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Overview

Akbar Maleki is affiliated with Shahrood University of Technology in Iran. Their research spans the fields of Engineering and Energy, with a focus on several subfields including Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Pollution, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The main topics covered in their work include Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems, Energy and Environment Impacts, Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure, Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems, Microgrid Control and Optimization, Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems, and Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer.

Maleki has contributed frequently to several academic journals. These publication venues include:

  • Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
  • Energy Reports
  • Journal of Energy Storage
  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Energy Conversion and Management

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a number of coauthors, notably:

  • Mostafa Safdari Shadloo
  • Mohammad Alhuyi Nazari
  • Fathollah Pourfayaz
  • Arman Haghighi
  • Marc A. Rosen

Recent publications include:

  • "Applications of nanofluids containing carbon nanotubes in solar energy systems: A review" (2020), Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • "Optimal sizing and location based on economic parameters for an off-grid application of a hybrid system with photovoltaic, battery and diesel technology" (2020), Energy
  • "Techno-economic analysis of a grid-connected PV/battery system using the teaching-learning-based optimization algorithm" (2020), Solar Energy
  • "A review on the approaches employed for cooling PV cells" (2020), Solar Energy
  • "A review on the properties, preparation, models and stability of hybrid nanofluids to optimize energy consumption" (2020), Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

Best Publications

  • Optimization with a simulated annealing algorithm of a hybrid system for renewable energy including battery and hydrogen storage

    Weiping Zhang;Weiping Zhang;Akbar Maleki;Marc A. Rosen;Jingqing Liu

  • Sizing a stand-alone solar-wind-hydrogen energy system using weather forecasting and a hybrid search optimization algorithm

    Weiping Zhang;Weiping Zhang;Akbar Maleki;Marc A. Rosen;Jingqing Liu

  • Design and optimization of autonomous solar-wind-reverse osmosis desalination systems coupling battery and hydrogen energy storage by an improved bee algorithm

    Akbar Maleki

  • Optimal sizing of autonomous hybrid photovoltaic/wind/battery power system with LPSP technology by using evolutionary algorithms

    Akbar Maleki;Fathollah Pourfayaz

  • Optimal sizing of a PV/wind/diesel system with battery storage for electrification to an off-grid remote region: A case study of Rafsanjan, Iran

    Akbar Maleki;Alireza Askarzadeh

  • Comparative study of artificial intelligence techniques for sizing of a hydrogen-based stand-alone photovoltaic/wind hybrid system

    Akbar Maleki;Alireza Askarzadeh

  • Applications of nanofluids containing carbon nanotubes in solar energy systems: A review

    Mohammad Ghalandari;Akbar Maleki;Arman Haghighi;Mostafa Safdari Shadloo

  • Optimal sizing of a grid independent hybrid renewable energy system incorporating resource uncertainty, and load uncertainty

    Akbar Maleki;Akbar Maleki;Morteza Gholipour Khajeh;Mehran Ameri

  • Artificial bee swarm optimization for optimum sizing of a stand-alone PV/WT/FC hybrid system considering LPSP concept

    Akbar Maleki;Alireza Askarzadeh

  • Design of a cost-effective wind/photovoltaic/hydrogen energy system for supplying a desalination unit by a heuristic approach

    Akbar Maleki;Fathollah Pourfayaz;Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi

  • Scrutiny of multifarious particle swarm optimization for finding the optimal size of a PV/wind/battery hybrid system

    Akbar Maleki;Akbar Maleki;Mehran Ameri;Farshid Keynia

  • Optimal sizing and location based on economic parameters for an off-grid application of a hybrid system with photovoltaic, battery and diesel technology

    Wei Cai;Xing Li;Xing Li;Akbar Maleki;Fathollah Pourfayaz

  • Sizing of stand-alone photovoltaic/wind/diesel system with battery and fuel cell storage devices by harmony search algorithm

    Akbar Maleki;Fathollah Pourfayaz

  • A hybrid algorithm based optimization on modeling of grid independent biodiesel-based hybrid solar/wind systems

    Du Guangqian;Kaveh Bekhrad;Pouria Azarikhah;Akbar Maleki

  • A heuristic-based approach for optimizing a small independent solar and wind hybrid power scheme incorporating load forecasting

    Weiping Zhang;Akbar Maleki;Akbar Maleki;Marc A. Rosen

  • Optimal design of stand-alone reverse osmosis desalination driven by a photovoltaic and diesel generator hybrid system

    Baojia Wu;Akbar Maleki;Fathollah Pourfayaz;Marc A. Rosen

  • A review on the approaches employed for cooling PV cells

    Akbar Maleki;Arman Haghighi;Mamdouh El Haj Assad;Ibrahim Mahariq

  • Techno-economic analysis of a grid-connected PV/battery system using the teaching-learning-based optimization algorithm

    Mina Najafi Ashtiani;Ashkan Toopshekan;Fatemeh Razi Astaraei;Hossein Yousefi

  • A review on the properties, preparation, models and stability of hybrid nanofluids to optimize energy consumption

    Hamed Eshgarf;Rasool Kalbasi;Akbar Maleki;Mostafa Safdari Shadloo

  • Optimization of a hybrid system for solar-wind-based water desalination by reverse osmosis: Comparison of approaches

    Wanxi Peng;Wanxi Peng;Akbar Maleki;Marc A. Rosen;Pouria Azarikhah

  • Thermal conductivity prediction of nanofluids containing CuO nanoparticles by using correlation and artificial neural network

    Ali Komeilibirjandi;Amir Hossein Raffiee;Akbar Maleki;Mohammad Alhuyi Nazari

  • Simulated annealing-chaotic search algorithm based optimization of reverse osmosis hybrid desalination system driven by wind and solar energies

    Guozhao Zhang;Baojia Wu;Akbar Maleki;Weiping Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Fathollah Pourfayaz
Fathollah Pourfayaz University of Tehran
Marc A. Rosen
Marc A. Rosen University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Mostafa Safdari Shadloo
Mostafa Safdari Shadloo Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen
Iskander Tlili
Iskander Tlili Majmaah University
Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi
Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi Shahrood University of Technology
Mehran Ameri
Mehran Ameri Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
Alireza Askarzadeh
Alireza Askarzadeh Graduate University of Advanced Technology
Hossein Yousefi
Hossein Yousefi University of Tehran
Arash Karimipour
Arash Karimipour Cihan University-Erbil
Lingen Chen
Lingen Chen Wuhan Institute of Technology

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