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Amin has been appointed as Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems within the Product Design team at Nottingham Trent University since August 2014. He is the national Director of DTA-Energy (Doctoral Training Alliance) and also the Director of Product Innovation Centre (PIC) at NTU. His research and teaching activities focus on several multi-disciplinary topics in the broad area of product design, automation, energy and artificial intelligence. Amin is currently leading the Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment Technologies research group (iSBET) and co-founder of the Advance Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC). Amin is a Chevening Alumnus and Saïd Foundation Alumnus. He holds a BSc degree from the University of Jordan in Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing and Design), an MSc degree from University of Nottingham in Manufacturing Systems and a PhD degree in Advanced Manufacturing Technologies from the University of Nottingham. Amin has strong links and collaboration with industry including eight years as the industrial placement adviser and over 20 years of industrial research and collaboration. He worked previously at the University of Nottingham (Rolls-Royce UTC) and Loughborough University (Mechatronics Research Centre) before joining NTU in 2004. Amin is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technologies (The IET) and past chairman of the IET for the East Midlands Region and Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire local network panel.
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International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM)
A new methodology is presented in this paper to encourage the growth of renewable energy technolo... more A new methodology is presented in this paper to encourage the growth of renewable energy technologies in hot and arid countries. PV solar panels are characterized by a decrease in efficiency with the increase in temperatures. This means in hot sunny countries, the actual output will decrease, affecting the power output despite the high availability of sun irradiation. In order to address this issue, a new methodology has been developed and presented in this paper to support system’s designers and manufacturers; which allows rapid testing and assessment of the design in consistent way within a short period of time. The approach, named Rapid Evaluation of Solar panels Cooling (RESC), is novel as it combines rapid laboratory testing, with in-situ experimental data to evaluate the cooling technologies that are integrated into solar panels. Modular and scalable designs of passive (chimney effect) and active (fan) cooling methods were tested. The results show that the suggested approach i...
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2022
The UK government is committed to reduce 80% of its carbon footprint by the year 2050. With today... more The UK government is committed to reduce 80% of its carbon footprint by the year 2050. With today’s increase in oil prices and the significant growth in energy demand, energy savings in heating and cooling of buildings is becoming an important area to address to reduce energy consumption. This paper reviews literature on energy consumption patterns and investigates the energy consumption in residential buildings based on people’s consumption behaviour. Infrared thermography has been used to identify areas in the building where heat is significantly lost. The case studies presented in this paper show that no matter how insulated a building is, significant heat can be lost due to the opening of windows by occupants. This is to improve the ventilation and temperature’s comfort level. It can be concluded that proper energy efficient ventilation is necessary to improve the energy efficiency. And the occupant’s behaviour plays an important role in controlling the energy savings regardless...
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Robust monitoring of bridges is necessary to ensure its serviceability and traffic safety. A reli... more Robust monitoring of bridges is necessary to ensure its serviceability and traffic safety. A reliable sensing system to measure bridge responses is the key to such monitoring approaches. This research discusses the resilience of vision-based monitoring (VBM) for accurate and reliable bridge monitoring. VBM deploys cameras to capture the movement of bridges and uses suitable image processing algorithms to derive information on bridge health. VBM as a low cost and user-friendly monitoring system for accurate response measurement, simultaneous multiple target tracking and hardware adaptability is assessed based on literature. Measures to make VBM resilient in adverse field conditions are also discussed. Overall findings emphasise the accuracy and reliability of VBM for holistic and cost-efficient monitoring of bridges.
Springer Proceedings in Energy, 2021
Estimating the U-value of walls of buildings is a key process to evaluate the overall thermal per... more Estimating the U-value of walls of buildings is a key process to evaluate the overall thermal performance. Low U-value in buildings is desired in order to keep heat within the envelop and consume less energy in heating. Addressing the limitations in the currently used U-value estimation techniques, this paper proposes a novel approach for estimating the U-value of the envelop of buildings using infrared thermography and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with the application of a point heat source. The novel system is calibrated by training the ANN in a lab environment using a wide range of samples with multi-layers to be able to estimate the in situ U-value of walls in real buildings during field work with relatively high accuracy.
