Publications

Journal of Water Process Engineering, Volume 69, January 2025, 106741

A pilot plant investigation on a real seawater brine valorisation via electrodialysis with bipolar membranes

Giovanni Virruso, Calogero Cassaro, Fabrizio Vassallo, Antonia Filingeri, Alessandra Pellegrino, Alessandro Tamburini, Andrea Cipollina, Giorgio D. M. Micale

Sustainable Production and Consumption

A value-sensitive approach for integrated seawater desalination and brine treatment

Rodoula Ktori, Mar Palmeros Parada, Marcos Rodriguez-Pascual, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Dimitrios Xevgenos

Chemical Engineering Transactions

Performance Evaluation of an Electrodialysis with Bipolar Membranes Pilot Plant Operated in Feed & Bleed Mode

Giovanni Virruso, Calogero Cassaro, Alessandro Tamburini, Andrea Cipollina, Giorgio D.M. Micale

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Sustainability assessment framework for integrated seawater desalination and resource recovery: A participatory approach

Rodoula Ktori, Mar Palmeros Parada, Marcos Rodriguez-Pascual, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Dimitrios Xevgenos

Computer Aided Chemical Engineering

Dynamic Modelling of Electrodialysis with Bipolar Membranes using NARX Recurrent Neural Networks

Giovanni Virruso, Calogero Cassaro, Waqar Muhammad Ashraf, Alessandro Tamburini, Vivek Dua, I. David L. Bogle, Andrea Cipollina, Giorgio Micale

Computer Aided Chemical Engineering

Coupling Electrodialysis with bipolar membranes with renewable energies through advanced control strategies

Calogero Cassaro, Giovanni Virruso, Andrea Cipollina, Adriano Fagiolini, Alessandro Tamburini, Giorgio Micale.

Zootaxa

A new species of Pontocrates Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Oedicerotidae) from Cyprus

Garcia Gómez SC, Myers AA, Avramidi E, Grammatiki K, Lymperaki M, Resaikos V, Papatheodoulou M, Louca V, Xevgenos D, Küpper FC.

Desalination, Volume 593

Thermal seawater desalination for irrigation purposes in a water-stressed region: Emerging value tensions in full-scale implementation

Gonzalo Gamboa, Patricia Palenzuela, Rodoula Ktori, Diego C. Alarcón-Padilla, Guillermo Zaragoza, Samar Fayad, Dimitris Xevgenos, Mar Palmeros Parada.

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Generic and site-specific social life cycle assessment of municipal wastewater treatment systems in Spain: challenges and limitations of the method when applied to resource recovery systems

Kokubo Roche, A., Tsalidis, G.A., Blanco, C.F. et al

XXXV ISPIM Innovation Conference Proceedings

A harmonized assessment method and KPIs for evaluating Living Labs

Vervoort Koen, Konstantinidis Evdokimos, Desole Martina, Onur Omer, Trousse Brigitte, Woodcock Andree, Garatea Jokin, Petsani Despoina, Ponomareva Anastasia, Roset Pérez Berta, Gamboa Gonzalo, Bamidis Panagiotis

Water Research

Demonstration of ultra-high-water recovery and brine concentration in a prototype evaporation unit: Towards zero liquid discharge desalination

Giuseppe Scelfo, Alessandro Trezzi , Fabrizio Vassallo , Andrea Cipollina , Vittorio Landi , Christina Xenogianni , Alessandro Tamburini , Dimitrios Xevgenos , Giorgio Micale

Water Research

Phosphorous speciation in EPS extracted from Aerobic Granular Sludge

Nouran T. Bahgat, Philipp Wilfert, Stephen J. Eustace, Leon Korving, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

Water Research

FePO₄.2H₂O recovery from acidic phosphate-rich waste streams

Nouran T. Bahgat, Aamash Siddiqui, Philipp Wilfert, Leon Korving, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

Desalination

Multi-Scale Modelling of an Electrodialysis With Bipolar Membranes Pilot Plant and Economic Evaluation of Its Potential

