Publications
References to published online publications about water treatment technologies.
2025 and newer publications
Represents the newest research outputs, emphasizing advanced desalination, high-salinity treatment, industrial wastewater treatment, and emerging membrane-based technologies for produced water and process water applications.
2025 and newer
- Experimental comparison between low salt rejection and counter flow reverse osmosis for produced water desalination
- Feasibility and application of membrane aerated biofilm reactors for industrial wastewater treatment
- Osmotically assisted reverse osmosis: Assessing pretreatment on hypersaline produced water
- Evaluation of high-temperature reverse osmosis for recycling boiler blowdown in industrial applications
Highlights recent applied studies involving membrane distillation, reverse osmosis fouling, oil-water separation materials, adsorbents, forward osmosis, and membrane evaluation methods.
2022 to 2024 Publications
- Modification of polyethylene for oil-water separation in industrial wastewater treatment
- Detailed organic characterization of process water to evaluate reverse osmosis membrane fouling in industrial wastewater treatment,
- Pilot plant evaluation of membrane distillation for desalination of high-salinity brines
- Performance evaluation of emerging block copolymer membranes for oil-water separation
- Evaluation of polymeric adsorbents via fixed-bed columns for emulsified oil removal from industrial wastewater
- Pilot-scale evaluation of forward osmosis membranes for volume reduction of industrial wastewater
- Membrane distillation: Recent technological developments & advancements in membrane materials
Covers validation, pilot-scale, and field-oriented studies covering produced water simulation protocols, pressure-retarded osmosis, osmotic concentration, sour water treatment, and ion exchange applications.
2019 to 2021 Publications
- Validation and application of a membrane filtration evaluation protocol for oil-water separation
- Evaluation of pretreatment and membrane configuration for pressure-retarded osmosis application to produced water from the petroleum industry
- Protocol for preparing synthetic solutions mimicking produced water from oil and gas operations
- Industrial wastewater volume reduction through osmotic concentration: Membrane module selection and process modeling
- Pressure-retarded osmosis for enhanced oil recovery
- The effect of hydrogen sulfide oxidation with ultraviolet light and aeration on sour water treatment via membrane contactors
- Application of emerging ion exchange resin for boron removal from saline groundwater
Captures early development and field evaluation work on membrane contactors, membrane distillation, forward osmosis, boiler feedwater treatment, and broader oil and gas water management applications.
2016 to 2018 Publications
- Evaluation of new ion exchange resins for hardness removal from boiler feedwater
- Membrane applications and opportunities for water management in the oil & gas Industry
- Application of membrane contactors to remove hydrogen sulfide from sour water
- Field evaluation of membrane distillation followed by humidification/dehumidification crystallizer for inland desalination of saline groundwater
- Application of hollow fiber forward osmosis membranes for produced and process water volume reduction: An osmotic concentration process
Represents the foundational body of work on produced water treatment, membrane distillation, forward osmosis, biotreatment, hydrate inhibitor analysis, and early screening of advanced water treatment technologies.
2012 to 2015 Publications
- Application of forward osmosis for reducing volume of produced/process water from oil & gas operations
- Biotreatment of hydrate-inhibitor-containing produced waters at low pH
- Evaluation of analytical methods for determination of kinetic hydrate inhibitor (KHI) in produced waters
- Treatment of produced water from oil & gas operations by membrane distillation
- Assessing the biotreatability of produced water from a Qatari gas field
- Field evaluation of membrane distillation technologies for desalination of highly saline brines
- Screening of advanced produced water technologies: overview and testing results
- Application of membrane distillation for desalting brines from thermal desalination plants
- Determination of field chemicals: Corrosion Inhibitor (CI) and Kinetic Hydrate Inhibitor (KHI) in produced water
- Advanced water treatment technologies for produced water