Air quality has developed into a significant global issue and its negative effect on human health... more Air quality has developed into a significant global issue and its negative effect on human health, wellbeing and ultimately the effect of shortening of life expectancy is becoming a pressing concern. Such concerns are most acute in cities in the UK. Although many cities, including Nottingham, are taking significant measures to enhance air quality, there was limited work focusing on the individual's experience during commuting. This paper suggests a novel approach for measuring commuting air quality through quantifying particulate matters PM2.5 and PM10, using the city of Nottingham as a case study. Portable low-cost systems comprising of a GPS sensor and an Aeroqual pollution data logger were used to capture data and develop the sensor fusion via newly developed software. Data was collected from a variety of transport modes comprising bike, bus, car, tram and walking to provide evidence on relative particulate levels and 2D and 3D data maps were produced to communicate the relat...
International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM)
A new methodology is presented in this paper to encourage the growth of renewable energy technolo... more A new methodology is presented in this paper to encourage the growth of renewable energy technologies in hot and arid countries. PV solar panels are characterized by a decrease in efficiency with the increase in temperatures. This means in hot sunny countries, the actual output will decrease, affecting the power output despite the high availability of sun irradiation. In order to address this issue, a new methodology has been developed and presented in this paper to support system’s designers and manufacturers; which allows rapid testing and assessment of the design in consistent way within a short period of time. The approach, named Rapid Evaluation of Solar panels Cooling (RESC), is novel as it combines rapid laboratory testing, with in-situ experimental data to evaluate the cooling technologies that are integrated into solar panels. Modular and scalable designs of passive (chimney effect) and active (fan) cooling methods were tested. The results show that the suggested approach i...
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2022
The UK government is committed to reduce 80% of its carbon footprint by the year 2050. With today... more The UK government is committed to reduce 80% of its carbon footprint by the year 2050. With today’s increase in oil prices and the significant growth in energy demand, energy savings in heating and cooling of buildings is becoming an important area to address to reduce energy consumption. This paper reviews literature on energy consumption patterns and investigates the energy consumption in residential buildings based on people’s consumption behaviour. Infrared thermography has been used to identify areas in the building where heat is significantly lost. The case studies presented in this paper show that no matter how insulated a building is, significant heat can be lost due to the opening of windows by occupants. This is to improve the ventilation and temperature’s comfort level. It can be concluded that proper energy efficient ventilation is necessary to improve the energy efficiency. And the occupant’s behaviour plays an important role in controlling the energy savings regardless...
Robust monitoring of bridges is necessary to ensure its serviceability and traffic safety. A reli... more Robust monitoring of bridges is necessary to ensure its serviceability and traffic safety. A reliable sensing system to measure bridge responses is the key to such monitoring approaches. This research discusses the resilience of vision-based monitoring (VBM) for accurate and reliable bridge monitoring. VBM deploys cameras to capture the movement of bridges and uses suitable image processing algorithms to derive information on bridge health. VBM as a low cost and user-friendly monitoring system for accurate response measurement, simultaneous multiple target tracking and hardware adaptability is assessed based on literature. Measures to make VBM resilient in adverse field conditions are also discussed. Overall findings emphasise the accuracy and reliability of VBM for holistic and cost-efficient monitoring of bridges.
Springer Proceedings in Energy, 2021
Estimating the U-value of walls of buildings is a key process to evaluate the overall thermal per... more Estimating the U-value of walls of buildings is a key process to evaluate the overall thermal performance. Low U-value in buildings is desired in order to keep heat within the envelop and consume less energy in heating. Addressing the limitations in the currently used U-value estimation techniques, this paper proposes a novel approach for estimating the U-value of the envelop of buildings using infrared thermography and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with the application of a point heat source. The novel system is calibrated by training the ANN in a lab environment using a wide range of samples with multi-layers to be able to estimate the in situ U-value of walls in real buildings during field work with relatively high accuracy.
Air quality has developed into a significant global issue and its negative effect on human health... more Air quality has developed into a significant global issue and its negative effect on human health, wellbeing and ultimately the effect of shortening of life expectancy is becoming a pressing concern. Such concerns are most acute in cities in the UK. Although many cities, including Nottingham, are taking significant measures to enhance air quality, there was limited work focusing on the individual's experience during commuting. This paper suggests a novel approach for measuring commuting air quality through quantifying particulate matters PM2.5 and PM10, using the city of Nottingham as a case study. Portable low-cost systems comprising of a GPS sensor and an Aeroqual pollution data logger were used to capture data and develop the sensor fusion via newly developed software. Data was collected from a variety of transport modes comprising bike, bus, car, tram and walking to provide evidence on relative particulate levels and 2D and 3D data maps were produced to communicate the relat...