Introduction
Dr. Hamdy M. AbdelGhafar was born in 1987, Giza, Egypt. He completed his PhD in Chemistry at Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt in 2016. His research work mainly focused on development new processing technologies for water and wastewater purification, synthesis new materials for wastewater treatment and crystals study and modification. In addition, Dr. Hamdy had 6 years of experience in industrial plants of water and wastewater treatment by different technologies "RO, ED & IX resin".
Publications
1. H.M. Abdel-Ghafar, E.A. Abdel-Aal, B. E. El Anadouli, Iron removal from ground water using egyptian cost-effective clay minerals, Applied Chemical Engineering (2018) Volume 2, doi: 10.63019/ace.v1i2.470.
2. H. M. Abdel-Ghafar, E. A. Abdel-Aal, D. El-Sayed, J. Optimization of electrodialysis unit for partial desalination: batch and continuous operation, Hoinkis, Applied Chemical Engineering (2018) Volume 2, doi: 10.63019/ace.v2i1.479.
3. E. A. Abdel-Aal, H. M. Abdel-Ghafar, B. E. El Anadouli,New Findings about Nucleation and Crystal Growth of Reverse Osmosis Desalination Scales with and without Inhibitor, Crystal Growth & Design-ACS, 2015, 15 (10), 5133-5137.
4. E. A. Abdel-Aal, H. M. Abdel-Ghafar, D. El-Sayed, A. N. El-Shazly, J. Hoinkis,Crystallization study of reverse osmosis desalination scales at low salinity with and without inhibitor, Particulate Science and Technology, 2017, 35 (6), 749 - 754.
5.H. M. Abdel-Ghafar, E. A. Abdel-Aal, B. E. El Anadouli, Study on the nucleation aspects and morphology of reverse osmosis desalination scales with and without scale inhibitor at different supersaturation ratios, Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 2017, 17 (2) 493 – 499.
Conferences
1. Development of Novel and Cost Effective Techniques for Purification of Commercial Grade Phosphoric Acid for Fertilizers, Food and Pharmaceutical Industries " , H. M. Abdel-Ghafar, E. A. Abdel-Aal, H. El-Shall, M.A.M. Ibrahim and A.K. Ismail, 9th International Conference on Chemical & Environmental Engineering, 3-5 April, 2018, Cairo, Egypt.
2.Recovery of Sodium Hydroxide from Industrial Wastewater of Aluminum Surface Treatment, E.A. Abdel-Aal, H.M. Abdel-Ghafar, R. Abdel-Hamid, D. El-Sayed, Mineral Engineering Conference MEC2016, 25-28 September 2016, Swieradow-Zdroj, Poland.
3.Deionization of Red Sea Water using a Combined system of Electrodialysis and Ion Exchange Resin, E. A. Abdel-Aal, H. M. Abdel-Ghafar, 1st International Conference on Desalination Using Membrane Technology, 7 – 10 April 2016, Spain.
