DrAli Zare

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering

  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering
  • +61 3 522 73520 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Improving air quality, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, developing sustainable fuel sources, and raising awareness about toxic vehicle emissions through working on:

 

Hydrogen Technologies

  • Hydrogen Fuel Cells
  • Electrolyzers
  • Hydrogen Combustion
  • Hydrogen Production
  • HFCV Life Cycle Analysis

Electric and Hybrid Vehicles 

  • Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV)
  • Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV)
  • BEV Life Cycle Analysis
  • BEV and HEV modelling (AVL software)

Internal Combustion Engine 

  • Engine performance
  • Engine emissions
  • Combustion analysis
  • Exergy analysis
  • Cold-start operation
  • Transient operation
  • drive cycles
  • Emissions and performance modelling (AVL software)

Air Quality and Emissions

  • Air quality modelling and measurement
  • Vehicle emissions and air quality
  • Emissions regulations (Euro 1-6, WLTP, Euro 7, etc.)
  • On-road vehicle testing (RDE & PEMS)
  • Sub-23 nm particles and NO2 emissions
  • Legislated and non-legislated drive cycles

Alternative Fuels and Emission Control

  • Development of alternative fuels from waste materials
  • Biofuel/biodiesel
  • Fuel additives
  • Emission control technologies

Renewable Energy Integration in Power Generation Layouts

    • Waste Heat Recovery
    • Multigeneration Layouts
    • Thermodynamic Cycles

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    REACH Schedule 2 - ArcActive Australia - NEW Stream 3 - Battery Electrolyte Exchange Validation & Optimisation Using Computational Fluid Dynamics Variation 1
    14 Jul 2026 - 30 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    ArcActive Australia Pty Ltd - $606,844.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Research on Pure Plant Oil as an alternative to diesel fuel
    27 Nov 2025 - 13 Mar 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    3-1 Green Biofuels Australia Pty Ltd - $25,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Fertiliser development from captured carbon slurry (analysis)
    24 Jan 2025 - 1 Apr 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    Kapture Group - $735,856.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Investigation into suitable additives for a universal tractor oil based on super high oleic safflower oil
    29 Mar 2021 - 28 Mar 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Go Resources Limited - $100,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    ACCIONA-Deakin World Solar Challenge.
    15 Oct 2018 - 31 Mar 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Acciona Energy Australia Global Pty Ltd - $450,000.00