ADVANCING SCIENCE

Scientific Contributions

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

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