LEEP contributes to the educational and research activities of the Division of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering (D.H.E.E.) of the Department of Civil Engineering, AUTH. It has also an active role in the Master's degree program "Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development" on issues related to management and treatment of water, wastewater and solid waste. In addition, the lab supports the implementation of experimental graduate and postgraduate theses (or parts of them), doctoral and postdoctoral research, as well as funded research programs.

In particular, LEEPs’ educational and research subjects focus in: a) the control and management of water and waste (sewerage, sewage, industrial, solid, hazardous, toxic waste), b) the spatial planning and design of the required facilities, c) the quality control of surface water, groundwater and d) the marine and coastal environment. The study of water supply and sewerage networks, the environmental design, the simulation of water resources pollution, the environmental impact assessment and environmental risk assessment, ecotoxicology, air pollution and environmental education issues complement the educational and research subjects of LEEP.

Professors

Konstantinos L. Katsifarakis, Professor

Athanassios Kungolos, Professor

Efthymios Ntarakas, Associate Professor

Antigoni Zafeirakou, Assistant Professor

SES-SLTS Staff

Samir Mpagiouk, SES

Domniki Ioannidou, LTS

Anastasia Mpellou-Stoupa, LTS

Maria Petala, LTS

Vasilios Tsiridis, LTS

Emeriti professors

Leptidou-Dermisi Nikoula

Mpalafoutas Georgios

Papahristou Eleftheria

Hatziaggelou Iraklis

External Collaboration

Eva Ramos Martinez, PhD

St. Giannakis, PhD

As coordinator:

- Ecotoxicity assessment of solid samples using the test organism - indicator Daphnia magna, Budget: 14589,52 €, duration: 16/10/2015-29/2/2016, funded by: Joint Venture ENVIROPLAN S.A.. – EPEM S.A.- ENVECO Α.Ε.

- Ecotoxicity study of Alpha-cypermethrin, budget: 1230,00 €, duration: 10/06/2015-30/11/2015, funded by: VIORYL S.A.

- Technical survey of ecotoxicity analyses of agrochemicals, budget: 861,00 €, duration: 19/05/2015-30/09/2015, funded by: VIORYL S.A.

- Ecotoxicity assessment of seawater samples, budget: 360,00 € duration: 16/05/2014-15/05/2014, funded by: ELONA MARITIME COMPANY.

- Chemical analyses of water, budget: 630,00 €, duration: 01/10/2014-30/09/2015, funded by: KASTRA INTERNATIONAL LTD.

- Chemical analyses of water and wastewater, Π/Υ: 1316,10 €, duration: 27/05/2014-31/12/2015, funded by: Hydromanagement, Tsiouri Bros, Hellenic Steel Company S.A.

- Sampling and analyses of solid wastes from Hellenic Steel Company S.A., budget: 7872,00 €, duration: 28/2/2014-31/12/2014, funded by: Hellenic Steel Company S.A.

- Study of the effect of seawater in the area of "SEA DIAMOND" shipwreck on the marine organisms Vibrio fischeri and Brachionus plicatilis. Budget: 7.449,00 €, duration: 13/02/2015-15/06/2015, funded by: ELONA MARITIME COMPANY.

- Ecotoxicity analyses of wastewater effluents, budget: 480,00 €, duration: 1/12/2015-29/02/2016,  funded by: Intergeo S.A.

- Ecotoxicity analyses of treated wastewater, budget: 3.429,00 €, duration: 12/02/2015-31/12/2016, funded by: Hellenic Petroleum S.A.

- Ecotoxicity analyses of agrochemicals, budget: 1845,00 €, duration: 13/05/2013-15/07/2013, funded by: VIORYL S.A.

- Implementation and maintenance of Quality Management System ISO 9001:2008 in LEEP, budget: 4674,00 €, duration: 17/12/2012-31/12/2015, funded by: ΕLKE AUTH, Division of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering.

- Implementation and maintenance of Quality Management System in LEEP, budget: 3752,00 €, duration: 15/4/2016-15/4/2018, funded by: ELKE AUTH, LEEP AUTH.

As partner:

- Biocide management for long term water storage, duration: 1/1/2014-31/12/2015, funded by: European Space Agency (ESA).

- COST ACTION ES1205: Engineered NanoMaterials (ENMs) from wastewater Treatment & stormwatEr to Rivers, duration: 2012-2017, funded by: EU, FP7.

- COST ACTION MP1204: Modelling nanomaterials toxicity, duration: 2011-2016, funded by: EU, FP7.