Giovanni Virruso, Calogero Cassaro, Andrea Culcasi, Andrea Cipollina, Alessandro Tamburini, I. David L. Bogle, Giorgio D.M. Micale

Water Research

Effects of Salinity on Glycerol Conversion and Biological Phosphorus Removal by Aerobic Granular Sludge

Ali Elahinik, Fleur de Clercq, Martin Pabst, Dimitrios Xevgenos, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Mario Pronk

Desalination

Pioneering Minimum Liquid Discharge Desalination: A Pilot Study in Lampedusa Island

C. Morgante, F. Vassallo, C. Cassaro, G. Virruso, D. Diamantidou, N. Van Linden, A. Trezzi, C. Xenogianni, R. Ktori, M. Rodriguez, G. Scelfo, S. Randazzo, A. Tamburini, A. Cipollina, G. Micale, D. Xevgenos

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Contribution of Capital Goods Production to Social Impacts: A Life Cycle Perspective for a Circular Desalination Plant

Georgios Archimidis Tsalidis, Akemi Kokubo Roche, Serena Randazzo, John A. Posada

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Resource Recovery From Desalination, the Case of Small Islands

Palmeros Parada, Mar; Randazzo, Serena; Gamboa, Gonzalo; Ktori, Rodoula; Bouchaut, Britte; Cipolina, Andrea; Micale, Giorgio; Xevgenos, Dimitrios

Water Research

Aerobic Granular Sludge Phosphate Removal Using Glucose

Elahinik, Ali; Li, Linghang; Pabst, Martin; Abbas, Ben; Xevgenos, Dimitrios; van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M.; Pronk, Mario

Diversity

Polychaetes (Annelida) of Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea): An Updated and Annotated Checklist including New Distribution Records

Maria Rousou, Joachim Langeneck, Chara Apserou, Christos Arvanitidis, Stephanos Charalambous, Kyproula Chrysanthou, George Constantinides, Panagiotis D. Dimitriou, Sergio Carlos Garc?a G?mez, Soteria Irene Hadjieftychiou, Nikolaos Katsiaras, Periklis Kleitou, Demetris Kletou, Frithjof C. K?pper, Paraskevi Louizidou, Roberto Martins, Manos L. Moraitis, Nafsika Papageorgiou, Magdalene Papatheodoulou, Antonis Petrou, Dimitris Xevgenos, Lavrentios Vasiliades, Eleni Voultsiadou, Chariton Charles Chintiroglou, and Alberto Castelli.

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Social Life Cycle Assessment of a Desalination and Resource Recovery Plant on a Remote Island

Georgios Archimidis Tsalidis, Dimitrios Xevgenos, Rodoula Ktori, Adithya Krishnan, and John A. Posada

Water Research

Integrated Resource Recovery from Aerobic Granular Sludge Plants

Nouran T. Bahgat, Philipp Wilfert, Leon Korving, Mark van Loosdrecht

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Electrodialysis with Bipolar Membranes for the Sustainable Production of Chemicals from Seawater Brines at Pilot Plant Scale

Calogero Cassaro, Giovanni Virruso, Andrea Culcasi, Andrea Cipollina, Alessandro Tamburini, Giorgio Micale

Membranes

Analysis of Operational Parameters in Acid and Base Production Using an Electrodialysis with Bipolar Membranes Pilot Plant

Marta Herrero-Gonzalez, Julio L?pez, Giovanni Virruso, Calogero Cassaro, Alessandro Tamburini, Andrea Cipollina, Jose Luis Cortina, Raquel Iba?ez, Giorgio Micale

Water Research

Glycerol Conversion by Aerobic Granular Sludge

Elahinik, Ali; Li, Linghang; Pabst, Martin; Abbas, Ben; Xevgenos, Dimitrios; van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M.; Pronk, Mario

Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

Influence of Operational Strategies for the Recovery of Magnesium Hydroxide from Brines at a Pilot Scale

Carmelo Morgante, Fabrizio Vassallo, Giuseppe Battaglia, Andrea Cipollina, Fabrizio Vicari, Alessandro Tamburini and Giorgio Micale

