LABORATORY MEMBERS
Personnel:
• Sylaios Georgios, Associate Professor, (Director), Geologist-Oceanographer, Expertise on “Management and Simulation of Coastal Aquatic Systems”
• Moutsopoulos Konstantinos, Associate Professor, Civil Engineer – Hydraulic Engineer, Expertise on “Analysis and Simulation of Water Resources”
• Gikas Georgios, Assistant Professor, Chemist & Civil Engineer, Expertise on “Environmental Management and Simulation of Rivers, Lakes and Wetlands”
LABORATORY DETAILS
Address:
Panepistimioupoli Kimmeria Xanthis
Contact:
Tel.: 2541079398
Email: gsylaios@env.duth.gr
Links:
Facebook: labecoleng
GENERAL
The Laboratory produces technologies for aquatic environmental systems. The Laboratory serves the educational, research and development needs of the Department of Environmental Engineering on the fields of:
- Management and restoration of rivers, lakes, coastal and aquifer systems,
- Environmental hydraulics, technical hydrology, hydrodynamics and management of water resources,
- Integrated water management and wastewater treatment through natural treatment systems.
The indoor chemical analysis lab.
The outdoor lab for research on natural wastewater treatment systems.
TEACHING
The staff of the Laboratory teaches the following subjects:
- Fluid Mechanics,
- Environmental Geology,
- Physical Oceanography,
- Technical Hydrology,
- Ecological Engineering & Technology Ι & ΙΙ,
- Applied and Groundwater Hydraulics,
- Water Resources Management,
- Geodesy,
- Design of Water Supply and Sewerage Networks
- Environmental Computational Fluid Mechanics,
- Environmental Management of Inland and Coastal Aquatic Systems,
- Environmental Coastal Engineering,
- Operational Research
Portable sensors for field work
INFRASTRUCTURE
The Laboratory occupies an area of 90 m2 at the buildings of the Department of Environmental Engineering, Kimmeria Xanthis. This closed lab is fully-equipped with computers, servers and instrumentation for chemical analyses of water quality parameters. It may support physical models and experimental devices for flow simulation in fractures and porous media. Several numerical models (meteorological, hydrodynamic, wave, morphodynamic and crop growth) are run in parallel at the servers of the Lab. Other infrastructure consists of a 4X4 vehicle for field studies, a research boat “Eco-Research” (5 m long Zodiac), and an open-air space for experiments on physical models and natural treatment systems.
Vehicle for environmental surveys
INSTRUMENTATION
Instrumentation consists of:
- On-line meteorological, current-meter and wave-meter stations deployed in the field,
- Current meters,
- Samplers for water, sediments and sediment transport,
- Winches for instruments uplifting and submergence,
- Portable instruments for in-situ measurements of water quality and level,
- Instruments for the determination of chemical-biological parameters of natural water and wastewater as ionic chromatography, BOD, COD, Kjeldahl devices, etc.
- Soil moisture, electrical conductivity and temperature sensors
Research in the Laboratory of Ecological Engineering and Technology
Inland Surface Aquatic Systems
The Lab monitors in an integrated manner the river basins, following the WFD principles; implements management and restoration studies in lakes, rivers and wetland ecosystems; contributes to the promotion of Eco-hydrology and nature-based solutions, as environmental-friendly technologies for ecosystem’s restoration.
Marine and Coastal Environment
The Lab measures and simulates the hydrodynamic circulation, implements restoration studies in eroded coasts, determines the environmental impacts of technical works, designs and sites wastewater outflows, flood prevention and water supply works.
Hydrogeology – Groundwater Hydraulics
The Lab records the quantitative and qualitative state of aquifers, implements restoration and enrichment studies, simulates groundwater flows, monitors the characteristics of karsts and springs.
Integrated Water Resources Management and Wastewater Treatment
The Lab develops and promotes the technology of Natural Treatment Systems and Constructed Wetlands, applies the wastewater re-use, designs rainwater harvesting systems, applies modern innovative numerical techniques (fuzzy models, neural networks).
Hydraulic research in aquifers
Hydrodynamic simulation of the North Aegean Sea
