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Ahmed Tawfik is affiliated with the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology in Egypt. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with significant contributions to related subfields such as Pollution, Building and Construction, Water Science and Technology, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their main research topics include wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, membrane separation technologies, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, biofuel production and bioconversion, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment, and advanced photocatalysis techniques.

Ahmed Tawfik has published research articles in multiple journals, frequently contributing to the following venues:

  • Journal of Water Process Engineering
  • Chemosphere
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Chemistry Letters
  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Cultivation of microalgae on liquid anaerobic digestate for depollution, biofuels and cosmetics: a review" (2022, Environmental Chemistry Letters)
  • "Solar photo-oxidation of recalcitrant industrial wastewater: a review" (2022, Environmental Chemistry Letters)
  • "The environmental distribution and removal of emerging pollutants, highlighting the importance of using microbes as a potential degrader: A review" (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Advances towards understanding long chain fatty acids-induced inhibition and overcoming strategies for efficient anaerobic digestion process" (2020, Water Research)
  • "Energy saving anammox technology-based nitrogen removal and bioenergy recovery from wastewater: Inhibition mechanisms, state-of-the-art control strategies, and prospects" (2020, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews)

Co-authorship collaborations are notable in their work with the following researchers:

  • Vinay Kumar Tyagi (24 publications)
  • Mahmoud Nasr (21 publications)
  • Nawaf S. Alhajeri (20 publications)
  • Muhammad Abdul Qyyum (16 publications)
  • Fangang Meng (16 publications)

Ahmed Tawfik has also contributed to book publications with UWA Publishing, authoring works such as "Anaerobic Digestate Management" (2022) and "Landfill Leachate Management" (2023).

Best Publications

  • Decolorization and COD reduction of disperse and reactive dyes wastewater using chemical-coagulation followed by sequential batch reactor (SBR) process

    F. El-Gohary;A. Tawfik

  • Degradation of four pharmaceuticals by solar photo-Fenton process: Kinetics and costs estimation

    Mohamed Gar Alalm;Ahmed Tawfik;Shinichi Ookawara

  • Comparison of solar TiO2 photocatalysis and solar photo-Fenton for treatment of pesticides industry wastewater: Operational conditions, kinetics, and costs

    Mohamed Gar Alalm;Ahmed Tawfik;Shinichi Ookawara

  • Treatment of a combined dairy and domestic wastewater in an up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor followed by activated sludge (AS system)

    A. Tawfik;M. Sobhey;M. Badawy

  • Enhancement of photocatalytic activity of TiO2 by immobilization on activated carbon for degradation of pharmaceuticals

    Mohamed Gar Alalm;Ahmed Tawfik;Shinichi Ookawara

  • Comparative study between chemical coagulation/precipitation (C/P) versus coagulation/dissolved air flotation (C/DAF) for pre-treatment of personal care products (PCPs) wastewater

    F. El-Gohary;A. Tawfik;U. Mahmoud

  • Nickel-graphene nanocomposite as a novel supplement for enhancement of biohydrogen production from industrial wastewater containing mono-ethylene glycol

    Ahmed Elreedy;Ahmed Elreedy;Ahmed Elreedy;Eman Ibrahim;Nazly Hassan;Ali El-Dissouky

  • Advances towards understanding long chain fatty acids-induced inhibition and overcoming strategies for efficient anaerobic digestion process.

    Mohamed Elsamadony;Mohamed Elsamadony;Alsayed Mostafa;Manabu Fujii;Ahmed Tawfik

  • Improved WO3 photocatalytic efficiency using ZrO2 and Ru for the degradation of carbofuran and ampicillin

    Mohamed Gar Alalm;Shinichi Ookawara;Daisuke Fukushi;Daisuke Fukushi;Akira Sato

  • Energy saving anammox technology-based nitrogen removal and bioenergy recovery from wastewater: Inhibition mechanisms, state-of-the-art control strategies, and prospects

    Amarpreet Singh Arora;Alam Nawaz;Muhammad Abdul Qyyum;Sherif Ismail

  • Sewage treatment in a combined up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB)-down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) system

    A. Tawfik;A. Ohashi;H. Harada

  • Continuous biohydrogen production from starch wastewater via sequential dark-photo fermentation with emphasize on maghemite nanoparticles

    Mahmoud Nasr;Ahmed Tawfik;Shinichi Ookawara;Shinichi Ookawara;Masaaki Suzuki;Masaaki Suzuki

  • Treatment of high strength wastewater from fruit juice industry using integrated anaerobic/aerobic system.

    Hala El-Kamah;Ahmed Tawfik;Mohamed Mahmoud;Hisham Abdel-Halim

  • Performance of UASB septic tank for treatment of concentrated black water within DESAR concept.

    K. Kujawa-Roeleveld;T. Fernandes;Y. Wiryawan;A. Tawfik

  • Effect of some waste additives on the physical and mechanical properties of gypsum plaster composites

    A.A. Khalil;A. Tawfik;A.A. Hegazy;M.F. El-Shahat

  • Treatment of anaerobically pre-treated domestic sewage by a rotating biological contactor

    Ahmed Tawfik;Bram Klapwijk;Fatma el-Gohary;Gatze Lettinga

  • The environmental distribution and removal of emerging pollutants, highlighting the importance of using microbes as a potential degrader: A review.

    Hafiz Adeel Ahmad;Shakeel Ahmad;Qingjie Cui;Zhibin Wang

  • Continuous hydrogen production from co-digestion of municipal food waste and kitchen wastewater in mesophilic anaerobic baffled reactor

    A Tawfik;M El-Qelish

  • Treatment of domestic wastewater in an up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor followed by moving bed biofilm reactor

    A. Tawfik;F. El-Gohary;H. Temmink

  • Solar photocatalytic degradation of phenol by TiO2/AC prepared by temperature impregnation method

    Mohamed Gar Alalm;Ahmed Tawfik;Shinichi Ookawara

  • Use of down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) reactor as a promising post-treatment system for municipal wastewater

    Mohamed Mahmoud;Ahmed Tawfik;Fatma El-Gohary

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinichi Ookawara
Shinichi Ookawara Tokyo Institute of Technology
Liam Blunt
Liam Blunt University of Huddersfield
Muhammad Abdul Qyyum
Muhammad Abdul Qyyum Sultan Qaboos University
Faizal Bux
Faizal Bux Durban University of Technology
Fangang Meng
Fangang Meng Sun Yat-sen University
Gatze Lettinga
Gatze Lettinga Wageningen University & Research
Hideki Harada
Hideki Harada Tohoku University
Vinay Kumar Tyagi
Vinay Kumar Tyagi National Institute of Hydrology
Moonyong Lee
Moonyong Lee Yeungnam University
Mohamed E. Mahmoud
Mohamed E. Mahmoud University of Alabama

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