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DTRO Dismantled
Dr Sami Kassem

A Rigorous, Independent and Deliberately Unflattering Engineering Assessment of DiscTube Reverse Osmosis — Benchmarked Against Spiral-Wound, Tubular, Plate-and-...

Reverse Osmosis Scaling — The Dangerous Performance Killer Dr Sami Kassem
Reverse Osmosis Scaling — The Dangerous Performance Killer
Dr Sami Kassem

Mechanisms, prediction, diagnosis, prevention and remediation — with process flow diagrams, correlations and three industrial case studies

Materials Science of Nuclear Fusion Reactor Construction Dr Sami Kassem
Materials Science of Nuclear Fusion Reactor Construction
Dr Sami Kassem

Service environment, candidate materials, degradation mechanisms and a systematic comparison with fission reactor materials

Seawater Desalination by Cooling and Freezing Technology Dr Sami Kassem
Seawater Desalination by Cooling and Freezing Technology
Dr Sami Kassem

Freeze desalination (FD) separates fresh water from a saline feed by crystallising ice rather than by evaporating water or forcing it through a membrane. Becaus...

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Chemical Oxygen Demand in Wastewater Engineering
Dr Sami M. Kassem · 2026

A working engineering reference on chemical oxygen demand — what the COD test actually measures, its biodegradable and inert fractions, and how the number drive...

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Spent Caustic Waste-Liquid Management and Advanced Treatment Processes
Dr Sami M. Kassem · 2026

A monograph on refinery and gas-plant spent caustic: classification of sulphidic, phenolic and naphthenic streams, wet air oxidation and the competing treatment...

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Biodegradability of Wastewater Influents
Dr Sami M. Kassem · 2026

BOD₅/COD and COD/BOD₅ ratios as treatability indices — a technical reference across municipal, industrial and power-generation (incl. nuclear) sources, with COD...

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HOCl / Anolyte On-Site Generation — Feasibility Study
Dr Sami M. Kassem · 2026

Feasibility and engineering assessment of on-site hypochlorous acid (anolyte) generation: electrolysis routes, dosing, materials and economics. Enhanced edition...

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Dairy Wastewater Treatment Assessment
Dr Sami M. Kassem · 2026

Process engineering appraisal of dairy effluent: influent characterisation, treatability and the recommended treatment train.

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Electrodeionization (EDI) and Electrodialysis Reversal (EDR)
Dr Sami M. Kassem · 2026

Principles, applications, vendors, economics and integration with reverse osmosis — where electro-membrane polishing earns its place in the flowsheet.

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Fusion Nuclear Energy
Dr Sami M. Kassem · 2026

Confinement concepts, fuel cycles, materials and the engineering path from experimental plasmas to practical fusion power.

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Landfill Leachate Treatment
Dr Sami M. Kassem · 2026

Leachate characterisation by landfill age, candidate process trains — biological, physico-chemical and membrane — and meeting discharge compliance.