Overview
Shakil graduated from Cardiff University in 2008 with a First Class (Hons) in BEng Civil Engineering. During his degree studies he successfully covered all the basic aspects of Civil Engineering. He has achieved Page Prize for the best average marks, Lloyds Register of Shipping Prize for the performance in Structural Engineering, Alan and Cyril Body Educational Trust Prize for the best overall performance. He has been awarded the Institute of Civil Engineering ICE Wales Student Prize 2008 for the outstanding performance in undergraduate degree course. His special interest in the field of Geo-Environmental Engineering has encouraged him to pursue a PhD degree at which he has been enrolled in 2009. The PhD program has been funded by the School of Engineering and Civil Engineering Consultancy Arup. He is an active member of Institute of Civil Engineering.
Research interests include computational modelling of gas generation and migration through highly compacted bentonite for use in underground disposal facilities for high level nuclear waste and to obtain required information for the risk assessment of such a repository.
Energy and Environment
Publications
2024
- Cui, L., Masum, S. A., Ye, W., Thomas, H., Zhou, C. and Hu, H. 2024. Numerical investigation of gas migration behaviour in saturated bentonite with consideration of temperature. Acta Geotechnica 19, pp. 2381-2393. (10.1007/s11440-024-02272-5)
- Wiatowski, M. et al. 2024. Experimental study on tar formation during underground coal gasification: Effect of coal rank and gasification pressure on tar yield and chemical composition. Fuel 357, article number: 130034. (10.1016/j.fuel.2023.130034)
2023
- Almolliyeh, M., Sadasivam, S., Chen, M., Masum, S. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Experimental investigation of CO2-CH4 core flooding in large intact bituminous coal cores using bespoke hydrostatic core holder. International Journal of Coal Geology 279, article number: 104376. (10.1016/j.coal.2023.104376)
- Stańczyk, K. et al. 2023. CO 2 injection via a horizontal well into the coal seam at the Experimental Mine Barbara in Poland. Energies 16(20), article number: 7217. (10.3390/en16207217)
- Taylor, M., Gao, W., Masum, S. and Qadrdan, M. 2023. Techno-economic assessment of Bi-directional Low Temperature Networks. Applied Energy 347, article number: 121202. (10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121202)
- Gao, W., Masum, S. and Jiang, L. 2023. Technical performance comparison of horizontal and vertical ground-source heat pump systems. Journal of GeoEnergy 2023, article number: 6106360. (10.1155/2023/6106360)
- Almolliyeh, M., Tripathy, S., Sadasivam, S., Masum, S., Rassner, S. E., Mitchell, A. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Subcritical CO2 adsorption on geomaterials of coal-bearing strata in the context of geological carbon sequestration. International Journal of Coal Geology 277, article number: 104340. (10.1016/j.coal.2023.104340)
- Wiatowski, M., Kapusta, K., Stańczyk, K., Szyja, M., Masum, S., Sadasivam, S. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Large-scale ex situ tests for CO 2 storage in coal beds. Energies 16(17), article number: 6326. (10.3390/en16176326)
- Gao, W., Masum, S., Qadrdan, M. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. A numerical study on performance efficiency of a low-temperature horizontal ground-source heat pump system. Energy and Buildings 291, article number: 113137. (10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113137)
- Xie, H., Wu, J., Yu, M., Yan, H., Masum, S., Cai, P. and Chen, Y. 2023. Bisphenol A adsorption and transport in loess and cationic surfactant/hydrophilic polymer modified bentonite liners. Journal of Environmental Management 336, article number: 117604. (10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117604)
- Wetzel, M. et al. 2023. Hydromechanical impacts of CO2 storage in coal seams of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Poland). Energies 16(7), article number: 3279. (10.3390/en16073279)
- Almolliyeh, M., Tripathy, S., Sadasivam, S., Masum, S. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Effect of physical nature (intact and powder) of coal on CO2 adsorption at the subcritical pressure range (up to 6.4 MPa at 298.15 K). ACS Omega 8(7), pp. 7070-7084. (10.1021/acsomega.2c07940)
- Chen, M., Masum, S. A., Sadasivam, S., Thomas, H. R. and Mitchell, A. C. 2023. Modeling gas adsorption-desorption hysteresis in energetically heterogeneous coal and shale. Energy and Fuels 37(3), pp. 2149-2163. (10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c03441)
- Masum, S. A., Sadasivam, S., Chen, M. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Low subcritical co2 adsorption-desorption behavior of intact bituminous coal cores extracted from a shallow coal seam. Langmuir 39(4), pp. 1548-1561. (10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02971)
