DEPARTMENT.FACULTY
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION
M.Tech (Chemical Engineering) & Ph.D. (Post Harvest Engineering & Technology)
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION
Assistant Professor
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA
Food Processing, Quality Evaluation of Fruits and Vegetables during Storage and Drying, Extraction of Bio-active Compounds from Agricultural Wastes.
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS
D/o Post Harvest Engineering & Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE
9359230912
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL
f4faizahmad1989@gmail.com; faizan.phe@amu.ac.in
Faizan Ahmad completed his Ph.D. in Post Harvest Engineering and Technology in 2022 and B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Chemical Engineering from Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in 2011 and 2013, respectively. Soon after, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering, A.M.U., Aligarh, as a Guest Faculty/Assistant Professor and served the department from (2014-2017). On 6th March 2017, he joined the Department of Post Harvest Engineering & Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, as an Assistant Professor. Having more than ten years of experience, he has been actively engaged in research and the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate classes. He has published over 25 research papers in peer-reviewed SCI/ESCI/Scopus-indexed journals and over 15 book chapters. He has edited 02 books published in Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature Group, and he has also presented his work at 15 international and national conferences. He has attended more than 40 seminars/conferences/ workshops/short-term courses and faculty development programs. He has also supervised 11 M.Tech dissertations and is presently supervising 04 M.Tech students. His major area of research interest includes quality assessment of fruits & vegetables during storage and drying, extraction of bio-active compounds from agricultural wastes, food processing, food engineering, etc. He has 01 granted and 01 published patent on a fully automatic vacuum dryer with a data recorder by the Govt. of India. He is a life member of the Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE). He also has a Quarterly Franklin Membership of London Press (UK). In the year 2020 he was conferred the Vedant Educator Excellence Award and the Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Scientist Award 2020. Recently he was conferred with the Young Scientist Award-2023 during the 5th International Conference on Climate Change and its Impact, held at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar.
- Preparation and characterization of biodegradable food packaging films using lemon peel pectin and chitosan incorporated with neem leaf extract and its application on apricot fruit
- Edited Book Download PDF
Microbial Biotechnology in the Food Industry: Advances, Challenges, and Potential Solutions
- Mohammad, Z. H., & Ahmad, F. (2024). Nanocoating and its application as antimicrobials in the food industry: A review. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 254, 127906. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127906
- Ahmad, F., Mohammad, Z. H., Zaidi, S., & Ibrahim, S. A. (2023). A comprehensive review on the application of ultrasound for the preservation of fruits and vegetables. Journal of Food Process Engineering, e14291. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfpe.14291
- Khan S.T., Malik A., Ahmad F. (2022) Role of Zinc Homeostasis in Plant Growth. In: Khan S.T., Malik A. (eds) Microbial Biofertilizers and Micronutrient Availability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76609-2_9
- Ahmad F., Zaidi S., Qureshi F., Khan S.T. (2022) Comparing Various Diets as Sources of Zinc with Special Reference to Fruits and Vegetables. In: Khan S.T., Malik A. (eds) Microbial Biofertilizers and Micronutrient Availability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76609-2_16
- Book under Production Download PDFQuality Control in Fruit and Vegetable Processing: Methods and StrategiesEditors: Megh R. Goyal and Faizan AhmadPublisher: Apple Academic Press and CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group)
- Fazil Qureshi, Faizan Ahmad, Mohammad Idrees, Ali Asif Khan & Sadaf Zaidi (2019) Simulation of methanol steam reforming process for the production of hydrogen, Indian Chemical Engineer, Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/00194506.2019.1689186. (I.F: 1.09) Download PDF
- Umar MF, Ahmad F, Saeed H, Usmani SA, Owais M, Rafatullah M (2020) Bio-Mediated Synthesis of Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles from Chenopodium album: Their Antimicrobial and Anticancer Activities Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 10 (I. F: 5.076) Download PDF
- Faizan Ahmad, Sadaf Zaidi, Mohd. Arshad (2021) Postharvest quality assessment of apple during storage at ambient temperature. Heliyon 7 (8):e07714 . (Elsevier, DOI: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07714), (I.F. 2.85) Download PDF
- Ahmad F, Zaidi S, Ahmad S (2020) Role of By-products of Fruits and Vegetables in Functional Foods. In: Ahmad S, Al-Shabib NA (eds) Functional Food Products and Sustainable Health. Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp 199-218. doi:10.1007/978-981-15-4716-4_13
- Ahmad, F.; Khan, S. T. Potential Industrial Use of Compounds from By-Products of Fruits and Vegetables. Chapter 10; In: Health and Safety Aspects of Food Processing Technologies, Malik, A., Erginkaya, Z., Erten, H. (Eds.); Springer, Cham; 2019; pages 273
- Khaliq A, Ahmad F, Khalid F (2019) Utilization of Bio-Hydrogen in HCCI Engines as a Most Renewable Fuel for Sustainable Transportation – A Thermodynamic Analysis. In: Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering. Elsevier.
