Michal Green

Michal Green, Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Haifa Israel.

Major Research Activities: Michal Green specializes in water and wastewater treatment. Together with her research group and students, advanced biological and chemical processes for the water pollution abatement and wastewater reuse are investigated.

Prof. Green’s group is currently involved in several research projects including the following:

– Hydrogenotrophic denitrification of groundwater – ion exchange and bioregeneration for nitrate removal from waters – Electrospun Nanotubes Encapsulating Bacteria for Water Treatment – Perchlorate removal from water – Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment.

Prof. Green has authored and/or co-authored more than 80 publications in leading journals, books, and encyclopedias and supervised more than 40 graduate students.

Currently Prof. Green is  the Chairperson of the Israel Society of Ecology & Environmental. .  Posts at the Technion have included: Technion dean of students, deputy dean of research and graduate studies; head of the interfaculty program for undergraduate studies in environmental engineering, and more.

Publications  – from 2009

Lew B., Tarre S.,Beliavski M., Dosoretz C., Green M.  (2009). Anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) for domestic wastewater treatment. Desalination 243:251-257.

Krasniz E., Friedler E., Beliavski M.,  Tarre S., Green M. (2009). Spatial distribution of microbial populations in a well established constructed wetland treating municipal wastewater. Ecol. Eng. Jour. 35:1085-1089.

Lew B., Tarre S.,Beliavski., Green M.  (2009). Anaerobic degradation pathway and kinetics of domestic wastewater at low temperatures. Bioresources Technology, 100(24): 6155-6162.

Klein S., Kuhn J.,   Avrahami R., . Tarre S., Beliavski M., Green M., Zussman E. (2009). Encapsulation of bacterial cells in electrospun microtubes, Biomacromolecules, 10 (7): 1751-1756.

Beliavski M., Meirovich I., Tarre S., Green M.(2010). Biological Denitrification of brines from membrane treatment processes using an upflow sludge blanket (USB) reactor. Water Science & Technology, l 61 ( 4): 911-917 .

Even-Ezra, I.,  Beliavski M., Tarre S., Dosoretz C.,  Green M (2011), Chemical versus biological pretreatment for membrane filtration of domestic wastewater. Desalination 272: 85-89.

Lew B., Lustig I., Beliavski M., Tarre S, Green M.  (2011). An integrated UASB-sludge digester system for raw domestic wastewat er treatment in temperate climates. Bioresource Technology, 102:4921-4924.

Klein S., Avrahami R., Zussman E., Beliavski M., Tarre S., Green M. (2012). Encapsulation of Pseudomonas sp. ADP cells in electrospun microtubes for atrazine bioremediation. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, 39(11):1605-1613.

Lew B., Stief P., Beliavski M.,Svitlica O., Khan A., Tarre S., de Beer D., Green M. (2012). Characterization of denitrifying granular sludge with and without the addition of external carbon source. Bioresource Technology, 124: 413-420.

Krasnits E.,  Beliavsky M., Tarre S, Green M. (2013). PHA Based Denitrification: Municipal Wastewater vs. Acetate.  Bioresource Technology,132:28-37.

Krasnits E.,  Beliavsky M., Tarre S, Green M. (2014). The Contribution of Suspended Solids to Municipal Wastewater PHA based Denitrification. Env. Tech.: 35 (3):313-321

Krasnits E., Beliavsky M., Tarre S, Green M. (2014). Storage based Denitrification with Municipal Wastewater: Influence of the Denitrification Stage Duration. Env. Tech 35, (17): 2167-2175

Pannier A., Lehrer T., Vogel M., Soltmann U., Böttcher H., Tarre S., Green M., Raff J. and Pollmann K.  (2014). Long-term activity of biohybrid coatings of atrazine-degrading bacteria Pseudomonas sp. ADP. RSC Adv.:2014, 4, 19970-19979.

Behrendt A., Tarre S., Beliavski M., Green M., Klatt J., de Beer D., and Stief P. (2014).  Effect of high electron donor supply on dissimilatory nitrate reduction pathways in a bioreactor for nitrate removal. Bioresource Technology :171:291-297.

Klas S., Beliavski M., Gluska D, Amara R., Katz I., Lehrer T., Nahir R., Tarre S., Green M. (2015). Minimizing brine discharge in a combined biophysical system for nitrate removal from inland groundwater. Separation and Purification Technology  156(2):496-501

Epsztein R., Nir O., Lahav O., Green M. (2015). Selective nitrate removal from groundwater using a hybrid nanofiltration-reverse osmosis filtration scheme. Chemical Engineering Journal: 279: 372-378.

Epsztein R., Beliavski M., Tarre S., Green M. (2016). High-rate hydrogenotrophic denitrification in a pressurized reactor. Chemical Engineering Journal 286: 578-584.

Desitti C., Cheruti U., Beliavski M., Tarre S., Green M  (2015). Long term atrazine degradation  with microtube encapsulated Pseudomonas sp. ADP. Env. Eng. Science (Accepted)