- Masum, S. A., Zhang, Z., Tian, G. and Sultana, M. 2023. Three-dimensional fully coupled hydro-mechanical-chemical model for solute transport under mechanical and osmotic loading conditions. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 30, pp. 5983-6000. (10.1007/s11356-022-22600-0)
- Chen, M., Masum, S. A. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Three-dimensional cleat scale modelling of gas transport processes in deformable fractured coal reservoirs. Gas Science and Engineering 110, article number: 204901. (10.1016/j.jgsce.2023.204901)
2022
- Gao, W., Masum, S., Black, J. and Thomas, H. R. 2022. Improving computational efficiency of numerical modelling of horizontal ground source heat pump systems for accommodating complex and realistic atmospheric processes. Geothermics 106, article number: 102568. (10.1016/j.geothermics.2022.102568)
- Chen, M., Masum, S. and Thomas, H. 2022. 3D hybrid coupled dual continuum and discrete fracture model for simulation of CO2 injection into stimulated coal reservoirs with parallel implementation. International Journal of Coal Geology 262, article number: 104103. (10.1016/j.coal.2022.104103)
- Gao, W., Masum, S., Qadrdan, M. and Thomas, H. R. 2022. Estimation and prediction of shallow ground source heat resources subjected to complex soil and atmospheric boundary conditions. Renewable Energy 197, pp. 978-994. (10.1016/j.renene.2022.07.148)
- Masum, S. A., Chen, M., Hosking, L. J., Stanczyk, K., Kapusta, K. and Thomas, H. R. 2022. A numerical modelling study to support design of an in-situ CO2 injection test facility using horizontal injection well in a shallow-depth coal seam. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 119, article number: 103725. (10.1016/j.ijggc.2022.103725)
- Sadasivam, S., Masum, S., Chen, M., Stanczyk, K. and Thomas, H. 2022. Kinetics of gas phase CO2 adsorption on bituminous coal from a shallow coal seam. Energy and Fuels 36(15), pp. 8360–8370. (10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c01426)
- Cui, L., Masum, S. A., Ye, W. and Thomas, H. R. 2022. Investigation on gas migration behaviours in saturated compacted bentonite under rigid boundary conditions. Acta Geotechnica 17, pp. 2517-2531. (10.1007/s11440-021-01424-1)
2021
- Zhang, Z., Masum, S. A., Tian, G. and Thomas, H. R. 2021. Modelling non-isothermal volume change and solute transport behaviours of a semi-permeable clay soil under the combined influence of mechanical loading, chemical-osmosis, and thermo-osmosis. Engineering Geology 293, article number: 106271. (10.1016/j.enggeo.2021.106271)
- Chen, M., Masum, S. and Thomas, H. 2021. Modeling adsorption and transport behavior of gases in moist coal matrix. Energy and Fuels 35(16), pp. 13200-13214. (10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c01334)
- Masum, S. A. and Thomas, H. R. 2021. Effects of microbial spatial distribution on organic biodegradation and immobilization of trace metals in co-contaminated soils. Computers and Geotechnics 133, article number: 104063. (10.1016/j.compgeo.2021.104063)
- Wang, S., Wu, J., Jiang, J., Masum, S. and Xie, H. 2021. Lead adsorption on loess under high ammonium environment. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28(4), pp. 4488–4502. (10.1007/s11356-020-10777-1)
- Chen, M., Masum, S. and Thomas, H. 2021. Modeling non-isothermal transport behavior of real gas in deformable coal matrix. Energy and Fuels 35(2), pp. 1605-1619. (10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c03728)
2018
- Masum, S. A. and Thomas, H. R. 2018. Modelling the effects of pH on subsurface microbial growth processes. Presented at: 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 10-13 December 2018Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference. Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society
- Masum, S. A. and Thomas, H. R. 2018. Modelling coupled microbial processes in the subsurface: model development, verification, evaluation and application. Advances in Water Resources 116, pp. 1-17. (10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.03.015)
2016
2015
- Xie, H., Chen, Y., Thomas, H. R., Sedighi, M., Masum, S. A. and Ran, Q. 2015. Contaminant transport in the sub-surface soil of an uncontrolled landfill site in China: site investigation and two-dimensional numerical analysis. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 23(3), pp. 2566-2575. (10.1007/s11356-015-5504-5)
2014
- Vardon, P. J., Nicholson, D., Chen, Q., Masum, S. A. and Thomas, H. R. 2014. Simulation of repository gas migration in a bentonite buffer. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Engineering and Computational Mechanics 167(1), pp. 13-22. (10.1680/eacm.12.00018)
- Sedighi, M., Bennett, D., Masum, S. A., Thomas, H., Erik, J. and Topias, S. 2014. Temperature data analysis from fields scale thermal monitoring. Presented at: 22nd UK national conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering, Exeter, UK, 2-4 April 2014.