- Faizan Ahmad, Abdul Khaliq & Mohammad Idrees (2017). Energetic and exergetic analyses of biomass derived syngas for triple cycle power generation. Distributed generation & alternative energy Journal, Taylor & Francis, 32(4), 26-53. (Impact Factor: 0.66)
- Faizan Ahmad and Sadaf Zaidi (November 3rd 2020). Potential Use of Agro/Food Wastes as Biosorbents in the Removal of Heavy Metals [Online First], IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.94175.
- Faizan Ahmad and Sadaf Zaidi (2020) Osmotic Dehydration and Ultrasound Assisted Osmotic Dehydration of Fruits and Vegetables: A Review. International Journal of Tropical Agriculture 38 (4), 417- 421 (NAAS Rating: 3.49)
- Khan ST, Ahmad F, Shahadat M, Rehman WU, Khan AM (2020) Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles for Water Decontamination and Purification Environmental Nanotechnology for Water Purification:151-186, Wiley Online Library, doi:doi:10.1002/9781119641353.ch6
- Preparation and characterization of biodegradable food packaging films using lemon peel pectin and chitosan incorporated with neem leaf extract and its application on apricot fruit
- Ahmad, F., & Zaidi, S. (2023). The influence of ultrasound-assisted osmotic dehydration as a pre-treatment method on the quality of vacuum dried pineapple. Food and Humanity, 1, 137–146. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foohum.2023.05.004
- Kumar, A.; Ahmad, F.; Zaidi, S. Importance of Bioactive Compounds Present in Plant Products and Their Extraction – A Review. Agricultural Reviews, 2019, 40 (4), 249-260. (NAAS Rating: 4.37)
- Faizan Ahmad and Amardeep Kumar (2018). Optimization of the ultrasonic assisted extraction process to obtain phenolic compounds from pomegranate (Punica granatum) peels using response surface methodology. International Journal of Agricultural Sciences 10.
- Faizan Ahmad & Abu Mustafa Khan (2017). Carbon quantum dots: Nanolights. International Journal of Petrochemical Science &Engineering, 3:1.
- Mohd Wahid, Faizan Ahmad, & Nafees Ahmad (2017). Green Chemistry: Principle and its application. International Journal of Engineering Technology Science and Research 4(7), 120-124.
- Faizan Ahmad (2020) Teaching Methodology: Principles and Teaching Methods, Recent Trends (An International referred and Peer Reviewed Journal of Multidisciplinary Research), 7 (2), 33-36 . (ISSN: 2348-9715)
- Faizan Ahmad and Amardeep Kumar (2019) Optimization of Ultrasonic-Assisted extraction process for Bioactive compounds of pomegranate (punica granatum) peels using response surface methodology. Environment and Social Development, ISBN: 978-81-928754-2-2.
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