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# Ali G. Madiseh 

Associate Professor | Canadian Research Chair in Advanced Mine Energy Systems | Associate Head, Graduate Affairs (MASc and PhD)

- **Email** <ali.madiseh@ubc.ca>
 
 

 

## Biography 

Ali has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, Canada. He also had been a postdoctoral fellow at Earth/Mine Energy Research Group (EMERG) of McGill University for 3 years. Since 2001, he has been actively involved in the fields of mine-mechanical systems, mine energy systems, thermo-fluids, energy systems, computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer modeling as well as automation and control. His main research interests are mine-mechanical systems, mine energy systems, energy conservation, and renewable energies.

## Education

- McGill University, 2014, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Tehran Polytechnic (AUT), 2007, M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering
- Tehran Polytechnic (AUT), 2005, B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering

## Teaching

- MINE 402/ 509 Mine Ventilation and Occupational Health and Safety
- MINE 465/ 590Y Advanced Fleet Management

## Selected Publications

- Armstrong, T., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S.A., Kalantari, H., Samea, P. Steen, J. (2025), Evaluating operational benefits of fleet electrification in open pit mines using discrete event modeling; a case study for implementation of trolley assist trucks. International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, 1-24.
- Gao, Y., Wang X., Xu, M., Hu, Q., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S.A. &amp; Aziz M. (2024). Investigation of heat transfer characteristics of nanofluid ice slurry flowing in spiral bellows. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 156, 107583.
- Baidya, D., Dipple, G. &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2024). A techno-economic analysis of diesel exhaust injection into mine tailings for carbon sequestration. *Heliyon 10 (6), e27791* (22 pages).
- Pokhrel, S., Amiri, L., Poncet, S., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2023). Reduced order 1+ 3D numerical model for evaluating the performance of solar borehole thermal energy storage systems. *Journal of Energy Storage*, 66, 107503 (14 pages).
- Shadi, A., Samea, P., Rabiei, M., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2023). Energy efficiency of microwave-induced heating of crushed rocks/ores. *Minerals*, 13(7), 924 (19 pages).
- Kalantari, H., Baidya, D., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2023). A numerical investigation on utilizing jacket water waste heat of power generation units in remote mines. *Mining, Metallurgy &amp; Exploration* (13 pages).
- Rabiei, M., Samea, P., Shadi, A., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2023). A discrete element analysis for general failure behavior of basalt. *International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences,* 167, 105394 (12 pages).
- Baidya, D., Wynands, E., Samea, P., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A., &amp; Dipple, G. (2023). A reduced-order fluid flow model for gas injection into porous media: for application in carbon sequestration in mine tailings. *Minerals*, 13(7), 855 (24 pages).
- Kalantari, H., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2022). Study of mine exhaust heat recovery with fully-coupled direct capture and indirect delivery systems. *Applied Energy*, 334, 120679 (15 pages).
- Kalantari, H., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2022). Hybrid renewable hydrogen energy solution for remote cold-climate open-pit mines. *Hydrogen*, 3(3), 312-332.
- <a name="_Hlk76560066"></a>Kalantari, H., Amiri, L., &amp; Ghoreishi‐Madiseh, S. A. (2022). Analysis of the performance of direct contact heat exchange systems for application in mine waste heat recovery. *International Journal of Energy Research*, 46(1), 290-307.
- Shadi, A., Ahmadihosseini, A., Rabiei, A., Samea, P., Hassani, F., Sasmito, A. P., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2022). Numerical and experimental analysis of fully coupled electromagnetic and thermal phenomena in microwave heating of rocks. *Minerals Engineering*, 178, 107406 (10 pages).
- Agson-Gani, P. H., Zueter, A. F., Xu, M., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A., Kurnia, J. C., &amp; Sasmito, A. P. (2022). Thermal and hydraulic analysis of a novel double-pipe geothermal heat exchanger with a controlled fractured zone at the well bottom. *Applied Energy*, 310, 118407 (11 pages).
- Pokhrel, S., Amiri, L., Poncet, S., Sasmito, A. P., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2022). Renewable heating solutions for buildings; a techno-economic comparative study of sewage heat recovery and solar borehole thermal energy storage system. *Energy and Buildings*, 259, 111892 (15 pages).
- Baidya, D., de Brito, M. A. R., Sasmito, A. P., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2022). Diesel generator exhaust heat recovery fully-coupled with intake air heating for off-grid mining operations; an experimental, numerical, and analytical evaluation. *International Journal of Mining Science and Technology*, 32(1), 155-169.
