2021

Natural products-based Janus hydrophilic/hydrophobic membrane for efficient scaling-resistance and photothermal membrane distillation

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2025.124100

Authors: Min Li, Nan Shang, Jinheng Lei, Xun Zhou, Peiqing Zhang, Noreddine Ghaffour, Quan Feng, Zhenyu Li

Photothermal membrane distillation
Scaling resistance
Janus hydrophilic/hydrophobic
Melanin NPs
Sodium alginate

The potential of air micro-nano bubbles and nucleated CO2 bubbles as curative and preventive strategies for SWRO biofouling removal

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2025.118865

Authors: Damaris S. Alvarez Sosa, Alla Alpatova, Doskhan Ybyraiymkul, Kim Choon Ng, Noreddine Ghaffour, Johannes S. Vrouwenvelder, Nadia Farhat

Reverse osmosis desalination
Membrane autopsy
Micro-nano bubbles
Nucleated CO2 bubbles
biofouling
Membrane cleaning
Biofilm removal

Probing the potential of surface-engineered titanium filler membranes for produced water treatment

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsamd.2025.100922

Authors: Nadia Hartini Suhaimi, Norwahyu Jusoh, Nur Asyraf Md Akhir, Boon Kar Yap, Muhammad Saqib Nawaz, Noreddine Ghaffour

Forward osmosis
Thin film composite membrane
MIL-125-NH2
Produced water recovery

Mitigating offshore oily wastewater pollution: Sustainable strategies for treatment, disposal, and reuse

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.118240

Authors: Rajab Abousnina, Noreddine Ghaffour, Long D. Nghiem

Petroleum oil and gas
Oily wastewater
Hybrid system technologies
Offshore
Membrane technologies

Pre-treatment optimization to reduce membrane fouling during produced water treatment with an integrated FO-MD system

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sctalk.2025.100467

Authors: Muhammad Saqib Nawaz, Sofiane Soukane, Muhammad Bilal Asif, Veerabhadraiah Gudideni, Sultan Alrubaish, Noreddine Ghaffour

Pre-treatment
Real produced water
Ion-exchange resins
Ultrafiltration
Forward osmosis
Membrane distillation (MD)

Harnessing machine learning for transmembrane pressure prediction in MBR systems during textile wastewater treatment

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dwt.2025.101238

Authors: Onaira Zahoor, Sher Jamal Khan, Muhammad Usama, Henry J. Tanudjaja, Noreddine Ghaffour, Muhammad Saqib Nawaz

Machine learning models
Transmembrane pressure
Textile wastewater treatment
Extra polymeric substances
Membrane bioreactor

Precise biofilm thickness prediction in SWRO desalination from planar camera images by DNN models

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-025-00451-9

Authors: Henry J. Tanudjaja, Najat A Amin, Adnan Qamar, Sarah Kerdi, Hussain Basamh, Thomas Altmann, Ratul Das, Noreddine Ghaffour

Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Membranes
Biofilm thickness prediction
Biofouling detection
Deep neural networks (DNN)
Convolutional neural networks (CNN)
Desalination membranes
SWRO biofouling
Membrane fouling analysis

Dual Repurposing of End-of-Life BWRO Membranes: Ultrafiltration Membranes for Advanced Wastewater Treatment and Cation Exchange Membranes for Fungal Microbial Fuel Cells

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes15010005

Authors: Anissa Somrani, Mehri Shabani, Zaineb Mohamed, Kholoud Abohelal, Salam. S. Alsharari, Ahmed Hannachi, Noreddine Ghaffour, Maxime Pontié

BW30-400
Cl2 attack
cation exchange membrane
Ultrafiltration (UF) membrane
fungal microbial fuel cell
recycling of SWE

Transforming end-of-life SWRO desalination membranes into nanofiltration membranes for the treatment of brackish water and wastewater

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88818-3

Authors: Anissa Somrani, Zaineb Mohamed, Kholoud Abohelal, Sara Larhrib, Noreddine Ghaffour, Maxime Pontié

Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Membranes
End-of-Life Membrane Repurposing
Brackish Water Treatment
Sustainable Water Treatment Solutions
Desalination Membrane Reuse

Spacer Designs for Improved Hydrodynamics and Filtration Efficiency in Sea Water Reverse Osmosis

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes15010032

Authors: Sarah Kerdi, Adnan Qamar, Henry J. Tanudjaja, Noreddine Ghaffour

Feed spacers
Reverse osmosis (RO)
direct numerical simulations
Concentration polarization
hydrodynamics

Algal organic matter (AOM) characterization and removal efficiency using various seawater desalination pretreatment techniques

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2025.118558

Authors: Mohammed Al Namazi, L.I. Sheng, Abdallatif Abdalrhman, Gary L. Amy, TorOve Leiknes, Noreddine Ghaffour

Fouling
Ceramic UF membrane
Seawater Desalination
Pretreatment
Dual media filter
Dissolved air flotation

Pre-pilot forward osmosis – Membrane distillation hybrid system for sustainable produced water treatment and reducing volume of hazardous waste in oil and gas industry

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2024.106628

Authors: Hyuk Soo Son, Alla Alpatova, Muhammad Saqib Nawaz, Sofiane Soukane, Sandra C. Medina, Veerabhadraiah Gudideni, Ali Al-Qahtani, Dalaver H. Anjum, Noreddine Ghaffour

Processed water treatment
Desalination
Scale-up system
Membrane fouling
Partial wetting
Membrane Scaling

Evaluation of liquid ferrate role on controlling assimilable organic carbon (AOC) formation for seawater desalination pretreatment during harmful algal blooms

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dwt.2024.100940

Authors: Abdullah H. Alshahri, Abdullah H.A. Dehwah, Harvey Winters, Noreddine Ghaffour, Thomas M. Missimer

seawater desalination pretreatment
Harmful algal blooms
Coagulation
Ferrate
assimilable organic carbon (AOC)
biofouling

Balancing Surface Chemistry and Flake Size of MXene‐Based Electrodes for Bioelectrochemical Reactors

Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202406223

Authors: Pewee. D. Kolubah, Hend Omar Mohamed, Ananda Rao Hari, Yue Ping, Mohamed Ben Hassine, Pia Dally, M. Obaid, Xiangming Xu, Jehad K. El-Demellawi, Pascal E. Saikaly, Mario Lanza, Noreddine Ghaffour, Pedro Castaño

MXenes
Energy harvesting
Bioelectrochemical systems
Delamination methods

Superhydrophobic pancake-like graphene oxide for zero liquid discharge solar desalination of real brines

Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2024.130478

Authors: Sarah Almahfoodh, M. Obaid, Sofiane Soukane, Khalid Alhamdan, Noreddine Ghaffour

Graphene
Photothermal
Solar interfacial desalination
Desalination
Brine
ZLD

Sustainable energy production from domestic wastewater via bioelectrochemical reactors using MXene efficient electrodes decorated with transition metal nanoparticles

Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2024.113793

Authors: Pewee D. Kolubah, Hend Omar Mohamed, Mohamed N. Hedhili, Mohamed Ben Hassine, Rubén Díaz-Rúa, Daniela I. Drautz-Moses, M. Obaid, Noreddine Ghaffour, Pascal Saikaly, Pedro Castaño