{"id":9152,"date":"2025-07-30T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/?p=9152"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:35:48","slug":"phd-viva-for-tan-wan-ting-exploration-of-pfad-to-biodiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/2025\/07\/30\/phd-viva-for-tan-wan-ting-exploration-of-pfad-to-biodiesel\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Viva for Tan Wan Ting &#8211; Exploration of PFAD to Biodiesel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-32-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-32-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-32-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-32-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-32.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the PhD viva session for my student, <strong>Tan Wan Ting<\/strong>, was successfully conducted. Her research focused on the <strong>conversion of PFAD to biodiesel using a sulfonated sago pith waste catalyst<\/strong>, an innovative and sustainable approach to renewable fuel production. The <strong>external examiner<\/strong> was <strong>Datuk Prof. Dr. Taufik Yap<\/strong>, the <strong>internal examiner<\/strong> was <strong>PM Dr. Muhammad Arif Ab Aziz<\/strong>, and the <strong>viva chairman<\/strong> was <strong>Prof. Ir. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin<\/strong>, assisted by <strong>Dr. Amnani<\/strong> as co-chair. I had the pleasure of supervising this work alongside <strong>PM Ir. Dr. Mazura Jusoh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alhamdulillah<\/strong>, it was a very engaging and insightful viva session. I particularly enjoyed the moment when I met <strong>Datuk Taufik Yap<\/strong> again\u2014we always end up having a good laugh together, and today was no exception. <em>Hahaha\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-33.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-33-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-33-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-33-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-33-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-33.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Other tasks of the day include checking and commenting on my other PhD student&#8217;s thesis draft, and also my Undergraduate student (Sumaiya) research work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More info and pics from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zakiyz\/posts\/pfbid02A8qUhxFu8S3Z5YCU882yHXW2CFQesEKAFuVpPCzxt9Lr11EZGyH68FN8cbfn9Gjol?__cft__[0]=AZWfjXbhVC2u-xZE0FMSxDeyhYhAE9F2OH-VRnXh_UkG-boUlH6sa1tAl91bOB8NEAwms5yJwkEcYvX2lxb6pfQaMAHEOY3g-WHe3X27hImZkFYonAT3FD0N87liBEF87le_RXhvezEwPOt4ql33zg1y5Y5qbzeYHuitT0UrY6RFDedGQZvN3Con77UABITDNrw&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\">FB Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#20242025 Day 030<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the PhD viva session for my student, Tan Wan Ting, was successfully conducted. Her research focused on the conversion of PFAD to biodiesel using a sulfonated sago pith waste catalyst, an innovative and sustainable approach to renewable fuel production. The external examiner was Datuk Prof. Dr. Taufik Yap, the internal examiner was PM Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,720,1],"tags":[34,36,37],"class_list":["post-9152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-1-activity-1-day","category-research","tag-phd","tag-research-2","tag-viva","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9169,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152\/revisions\/9169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}