Faculty Profile

Prof. Dr. M. Adnan Aslam Noon
Director/Professor
PhD, Kyungpook National University, Daegu. South Korea

Dr. Noon is a Professor and Director at the Institute of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, KFUEIT, Rahim Yar Khan. He earned his PhD from Kyungpook National University, South Korea, and has served at GIK Institute, HITEC University, COMSATS University, and International Islamic University, where he was also Chairperson of the Mechanical Engineering Department. His teaching and research focus on thermo-fluids, renewable energy, and efficient energy generation and storage systems, with several journal publications and ongoing projects in waste-to-energy, biogas, and sustainable power technologies.

  • Javed Ahmed Khan Tipu, Muhammad Arif, Adnan Aslam Noon, Omar A. Beg*,  Hussien Elharati, Engr Arhum Waseem, Engr Syed Zille Abbas Kazmi, Engr Awais Khalil, Usama Ahmed Khan, Shahab Khushnood, Engr Azhar Ul Islam Zafar, Design and Development of Sustainable Tidal Energy System for Coastal Regions. World Journal of Engineering and Technology, 2025, 13(4), 1016-1040.
  • M. Adnan Aslam Noon, Imran Shah, Javed Ahmed Khan Tipu, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Usama Bin Saeed, Shoaib Ishaq Qzai, Muhammad Sharif,Aamer Sharif, Process and production enhancement through co-digestion in biogas generation. Environmental Process & Sustainable Energy. 2024. Volume 43.
  • Adnan Aslam Noon, Aamer Sharif, Melkamu Tadesse Getachew and Riaz Muhammad, Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Cavitation Assessment for Runner Blades in a Francis Turbine. Advances in Tribology Volume 2024, 10 pages.
  • Javed Ahmed Khan Tipu, Adnan Aslam Noon, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Naveed, Haris Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Muaz Suhaib, Aamer Sharif, Mechanical properties evaluation of recycled high density polyethylene via additive manufacturing. Journal of Materials and Manufacturing (2023) 2:1-9.
  • Bilal Anwar, Sajid Ali, Imran Shah, Muhammad Adnan Aslam Noon, Javed Ahmed Khan Tipu and Muhammad Arif, Proposed optimized energy plan for the largest island of South Korea based on full renewable energy resources. Proc IMechE Part E: J Process Mechanical Engineering 1–16. 2023.
  • Aamer Sharif, Aqib Hussaina , Numan Habib , Waqas Alam , Muhammad Imran Hanif, Adnan Aslam Noon , Muhammad Irfan Khan, Experimental investigation of hole quality and chip analysis during the dry drilling process of Al6061-T6, 2023.
  • Javed A. K. Tipu, Syed Usman Rafiq, Muhammad Arif, Tariq Feroze, Hafiz Waqar, Umer Masood Chaudry, Tea-Sung Jun, Adnan Aslam Noon, Development of Multiscale Composite with Hybrid Natural Nanofibers, Materials, 2022.
  • Aamer Sharif Javed Ahmed Khan Tipu, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Salman Abbasi, Absaar Ul Jabbar, Adnan Aslam Noon, Muftooh Ur Rehman Siddiqi, Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Stage Gravitational Water Vortex Turbine with optimum number of Blades, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Research and Developments, 2022.
  • Muhammad Abid, Muftooh Ur Rehman Siddiqi, Adnan Aslam Noon, Muhammad Tahir, Aamer Sharif, Shahana Mujeeb Siddiqi, Naveed Ullah, Tufail Habib, Muhammad Shayan, CFD Analysis to Predict Flow Behavior for Design and Operation of Tarbela Dam Reservoir for Different Environmental Conditions International Journal of Thermofluid Science and Technology (2022).
  • Muhammad Abdul Qyyum, Amjad Khan Sajid Ali, Muhammad Shahzad Khurram, Ning Mao, Ahmad Naquash, Adnan Aslam Noon, Tianbiao He, Moonyong Lee, Assessment of working fluids, thermal resources and cooling utilities for Organic Rankine Cycle: State –of the-art comparison, challenges, commercial status, and future prospects, Energy Conversion and Management, 2021.
  • Khubaib Bin Ehsan, Babar khan, Muhammad Ahsan Jabbar, Adnan Aslam Noon, Javed Ahmed Khan Tipu, Muhammad Arif, Aamer Sharif, Muftooh Ur Rehman Siddiqi, Implementing Truss Elements for Ensuring Structural Integrity on the Blade of Up-scaled Gravitational Water Vortex Turbine, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Research and Developments, 2021.
  • Aamer Sharif, Muftooh Ur Rehman Siddiqi, Muhammad Tahir, Ubaid Ullah, Adnan Aslam Noon, Riaz Muhammad, Tufail Habib, Naveed Ullah, Shahana Mujeeb Siddiqi, Javed Ahmed Khan Tipu, Muhammad Arif, Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh, Investigating the effect of inlet head and water pressure on the performance of single stage Gravitational Water Vortex Turbine. IJTST. 2021.
  • Adnan Aslam Noon, Muhammad Arif, Javed Ahmed Khan Tipu, Absaar Ul Jabbar, Muftooh Ur Rehman Siddiqi, Aamer Sharif, Performance enhancement of centrifugal pump through cavitation reduction using optimization techniques, International Journal of Thermofluid Science and Technology. 2021.
  • Muhammad Abdul Qyyum, Ahmad Naquash, Wahid Ali, Junaid Haider, Adnan Aslam Noon,

