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Grants
· Smart Pipes for Sustainable Buildings
ITF – ITSP (Seed)
From 2023-02-01 To 2025-08-31
PI: M Louati
· On damping of waves in pressurised water pipes and approaches to compensate for it
RGC–GRF
From 2024-01-01 To 2026-12-31
PI: MS Ghidaoui
CoI: M Louati
· Automated and Autonomous Time Reversal-Based Diagnostic System for Water Supply Networks
ITF – ITSP (Mid-stream theme-based)
From 2023-08-22 To 2025-08-21
PI: MS Ghidaoui
CoPI: M Louati
· Robotic arm for time reversal imaging of water supply mains
UGC-Knowledge Transfer (Bridge Gap Fund)
From 2023-07-01 To 2024-06-30
PI: M Louati
CoI: MS Ghidaoui
· Pipeline Hydraulics: Resolving the Paradox of Time Reversibility in Damped Transients
RGC - General Research Fund
From 2020-01-01 To 2022-12-31
PI: MS Ghidaoui
CoPI: M Louati
· Testing and Evaluation of Potable Water Supply System at HKIA's District Metering Area Zone A
Hong Kong Airport Authority (HKAA)
From 2023-10-01 To 2024-03-31
PI: MS Ghidaoui
CoPI: M Louati
· Automated Smart Water Network @HKUST
Entrepreneur Center Tech-Ship
From 2023-07-01 To 2024-06-30
PI: M Louati
Role in the project: Principal Investigator (PI)
· Smart Water Network @ HKUST
HKUST-Sustainable Smart Campus (SSC)
From 2020-01-01 To 2022-12-31
PI: MS Ghidaoui
PM: M Louati
Role in the project: Project Manager (PM)
· Study on Pressure Transient Monitoring System for Rising MainsHong Kong Drainage Services Department (HK DSD)
From 2020-02-01 To 2021-12-31
PI: MS Ghidaoui
PM: M Louati
Patents
1. Waqar M., Louati M., and Ghidaoui M.S., “time-reversal technique for Defect Detection in pressurized pipelines”. [US P. patent No. 63/433,005]
2. Grigoropoulos G., Nasraoui, S., Louati M., and Ghidaoui M.S. “Defect Detection in Pressurized Pipelines Using Time Reversal of High Frequency Waves”. [US P. patent No. 63/478,355]
3. Nasraoui, S., Louati M., and Ghidaoui M.S. “High resolution acoustic imaging of pressurized pipeline”. [US P. patent No. 63/484,167]
4. Louati M.,. Waqar M., and Ben Arab M.H.E. “Transient response recognition technique for defect detection, localization and classification in water supply network”. [US P. patent No. 63/487,012]