International Conference on Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality

Coupling AR with Object Detection Neural Networks for End-User Engagement

Tina Katika, Spyridon Nektarios Bolierakis, Emmanuel Vasilopoulos, Markos Antonopoulos, Georgios Tsimiklis, Ioannis Karaseitanidis and Angelos Amditis

International Conference on Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality

Coupling Mobile AR with a Virtual Agent for End-User Engagement

Tina Katika, Ioannis Karaseitanidis and Angelos Amditis

Journal of Environmental Management

Societal Values, Tensions and Uncertainties in Resource Recovery from Wastewaters

Mar Palmeros Parada, Philipp Kehrein, Dimitrios Xevgenos, Lotte Asveld, Patricia Osseweijer

Journal of Cleaner Production

Towards sustainable production of minerals and chemicals through seawater brine treatment using Eutectic freeze crystallization and Electrodialysis with bipolar membranes

Andrea Culcasi, Rodoula Ktori, Alessandra Pellegrino, Marcos Rodriguez-Pascual, Mark van Loosdrecht, Alessandro Tamburini, Andrea Cipollina, Dimitris Xevgenos and Giorgio Micale?

Water Resources and Industry

Benthic biodiversity near brine discharge sites in the Port of Rotterdam

Eleni Avramidi, Sergio Carlos Garc?a G?mez, Sokratis Papaspyrou, Vasilis Louca, Dimitrios Xevgenos, Frithjof C.K?pper

Water Research

Where is the Greatest Potential for Resource Recovery in Wastewater Treatment Plants?

D. Renfrew, V. Vasilaki, A. McLeod, A. Lake, S. Danishvar, E. Katsou

Circular Economy and Sustainability

Augmented Reality (AR) Supporting Citizen Engagement in Circular Economy

Tina Katika, Ioannis Karaseitanidis, Dimitra Tsiakou, Christos Makropoulos & Angelos Amditis

Marine Environmental Research

Responses of the Mediterranean Seagrass Cymodocea Nodosa to Combined Temperature and Salinity Stress at the Ionomic, Transcriptomic, Ultrastructural and Photosynthetic Levels

Soultana Tsioli, Maria Koutalianou, Georgios A. Gkafas, Athanasios Exadactylos, Vasilis Papathanasiou, Christos I. Katsaros, Sotiris Orfanidis, Frithjof C. K?pper

Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality

Building a Mobile AR Engagement Tool: Evaluation of Citizens Attitude Towards a Sustainable Future

Tina Katika, Spyridon Nektarios Bolierakis, Nikolaos Tousert, Ioannis Karaseitanidis & Angelos Amditis

Journal of Water Process Engineering, Volume 69, January 2025, 106741

A pilot plant investigation on a real seawater brine valorisation via electrodialysis with bipolar membranes

Giovanni Virruso, Calogero Cassaro, Fabrizio Vassallo, Antonia Filingeri, Alessandra Pellegrino, Alessandro Tamburini, Andrea Cipollina, Giorgio D. M. Micale

Sustainable Production and Consumption

A value-sensitive approach for integrated seawater desalination and brine treatment

Rodoula Ktori, Mar Palmeros Parada, Marcos Rodriguez-Pascual, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Dimitrios Xevgenos

Chemical Engineering Transactions

Performance Evaluation of an Electrodialysis with Bipolar Membranes Pilot Plant Operated in Feed & Bleed Mode

Giovanni Virruso, Calogero Cassaro, Alessandro Tamburini, Andrea Cipollina, Giorgio D.M. Micale

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Sustainability assessment framework for integrated seawater desalination and resource recovery: A participatory approach

Rodoula Ktori, Mar Palmeros Parada, Marcos Rodriguez-Pascual, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Dimitrios Xevgenos

Computer Aided Chemical Engineering

Dynamic Modelling of Electrodialysis with Bipolar Membranes using NARX Recurrent Neural Networks

Giovanni Virruso, Calogero Cassaro, Waqar Muhammad Ashraf, Alessandro Tamburini, Vivek Dua, I. David L. Bogle, Andrea Cipollina, Giorgio Micale

Computer Aided Chemical Engineering

Coupling Electrodialysis with bipolar membranes with renewable energies through advanced control strategies

Calogero Cassaro, Giovanni Virruso, Andrea Cipollina, Adriano Fagiolini, Alessandro Tamburini, Giorgio Micale.