Mohammad Rehan, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Muhammad Yasin, Moonyong Lee, Process Systems Engineering Evaluation of Prospective Working Fluids for Organic Rankine Cycles Facilitated by Biogas Combustion Flue Gases, Frontiers in Energy Research. 2021.

  • Haroon Farooq, Waqas Ali, Huma Iqbal, Intisar Ali Sajjad, Akhtar Rasool, Adnan Aslam Noon, Evaluation of the Safety Performance of a 500kV AC Substation Grounding Deploying IEEE Standard 80-2013. Electrica. 2021.
  • Bilal Anwar, Adnan Aslam Noon, Hasan Koten, Design and fabrication of Solar Heat Cell using Phase Change Materials, Technical Journal UET Taxila.
  • Ahmad Adnan Shoukat, Adnan Aslam Noon, Muhammad Anwar, Hafiz Waqar Ahmed,Talha Irfan Khan, Hasan Koten, Muftooh Ur Rehman Siddiqie, Aamer Sharif, Blades Optimization for Maximum Power Output of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine, Int. Journal of Renewable Energy Development 10 (3) 2021: 585-595.
  • Adnan Aslam Noon and Man-Hoe Kim, Sediment and Cavitation Erosion in Francis Turbines-Review of Latest Experimental and Numerical Techniques, Energies 2021, 14, 1516.
  • Adnan Aslam Noon, Absaar Ul Jabbar, Hasan Koten, Man-Hoe Kim, Hafiz Waqar Ahmed, Umair Mueed, Ahmad Adnan Shoukat and Bilal Anwar, Strive to Reduce Slurry Erosion and Cavitation in Pumps through Flow Modifications, Design Optimization and Some Other Techniques: Long Term Impact on Process Industry, Materials 2021, 14, 521.
  • Adnan Aslam Noon, Muhammad Abdul Qyyum, Feng Wei, Moonyong Lee, Vortex tube shape optimization for hot control valves through computational fluid dynamics, International Journal of Refrigeration 102 (2019) 151–158.
  • Muhammad Abdul Qyyum, Feng Wei, Arif Hussain, Adnan Aslam Noon, Moonyong Lee, An innovative vortex-tube turbo-expander refrigeration cycle for performance enhancement of nitrogen-based natural-gas liquefaction process, Applied Thermal Engineering 144 (2018) 117–125.
  • Adnan Aslam Noon, Man-Hoe Kim, Erosion wear on Francis turbine components due to sediment flow, Wear 378-379 (2017) 126–135.
  • Adnan Aslam Noon, Man-Hoe Kim, Erosion wear on centrifugal pump casing due to slurry flow, Wear 364-365 (2016) 103–111.
  • Muhammad Abid, Adnan Aslam Noon, Hafiz Abdul Wajid (2014), “Erosion study of Tunnel 1 of Tarbela Dam”, Iranian Journal of Science & Technology, Transactions of Mechanical Engineering (IJST).
  • Muhammad Abid, Adnan Aslam Noon (2010), “Turbulent flow simulations through Tarbela Dam Tunnel 2”, Journal of Water Resource and Protection (JWARP) by Scirp. Vol. 2, pp 507-515.
  • Muhammad Abid, Adnan Aslam Noon (2010), “ Simulation of Turbulent flow through Tarbela Dam Tunnel 3”, IIUM Engineering Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp- 201-224.

