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70
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1049
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Noreddine Ghaffour publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Noreddine Ghaffour sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 273 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Noreddine Ghaffour D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Noreddine Ghaffour sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Saudi Arabia Leader Award

Overview

Noreddine Ghaffour is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science, engineering, and energy, with key contributions in water science and technology, biomedical engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics centered on membrane technologies and water purification. Principal topics include membrane separation technologies, membrane-based ion separation techniques, solar-powered water purification methods, electrohydrodynamics and fluid dynamics, water quality monitoring technologies, MXene and MAX phase materials, and surface modification and superhydrophobicity.

Frequent collaborators in their research portfolio include Sofiane Soukane, Muhammad Saqib Nawaz, Johannes S. Vrouwenvelder, M. Obaid, and Adnan Qamar.

Selected recent publications exemplify the focus and scope of their work:

  • Seawater electrolysis for hydrogen production: a solution looking for a problem?, 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
  • State-of-the-art of renewable energy sources used in water desalination: Present and future prospects, 2021, Desalination
  • MXene-Coated Membranes for Autonomous Solar-Driven Desalination, 2022, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Freeze desalination: Current research development and future prospects, 2022, Water Research
  • Textile dye wastewater treatment by direct contact membrane distillation: Membrane performance and detailed fouling analysis, 2021, Journal of Membrane Science

Ghaffour has published frequently in a number of scientific venues, demonstrating a consistent research output in the following journals:

  • Desalination
  • Separation and Purification Technology
  • Journal of Membrane Science
  • Water Research
  • Membranes

Through their work, Ghaffour addresses challenges related to water treatment, renewable energy integration in desalination, and membrane material innovations, contributing knowledge relevant to environmental sustainability and clean energy.

Best Publications

  • Technical review and evaluation of the economics of water desalination: Current and future challenges for better water supply sustainability

    Noreddine Ghaffour;Thomas M. Missimer;Gary L. Amy

  • Membrane-based seawater desalination: Present and future prospects

    Gary L. Amy;Gary L. Amy;Gary L. Amy;NorEddine Ghaffour;Zhenyu Li;Lijo Francis

  • Renewable energy-driven desalination technologies: A comprehensive review on challenges and potential applications of integrated systems

    Noreddine Ghaffour;Jochen Bundschuh;Hacene Mahmoudi;Mattheus F.A. Goosen

  • Seawater electrolysis for hydrogen production: a solution looking for a problem?

    M. A. Khan;Tareq Al-Attas;Soumyabrata Roy;Muhammad M. Rahman

  • Renewable energy-driven innovative energy-efficient desalination technologies

    NorEddine Ghaffour;Sabine Lattemann;Thomas M. Missimer;Kim Choon Ng;Kim Choon Ng

  • State-of-the-art of renewable energy sources used in water desalination: Present and future prospects

    Jochen Bundschuh;Michał Kaczmarczyk;Noreddine Ghaffour;Barbara Tomaszewska

  • Life cycle cost of a hybrid forward osmosis - low pressure reverse osmosis system for seawater desalination and wastewater recovery

    R. Valladares Linares;Z. Li;V. Yangali-Quintanilla;N. Ghaffour

  • Overview of the cost of desalinated water and costing methodologies

    K.V. Reddy;N. Ghaffour

  • Modeling of air-gap membrane distillation process: A theoretical and experimental study

    Ahmad Salem Alsaadi;NorEddine Ghaffour;Junde Li;Stephen R. Gray

  • Material gap membrane distillation: A new design for water vapor flux enhancement

    Lijo Francis;Noreddine Ghaffour;Ahmad Salem Alsaadi;Gary L. Amy

  • Study on the treatment of photovoltaic wastewater using electrocoagulation: fluoride removal with aluminium electrodes--characteristics of products.

    N. Drouiche;S. Aoudj;M. Hecini;N. Ghaffour

  • Water scarcity and drought in WANA countries

    Jauad El Kharraz;Alaa El-Sadek;Noreddine Ghaffour;Eric Mino

  • Performance investigation of a solar-assisted direct contact membrane distillation system

    Young Deuk Kim;Kyaw Thu;Noreddine Ghaffour;Kim Choon Ng;Kim Choon Ng

  • Effect of operating parameters and membrane characteristics on air gap membrane distillation performance for the treatment of highly saline water

    Jingli Xu;Yogesh Balwant Singh;Gary L. Amy;NorEddine Ghaffour

  • Membrane distillation hybrids for water production and energy efficiency enhancement: A critical review

    N. Ghaffour;S. Soukane;J.-G. Lee;J.-G. Lee;Y. Kim

  • MXene-Coated Membranes for Autonomous Solar-Driven Desalination

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  • Experimental and theoretical analyses of temperature polarization effect in vacuum membrane distillation

    Ahmad S. Alsaadi;Lijo Francis;Gary L. Amy;Noreddine Ghaffour

  • Performance evaluation of the DCMD desalination process under bench scale and large scale module operating conditions

    Lijo Francis;Noreddine Ghaffour;Ahmad Salem Alsaadi;Suzana Pereira Nunes

  • Enhanced vapor transport in membrane distillation via functionalized carbon nanotubes anchored into electrospun nanofibres

    Alicia Kyoungjin An;Eui-Jong Lee;Jiaxin Guo;Sanghyun Jeong

  • Recent advances in nanomaterial-modified polyamide thin-film composite membranes for forward osmosis processes

    Nawshad Akther;Sherub Phuntsho;Yuan Chen;Noreddine Ghaffour

  • Subsurface intakes for seawater reverse osmosis facilities: Capacity limitation, water quality improvement, and economics

    Thomas M. Missimer;Noreddine Ghaffour;Abdullah H.A. Dehwah;Rinaldi Rachman

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary L. Amy
Gary L. Amy Clemson University
TorOve Leiknes
TorOve Leiknes King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Ho Kyong Shon
Ho Kyong Shon University of Technology Sydney
Sherub Phuntsho
Sherub Phuntsho University of Technology Sydney
Johannes S. Vrouwenvelder
Johannes S. Vrouwenvelder King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Kim Choon Ng
Kim Choon Ng King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jochen Bundschuh
Jochen Bundschuh University of Southern Queensland
Young-Deuk Kim
Young-Deuk Kim Hanyang University
Sanghyun Jeong
Sanghyun Jeong Pusan National University
Suzana Pereira Nunes
Suzana Pereira Nunes King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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