Prof. Asher Brenner

Eductaion:

B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Technion , 1979

M.Sc. Environmental Engineering, Technion , 1982

D.Sc. Environmental Engineering, Technion , 1986

Research Interests:

Water and wastewater treatment.

Biological wastewater treatment.

Modeling of treatment processes.

Detoxification of industrial and hazardous wastes.

Remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater.

Application of microfiltration and deep-bed sand filtration for secondary effluents.

Application of the sequencing batch reactor (SBR) for wastewater treatment.

Email: brenner@bgu.ac.il

Publications (last 5 years):

Marina De Leeuw, Maayan Baron, Asher Brenner, and Ariel Kushmaro (2017). Genome Analysis of Novel Polyvalent Proteobacteria Phage Isolated from a Bioreactor Treating Industrial Wastewater, Genes, 8, 40; doi:10.3390/genes8010040.

Bick, A., Yang, F., Gilron, J., Gillerman, L., Herzberg, M., Brenner, A. and Oron, G. (2017). Analysis of membrane bio-reactor performance for wastewater treatment using ranking methods, Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry (GTEC)

Eitan Ben-Dov, Ofir Zisman, Asher Brenner, and Ariel Kushmaro (2016). Impact of Biocides on Hydrogen Sulfide Production and Growth of Desulfovibrio vulgaris, CLEAN - Soil, Air, Water, 44(9999): 1-5.

David Sadovsky, Asher Brenner, Boaz Astrachan, Boaz Asaf, Raphael Gonen (2016). Biosorption potential of cerium ions using Spirulina biomass, Journal of Rare Earths, 34(6):644-652.

Liberman, N., Shandalov, S., Forgacs, C., Oron, G., and Brenner, A. (2016). "Use of MBR to sustain active biomass for treatment of low organic load grey water". Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 18:1219–1224.

Nedal Massalha, Asher Brenner, Chaim Sheindorf, and Isam Sabbah (2015), "Application of immobilized and granular dried anaerobic biomass for stabilizing and increasing anaerobic bio-systems tolerance for high organic loads and phenol shocks", Bioresource Technology, 197:106-112.

Nedal Massalha, Asher Brenner, Chaim Sheindorf, and Isam Sabbah (2015), "Enriching composite hydrophilic polyurethane foams with PAC to enhance adsorption of phenol from aqueous solutions", Chemical Engineering Journal, 280:282-293.

Hen Sabbag, Asher Brenner, Andrey Nikolski, and Eitan J.C. Borojovich (2015), "Prevention and control of struvite and calcium phosphate precipitation by chelating agents". Desalination and Water Treatment, 55(1):61-69.

Nedal Massalha, Asher Brenner, Chaim Sheindorf, and Isam Sabbah (2014), "The effect of anaerobic biomass drying and exposure to air on its recovery and evolution". Water Research, 63:42-51.

Christian Siebert, Tino Rödiger, Ulf Mallast, Agnes Gräbe, Joseph Guttman, Jonathan B. Laronne, Yael Storz-Peretz, Anat Greenman, Elias Salameh, Marwan Al-Raggad, Dina Vachtman, Arie Ben Zvi, Danny Ionescu, Asher Brenner, Ralf Merz, and Stefan Geyer (2014), "Challenges to estimate surface- and groundwater flow in arid regions: The Dead Sea catchment", Science of the Total Environment, 845-846:828-841.

Ben-shalom, M., Shandalov, S., Brenner, A., and Oron, G. (2014). "The effect of aeration and effluent recycling on domestic wastewater treatment in a pilot-plant system of duckweed ponds". Water Science and Technology, 69(2):350-357.

Segev, O., Shapiro, O., Brenner, A., and Kushmaro, A. (2013). "Application of a unique miniature MBR for screening the biodegradation of brominated flame retardants". Desalination and Water Treatment, 51( 31-33):5909-5917.

Duek, A., Arkhangelsky, E., Krush, R., Brenner, A., and Gitis, V. (2012). "New and conventional pore size tests in virus-removing membranes". Water Research, 46:2505-2514.

Yang, F., Wang, Y., Bick, A., Gilron, J., Brenner, A., Gillerman, L., Herzberg, M., and Oron, G. (2012). "Performance of different configurations of hybrid growth membrane bioreactor (HG-MBR) for treatment of mixed wastewater". Desalination, 284:261-268.

Sahar, E., Messalem, R., Cikurel, H., Aharoni, A., Brenner, A., Godehardt, M., Jekel, M., and Ernst, M. (2011). "Fate of antibiotics in Activated Sludge followed by ultrafiltration (CAS-UF) and in a membrane bioreactor (MBR)". Water Research, 45:4827-4836.

Ofir, E., Brenner, A., Muuler, K., and Gitis, V. (2011). "Boron removal from seawater by electro-chemical treatment as part of water desalination". Desalination and Water Treatment, 31:102-106.

Sahar, E., David, I., Gelman, Y., Cikurel, H., Aharoni, A., Messalem, R., and Brenner, A. (2011). "The use of RO to remove emerging micropollutants following CAS/UF or MBR treatment of municipal wastewater". Desalination, 273:142-147.

Sahar, E., Ernst, M., Godehardt, M., Hein, A., Herr, J., Kazner, C., Melin, T., Cikurel, H., Aharoni, A., Messalem, R., Brenner, A., and Jekel, M. (2011). "Comparison of two treatments for the removal of selected organic micropollutants and bulk organic matter: conventional activated sludge (CAS) followed by ultrafiltration (UF) vs. membrane bioreactor (MBR)". Water Science and Technology, 63(4):733-740.