ReviewRecent progress in renewable energy based-desalination in the Middle East and North Africa MENA region
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Dr. Enas is associate professor at chemical engineering department, Minia university, Egypt. She got her PhD in bio-electrochemical systems from chemical and environmental engineering department, Gunma university, Gunma, Japan. Dr. Enas’ research focuses on the fabrication of high conductive, high surface area, and biocompatible electrodes of the MFCs for simultaneous wastewater treatment and electricity generation. Also she is working on the development and application of graphene in wastewater treatment and water desalination. Dr Enas published around 100 manuscripts in ISI indexed journals Dr Enas successfully secured two national and internal grants with more than 600,000 USD. Dr Enas has already supervised several master and PhD students some of them already graduated and others not yet. Dr Enas is Editor in Scientific reports (Nature).
Mohammad Abdelkareem got his PhD from Japan in 2008. Right now, he is professor in sustainable and renewable energy engineering department, university of Sharjah, UAE. He is working on the development of the different renewable energy resources and devices that can be used in wastewater treatment and water desalination. Moreover, He is working on the development of the electrodes for the different electrochemical energy conversion/storage devices, such as direct methanol fuel cells, direct urea fuel cells, microbial fuel cells, and supercapacitors. Professor Mohammad published more than 200 manuscripts in ISI indexed journals. He secured several research funds with more than 800,000 USD. He is editor in International journal of thermofluids and journal of carbon resources and conversion.
Dr. Khaled Elsaid has about 20 years of combined research and academic teaching experience that he gained by working for different research and academic institutions. Dr. Khaled Elsaid has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and has been working for Texas A&M University in Qatar for more than 15 years. Dr. Elsaid's research focuses on the chemical and physical processes of water treatment, with more focus on the desalination process in general, and membrane desalination in particular studying their efficiencies and environmental impacts. Due to the strong conjunct between water and energy, hence the water-energy nexus, the research interest has driven toward the utilization of renewable energies as clean energy sources to drive different desalination processes. The current work focuses on the optimum mapping of different desalination processes to different renewable energy hence maximizing efficiency and minimizing environmental impacts, including carbon footprint. Dr Khaled published more than 50 manuscripts in ISI indexed journals
Muaz Al Radi is a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant (GRTA) at Khalifa University and a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering student at Khalifa University. He received his B.Sc. degree in Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering from the University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, with a rating of Highest Honors and a cumulative GPA of 3.97/4.00, being ranked as the department's No. 1. His research is focused on Renewable energy, Desalination, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Robotics. He has several publications that are related to the renewable energy and desalination.
Rashid Alqadi holds a bachelor’s degree in Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering from the University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, with a cumulative GPA of 3.40/4.00. His research interests include Renewable Energy, Desalination, Nanofluids, and energy efficiency. He is currently working in the field of sustainability and energy efficiency in the building sector.
Prof Olabi is the Director of Sustainable Energy and Power Systems Research Centre at the University of Sharjah “UoS”. Previously, he was Head of Department, Director of research institute, and many other academic and industrial position. He has supervised postgraduate research students (38 PhD) to successful completion. He has patented 2 innovative projects on PEM Fuel Call. He is the Subject Editor of the Elsevier Energy Journal, EiC of the Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (Elsevier), Editor of the Reference Module of Materials Science and Engineering (Elsevier), EiC of Renewable Energy section of Energies and board member of few other journals. Professor Olabi published more than 350 manuscripts in ISI indexed journals
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