKKSA), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, a member of the Separation Group. She has currently completed her PhD in University Technology Malaysia itself in the area of crystallisation of ice crystals a.k.a. freeze concentration.

Dr. Mazura has acquired her bachelor degree in University of Bradford, England graduated in 1999. Following it, she has pursued her Masters degree in chemical engineering in UTM itself through a course and dissertation program with dissertation titled ‘Crystallisation of RBD Palm Oil: Determination Of The Optimum Operating Condition Of A Pilot Dry Fractionation Plant’. During this research, she dealt with crystallization of olein (edible oil), which is also categorized as crystallisation from melt.

Crystallisation has since been her passion and she is constantly further deepening her knowledge in this area. Using the opportunity as a lecturer, Mazura is also active in research, a platform she thinks can establish herself as a crystallization expert, which she aspires to be.

She has been a project leader of a Fundamental Research Grant awarded by the university in 2004 titled ‘Effect Of Sodium Chloride Concentrations And Temperature On Crystallisation Of Lysozyme Using Micro-Batch Technique’. This has extended her understandings in crystallization from solution.

In her PhD research, again she undertakes the challenge of understanding crystallisation from melt, where she is dealing with crystallizing ice crystals from solutions. This is to concentrate the solution and also to produce ice layer with very high purity. This process can be engaged in treating wastewater and also in food technology during concentration of fruit juice or milk.