Areas of Expertise
- Renewable Energy
- Environmental Physics
Education
PhD in Renewable Energy
Biography
Currently, she is an acting Director General of Energy Efficiency at the Ministry of Electricity and Water Affairs, she was the head of the Department of Physics at the University of Bahrain. Albuflasa has a Ph.D. and an M.Sc in Renewable Energy from the Centre of Renewable Energy System Technologies, CREST, Loughborough University, UK. Albuflasa is Bahrain’s representative for the GCC Technical Standard Committee on Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems, a participating member and country representative of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for TC 82 and TC 88.
She is the principal investigator of several research grants and collaborations between the University of Bahrain and other international institutions, including the Horizon2020 project.
Achievements
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Affiliations
University of Bahrain
Grants & Contracts Awarded
- Horizon2020 DESOLINATION Project
- UK-GCC Institutional link 2017
Publications & Presentations
For the past five years only:
- “Prospects of wind power prediction and variable operation in optimizing wind-powered reverse osmosis operation” Mito, Mohamed T., Ma, Xianghong Albuflasa, Hanan and Davies, Philip A (2019). The International Desalination Association World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse 2019, Dubai, UAE.
- “Reverse osmosis (RO) membrane desalination driven by wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) energy: State of the art and challenges for large-scale implementation”, Mohamed T. Mito, Xianghong Ma, Hanan Albuflasa, Philip A. Davies. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 112, Pages 669-685, 2019.
- “Pressure and osmotically driven membrane processes: A review of the benefits and production of nano-enhanced membranes for desalination”. Basma Al-Najar, Christian D. Peters, Hanan Albuflasa, Nicholas P. Hankins, Desalination, Volume 479, 2020,
- “From Intelligent Energy Management to Value Economy through a Digital Energy Currency: Bahrain City Case Study”. Marinakis, V.; Doukas, H.; Koasidis, K.; Albuflasa, H. Sensors 2020, 20, 1456.
- “Offshore wind energy potential for Bahrain via multi-criteria evaluation”, Elgabiri M, Palmer D, Al Buflasa H, Thomson M. Wind Engineering. December 2020. doi:10.1177/0309524X20925399.
- “Evaluation of Environmental Sustainability Higher in Education Ranking Systems: Towards a Flat Intraranking System”, Buzaboon, A., Alnaser, W., Alboflasa, H., Shatnawi, S., Albinalia, K., Aljowder, T. Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research 38(1), pp. 11-28
- “Automated Mapping of Environmental Higher Education Ranking Systems Indicators to SDGs Indicators using Natural Language Processing and Document Similarity”, Buzaboon, A., Alboflasa, H., Alnaser, W., Shatnawi, S., Albinali, K. 2021 International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing, and Technologies, 3ICT 2021 pp. 170-174.
- “The Transition in Solar and Wind Energy Use in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCCC)” , Naser Waheeb Alnaser, Hanan Mubarak Albuflasa and Waheeb Essa Alnaser Renew. Energy Environ. Sustain., 7 (2022) 4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/rees/2021034
- “Thermally induced oxygen related defects in eco-friendly ZnFe2O4 nanoparticles for enhanced wastewater treatment efficiencies”, Al-Najar B., Younis A, Hazeem L, Sehar S, Rashdan S, Shaikh M.N, Albuflasa H, Hankins N.P. Chemosphere, 2022.
- “Variable operation of a renewable energy-driven reverse osmosis system using model predictive control and variable recovery: Towards large-scale implementation”, Mito, M.T., Ma, X., Albuflasa, H., Davies, P.A.. Desalination 2022.
- “Spinel ferrite nanoparticles as potential materials in chlorophenol removal from wastewater”, Al-Najar B., Kamal A, Albuflasa H., Hankins N.P.. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023.
- “Modular operation of renewable energy-driven reverse osmosis using neural networks for wind speed prediction and scheduling”, Mito, M.T., Ma, X., Albuflasa, H., Davies, P.A.. Desalination, 2023.
- “Highly nanocrystalline Mg doped ZnFe2O4 powders for rapid and simultaneous adsorption of lead, copper, and cadmium heavy metals ions in synthetic/sea waters”, Al-Najar, B., Modwi, A., Shaikh, M.N., Albuflasa, H., Hankins, N.P. Journal of Alloys and CompoundsThis link is disabled., 2024.
- “Characteristics of the built environment in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East and related energy and climate policies” Salvatore Carlucci, Manfred A. Lange, Georgios Artopoulos, Hanan M. Albuflasa, Margarita-Niki Assimakopoulos, Shady Attia, Elie Azar, Erdem Cuce, Ali Hajiah, Isaac A. Meir, Marina Neophytou, Melina Nicolaides, Despina Serghides, Aaron Sprecher, Muhieddin Tawalbeh, Stavroula Thravalou & Ioanna Kyprianou. Energy Efficiency, 2024.