Zootaxa

A new species of Pontocrates Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Oedicerotidae) from Cyprus

Garcia Gómez SC, Myers AA, Avramidi E, Grammatiki K, Lymperaki M, Resaikos V, Papatheodoulou M, Louca V, Xevgenos D, Küpper FC.

Desalination, Volume 593

Thermal seawater desalination for irrigation purposes in a water-stressed region: Emerging value tensions in full-scale implementation

Gonzalo Gamboa, Patricia Palenzuela, Rodoula Ktori, Diego C. Alarcón-Padilla, Guillermo Zaragoza, Samar Fayad, Dimitris Xevgenos, Mar Palmeros Parada.

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Generic and site-specific social life cycle assessment of municipal wastewater treatment systems in Spain: challenges and limitations of the method when applied to resource recovery systems

Kokubo Roche, A., Tsalidis, G.A., Blanco, C.F. et al

XXXV ISPIM Innovation Conference Proceedings

A harmonized assessment method and KPIs for evaluating Living Labs

Water Research

Demonstration of ultra-high-water recovery and brine concentration in a prototype evaporation unit: Towards zero liquid discharge desalination

Giuseppe Scelfo, Alessandro Trezzi , Fabrizio Vassallo , Andrea Cipollina , Vittorio Landi , Christina Xenogianni , Alessandro Tamburini , Dimitrios Xevgenos , Giorgio Micale

Water Research

Phosphorous speciation in EPS extracted from Aerobic Granular Sludge

Nouran T. Bahgat, Philipp Wilfert, Stephen J. Eustace, Leon Korving, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

Water Research

FePO₄.2H₂O recovery from acidic phosphate-rich waste streams

Nouran T. Bahgat, Aamash Siddiqui, Philipp Wilfert, Leon Korving, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

Desalination

Multi-Scale Modelling of an Electrodialysis With Bipolar Membranes Pilot Plant and Economic Evaluation of Its Potential

Giovanni Virruso, Calogero Cassaro, Andrea Culcasi, Andrea Cipollina, Alessandro Tamburini, I. David L. Bogle, Giorgio D.M. Micale

Water Research

Effects of Salinity on Glycerol Conversion and Biological Phosphorus Removal by Aerobic Granular Sludge

Ali Elahinik, Fleur de Clercq, Martin Pabst, Dimitrios Xevgenos, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Mario Pronk

Desalination

Pioneering Minimum Liquid Discharge Desalination: A Pilot Study in Lampedusa Island

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Contribution of Capital Goods Production to Social Impacts: A Life Cycle Perspective for a Circular Desalination Plant

Georgios Archimidis Tsalidis, Akemi Kokubo Roche, Serena Randazzo, John A. Posada

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Resource Recovery From Desalination, the Case of Small Islands

Palmeros Parada, Mar; Randazzo, Serena; Gamboa, Gonzalo; Ktori, Rodoula; Bouchaut, Britte; Cipolina, Andrea; Micale, Giorgio; Xevgenos, Dimitrios

Water Research

Aerobic Granular Sludge Phosphate Removal Using Glucose

Elahinik, Ali; Li, Linghang; Pabst, Martin; Abbas, Ben; Xevgenos, Dimitrios; van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M.; Pronk, Mario

Diversity

Polychaetes (Annelida) of Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea): An Updated and Annotated Checklist including New Distribution Records

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Social Life Cycle Assessment of a Desalination and Resource Recovery Plant on a Remote Island

Georgios Archimidis Tsalidis, Dimitrios Xevgenos, Rodoula Ktori, Adithya Krishnan, and John A. Posada

