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Research Lab for Water Treatment and Resource Recovery

NirWaterLab is part of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, located in the heart of the desert and equipped with cutting edge labs and analytical equipment. We are working on the development of novel physico-chemical processes for water/wastewater treatment, desalination and resource recovery, as well as on advanced process modeling, which couples geochemistry and mass-transport

Research

Building on our theoretical knowledge and practical expertise in water-chemistry, membrane technology, and water process engineering, we are aimed at developing novel physico-chemical water treatment processes that are both sustainable and cost-efficient. We are working towards these three main goals:

  1. To eliminate water pollution, thus minimizing the risk to human health and the environment caused by impaired water quality

  2. To increase the sustainability of desalination and water treatment technology

  3. to recover valuable resources from the water we process

Through achieving these goals, we hope to make an impact on public health and the environment by promoting a more sustainable and circular economy and securing fresh water and food for future generations.

News & Events

Latest Publications

Circular Hybrid Membrane Process Treating High-Salinity Ammonium-Rich Pharmaceutical Wastewater

Musie Welldegerima Atshbha, Ru Liu, and Oded Nir

Chemical Engineering Journal, (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.154690

A Facile Tuning of Polyelectrolyte Cross-linking Chemistry for Improved Permselectivity and Stability of a Monovalent Cation Exchange Membrane

Anusha Chandra, Suman Das, Oded Nir, Jack Gilron

Desalination, (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2024.117874

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Analyzing Ion Uptake in Ion-Exchange Membranes using Ion Association Model

Yaeli S. Oren, Oded Nir, Viatcheslav Freger 

Journal of Membrane Science, (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2023.122202

 

Integrating Divalent-Selective Electrodialysis in Brackish Water Desalination

Lior Monat, Ru Liu, Menachem Elimelech, and Oded Nir

Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett., (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00861

Efficient PFOA removal from drinking water by a dual-functional mixed-matrix-composite nanofiltration membrane

Mohit Chaudhary, Michal Sela-Adler, Avner Ronen, and Oded Nir

NPJ Clean Water, (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-023-00286-2

Extracting liquid fertilizer from ammonia-laden pharmaceutical wastewater using Hollow fiber membrane contactors

Musie Welldegerima Atsbha, Lior Farkash, Gaash Bartal, Oded Nir 

Journal of Cleaner Production, (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138183

Reactive transport in membrane separation modeling: a perspective

Oded Nir, Yaeli Oren, Musie, W. Atshba, Anusha Chandra, Yonatan Geller, Mohit Chaudhary, Lior Monat, Pratham Singh and Ron Zevenhoven

Chemical Engineering Research and Design, (2022)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2022.09.054

Full publication list can be found in:

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