LABORATORY MEMBERS
Personnel (permanent):
• Dimitrios Komilis, Professor (director)
• Evangelos Voudrias, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor
• Ioannis Papaspiros, Technical Staff
Pos-Docs:
Georgios Garbounis
Ph.D. degrees awarded since 2000
Garbounis G. (2023)
Dolaptsoglou C. (2008)
Karamalidis A. (2006)
Current Ph.D. Students:
Kondyli S. (since 2023)
Soultanidis A. (since 2015)
Evangelou, A. (since 2012)
LABORATORY DETAILS
Address:
Department of Environmental Engineering Democritus University of Thrace, 12 Vas. Sophias street GR-671 00 Xanthi, Greece
Contact:
Tel.: +30 25410-79391, 697-4453554
Email: dkomilis@env.duth.gr,
voudrias@env.duth.gr
The Laboratory of Solid and Hazardous Waste Technology and Management (LSHWM) was established on 1998. The current faculty members of the LSHWM is: Prof. D. Komilis (Head). Mr. Ioannis Papaspyros is the technical personnel of the lab.
RESEARCH AREAS
The Laboratory serves the educational, research and development needs in the following areas:
– Solid and hazardous waste technology and management, including: source storage and treatment systems, collection, transport and transfer, separation, material recovery, treatment and transformation, recovery and disposal.
– Remediation of groundwater, soils and areas.
– Studies, field measurements, monitoring and control of plant operation.
– Identification of physical, chemical and biological characteristics of solid and hazardous waste.
– Development and application of physical and mathematical models.
EDUCATIONAL WORK
Undergraduate Courses:
- Applied Statistics (Komilis)
- Technology and Solid Waste Management I (Komilis)
- Technology and Solid Waste Management II (Voudrias, Komilis).
- Technology and Hazardous Waste Management (Voudrias).
- Soil and Groundwater Remediation from Hazardous Waste (Voudrias).
- Control of Solid Waste Management Systems under the scope of Circular Economy (Komilis)
Graduate Courses:
- Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (Voudrias)
- Advanced Topics on Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (Komilis)
CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
- Biodegradation of biobased plastics
- Characterization and leaching tests on Construction and Demolition Waste
- Pesticide packaging management
- Waste Biomass Valorization
- Compost stability indices
- Life Cycle Analysis and Costing on all aspects of Solid Waste Management
- Medical Waste Management
- Special Waste Streams and Circular Economy as applies to Solid Wastes
