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Overview

Dimitrios Komilis is affiliated with Democritus University of Thrace in Greece. Their research expertise lies primarily in the areas of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The work covers several subfields including Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution, Soil Science, Plant Science, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research topics focus on various aspects of waste management and environmental sustainability. Key areas of study include:

  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Landfill Environmental Impact Studies
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies

Frequent collaboration characterizes their work, with multiple coauthors contributing across numerous projects. Notable frequent coauthors include:

  • Spyridoula Gerassimidou
  • Nicolás Iván Riera
  • Adele Fòlino
  • Paolo S. Calabrò
  • Costas A. Velis

Publications are commonly featured in journals such as Sustainability, Waste Management, and Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy. Additional venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) and the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored include:

  • "Biodegradation of Wasted Bioplastics in Natural and Industrial Environments: A Review" (2020) published in Sustainability
  • "Characterisation and composition identification of waste-derived fuels obtained from municipal solid waste using thermogravimetry: A review" (2020) in Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy
  • "Chlorine in waste-derived solid recovered fuel (SRF), co-combusted in cement kilns: A systematic review of sources, reactions, fate and implications" (2020) in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
  • "Effect of the addition of the Bacillus sp., Paenibacillus sp. bacterial strains on the co-composting of green and food waste" (2022) in Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • "A Systematic Review on the Application of Bacterial Inoculants and Microbial Consortia During Green Waste Composting" (2022) in Waste and Biomass Valorization

Best Publications

  • Siting MSW landfills with a spatial multiple criteria analysis methodology.

    Themistoklis D. Kontos;Dimitrios P. Komilis;Constantinos P. Halvadakis

  • Biodegradation of Wasted Bioplastics in Natural and Industrial Environments: A Review

    Adele Folino;Aimilia Karageorgiou;Paolo S. Calabrò;Dimitrios Komilis

  • Solid-State Fermentation as a Novel Paradigm for Organic Waste Valorization: A Review

    Noraziah Abu Yazid;Raquel Barrena;Dimitrios Komilis;Antoni Sánchez

  • A systematic review on the composting of green waste: Feedstock quality and optimization strategies.

    M. Reyes-Torres;E.R. Oviedo-Ocaña;I. Dominguez;D. Komilis;D. Komilis

  • Siting MSW landfills on Lesvos island with a GIS-based methodology.

    Themistoklis D. Kontos;Dimitrios P. Komilis;Constantinos P. Halvadakis

  • Revisiting the elemental composition and the calorific value of the organic fraction of municipal solid wastes.

    Dimitrios Komilis;Alexandros Evangelou;Georgios Giannakis;Constantinos Lymperis

  • A statistical analysis to assess the maturity and stability of six composts.

    Dimitrios P. Komilis;Ioannis S. Tziouvaras

  • Hazardous medical waste generation rates of different categories of health-care facilities.

    Dimitrios Komilis;Anastassia Fouki;Dimitrios Papadopoulos

  • Critical review of existing nanomaterial adsorbents to capture carbon dioxide and methane.

    Amanda Alonso;J. Moral-Vico;Ahmad Abo Markeb;Martí Busquets-Fité

  • The effect of municipal solid waste pretreatment on landfill behavior: a literature review *

    D. P. Komilis;R. K. Ham;R. Stegmann

  • Effect of organic matter and moisture on the calorific value of solid wastes: An update of the Tanner diagram

    Dimitrios Komilis;Konstantinos Kissas;Avraam Symeonidis

  • Healthcare Waste Generation Worldwide and Its Dependence on Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors

    Minas Minoglou;Spyridoula Gerassimidou;Dimitrios Komilis

  • The effect of landfill design and operation practices on waste degradation behavior: a review

    D. P. Komilis;R. K. Ham;R. Stegmann

  • Influence of four socioeconomic indices and the impact of economic crisis on solid waste generation in Europe

    Konstantinos-Georgios Namlis;Dimitrios Komilis

  • Optimizing the treatment and disposal of municipal solid wastes using mathematical programming—A case study in a Greek region

    Minas Minoglou;Dimitrios Komilis

  • A methodology to optimally site and design municipal solid waste transfer stations using binary programming

    Constantinos Chatzouridis;Dimitrios Komilis

  • Stability and maturity of biowaste composts derived by small municipalities: Correlation among physical, chemical and biological indices

    E.R. Oviedo-Ocaña;P. Torres-Lozada;L.F. Marmolejo-Rebellon;L.V. Hoyos

  • Development of phytotoxicity indexes and their correlation with ecotoxicological, stability and physicochemical parameters during passive composting of poultry manure

    Brian Jonathan Young;Pedro Federico Rizzo;Nicolás Iván Riera;Virginia Della Torre

  • Characterisation and composition identification of waste-derived fuels obtained from municipal solid waste using thermogravimetry: A review:

    Spyridoula Gerassimidou;Costas A Velis;Paul T Williams;Dimitrios Komilis

  • Preliminary evaluation of the anaerobic biodegradability of three biobased materials used for the production of disposable plastics.

    P.S. Calabro;A. Folino;F. Fazzino;D. Komilis

  • A modified static respiration assay and its relationship with an enzymatic test to assess compost stability and maturity

    Dimitrios Komilis;Iro Kontou;Spyridon Ntougias

Frequent Co-Authors

Antoni Sánchez
Antoni Sánchez Autonomous University of Barcelona
Xavier Font
Xavier Font Autonomous University of Barcelona
Paul T. Williams
Paul T. Williams University of Leeds
Ahmad Zaharin Aris
Ahmad Zaharin Aris Universiti Putra Malaysia
Marco J. Castaldi
Marco J. Castaldi City College of New York
Víctor F. Puntes
Víctor F. Puntes Spanish National Research Council
Gerasimos Lyberatos
Gerasimos Lyberatos National Technical University of Athens
Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis
Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis National Technical University of Athens
Xavier Gabarrell
Xavier Gabarrell Autonomous University of Barcelona
Gopalakrishnan Kumar
Gopalakrishnan Kumar Yonsei University

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