ADVANCING SCIENCE

Scientific Contributions

Through research papers, patents, and PhD dissertations, we push the boundaries of knowledge, driving innovation in desalination and water treatment.

Insights into micro- and nano-organics in produced water streams with implications on the membrane distillation system
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazmo.2026.100024
Authors: Muhammad Saqib Nawaz, Sofiane Soukane, Muhammad Bilal Asif, Hamidreza Samouei, Najeh Kharbatia, Veerabhadraiah Gudideni, Sultan Alrubaish, Noreddine Ghaffour
  • Produced water chemistry
  • Micro-pollutants
  • Volatile fatty acids
  • Organic contaminants
  • Membrane distillation
Mechanistic evaluation of electrocoagulation pre-treatment for reducing calcium–magnesium scaling during non-oily refinery wastewater treatment
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2026.123570
Authors: Kanwal Anwar, Muhammad Saqib Nawaz, Sher Jamal Khan, Noreddine Ghaffour, Momina Maheen
  • Electrocoagulation pre-treatment
  • Forward osmosis
  • Non-oily refinery wastewater
  • Calcium–magnesium scaling
  • Water and resource recovery
Engineering edge-rich, highly dispersed, and stable MoS₂ sites for the catalytic splitting of H₂S for H₂ production
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8597696/v1
Authors: Pedro Castaño, Hend Omar Mohamed, Vijay K.Velisoju, Mohammed Obaid, Rafia Ahmed, Yuma Hirayama, Mohamed Hassine, Gontzal Lezcano, Ildar Mukhambetov, Zainab Alaithan, Muhammad Shafarifky, Ali Almofleh, Polina Tolstova, Omar El Tall, Takato Mitsudome, Huabin Zhang, Luigi Cavallo, Noreddine Ghaffour, Hassan Aljama
  • MoS2
  • H2S decomposition
  • electrospinning
  • Water resources
  • Hidrogen
  • Nanofiber
Engineering high environmental robustness in solar evaporation to bridge the lab-to-field performance gap
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71004-y
Authors: Chang-ting Wang, Canjie Lin, Kai Xu, Yang Liu, Zhongtao Lao, Jianping Cao, Bei Liu,, Amal Baqais, Khaled Bin Bandar, Saud Aldrees, Mohammed A. Alhussaini, Shao-Yuan Leu, Noreddine Ghaffour, Qiaoqiang Gan, Wenbin Wang, Peng Wang
  • Solar thermal energy
  • Water resources
Balancing biofouling control in membrane distillation by “shock” chlorination
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-026-00578-3
Authors: Daniel Dylewsk, Alla Alpatova, Graciela Gonzalez-Gil, Najat A Amin, Valentina-Elena Musteata, Stephen Ogg, Johannes S. Vrouwenvelder, Noreddine Ghaffour
  • Membrane distillation (MD)
  • Biofouling Control
  • Shock Chlorination
  • Seawater Desalination
  • Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD)

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