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Overview

Jack Gilron is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions in the subfields of biomedical engineering, water science and technology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The core topics of their work include:

  • Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
  • Chemical Analysis and Environmental Impact
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies

Gilron has authored several papers published in prominent scientific journals. Selected recent publications include:

  • Perfect divalent cation selectivity with capacitive deionization, 2021, Water Research
  • Evaluating the impact of pretreatment processes on fouling of reverse osmosis membrane by secondary wastewater, 2021, Journal of Membrane Science
  • Module-scale analysis of low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis: Design guidelines and system performance, 2021, Water Research
  • 2024 roadmap on membrane desalination technology at the water-energy nexus, 2024, Journal of Physics Energy
  • A mechanistic model for salt and water transport in leaky membranes: Implications for low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis membranes, 2023, Journal of Membrane Science

The researcher frequently publishes in journals such as Water Research, Desalination, Journal of Water Process Engineering, Journal of Membrane Science, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Yoram Oren, Zeev Ronen, Menachem Elimelech, Akshaya Kumar Verma, and Yuhao Du.

Best Publications

  • TFC polyamide membranes modified by grafting of hydrophilic polymers: an FT-IR/AFM/TEM study

    Viatcheslav Freger;Jack Gilron;Sofia Belfer

  • Seawater desalination for agriculture by integrated forward and reverse osmosis: Improved product water quality for potentially less energy

    Devin L. Shaffer;Ngai Yin Yip;Jack Gilron;Menachem Elimelech

  • Direct Contact Membrane Distillation-Based Desalination: Novel Membranes, Devices, Larger-Scale Studies, and a Model

    Liming Song;Baoan Li;Kamalesh K. Sirkar;Jack L. Gilron

  • Pilot studies on high recovery BWRO-EDR for near zero liquid discharge approach

    Y. Oren;E. Korngold;N. Daltrophe;R. Messalem

  • CF4 plasma-modified superhydrophobic PVDF membranes for direct contact membrane distillation

    Chi Yang;Xue-Mei Li;Jack Gilron;Ding-feng Kong

  • Effects of surface modification on antifouling and performance properties of reverse osmosis membranes

    J. Gilron;S. Belfer;P. Väisänen;M. Nyström

  • Knudsen diffusion in microporous carbon membranes with molecular sieving character

    J. Gilron;A. Soffer

  • Potential for scaling by sparingly soluble salts in crossflow DCMD

    Fei He;Jack Gilron;Hanyong Lee;Liming Song

  • Calcium sulphate fouling of reverse osmosis membranes: Flux decline mechanism

    J. Gilron;D. Hasson

  • Experimental analysis of negative salt rejection in nanofiltration membranes

    J Gilron

  • Effects of antiscalants to mitigate membrane scaling by direct contact membrane distillation

    Fei He;Kamalesh K. Sirkar;Jack Gilron

  • Studies on scaling of membranes in desalination by direct contact membrane distillation: CaCO3 and mixed CaCO3/CaSO4 systems

    Fei He;Kamalesh K. Sirkar;Jack Gilron

  • Treatment efficiency and economic feasibility of biological oxidation, membrane filtration and separation processes, and advanced oxidation for the purification and valorization of olive mill wastewater.

    L. Ioannou-Ttofa;I. Michael-Kordatou;S.C. Fattas;A. Eusebio

  • Desalination with a Cascade of Cross-Flow Hollow Fiber Membrane Distillation Devices Integrated with a Heat Exchanger

    Hanyong Lee;Fei He;Liming Song;Jack Gilron

  • Perfect divalent cation selectivity with capacitive deionization.

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  • Factors affecting biofilm formation and biofouling in membrane distillation of seawater

    M. Krivorot;A. Kushmaro;Y. Oren;Jack Gilron

  • Design for Cascade of Crossflow Direct Contact Membrane Distillation

    Jack Gilron;Liming Song;Kamalesh K. Sirkar

  • Modification of NF membrane properties by in situ redox initiated graft polymerization with hydrophilic monomers

    S Belfer;R Fainshtain;Y Purinson;J Gilron

  • WAIV — wind aided intensified evaporation for reduction of desalination brine volume

    J. Gilron;Y. Folkman;R. Savliev;M. Waisman

  • Effect of surface modification in preventing fouling of commercial SWRO membranes at the Eilat seawater desalination pilot plant

    S. Belfer;J. Gilron;Y. Purinson;R. Fainshtain

  • Wind-Aided Intensified eVaporation (WAIV) and Membrane Crystallizer (MCr) integrated brackish water desalination process: Advantages and drawbacks

    F. Macedonio;L. Katzir;N. Geisma;S. Simone

  • High water recovery in direct contact membrane distillation using a series of cascades

    Fei He;Jack Gilron;Kamalesh K. Sirkar

  • Silica Fouling in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation

    Jack Gilron;Yitzhak Ladizansky;Eli Korin

  • RO membrane mineral scaling in the presence of a biofilm

    John Thompson;Nancy Lin;Eric Lyster;Ronit Arbel

Frequent Co-Authors

Kamalesh K. Sirkar
Kamalesh K. Sirkar New Jersey Institute of Technology
Viatcheslav Freger
Viatcheslav Freger Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Zeev Ronen
Zeev Ronen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Enrico Drioli
Enrico Drioli National Research Council (CNR)
Yoram Cohen
Yoram Cohen University of California, Los Angeles
Yeshayahu Talmon
Yeshayahu Talmon Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Francesca Macedonio
Francesca Macedonio University of Calabria
Despo Fatta-Kassinos
Despo Fatta-Kassinos University of Cyprus
Alan R. Greenberg
Alan R. Greenberg University of Colorado Boulder
Victor M. Bright
Victor M. Bright University of Colorado Boulder

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