headshot of Mohammad Masnadi Shirazinejad

Mohammad Masnadi Shirazinejad

Assistant Professor
Chem/Petroleum Engineering

overview

Masnadi research lab has two wings to study and explore solutions in transition to decarbonized economy:

1- Catalysis and reaction engineering working on low-carbon/sustainable processes (mostly experimental);

2- Data-driven system-level energetic, environmental, and economic assessment (mostly modeling).

about

PhD, University of British Columbia

MASc, University of British Columbia

BA, Iran University of Science and Technology

Bharanidharan, A.H., McGaughy, K., Twizerimana, A.L., Ocampo, K., Veser, G., & Masnadi, M.S. (2024). Cellulose pyrolysis via liquid metal catalysis. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL AND APPLIED PYROLYSIS, 183, 106800.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.jaap.2024.106800.

Liu, Z.E., Long, W., Chen, Z., Littlefield, J., Jing, L., Ren, B., El-Houjeiri, H.M., Qahtani, A.S., Jabbar, M.Y., & Masnadi, M.S. (2024). A novel optimization framework for natural gas transportation pipeline networks based on deep reinforcement learning. ENERGY AND AI, 18, 100434.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.egyai.2024.100434.

Masnadi, M.S., McGaughy, K., Falls, J., & Tarnoczi, T. (2023). LCA model validation of SAGD facilities with real operation data as a collaborative example between model developers and industry. iScience, 26(2), 105859.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105859.

Jing, L., El-Houjeiri, H.M., Monfort, J.C., Littlefield, J., Al-Qahtani, A., Dixit, Y., Speth, R.L., Brandt, A.R., Masnadi, M.S., MacLean, H.L., Peltier, W., Gordon, D., & Bergerson, J.A. (2022). Understanding variability in petroleum jet fuel life cycle greenhouse gas emissions to inform aviation decarbonization. Nat Commun, 13(1), 7853.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35392-1.

Masnadi, M.S., Benini, G., El-Houjeiri, H.M., Milivinti, A., Anderson, J.E., Wallington, T.J., De Kleine, R., Dotti, V., Jochem, P., & Brandt, A.R. (2021). Carbon implications of marginal oils from market-derived demand shocks. Nature, 599(7883), 80-84.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03932-2.

DeCarolis, J.F., Jaramillo, P., Johnson, J.X., McCollum, D.L., Trutnevyte, E., Daniels, D.C., Akin-Olcum, G., Bergerson, J., Cho, S., Choi, J.H., Craig, M.T., de Queiroz, A.R., Eshraghi, H., Galik, C.S., Gutowski, T.G., Haapala, K.R., Hodge, B.M., Hoque, S., Jenkins, J.D., Jenn, A., Johansson, D.J.A., Kaufman, N., Kiviluoma, J., Lin, Z., MacLean, H.L., Masanet, E., Masnadi, M.S., McMillan, C.A., Nock, D.S., Patankar, N., Patino-Echeverri, D., Schively, G., Siddiqui, S., Smith, A.D., Venkatesh, A., Wagner, G., Yeh, S., & Zhou, Y. (2020). Leveraging Open-Source Tools for Collaborative Macro-energy System Modeling Efforts. JOULE, 4(12), 2523-2526.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2020.11.002.

Jing, L., El-Houjeiri, H.M., Monfort, J.C., Brandt, A.R., Masnadi, M.S., Gordon, D., & Bergerson, J.A. (2020). Carbon intensity of global crude oil refining and mitigation potential. Nature Climate Change, 10(6), 526-532.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41558-020-0775-3.

Masnadi, M.S., Perrier, P.R., Wang, J., Rutherford, J., & Brandt, A.R. (2020). Statistical proxy modeling for life cycle assessment and energetic analysis. Energy, 194, 116882.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2019.116882.

Nie, Y., Zhang, S., Liu, R.E., Roda-Stuart, D.J., Ravikumar, A.P., Bradley, A., Masnadi, M.S., Brandt, A.R., Bergerson, J., & Bi, X.T. (2020). Greenhouse-gas emissions of Canadian liquefied natural gas for use in China: Comparison and synthesis of three independent life cycle assessments. Journal of Cleaner Production, 258, 120701.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120701.

Von Wald, G.A., Masnadi, M.S., Upham, D.C., & Brandt, A.R. (2020). Optimization-based technoeconomic analysis of molten-media methane pyrolysis for reducing industrial sector CO 2 emissions. Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 4(9), 4598-4613.Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). doi: 10.1039/d0se00427h.