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Joon Ha Kim is affiliated with the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions in the fields of water science and technology, biomedical engineering, industrial and manufacturing engineering, environmental engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their work often centers on membrane separation technologies, membrane-based ion separation techniques, water quality monitoring technologies, hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence, water quality monitoring and analysis, hydrology and watershed management studies, and membrane separation and gas transport.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Desalination and Water Treatment
  • Desalination
  • Membranes
  • Ecological Engineering

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Joon Ha Kim are:

  • "A comprehensive review of the feasibility of pressure retarded osmosis: Recent technological advances and industrial efforts towards commercialization," 2020, Desalination
  • "Analysis of the relation between pollutant loading and water depth flowrate changes in a constructed wetland for agricultural nonpoint source pollution management," 2020, Ecological Engineering
  • "Cost-based optimization, feasibility study, and sensitivity analysis of forward osmosis/crystallization/reverse osmosis with high-temperature operation for high-salinity seawater desalination," 2024, Desalination
  • "Prediction of permeate water flux in forward osmosis desalination system using tree-based ensemble machine learning models," 2022, Desalination and Water Treatment
  • "Theoretical Analysis of a Mathematical Relation between Driving Pressures in Membrane-Based Desalting Processes," 2021, Membranes

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authorship with Seo Jin Ki, Seung Ji Lim, Sung Ho Chae, Jeongwoo Moon, and Kwanho Jeong.

Best Publications

  • Decadal and shorter period variability of surf zone water quality at Huntington Beach, California.

    Boehm Ab;Grant Sb;Kim Jh;Mowbray Sl

  • A comprehensive review of hybrid forward osmosis systems: Performance, applications and future prospects

    Laura Chekli;Sherub Phuntsho;Jung Eun Kim;Jihye Kim

  • Prediction of effluent concentration in a wastewater treatment plant using machine learning models

    Hong Guo;Kwanho Jeong;Jiyeon Lim;Jeongwon Jo

  • Development of early-warning protocol for predicting chlorophyll-a concentration using machine learning models in freshwater and estuarine reservoirs, Korea

    Yongeun Park;Kyung Hwa Cho;Jihwan Park;Sung Min Cha

  • Generation of enterococci bacteria in a coastal saltwater marsh and its impact on surf zone water quality.

    S B Grant;B F Sanders;A B Boehm;J A Redman

  • Overview of systems engineering approaches for a large-scale seawater desalination plant with a reverse osmosis network

    Young M. Kim;Seung J. Kim;Yong S. Kim;Sangho Lee

  • Linking land-use type and stream water quality using spatial data of fecal indicator bacteria and heavy metals in the Yeongsan river basin.

    Joo-Hyon Kang;Seung Won Lee;Kyung Hwa Cho;Seo Jin Ki

  • Toward a combined system of forward osmosis and reverse osmosis for seawater desalination

    Yong Jun Choi;June Seok Choi;Hyun Je Oh;Sangho Lee

  • Gap‐filling approaches for eddy covariance methane fluxes: A comparison of three machine learning algorithms and a traditional method with principal component analysis

    Yeonuk Kim;Mark S. Johnson;Sara H. Knox;T. Andrew Black

  • Prediction of contamination potential of groundwater arsenic in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand using artificial neural network.

    Kyung Hwa Cho;Suthipong Sthiannopkao;Yakov A. Pachepsky;Kyoung-Woong Kim

  • Surf zone entrainment, along-shore transport, and human health implications of pollution from tidal outlets

    S. B. Grant;J. H. Kim;B. H. Jones;S. A. Jenkins

  • The relative importance of water temperature and residence time in predicting cyanobacteria abundance in regulated rivers.

    YoonKyung Cha;Kyung Hwa Cho;Hyuk Lee;Taegu Kang

  • Smart water grid: the future water management platform

    Seung Won Lee;Sarper Sarp;Dong Jin Jeon;Joon Ha Kim

  • Use of barcoded pyrosequencing and shared OTUs to determine sources of fecal bacteria in watersheds.

    Tatsuya Unno;Jeonghwan Jang;Dukki Han;Joon Ha Kim

  • Release of Escherichia coli from the bottom sediment in a first-order creek: Experiment and reach-specific modeling

    Kyung Hwa Cho;Kyung Hwa Cho;Y.A. Pachepsky;Joon Ha Kim;A.K. Guber

  • Reverse osmosis (RO) and pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) hybrid processes: Model-based scenario study

    Jihye Kim;Minkyu Park;Shane A. Snyder;Joon Ha Kim

  • Mathematical model of flat sheet membrane modules for FO process: Plate-and-frame module and spiral-wound module

    B. Gu;D.Y. Kim;J.H. Kim;D.R. Yang

  • Simulation of forward osmosis membrane process: Effect of membrane orientation and flow direction of feed and draw solutions

    Da Hee Jung;Jijung Lee;Do Yeon Kim;Young Geun Lee

  • Molecular dynamics simulations in membrane-based water treatment processes: A systematic overview

    Hannah Ebro;Young Mi Kim;Joon Ha Kim

  • Meteorological effects on the levels of fecal indicator bacteria in an urban stream: a modeling approach.

    Kyung Hwa Cho;Sung Min Cha;Joo-Hyon Kang;Seung Won Lee

  • Determination of a constant membrane structure parameter in forward osmosis processes

    Minkyu Park;Ji Jung Lee;Sangho Lee;Joon Ha Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyung Hwa Cho
Kyung Hwa Cho Korea University
In S. Kim
In S. Kim Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Stanley B. Grant
Stanley B. Grant Virginia Tech
Ho Kyong Shon
Ho Kyong Shon University of Technology Sydney
Yakov A. Pachepsky
Yakov A. Pachepsky Agricultural Research Service
Kyoung-Woong Kim
Kyoung-Woong Kim Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Michael J. Sadowsky
Michael J. Sadowsky University of Minnesota
Shane A. Snyder
Shane A. Snyder Georgia Institute of Technology
Seungkwan Hong
Seungkwan Hong Korea University
GwangPyo Ko
GwangPyo Ko Seoul National University

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