Membrane technologies for wastewater treatment

Research Activities

Michal Green joined the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering in 1994 and has worked mainly on bioreactors for the removal of organics, pesticides and inorganic nitrogen compounds from wastewater and drinking water. The general approach in all her research studies is the integration of the several disciplines composing the environmental engineering / sciences discipline, i.e., integration of the biological processes into physico-chemical processes.

Dr. Green's group is currently involved in several research projects including the following:

Denitrification of brines
Nitrification at low pH.
Membrane technologies for wastewater treatment and reuse.
Chemically enhanced primary treatment (CEPT)
Vertical flow constructed wetlands for Wastewater Treatment.
Appropriate Technology for Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in Rural Middle East Areas.
Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor for Domestic Wastewater Treatment at low temperature.
Atrazine Removal Using Biological Granular Activated Carbon (BGAC) Reactor.
 

Recent Publications (from 2001)

• Green M.*, Ruskol Y., Lahav O., Tarre S. (2001). Chalk as the carrier for nitrifying biofilm in a fluidized bed reactor. Water Research Vol.35(1):284-290.
• Lahav O., Artzi E., Tarre S., Green M.* (2001). Ammonium Removal using a Novel Unsaturated Flow Biological Filter with Passive Aeration. Water Research Vol. 35(2): 397-404.
• Katz I., Dosoretz C., Mandelbaum R., Green M.* (2001). Atrazine degradation under denitrifying conditions in continuous culture of Pseudomonas ADP. Water Research Vol. 35(13):3272-3275.
• Admon S.*, Green M., Avnimelech Y. (2001). Biodegradation Kinetics of Hydrocarbons in Soil during Land Treatment of Oily Sludge. Bioremediation Journal Vol. 5(3):193-209.
• Green M.*, Ruskol Y., Tarre S., Lowental R., (2002). Nitrification process utilizing CaCO3 as the buffer agent. Environmental Technology Vol. 23:303-308.
• Green M.*, Ruskol Y., Shaviv A., Tarre S. (2002). The effect of CO2 concentration on a nitrifying chalk reactor. Water Research Vol.36(8):2147-2151.
• Green M*, Denekamp N., Tarre S., Lahav O. (2002) Production of Gaseous Nitrogen Compounds in a Novel Process for Ammonium Removal. Water Science and Technology Vol 46 (1-2):215-222.
• Herzberg M.*, Dosoretz C., Tarre S., Green M. (2003). Patchy Biofilm Coverage Can Explain the Potential Advantage of BGAC Reactor.s. Environ. Sci. Technol. 37, 4274-4280
• Zhou J.B., Green M., Shaviv A.* (2003). Mineralization of organic N originating in treated effluent used for irrigation. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 67: 205-213.
• Lew B.*, Beliavski M., Admon S., Tarre S., Green M. (2003). Temperature effect on UASB reactor operation for domestic wastewater treatment in temperate climate regions. Water Sci. & Technology Vol 48 (3):25-30. 50.
• Sabbah I.*, Ghattas B., Hayeek A., Omari J., Haj Y., Admon S., Green M. (2003). Intermittent sand filtration for wastewater treatment in rural areas of the middle East – a pilot study. Water Sci. & Tech. 48 (11-12), 147-152.
• Herzberg M.*, Dosoretz C., Tarre S., Minz D., Green M (2004). Simultaneous Removal of Atrazine And Nitrate Using A Biological Granulated Activated Carbon (BGAC) Reactor. Jour. of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. 79:626-631.
• Tarre S*, Beliavski M., Denekamp N., Gieseke A., de Beer D., and Green M. (2004). High nitrification rate at low pH in a fluidized bed reactor with chalk as the biofilm carrier. Water Sci. & Tech 49 (11-12):99-105.
• Herzberg M*, Dosoretz C., Tarre S., Beliavski M. and Green M. (2004). Biological granulated activated carbon fluidized bed reactor for atrazine remediation. Water Sci. & Tech. 49 (11-12):215-222.
• Lew B.*, Tarre S., Belavski M. and Green M. (2004). UASB reactor for domestic wastewater treatment at low temperatures: a comparison between a classical UASB and hybrid UASB-filter reactor. Water Sci. & Tech. 49 (11-12):295-301.
• Tarre S. and Green M.* (2004). High rate nitrification at low pH using suspended and attached biomass type reactors. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70:6481-6487.
• Green M., Gidron E., Lahav O., M. Beliavsky and Tarre S.* (2004). Treatment of dairy wastewater using a vertical bed with passive aeration. Environmental Technology, 25(10):1123-1129.
• Ramon G., Green M., Semiat R. and Dosoretz C.* (2004). Low strength graywater characterization and treatment by direct membrane filtration. Desalination. Desalination 170:241-250.
• Herzberg M.*, Dosoretz C., Green M. (2005). Increased biofilm activity in BGAC reactors. AIChE Journal 51(3):1042-1047.
• Admon S., Tarre S., Sabbah I., Lahav O., Beliavski M., and Green M.*  (2005). Treatment of pre-settled municipal wastewater using a passively aerated vertical bed. Env. Eng. Sci. 22 (6): 707-715.
• Green M.*, Shaul N., Beliavski M, Sabbah I., Ghattas B., and Tarre S. (2006).    Minimizing land requirements and evaporation in extensive wastewater treatment systems. Ecological Engineering 26: 266-271.
• Gieseke* A., Tarre S., Green M., deBeer D. (2006). Nitrification in a biofilm at low pH: The role of  in situ microenvironments and acid tolerance. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72 (6):4283-4292.
• Green M. (2006). Letter to the Editor, Response to: Comment on “Minimizing land requirement and evaporation in small wastewater treatment systems”. Ecological Engineering 28(2): 182.
• Green M.*, Beliavski M^., Denekamp N., Gieseke A., de Beer D., Tarre S (2006). High nitrification rate at low pH in a fluidized bed reactor with either chalk or sintered-glass as the biofilm carrier. Israel Journal of Chemistry 46 (1): 53-58.
• Herzberg  M., Dosoretz  C.G., Kuhn J., Klein S., Green M. * (2006). Visualization of active biomass distribution in a BGAC fluidized bed reactor using GFP tagged Pseudomonas putida F1. Water Research (In Press).  

E-mail:agmgreen@tx.technion.ac.il
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