Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis
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Prof. Nikolaos P. NikolaidisLab DirectorPhone: +30-28210-37785 Fax: +30-28210-37847 E-Mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Lab Description
HERSLab has strategically participated in the development of proposals that focus in developing the underlying science and the management tools for successful integrated water resources management. In addition to participation in the FP5-tempQsim project, HERSLab lead the development of the successful FP7-MIRAGE proposal. This was done after the team establish a large pilot watershed basin (the Evrotas River Basin) where the first River Basin Management Plan will be developed (by the team) as part of a LIFE05-Environment (EnviFriendly) project. The watershed is one of the best studied watershed in Greece and the first one that the WFD will be applied to. In addition, HERSLAB has developed a partnership with the US CLEANER project for the development of Cyber-management infrastructure and tools. The Koiliaris watershed study has been instrumented with real time monitoring stations and it is being twinned with a US watershed in IOWA. Koiliaris River Basin is an International Critical Zone Observatory. The two experimental watersheds (EVROTAS River Basin – 2400 Km2 surface area and KOILIARIS River Basin – 149 Km2 surface area) are equipped with fully instrumented gauging stations, meteorological stations, precipitation stations as well as demonstration sites for technologies that reduce environmental pollution such riparian zone restoration for ground water remediation with phytoremediation, subsurface disposal of olive mill wastes with poplar tree phytoremediation design, management of drainage canals etc.
Overall, the HERSLab team (which has been built during the past 10 years) is a center of excellence that provides both research and training to undergraduate and graduate students in environmental engineering and science. The team is part of a small but vibrant University that in addition to other things claims excellence in research and training of its students.
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Advanced Topics on Environmental Chemistry - Ειδικά Θέματα Περιβαλλοντικής Χημείας (in greek)
Outline: Introduction to environmental chemistry of interfaces, Organic liquid-water partitioning. The n-octanol-water partition constant (Kow), Activity coefficients and solubility in water, Organic acids and bases: constant and partitioning behavior. Chemical transformation reactions (hydrolysis, oxidation, reduction), Photochemical transformation reactions, Biological transformation reactions, Sorption of metals on soils and sediments, Surface complexation modeling – MINEQL+, Laboratory - Metal sorption on sediments, Remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils.
Περιγραφή: Εισαγωγή στη περιβαλλοντική χημεία διεπιφανειών, Συντελεστής κατανομής οκτανόλης/νερού (Kow), Διαλυτότητα σε διάφορους διαλύτες συμπεριλαμβανομένου του νερού. Οργανικά οξέα και βάσεις: σταθερά οξύτητας και συμπεριφορά κατανομής. Αντιδράσεις χημικών μετατροπών (υδρόλυση, οξείδωση, αναγωγή), Αντιδράσεις φωτοχημικών μετατροπής, Αντιδράσεις βιολογικών μετατροπής. Προσρόφηση μετάλλων σε εδάφη και ιζήματα, Μοντέλο επιφανειακής συμπλοκοποίησης – MINEQL+ , Εργαστήριο: Προσρόφηση μετάλλων σε ιζήματα, Αποκατάσταση εδαφών από βαρέα μέταλλα
Eclass url: www.eclass.tuc.gr/courses/MHPER208/
MP436 Surface Water Quality Models - ΜΠ436 Διαχείριση Υδατικών Πόρων (in greek)
Outline: Introduction to Environmental Systems Management - Types of pollution, legislation. Implementation of the Water Framework Directive - Evrotas River Pilot River Basin. Water Resources Management Model, SWAT - Hydrology, Nitrogen and Phosphorous chemistry (Eutrophication and heavy metal theory, methodology for water quality management and criteria, restoration methods , ecological impacts). Water Resources Management (Waste load allocation methodology, Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty analysis). Laboratory - implementation of mathematical model and final report.
Περιγραφή: Εισαγωγή στη Διαχείριση Περιβαλλοντικών Συστημάτων - Κατηγορίες ρύπανσης, νομοθεσία. Εφαρμογή της Οδηγίας Πλαίσιο για τα Νερά – Πιλοτική Λεκάνη Απορροής Ποταμού Ευρώτα. Μοντέλο Διαχείρισης Υδατικών Πόρων SWAT – Υδρολογία, Χημεία αζώτου και φωσφόρου (Θεωρία Ευτροφισμού και Βαρέα Μέταλλα, Πλαίσιο Διαχείρισης Ποιότητας Νερών και Κριτήρια διαχείρισης, Μέθοδοι Αποκατάστασης, Οικολογικές Επιπτώσεις). Διαχείριση Υδατικών Πόρων (Μεθοδολογία Διαχείριση Αστικών Λυμάτων - Waste Load Allocation, Ανάλυση Ευαισθησίας - Sensitivity Analysis, Ανάλυση Αβεβαιότητας - Uncertainty Analysis). Εργαστήρια εφαρμογής μαθηματικού μοντέλου και τελική εργασία.
Eclass url: www.eclass.tuc.gr/courses/MHPER105/
Integrated Water Resources Management – Summer Training Course
Outline: Introduction to Integrated Water Resources Management – Water Framework Directive and monitoring requirements – Groundwater Modeling – Water Quality and surface water modeling – Ecological and Water Quality Status – Surface Water Modeling - Groundwater Modeling - Groundwater Modeling - Surface Water Modeling - Field Trip to Koiliaris River basin (conduct field sampling, pumping tests, tracer test, infiltration tests) – Treatment Technologies - Agroenvironmental measures - Project
Eclass url: www.eclass.tuc.gr/courses/MHPER123/