• Chromium removal from tannery wastewater by electrocoagulation: Optimization and sludge characterization 

      Genawi, Nahid M.; Ibrahim, Mohamed H.; El-Naas, Muftah H.; Alshaik, Awad E. ( MDPI AG , 2020 , Article)
      The treatment of tannery effluent is of great interest as it contains a complexmixture ofpollutants, primarily chromium. The disposal of this wastewater can have adverse effects on the environment and aquatic life, which ...
    • Date pits activated carbon as an effective adsorbent for water treatment 

      Surkatti, Riham; Ibrahim, Mohamed H.; El-Naas, Muftah H. ( Elsevier , 2021 , Book chapter)
      Water pollution is becoming increasingly evident throughout the last few decades due to several anthropogenic reasons. Mitigating the pollution effects has become a priority to conserve the already limited water resources ...
    • Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide into Formate: A Comprehensive Review 

      Al-Tamreh, Shaima A.; Ibrahim, Mohamed H.; El-Naas, Muftah H.; Vaes, Jan; Pant, Deepak; ... more authors ( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2021 , Article Review)
      Carbon dioxide conversion into useful products has been gaining considerable attention as a global-warming-mitigation technique. The electrochemical conversion of CO2 into high-value chemicals involves the utilization of ...
    • Evaluation of parameters controlling calcium recovery and CO2 uptake from desalination reject brine: An optimization approach 

      Mahmud, Nafis; Ibrahim, Mohamed H.; Fraga Alvarez, Daniela V.; Esposito, Daniel V.; El-Naas, Muftah H. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article)
      A multistage process scheme for extracting valuable minerals from desalination reject brine while simultaneously sequestering CO2 has been proposed. As a part of the proposed scheme, simultaneous removal of calcium ions ...
    • Magnesium recovery from desalination reject brine as pretreatment for membraneless electrolysis 

      Mahmud, Nafis; Alvarez, Daniela V. Fraga; Ibrahim, Mohamed H.; El-Naas, Muftah H.; Esposito, Daniel V. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2022 , Article)
      Alkali-earth metals pose a significant challenge to water treatment technologies and electrochemical processes due to their propensity to precipitate as metal hydroxides, which can deposit on membranes and/or electrodes ...
    • Treatment of petroleum industry wastewater: current practices and perspectives 

      Ibrahim, Mohamed H.; Banerjee, Aditi; El-Naas, Muftah H. ( Elsevier , 2022 , Book chapter)
      Petroleum industry is one of the major contributors to water pollution globally. The industry can discharge different types of pollutants that can be carcinogenic, phytotoxic, and genotoxic. The nature of these pollutants ...
    • Utilization of steel-making dust in drilling fluids formulations 

      Magzoub, Musaab I.; Ibrahim, Mohamed H.; Nasser, Mustafa S.; El-Naas, Muftah H.; Amani, Mahmood ( MDPI AG , 2020 , Article)
      Steelmaking is an energy-intensive process that generates considerable amounts of byproducts and wastes, which often pose major environmental and economic challenges to the steelmaking industry. One of these by-products ...
    • Zeolites nanocomposite membrane applications in CO2 capture 

      Zhang, Zhien; Ibrahim, Mohamed H.; El-Naas, Muftah H.; Cai, Jianchao ( Elsevier , 2018 , Book chapter)
      Membrane technology is a novel and promising method for CO2 capture among the separation approaches. The chapter first introduces the various membrane materials and their preparation methods. Especially the zeolites membranes ...