Water Research

Integrated Resource Recovery from Aerobic Granular Sludge Plants

Nouran T. Bahgat, Philipp Wilfert, Leon Korving, Mark van Loosdrecht

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Electrodialysis with Bipolar Membranes for the Sustainable Production of Chemicals from Seawater Brines at Pilot Plant Scale

Calogero Cassaro, Giovanni Virruso, Andrea Culcasi, Andrea Cipollina, Alessandro Tamburini, Giorgio Micale

Membranes

Analysis of Operational Parameters in Acid and Base Production Using an Electrodialysis with Bipolar Membranes Pilot Plant

Marta Herrero-Gonzalez, Julio L?pez, Giovanni Virruso, Calogero Cassaro, Alessandro Tamburini, Andrea Cipollina, Jose Luis Cortina, Raquel Iba?ez, Giorgio Micale

Water Research

Glycerol Conversion by Aerobic Granular Sludge

Elahinik, Ali; Li, Linghang; Pabst, Martin; Abbas, Ben; Xevgenos, Dimitrios; van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M.; Pronk, Mario

Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

Influence of Operational Strategies for the Recovery of Magnesium Hydroxide from Brines at a Pilot Scale

Carmelo Morgante, Fabrizio Vassallo, Giuseppe Battaglia, Andrea Cipollina, Fabrizio Vicari, Alessandro Tamburini and Giorgio Micale

International Conference on Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality

Coupling AR with Object Detection Neural Networks for End-User Engagement

Tina Katika, Spyridon Nektarios Bolierakis, Emmanuel Vasilopoulos, Markos Antonopoulos, Georgios Tsimiklis, Ioannis Karaseitanidis and Angelos Amditis

International Conference on Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality

Coupling Mobile AR with a Virtual Agent for End-User Engagement

Tina Katika, Ioannis Karaseitanidis and Angelos Amditis

Journal of Environmental Management

Societal Values, Tensions and Uncertainties in Resource Recovery from Wastewaters

Mar Palmeros Parada, Philipp Kehrein, Dimitrios Xevgenos, Lotte Asveld, Patricia Osseweijer

Journal of Cleaner Production

Towards sustainable production of minerals and chemicals through seawater brine treatment using Eutectic freeze crystallization and Electrodialysis with bipolar membranes

Andrea Culcasi, Rodoula Ktori, Alessandra Pellegrino, Marcos Rodriguez-Pascual, Mark van Loosdrecht, Alessandro Tamburini, Andrea Cipollina, Dimitris Xevgenos and Giorgio Micale?

Water Resources and Industry

Benthic biodiversity near brine discharge sites in the Port of Rotterdam

Eleni Avramidi, Sergio Carlos Garc?a G?mez, Sokratis Papaspyrou, Vasilis Louca, Dimitrios Xevgenos, Frithjof C.K?pper

Water Research

Where is the Greatest Potential for Resource Recovery in Wastewater Treatment Plants?

D. Renfrew, V. Vasilaki, A. McLeod, A. Lake, S. Danishvar, E. Katsou

Circular Economy and Sustainability

Augmented Reality (AR) Supporting Citizen Engagement in Circular Economy

Tina Katika, Ioannis Karaseitanidis, Dimitra Tsiakou, Christos Makropoulos & Angelos Amditis

Marine Environmental Research

Responses of the Mediterranean Seagrass Cymodocea Nodosa to Combined Temperature and Salinity Stress at the Ionomic, Transcriptomic, Ultrastructural and Photosynthetic Levels

Soultana Tsioli, Maria Koutalianou, Georgios A. Gkafas, Athanasios Exadactylos, Vasilis Papathanasiou, Christos I. Katsaros, Sotiris Orfanidis, Frithjof C. K?pper

Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality

Building a Mobile AR Engagement Tool: Evaluation of Citizens Attitude Towards a Sustainable Future

Tina Katika, Spyridon Nektarios Bolierakis, Nikolaos Tousert, Ioannis Karaseitanidis & Angelos Amditis