Dr Mohamad Abdel-Aal

Mohamad’s research focuses on decarbonising urban water and wastewater systems through energy recovery, sustainable heat utilisation, and computational modelling. His city-scale sewer heat model, developed and validated across a decade of published work, was used by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on sewer heat recovery exclusion zones. He is actively leading and contributing to a portfolio of research projects where advanced modelling of complex systems plays a central role in efforts to integrate renewable energy within water infrastructure, supporting cross sector collaboration and evidence based innovation, including TORCH, an Ofwat funded sewer heat recovery planning tool developed with Anglian Water. Alongside his modelling expertise, Mohamad has strong experience in field and laboratory research environments, including the design, supervision and analysis of full-scale sewer rig experiments and field heat pump installations. He collaborates with partners including Eawag (Switzerland), Tsinghua University (China), the University of Queensland (Australia) and the University of British Columbia (Canada).