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Mr Muhammad Haider Ali Khan

Mr Muhammad Haider Ali Khan

Research Associate
Engineering
Mineral and Energy Resources Engineering

As a Research Associate at UNSW, my research focuses on the techno-economic modelling and commercialisation road-mapping of power-to-X technologies for decarbonisation. This includes the following streams:

Synthetic Chemicals and Fuels: Technoeconomic, life cycle impact and social acceptance modelling of biomass and renewable electrolysis-based chemicals and fuels, including low carbon fuels – methanol, synthetic natural gas, renewable diesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel, and H2/carriers – ammonia and liquid organic hydrogen carriers.

Green Commodities and Exports: Downstream integration of renewable electrification, green H2 carriers and low carbon fuel to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors such as natural gas/industrial heating, critical minerals, energy exports – renewables embedded into green H2 carriers and low carbon fuels and shipping/aviation sectors.

The work builds on the foundations of my PhD in Chemical Engineering at UNSW, where I have built foundational modelling and costing tools/frameworks to simulate and scale up value chain designs and emerging market models. Since I am carrying this research forward by expanded both functionality and application of these frameworks in light of the emerging and evolving decarbonisation challenge, this includes leading/co-contributing to ongoing research and flagship industry/government projects on behalf of UNSW, through my affiliation with the ARC Training Centre for Global H2 Economy/the Particles and Catalysis Research Group via the School of Chemical Engineering and the School of Minerals and Energy Resource Engineering.

E-mail
muhammadhaiderali.khan@unsw.edu.au
Location
Tyree Energy Technology Building
  • Book Chapters | 2025
    Swiegers G; Daiyan R; Last A; Khan MHA, 2025, 'Renewable Hydrogen Production Economics', in The Oxford Handbook on the Greening of Economic Development, Oxford University Press, pp. 189 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198883487.013.11
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Leverett J; Lie WH; Khan MHA; Ma Z; Daiyan R; Amal R, 2025, 'Navigating the challenges of global NOx emissions throughout the energy transition: state of play and outlook', Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 9, pp. 3780 - 3790, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4se01806k
    Journal articles | 2025
    Ma Z; Leverett J; Yuwono JA; Pan J; Zhou S; Zhang D; Zhang M; Xie B; Peng L; Khan MHA; Londono SL; Kumar PV; Lovell E; Daiyan R; Amal R, 2025, 'Coupled NOx production and electrochemical conversion processes for sustainable ammonium synthesis from air', Chemical Engineering Journal, 524, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.168996
    Journal articles | 2022
    Khan MHA; Heywood P; Kuswara A; Daiyan R; MacGill I; Amal R, 2022, 'An integrated framework of open-source tools for designing and evaluating green hydrogen production opportunities', Communications Earth and Environment, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00640-1
    Journal articles | 2022
    Shepherd J; Haider Ali Khan M; Amal R; Daiyan R; MacGill I, 2022, 'Open-source project feasibility tools for supporting development of the green ammonia value chain', Energy Conversion and Management, 274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2022.116413
    Journal articles | 2021
    Ali Khan MH; Daiyan R; Han Z; Hablutzel M; Haque N; Amal R; MacGill I, 2021, 'Designing optimal integrated electricity supply configurations for renewable hydrogen generation in Australia', Iscience, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102539
  • Preprints | 2025
    Ma Z; Leverett J; Yuwono J; Pan J; Zhou S; Zhang D; Zhang M; Xie B; Peng L; Khan MHA; Londono SL; Kumar PV; Lovell E; Daiyan R; Amal R, 2025, Coupled Nox Production and Electrochemical Conversion Processes for Sustainable Ammonium Synthesis from Air, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5387052
    Preprints |
    Khan MHA; Daiyan R; Han Z; Hablutzel M; Haque N; Amal R; MacGill I, Designing Optimal Integrated Electricity Supply Configurations for Renewable Hydrogen Generation in Australia, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3784951
    Preprints |
    Van Antwerpen J; Khan MHA; Shepherd J; Tan TH; MacGill I; Amal R; Daiyan R, A Model for Assessing Pathways to Integrate Intermittent Renewable Energy for E-Methanol Production, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4479209

Key Activities include:

  • Developing open source process models and economic frameworks for renewable electrification, low carbon fuels and power to x technologies 
  • Applying these models/frameworks to develop and propose novel solutions for integrating these solutions to inform academic progress and technology development by identifying viable and critical pathways to adopt and scale up technologies.
  • Supporting industry and governments in roadmapping the adoption of these emerging technologies within the net-zero framework, including finding, proposing and assessing the deployment of bespoke solutions for targeted sectors and applications.