- Sedighi, M., Masum, S. A., Thomas, H. and Bennett, D. 2014. Rock thermal behaviour - Analysis of data from a monitoring programme. Presented at: Third international conference on computational methods for thermal problems, Lake Bled, Slovenia, 2-4 June 2014.
- Sedighi, M., Bennett, D., Masum, S. A., Thomas, H. and Erik, J. 2014. Analysis of temperature data at the Olkiluoto [working report]. Posiva Oy. Available at: https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/45/107/45107617.pdf
2012
- Masum, S., Vardon, P. J., Thomas, H. R., Chen, Q. and Nicholson, D. 2012. Multicomponent gas flow through compacted clay buffer in a higher activity radioactive waste geological disposal facility. Mineralogical Magazine 76(8), pp. 3337-3344. (10.1180/minmag.2012.076.8.46)
- Masum, S. A. 2012. Modelling of reactive gas transport in
unsaturated soil. A coupled thermo-hydro-chemical-mechanical approach. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2010
- Masum, S. A., Vardon, P. J., Thomas, H. R., Chen, Q. and Nicholson, D. 2010. Initial investigation of gas pressure development at post closure stage of an underground disposal facility. Presented at: 6th International Congress of Environmental Geotechnics, New Delhi, India, 8-12 November 2010Proceedings of 6th International Congress of Environmental Geotechnics (6ICEG). New Delhi, India: McGraw Hill pp. 1735-1738.
Articles
- Cui, L., Masum, S. A., Ye, W., Thomas, H., Zhou, C. and Hu, H. 2024. Numerical investigation of gas migration behaviour in saturated bentonite with consideration of temperature. Acta Geotechnica 19, pp. 2381-2393. (10.1007/s11440-024-02272-5)
- Wiatowski, M. et al. 2024. Experimental study on tar formation during underground coal gasification: Effect of coal rank and gasification pressure on tar yield and chemical composition. Fuel 357, article number: 130034. (10.1016/j.fuel.2023.130034)
- Almolliyeh, M., Sadasivam, S., Chen, M., Masum, S. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Experimental investigation of CO2-CH4 core flooding in large intact bituminous coal cores using bespoke hydrostatic core holder. International Journal of Coal Geology 279, article number: 104376. (10.1016/j.coal.2023.104376)
- Stańczyk, K. et al. 2023. CO 2 injection via a horizontal well into the coal seam at the Experimental Mine Barbara in Poland. Energies 16(20), article number: 7217. (10.3390/en16207217)
- Taylor, M., Gao, W., Masum, S. and Qadrdan, M. 2023. Techno-economic assessment of Bi-directional Low Temperature Networks. Applied Energy 347, article number: 121202. (10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121202)
- Gao, W., Masum, S. and Jiang, L. 2023. Technical performance comparison of horizontal and vertical ground-source heat pump systems. Journal of GeoEnergy 2023, article number: 6106360. (10.1155/2023/6106360)
- Almolliyeh, M., Tripathy, S., Sadasivam, S., Masum, S., Rassner, S. E., Mitchell, A. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Subcritical CO2 adsorption on geomaterials of coal-bearing strata in the context of geological carbon sequestration. International Journal of Coal Geology 277, article number: 104340. (10.1016/j.coal.2023.104340)
- Wiatowski, M., Kapusta, K., Stańczyk, K., Szyja, M., Masum, S., Sadasivam, S. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Large-scale ex situ tests for CO 2 storage in coal beds. Energies 16(17), article number: 6326. (10.3390/en16176326)
- Gao, W., Masum, S., Qadrdan, M. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. A numerical study on performance efficiency of a low-temperature horizontal ground-source heat pump system. Energy and Buildings 291, article number: 113137. (10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113137)
- Xie, H., Wu, J., Yu, M., Yan, H., Masum, S., Cai, P. and Chen, Y. 2023. Bisphenol A adsorption and transport in loess and cationic surfactant/hydrophilic polymer modified bentonite liners. Journal of Environmental Management 336, article number: 117604. (10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117604)
