Nurfarhanim binti Abu Bakar

@taylors.edu.my

Lecture, American Degree Transfer program, School of Liberal Arts and Science, Department of Liberal Arts & Humanities
Taylor's University



                          

https://researchid.co/nurfarhanimabuabakar

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, synthetic organic chemistry, University of Bristol, UK 2017
Bachelor of Science Degree (Hons) , University Malaya, Malaysia

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Organic Chemistry, General Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Spectroscopy

FUTURE PROJECTS

Optimizing Synthetic Route of Potential Insulating Oil from Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) using Lipase from Candida Rugosa.

One of the concern on the homogeneous-catalyzed reaction is the water content due to presence of Free Fatty Acid (FFA) during transesterification which result in the formation of soap that will reduce the performance of the catalyst and less WCOME is formed (Demirbas, 2009; Yaakob et al., 2013). This formation of soap also affects the separation and purification process during posttreatment of WCOME (Talukder et al., 2010).Besides that, the presence of impurities in waste cooking oil has been highlighted, hence, our focus is also to explore advanced purification techniques to reduce the impurities which include free fatty acids, water content and food particles in the oil prior to chemical modification to give WCOME with a better quality and stability of insulating oil.


Applications Invited
Collaboration for research and analysis
1

Scopus Publications

22

Scholar Citations

2

Scholar h-index

1

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Potential of Sugarcane Ethanol as Fuel for Vehicle in Malaysia
    M Faizal, AH Umaruddin, NA Bakar, S Sivakumar
    International Journal of Applied Engineering Research 14 (24), 4410-4414 2019

  • A Rieske oxygenase/epoxide hydrolase-catalysed reaction cascade creates oxygen heterocycles in mupirocin biosynthesis
    L Wang, A Parnell, C Williams, NA Bakar, MR Challand, ...
    Nature Catalysis 1 (12), 968-976 2018

  • Stable isotope protein labelling combined with micro-cryoprobe NMR for fragment screening
    MP Crump, M Goodwin, N Abu Bakar, CL Willis, R Taylor
    JOURNAL OF LABELLED COMPOUNDS & RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS 61 (5), 460-460 2018

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • A Rieske oxygenase/epoxide hydrolase-catalysed reaction cascade creates oxygen heterocycles in mupirocin biosynthesis
    L Wang, A Parnell, C Williams, NA Bakar, MR Challand, ...
    Nature Catalysis 1 (12), 968-976 2018
    Citations: 20

  • Potential of Sugarcane Ethanol as Fuel for Vehicle in Malaysia
    M Faizal, AH Umaruddin, NA Bakar, S Sivakumar
    International Journal of Applied Engineering Research 14 (24), 4410-4414 2019
    Citations: 2

Publications

1. M. Faizal, A. H. Umaruddin, N. A. Bakar and S. Sivakumar (2020). Potential of Sugarcane Ethanol as Fuel for Vehicle in Malaysia, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research. 14 (24), 4410-4414

2. M. Faizal, M. Syafiq, A. Amirah, N. A. Bakar (2019). Potential of Waste-to-Energy (WTE) in Malaysia, International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering & Management. 5(10), 1-8.

3. Wang L., Parnell A., Williams C., Bakar, N. A., Challand, M. R., van der Kamp M. W., Simpson, T. J., Race, P. R., Crump, M. P., Willis, C. L., A Rieske oxygenase/epoxide hydrolase-catalysed reaction cascade creates oxygen heterocycles in mupirocin biosynthesis. Nature Catalysis, 2018, 1, 968-976

4. Murugan, T., Nurfarhanim, A., Kayalvily, T., Ilangovan,P., Rajamohan, P. (2022). Critical factors affecting ICT adoption in Higher Education – A Systematic Review., High Technology Letters, vol., 28(11)

5. MP Crump, M Goodwin, N Abu Bakar, CL Willis, R Taylor Journal of Labelled Compounds & Radiopharmaceuticals (5), 460-460

GRANT DETAILS

Co researcher for FRGS Grant (Ref: FRGS/1/2021/STG04/USM/02/2) – RM180K 2022 – Present

Mechanism of irreversible surface interactions between carbon nanoparticles in non-polar systems
using polymer dispersants

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

R&D CHemist, (10 months), KLK Oleomas, Bukit Raja, Klang, Malaysia