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Tzahi Y. Cath is affiliated with the Colorado School of Mines in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their scholarly output extensively covers various subfields including Water Science and Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's research spans several key topics, with notable emphasis on Membrane Separation Technologies, Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques, and Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods. Further areas of work include Fault Detection and Control Systems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring, and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal.

Among the recent publications authored or co-authored by Tzahi Y. Cath are:

  • Oil and Gas Produced Water Reuse: Opportunities, Treatment Needs, and Challenges (2021), published in ACS ES&T Engineering
  • Mineral Scale Prevention on Electrically Conducting Membrane Distillation Membranes Using Induced Electrophoretic Mixing (2020), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • A hybrid catalytic hydrogenation/membrane distillation process for nitrogen resource recovery from nitrate-contaminated waste ion exchange brine (2020), published in Water Research
  • Prediction of Peracetic Acid Disinfection Performance for Secondary Municipal Wastewater Treatment Using Artificial Neural Networks (2020), published in ACS ES&T Water
  • Conducting thermal energy to the membrane/water interface for the enhanced desalination of hypersaline brines using membrane distillation (2021), published in Journal of Membrane Science

Tzahi Y. Cath frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Amanda S. Hering, Natalie Mastin, David Jassby, Kathryn B. Newhart, and Craig Turchi, with collaboration counts ranging from 9 to 37 joint works.

The scientist has contributed a number of publications to venues such as Harvard Dataverse, ACS ES&T Water, Journal of Membrane Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Water Process Engineering.

In addition to journal articles, they have authored books published by UWA Publishing and the Water Environment Federation. Titles include "Pathways to Water Sector Decarbonization, Carbon Capture and Utilization" (2023) and "Real-time Optimization of Peracetic Acid Disinfection at Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Using Artificial Neural Networks" (2020).

Best Publications

  • Forward osmosis: Principles, applications, and recent developments

    Tzahi Y. Cath;Amy E. Childress;Menachem Elimelech

  • The forward osmosis membrane bioreactor: A low fouling alternative to MBR processes

    Andrea Achilli;Tzahi Y. Cath;Eric A. Marchand;Amy E. Childress

  • Selection of inorganic-based draw solutions for forward osmosis applications

    Andrea Achilli;Tzahi Y. Cath;Amy E. Childress

  • Power generation with pressure retarded osmosis: An experimental and theoretical investigation

    Andrea Achilli;Tzahi Y. Cath;Amy E. Childress

  • Forward osmosis for concentration of anaerobic digester centrate.

    Ryan W. Holloway;Amy E. Childress;Keith E. Dennett;Tzahi Y. Cath

  • High recovery of concentrated RO brines using forward osmosis and membrane distillation

    C. Riziero Martinetti;Amy E. Childress;Tzahi Y. Cath

  • Solute Coupled Diffusion in Osmotically Driven Membrane Processes

    Nathan T. Hancock;Tzahi Y. Cath

  • Experimental study of desalination using direct contact membrane distillation: a new approach to flux enhancement

    Tzahi Y. Cath;V.Dean Adams;Amy E. Childress

  • Standard methodology for evaluating membrane performance in osmotically driven membrane processes

    Tzahi Y. Cath;Menachem Elimelech;Jeffrey R. McCutcheon;Robert L. McGinnis

  • The sweet spot of forward osmosis: Treatment of produced water, drilling wastewater, and other complex and difficult liquid streams

    Bryan D. Coday;Pei Xu;Edward G. Beaudry;Jack Herron

  • Data-driven performance analyses of wastewater treatment plants: A review.

    Kathryn B. Newhart;Ryan W. Holloway;Amanda S. Hering;Tzahi Y. Cath

  • Forward osmosis treatment of drilling mud and fracturing wastewater from oil and gas operations

    Kerri L. Hickenbottom;Nathan T. Hancock;Nathan R. Hutchings;Eric W. Appleton

  • A multi-barrier osmotic dilution process for simultaneous desalination and purification of impaired water

    Tzahi Y. Cath;Nathan T. Hancock;Carl D. Lundin;Christiane Hoppe-Jones

  • Membrane contactor processes for wastewater reclamation in space Part I. Direct osmotic concentration as pretreatment for reverse osmosis

    Tzahi Y. Cath;Sherwin Gormly;Edward G. Beaudry;Michael T. Flynn

  • Membrane contactor processes for wastewater reclamation in space: II. Combined direct osmosis, osmotic distillation, and membrane distillation for treatment of metabolic wastewater

    Tzahi Y. Cath;Dean Adams;Amy E. Childress

  • Electrochemical Stripping to Recover Nitrogen from Source-Separated Urine

    William A. Tarpeh;James M. Barazesh;Tzahi Y. Cath;Kara L. Nelson

  • Removal of natural steroid hormones from wastewater using membrane contactor processes.

    Joshua L. Cartinella;Tzahi Y. Cath;Michael T. Flynn;Glenn C. Miller

  • Treatment of RO brine from CSG produced water by spiral-wound air gap membrane distillation — A pilot study

    Hung C. Duong;Allan R. Chivas;Bart Nelemans;Mikel Duke

  • A scaling mitigation approach during direct contact membrane distillation

    Long D. Nghiem;Tzahi Cath

  • Systems and methods for purification of liquids

    Tzahi Y. Cath;Amy E. Childress

  • Comprehensive Bench- and Pilot-Scale Investigation of Trace Organic Compounds Rejection by Forward Osmosis

    Nathan T. Hancock;Pei Xu;Dean M. Heil;Christopher Bellona

Frequent Co-Authors

Amy E. Childress
Amy E. Childress University of Southern California
Pei Xu
Pei Xu New Mexico State University
Jörg E. Drewes
Jörg E. Drewes Technical University of Munich
Long D. Nghiem
Long D. Nghiem University of Technology Sydney
Craig Turchi
Craig Turchi National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Menachem Elimelech
Menachem Elimelech Rice University
David Jassby
David Jassby University of California, Los Angeles
John R. Spear
John R. Spear Colorado School of Mines
Christopher P. Higgins
Christopher P. Higgins Colorado School of Mines
Faisal I. Hai
Faisal I. Hai University of Wollongong

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