- Wetzel, M. et al. 2023. Hydromechanical impacts of CO2 storage in coal seams of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Poland). Energies 16(7), article number: 3279. (10.3390/en16073279)
- Almolliyeh, M., Tripathy, S., Sadasivam, S., Masum, S. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Effect of physical nature (intact and powder) of coal on CO2 adsorption at the subcritical pressure range (up to 6.4 MPa at 298.15 K). ACS Omega 8(7), pp. 7070-7084. (10.1021/acsomega.2c07940)
- Chen, M., Masum, S. A., Sadasivam, S., Thomas, H. R. and Mitchell, A. C. 2023. Modeling gas adsorption-desorption hysteresis in energetically heterogeneous coal and shale. Energy and Fuels 37(3), pp. 2149-2163. (10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c03441)
- Masum, S. A., Sadasivam, S., Chen, M. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Low subcritical co2 adsorption-desorption behavior of intact bituminous coal cores extracted from a shallow coal seam. Langmuir 39(4), pp. 1548-1561. (10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02971)
- Masum, S. A., Zhang, Z., Tian, G. and Sultana, M. 2023. Three-dimensional fully coupled hydro-mechanical-chemical model for solute transport under mechanical and osmotic loading conditions. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 30, pp. 5983-6000. (10.1007/s11356-022-22600-0)
- Chen, M., Masum, S. A. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Three-dimensional cleat scale modelling of gas transport processes in deformable fractured coal reservoirs. Gas Science and Engineering 110, article number: 204901. (10.1016/j.jgsce.2023.204901)
- Gao, W., Masum, S., Black, J. and Thomas, H. R. 2022. Improving computational efficiency of numerical modelling of horizontal ground source heat pump systems for accommodating complex and realistic atmospheric processes. Geothermics 106, article number: 102568. (10.1016/j.geothermics.2022.102568)
- Chen, M., Masum, S. and Thomas, H. 2022. 3D hybrid coupled dual continuum and discrete fracture model for simulation of CO2 injection into stimulated coal reservoirs with parallel implementation. International Journal of Coal Geology 262, article number: 104103. (10.1016/j.coal.2022.104103)
- Gao, W., Masum, S., Qadrdan, M. and Thomas, H. R. 2022. Estimation and prediction of shallow ground source heat resources subjected to complex soil and atmospheric boundary conditions. Renewable Energy 197, pp. 978-994. (10.1016/j.renene.2022.07.148)
- Masum, S. A., Chen, M., Hosking, L. J., Stanczyk, K., Kapusta, K. and Thomas, H. R. 2022. A numerical modelling study to support design of an in-situ CO2 injection test facility using horizontal injection well in a shallow-depth coal seam. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 119, article number: 103725. (10.1016/j.ijggc.2022.103725)
- Sadasivam, S., Masum, S., Chen, M., Stanczyk, K. and Thomas, H. 2022. Kinetics of gas phase CO2 adsorption on bituminous coal from a shallow coal seam. Energy and Fuels 36(15), pp. 8360–8370. (10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c01426)
- Cui, L., Masum, S. A., Ye, W. and Thomas, H. R. 2022. Investigation on gas migration behaviours in saturated compacted bentonite under rigid boundary conditions. Acta Geotechnica 17, pp. 2517-2531. (10.1007/s11440-021-01424-1)
- Zhang, Z., Masum, S. A., Tian, G. and Thomas, H. R. 2021. Modelling non-isothermal volume change and solute transport behaviours of a semi-permeable clay soil under the combined influence of mechanical loading, chemical-osmosis, and thermo-osmosis. Engineering Geology 293, article number: 106271. (10.1016/j.enggeo.2021.106271)
- Chen, M., Masum, S. and Thomas, H. 2021. Modeling adsorption and transport behavior of gases in moist coal matrix. Energy and Fuels 35(16), pp. 13200-13214. (10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c01334)
- Masum, S. A. and Thomas, H. R. 2021. Effects of microbial spatial distribution on organic biodegradation and immobilization of trace metals in co-contaminated soils. Computers and Geotechnics 133, article number: 104063. (10.1016/j.compgeo.2021.104063)