- Pokhrel, S., Sasmito, A. P., Sainoki, A., Tosha, T., Tanaka, T., Nagai, C., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2022). Field-scale experimental and numerical analysis of a downhole coaxial heat exchanger for geothermal energy production. *Renewable Energy*, 182, 521-535.
- Zueter, A. F., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A., Hassani, F. P., &amp; Sasmito, A. P. (2022). Effect of freeze pipe eccentricity in selective artificial ground freezing applications. *Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications*, 14(1) (9 pages).
- Kalantari, H., Sasmito, A. P., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2021). An overview of directions for decarbonization of energy systems in cold climate remote mines. *Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews*, 152, 111711 (21 pages).
- Pokhrel S., Amiri, L., Zueter, A., Poncet, S., Hassani, F. P., Sasmito, A. P., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2021). Thermal performance evaluation of integrated solar-geothermal system; a semi-conjugate reduced order numerical model. *Applied Energy*, 303, 117676 (16 pages).
- Kurnia, J. C., Putra, Z. A., Muraza, O., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A., &amp; Sasmito, A. P. (2021). Numerical evaluation, process design and techno-economic analysis of geothermal energy extraction from abandoned oil wells in Malaysia. *Renewable Energy*, 175 (12 pages).
- Kalantari, H., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A., Kurnia, J. C., &amp; Sasmito, A. P. (2021). [An analytical correlation for conjugate heat transfer in fin and tube heat exchangers](javascript:void(0)). *International Journal of Thermal Sciences*, 164, 106915 (17 pages).
- Amiri, L., Madadian, E., Bahrani, N., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2021). Techno-economic analysis of waste heat utilization in data centers: application of absorption chiller systems, *Energies*,14(9), 2433 (11 pages).
- Hassani, F., Shadi, A., Rafezi, H., Sasmito, A., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2020). Energy analysis of the effectiveness of microwave-assisted fragmentation. *Minerals Engineering*, 159, 106642 (9 pages).
- Li, B., Zhang, J., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A., de Brito, M. A. R., Deng, X., &amp; Kuyuk, A. F. (2020). Energy performance of seasonal thermal energy storage in underground backfilled stopes of coal mines. *Journal of Cleaner Production*, 275, 122647 (11 pages).
- Kurnia, J. C., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A., &amp; Sasmito, A. P. (2020). Heat transfer and entropy generation in concentric/eccentric double-pipe helical heat exchangers. *Heat Transfer Engineering,* 41(18), 1552-1575.
- Baidya, D., de Brito, M. A. R., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2020). Techno-economic feasibility investigation of incorporating an energy storage with an exhaust heat recovery system for underground mines in cold climatic regions. *Applied Energy*, 273, 115289 (13 pages).
- Amiri L., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A., Hassani, F. P., &amp; Sasmito, A. P. (2020). Friction factor correlation for airflow through broken rocks and its applications in mine ventilation. *International Journal of Mining Science and Technology*, 30(4), 455-462.
- Kurnia, J. C., Templeton, J. D., Ghoreishi‐Madiseh, S. A., Hassani, F. P., &amp; Sasmito, A. P. (2020). Numerical and experimental study of transient conjugate heat transfer in helical closed‐loop geothermal heat exchangers for application of thermal energy storage in backfilled mine stopes. *International Journal of Energy Research*, 44, 9609-9616.
- Kalantari, H., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A., &amp; Sasmito, A. P. (2020). Hybrid renewable hydrogen energy solution for application in remote mines. *Energies*, 13(23), 6365 (22 pages).
- Amiri, L., de Brito, M. A. R., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A., Bahrani, N., &amp; Hassani, F. P. (2020). Numerical evaluation of the transient performance of rock-pile seasonal thermal energy storage systems coupled with exhaust heat recovery. *Applied Sciences*, 10(21), 7771 (19 pages).
- Rafezi, H., Deyab, S. M., Hassani, F., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A., &amp; Micallef, D. (2020). A comparative study of the cooling-rate effect on rock strength reduction after microwave irradiation. *Experimental Results*, 1 (6 pages).
- Pokhrel, S., Kuyuk, A. F., Kalantari, H., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2020). Techno-economic trade-off between battery storage and ice thermal energy storage for application in renewable mine cooling system. *Applied Sciences*, 10(17), 6022 (16 pages).
- de Brito, M. A. R., Baidya, D., &amp; Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S. A. (2020). Techno-economic feasibility assessment of a diesel exhaust heat recovery system to preheat mine intake air in remote cold climate regions. *International Journal of Mining Science and Technology*, 30(4), 517-523.
- Kuyuk, A.F., Ghoreishi-Madiseh, S.A., &amp; Hassani, F. (2020). Closed-loop bulk air conditioning: a renewable energy based system for deep mines in artic regions. *International Journal of Mining Science and Technology*, 30 (4), 511-516.