ADVANCING SCIENCE

Scientific Contributions

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

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