- Wang, S., Wu, J., Jiang, J., Masum, S. and Xie, H. 2021. Lead adsorption on loess under high ammonium environment. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28(4), pp. 4488–4502. (10.1007/s11356-020-10777-1)
- Chen, M., Masum, S. and Thomas, H. 2021. Modeling non-isothermal transport behavior of real gas in deformable coal matrix. Energy and Fuels 35(2), pp. 1605-1619. (10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c03728)
- Masum, S. A. and Thomas, H. R. 2018. Modelling coupled microbial processes in the subsurface: model development, verification, evaluation and application. Advances in Water Resources 116, pp. 1-17. (10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.03.015)
- Xie, H., Chen, Y., Thomas, H. R., Sedighi, M., Masum, S. A. and Ran, Q. 2015. Contaminant transport in the sub-surface soil of an uncontrolled landfill site in China: site investigation and two-dimensional numerical analysis. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 23(3), pp. 2566-2575. (10.1007/s11356-015-5504-5)
- Vardon, P. J., Nicholson, D., Chen, Q., Masum, S. A. and Thomas, H. R. 2014. Simulation of repository gas migration in a bentonite buffer. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Engineering and Computational Mechanics 167(1), pp. 13-22. (10.1680/eacm.12.00018)
- Masum, S., Vardon, P. J., Thomas, H. R., Chen, Q. and Nicholson, D. 2012. Multicomponent gas flow through compacted clay buffer in a higher activity radioactive waste geological disposal facility. Mineralogical Magazine 76(8), pp. 3337-3344. (10.1180/minmag.2012.076.8.46)
Conferences
- Masum, S. A. and Thomas, H. R. 2018. Modelling the effects of pH on subsurface microbial growth processes. Presented at: 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 10-13 December 2018Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference. Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society
- Wang, M., Hosking, L., Masum, S. and Thomas, H. R. 2016. Development of a high performance computing approach for studying the coupled behaviour of porous media. Presented at: 24th Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering, Cardiff, UK, 31 March - 1 April 2016ACME-UK 2016: 24th Conference on Computational Mechanics 31 Mar- 1 Apr 2016 Cardiff: Proceedingsf. Cardiff: Cardiff University pp. 318-321.
- Sedighi, M., Bennett, D., Masum, S. A., Thomas, H., Erik, J. and Topias, S. 2014. Temperature data analysis from fields scale thermal monitoring. Presented at: 22nd UK national conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering, Exeter, UK, 2-4 April 2014.
- Sedighi, M., Masum, S. A., Thomas, H. and Bennett, D. 2014. Rock thermal behaviour - Analysis of data from a monitoring programme. Presented at: Third international conference on computational methods for thermal problems, Lake Bled, Slovenia, 2-4 June 2014.
- Masum, S. A., Vardon, P. J., Thomas, H. R., Chen, Q. and Nicholson, D. 2010. Initial investigation of gas pressure development at post closure stage of an underground disposal facility. Presented at: 6th International Congress of Environmental Geotechnics, New Delhi, India, 8-12 November 2010Proceedings of 6th International Congress of Environmental Geotechnics (6ICEG). New Delhi, India: McGraw Hill pp. 1735-1738.
Monographs
Thesis
- Masum, S. A. 2012. Modelling of reactive gas transport in
unsaturated soil. A coupled thermo-hydro-chemical-mechanical approach. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
- Masum, S. A., Vardon, P. J., Thomas, H. R., Chen, Q. and Nicholson, D. 2010. Initial investigation of gas pressure development at post closure stage of an underground disposal facility. Presented at: 6th International Congress of Environmental Geotechnics, New Delhi, India, 8-12 November 2010Proceedings of 6th International Congress of Environmental Geotechnics (6ICEG). New Delhi, India: McGraw Hill pp. 1735-1738.
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