- Joint Operational Project “Research networking for the environmental monitoring and mitigation of adverse ecological effects in the Black Sea Basin – BSB-NetEco”, duration: 2013-2015.

Undergraduate level courses:

a) Core courses

·         Water Supply and Sewerage Systems-Irrigation (5th semester)

·         Environmental Engineering (6th semester)

b) Elective courses

·         Special Topics on Design of Water supply and Sewerage Networks (8th semester)

·         Processes of Water Treatment and Wastewater (9th semester)

·         Wastewater treatment engineering (9th semester)

·         Municipal solid waste management (10th semester)

·         Environmental and Energy Policy in the European Union (10th semester)

·         Environmental Chemistry, Microbiology and Biochemistry (10th semester)

Postgraduate level courses in postgraduate program entitled “Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development”

·         Environmental management and assessment

·         Systems and technologies for waste management

·         Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry

PhD Dissertation

Stefanos Giannakis (2014) "Solar disinfection of secondary effluent and the subsequent bacterial regrowth: considerations, limitations and environmental perspectives".

Diploma theses (Undergraduate level)

Undergraduate level

28 undergraduate level diploma theses have been implemented, while LEEP lab has supported many experimental diploma theses of other Division labs.

Postgratuate level

·         Vagia Aik. (2010) “Assessment of particulate matter from solid transshipment processes in ThPA”

·         Magana Μ. (2010), “Operational problems of sewerage and suggested solutions”

·         Mavridou S. (2010) “Environmental evaluation of conventional building materials using life cycle analysis and multicriteria analysis”

·         Gaitanelis E. (2012) “Improvement of energy and environmental performance of tourist infrastructure by means of geothermal heat pumps.-Application to Sani Hotel” 

·         Manoussaridis G. (2012), “Investigation of the most suitable coagulant for the optimum chemical clarification of the effluent of Thessaloniki’s sanitary landfill leachate treatment plant”

·         Basdeki Aik. (2012) “Τreatment of chemical analyses’ data from wells in Larisa Prefecture,Greece”

·         Tavlaridis D. (2014), “Toxic and hazardous waste management in Greece – Current situation – Recommended actions”

·         Lapavitsas Α. (2015) “Small settlements’ wastewater management and treatment using natural methods. Artificial wetlands potential in the prefecture of Imathia”

·         Logothetis D. (2015), «Integrated management of municipal solid waste in Municipality of Almopia»

·         Megas D. (2015), «Solid waste mining facilities: Basic design principles of management and construction»

·         Xanitidou F. (2015), "The necessity for SMA"

·         Tzomaka Β. (2015), “Operational characteristics assessment of WWTP of Ioannina”

·         Tsitouridis Χ. (2015), «Present municipal solid waste management in the area of Thessaloniki and future potential”

LEEP fully meets the educational needs of undergraduate and postgraduate (Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development) level of studies. Regarding the research activities, the last two years the infrastructure was upgraded by: a) installation of a fume gas duct b) installation of a bench (length 2.4 m), c) acquisition of dissolved oxygen meter and selective electrodes, and d) electrocoagulation accessories.

Main operational needs of LEEP include expenditures for equipment, consumables and maintenance of the applied Quality Management System according to ISO9001:2008. So far, part of expenditure costs are covered by national budget of AUTh, ELKE AUTh (Research Committee of AUTh), as well as by services to third parties provided by LEEP. A three-year development plan that includes the services provided and the possible ways of funding is presented in Annex I. The services provided by LEEP are demonstrated in paragraph 8 of this document.   

Existing collaborations with other AUTH labs:

-          Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Division of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

-          Laboratory of Hydraulics and Hydraulic works, Division of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

-          Laboratory of Maritime Engineering and Maritime works, Division of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

-          Laboratory of Building Materials, Division of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

-          Laboratory of Solid State Physics, Division of Solid State Physics, Department of Physics

-          Laboratory of General and Inorganic Chemical Technology, Division of Chemical Technology and Industrial Chemistry,  Department of Chemistry

Potential collaborations with other labs:

-          Laboratory of General Chemical Technology, Division of Technologies, Department of Chemical Engineering, AUTH

-          Laboratory of Applied Soil Science,  Division of Hydraulics, Soil science and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, AUTH

-          Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control, Division of Physical, Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, Department of Chemistry

-          FluIng Multidisciplinary Research Group, Institute for Multidisciplinary Mathematics, Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain