Environmental Physical Chemistry Laboratory

Almost all processes in the environment are reigned by physico-chemistry influences. Thus- deep understanding of such influences is essential in order to overcome severe environmental hazards. Prof. Rytwo and his research team had published more than 70 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals, and more than 10 additional publications as book chapters and peer reviewed compilations. The group has also submitted 9 different patent applications, and during the last 15 years had attracted over 2 million € for research from industrial, and academic funding sources.

Prof. Giora Rytwo

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Our research group covers a broad range of issues related to Environmental Physical Chemistry. Among them:

Water and wastewater treatment aspectsWater and wastewater treatment aspects: removal of pollutants, photodegradation and photocatalysis, removal of suspended particles in water and industrial effluents (winery, olive mill, cowshed, dairy). 

  • Clay-organic interactions: analytical aspects and/or applications of organoclays or clay-polymer nanocomposites. 
  • Thermodynamic and kinetics in sorption and desorption processes, including several and extended theoretical aspects. Emphasis on adsorption/desorption model to charged and neutral surfaces, and kinetic calculations.
  • Stabilization and catalyzed degradation of chemicals on colloidal surfaces. Photostabilization, photodegradation, photocatalysis and metachromasy
  • Development of adsorption and filtration techniques, including regeneration of the sorbent.
  • Micrometeorological and other aspects of particulate pollutants in air.
  • Educational applications of aquatic environmental chemistry techniques, and other physical chemistry aspects.Additional applications of clays, organoclays and nanocomposites
  • Additional applications of clays, organoclays and nanocomposites as slow-release or "target delivery" platforms (pesticides, fragrance, fertilizers, proteins, medications, etc.).
  • Development of analytical spectroscopy-based techniques.
  • Cooperation with other discipline teams: research on slow release of vaccines, adsorption of fats, oils and cholesterol, precise agriculture,  irrigation and fertilizing, spectroscopic analysis for agriculture, educational demonstrations, etc.
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Prof. Giora Rytwo

Prof. Giora Rytwo
Environmental Physical Chemistry Laboratory
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Almost all processes in the environment are governed by physico-chemistry influences. Thus- deep understanding of such influences is essential in order to overcome severe environmental hazards. Prof.

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Latest Publications

Elementary Steps in Steady State Kinetic Model Approximation for the Homo-Heterogeneous Photocatalysis of Carbamazepine

Yuval Shahar and Giora Rytwo
2023

Eddy correlation measurements to visualize CO2 and water vapor concentrations and fluxes

Giora Rytwo, Dafna Eliyahou
2023

Sepiolite- rosemary oil combination as an environmentally oriented insecticide

Liora Shaltiel-Harpaz, Tamir Kreimer, Nativ Dudai, Roy Kaspi, David Ben-Yakir, Giora Rytwo
2023

Colorimetric Quantification for Residual Poly-DADMAC in Water Treatment

Ilil Levakov,Ido Maor,Chen Barak,Yael Kirshenbaum and Giora Rytwo
2023

Lab News

Israeli girl to address Nobel winners
published 11.30.11 ynetnews

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ICL Haifa (F&C) Licenses Technology for Wastewater Treatment from MIGAL Galilee Research Institute
published July 6, 2015  PRNewswire

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