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Raphael Semiat is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and environmental science, with a particular focus on water science and technology, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The core topics of Semiat's work involve membrane separation and gas transport, membrane separation technologies, membrane-based ion separation techniques, environmental remediation with nanomaterials, graphene research and applications, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, and ionic liquids properties and applications.

Semiat has contributed to numerous publications across various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Separation and Purification Technology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Desalination and Water Treatment
  • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • Water Science & Technology

Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as Hilla Shemer, Xuezhong He, Kaifang Wang, David Hasson, and Manman Zhang.

Notable recent papers by Semiat include:

  • Challenges and Solutions for Global Water Scarcity (2023, Membranes)
  • Can seawater desalination be a win-win fix to our water cycle? (2020, Water Research)
  • Fouling control and modeling in reverse osmosis for seawater desalination: A review (2022, Computers & Chemical Engineering)
  • Recent advances in Poly(ionic liquids) membranes for CO2 separation (2022, Separation and Purification Technology)
  • PIM-1-based membranes mediated with CO2-philic MXene nanosheets for superior CO2/N2 separation (2024, Chemical Engineering Journal)

Best Publications

  • Energy issues in desalination processes.

    Raphael Semiat

  • Energy and environmental issues in desalination

    Sydney Miller;Hilla Shemer;Raphael Semiat

  • Effect of solvent properties on permeate flow through nanofiltration membranes. Part I: investigation of parameters affecting solvent flux.

    Darı́o R. Machado;David Hasson;Raphael Semiat

  • Simple technique for measuring the concentration polarization level in a reverse osmosis system

    Iris Sutzkover;David Hasson;Raphael Semiat

  • Humic substances fouling in ultrafiltration processes

    Iris Sutzkover-Gutman;David Hasson;Raphael Semiat

  • Utilization of the Donnan effect for improving electrolyte separation with nanofiltration membranes

    R Levenstein;D Hasson;R Semiat

  • Challenges and Solutions for Global Water Scarcity

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  • Efficient technologies for worldwide clean water supply

    Francesca Macedonio;Enrico Drioli;Enrico Drioli;Andrei A. Gusev;André Bardow;André Bardow

  • Effect of solvent properties on permeate flow through nanofiltration membranes: Part II. Transport model

    Darı́o R. Machado;David Hasson;Raphael Semiat

  • Inception of CaSO4 scaling on RO membranes at various water recovery levels

    David Hasson;Alexander Drak;Raphael Semiat

  • Characterization of membrane biofouling in nanofiltration processes of wastewater treatment

    H. Ivnitsky;I. Katz;D. Minz;E. Shimoni

  • Boron removal from water by complexation to polyol compounds

    Nitzan Geffen;Raphael Semiat;Moris S. Eisen;Yael Balazs

  • Low strength graywater characterization and treatment by direct membrane filtration

    Guy Ramona;Michal Green;Raphael Semiat;Carlos Dosoretz

  • Adsorption of sulfur dioxide by active carbon treated by nitric acid: I. Effect of the treatment on adsorption of SO2 and extractability of the acid formed

    A. Lisovskii;R. Semiat;C. Aharoni

  • Iron(3) oxide-based nanoparticles as catalysts in advanced organic aqueous oxidation.

    Grigory Zelmanov;Raphael Semiat

  • Influence of the flow system on the inhibitory action of CaCO3 scale prevention additives

    David Hasson;Dan Bramson;Bracha Limoni-Relis;Raphael Semiat

  • Sustainable RO desalination – Energy demand and environmental impact

    Hilla Shemer;Raphael Semiat

  • Analysis of parameters affecting boron permeation through reverse osmosis membranes

    Abraham Sagiv;Raphael Semiat

  • Fast deposition of porous iron oxide on activated carbon by microwave heating and arsenic (V) removal from water

    Alp Yürüm;Züleyha Özlem Kocabaş-Ataklı;Meltem Sezen;Raphael Semiat

  • Backwash of RO spiral wound membranes

    Abraham Sagiv;Raphael Semiat

  • Calcium carbonate hardness removal by a novel electrochemical seeds system

    David Hasson;Georgiy Sidorenko;Raphael Semiat

  • Limits of RO recovery imposed by calcium phosphate precipitation

    G. Greenberg;D. Hasson;R. Semiat

  • Induction times induced in an RO system by antiscalants delaying CaSO4 precipitation

    David Hasson;Alexander Drak;Raphael Semiat

  • Group 4 Octahedral Benzamidinate Complexes: Syntheses, Structures, and Catalytic Activities in the Polymerization of Propylene Modulated by Pressure

    Victoria Volkis;Elza Nelkenbaum;Anatoli Lisovskii;Gil Hasson

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoram Cohen
Yoram Cohen University of California, Los Angeles
A. E. Dukler
A. E. Dukler University of Houston
Moris S. Eisen
Moris S. Eisen Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Yi-Fan Han
Yi-Fan Han East China University of Science and Technology
Zongsu Wei
Zongsu Wei Aarhus University
Mikel Duke
Mikel Duke Victoria University
Panagiotis D. Christofides
Panagiotis D. Christofides University of California, Los Angeles
Dan Luss
Dan Luss University of Houston
Dror Minz
Dror Minz Agricultural Research Organization
Enrico Drioli
Enrico Drioli National Research Council (CNR)

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