 

Conference

  • Adnan Aslam Noon, Man Hoe Kim, Cavitation erosion at runner blades in a Francis turbine at the Tarbela Dam Hydro Project, Proceedings of Annual SAREK, April, 2017.
  • Adnan Aslam Noon, Man Hoe Kim, Sediment erosion predictions on Francis Turbine components, 9th National Congress on Fluids Engineering (NCFE), August, 2016.
  • Adnan Aslam Noon, Man Hoe Kim, Erosion predictions for Centrifugal Pump casing, Proceedings of Annual SAREK, April, 2016.
  • Adnan Aslam Noon, Dr. Afzaal Malik, Abbas Raza, Faheem Qaiser “Design and Analysis of Transient response of centrifugal pump in High Viscous Environment with Bond Graph” in First International Conference on Structural Dynamics and Vibrations (2014).
  • Muhammad Abid, Adnan Aslam Noon, “Study of the effect of Sediment flows through Tarbela Dan Tunnels”, Proceedings of the 1st Annual International Symposium on Frontiers of Computational Sciences (ISFCS), (2010), Islamabad.
  • Muhammad Abid, Adnan Aslam Noon, Turbulent flow simulations through Tarbela Dam Tunnels considering the effect of sediment particles, Proceedings of the 10th Biennial ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis ESDA, (2010), Yeditepe University, Istanbul.

Committed to developing sustainable energy solutions using local resources, including waste-to-energy systems, energy storage technologies, and small-scale and run-of-river hydropower, to deliver clean, affordable energy while reducing environmental impact and supporting community development.

  • Won funding of Rs 9 Million under Pak-UK mobility grant by HEC-British Council joint project.
  • Proposal accepted for 2nd round of ISF by HEC in 2023.
  • Proposal accepted for 2nd round of GCF by HEC in 2022.
  • Attained “Researcher Award” for Year 2017 at School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.
  • Remained Incharge of the media and publicity committee for the 2nd PGSRET to be held at Department of Mechanical engineering, IIU Islamabad on 10-11 June, 2015.
  • Awarded session best paper in Engineering System Design and Analysis (ESDA) conference organized by ASME in Istanbul, Turkey held on 12-14 July, 2010
  • Presented as a guest speaker titled “Study of the effect of sediment flows through Tarbela Dam Tunnels” in first International Symposium on Frontiers of Computational Sciences (ISFCS) 2010 held at Islamabad
  • Awarded participation certificate in all Pakistan Digital Innovation Competition and Exhibition (DICE) held at CIIT Lahore in December, 2009.
  • Awarded certificate in the workshop on MATLAB and Simulink (A tool for engineering applications) held in GIKI in October, 2008
  • Awarded certificate of participation in the 5 days Vacuum Technology workshop organized by Pakistan Vacuum society (PVS) in April, 2008
  • Winner of the PTC (Pakistan Tobacco Company) final year project competition 2004.

  • Professional Engineer Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)
  • Program Evaluator (PEV) at Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)
  • Program Evaluator (PEV) at National Technology Council (NTC)
  • Member, Institute of Engineers Pakistan (IEP)
  • Director, Unity Development Foundation