Water Desalination and Reuse Center

Research Interests

Optimization of spacer design for fouling mitigation and enhanced filtration performance
Water desalination processes
Prevention/control and characterization of fouling developed in filtration systems
Synthesis of materials and metallic nanoparticles embedded in mesoporous materials
Synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts and their evaluation via chemical reactions
Chemical formulation

Energy efficient 3D printed column type feed spacer for membrane filtration
S.M. Ali, A. Qamar, S. Kerdi, S. Phuntsho, J.S. Vrouwenvelder, N. Ghaffour, Ho Kyong Shona
Water Research, volume 164, pp. 114961, (2019)
An in-situ technique for the direct structural characterization of biofouling in membrane filtration
S. Kerdi, A. Qamar, A. Alpatova, N. Ghaffour
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2019.04.051, (2019)
Fouling Resilient Perforated Feed Spacers for Membrane Filtration
S. Kerdi, A. Qamar, J.S. Vrouwenvelder, N. Ghaffour
Water Research, (2018)