Jack Gilron DSc., Chem Eng., (Technion) began working in water treatment more than 40 years ago in the industry in the U.S. and worked in the water treatment industry for more than 10 years before joining the academic staff at Ben Gurion University in 1997. He has taught at the Environmental Engineering unit and the AKIS international school of desert studies of BIDR of Ben Gurion University.
Research Interests
Prof. Gilron’s professional activity has been associated with finding new opportunities for introducing membrane technology to achieve water and product recovery from waste streams and in increasing the recovery in desalination processes. He has worked on waste streams from the specialty chemicals industry, olive mill wastewater, and hypersaline brines for mineral production, among other systems.
High recovery desalination and brine management are other areas of activity as well as electromembrane processes for contaminant removal and upgrading of groundwater for irrigation.

Peer-Reviewed Articles
Cohen, B., Lazarovitch, N. and Gilron, J., (2018) Upgrading groundwater for irrigation using monovalent selective electrodialysis, Desalination, 431:126-139.
Meital Asraf-Snir , Jack Gilron, Yoram Oren (2018), Scaling of Cation Exchange Membranes by Gypsum during Donnan Exchange and Electrodialysis, Journal of Membrane Science, 567: 28-38.
Noya Ran, Jack Gilron, Revital Sharon-Gochman, Moshe herzberg (2019), The addition of powdered activated carbon to membrane bioreactors, Water, v. 11.

Cai, Y.-H., Galili, N., Gelman, Y., Herzberg, M., Gilron, J., (2021)
Evaluating the impact of pretreatment processes on fouling of reverse osmosis membrane by secondary wastewater
Journal of Membrane Science, v. 623, DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2021.119054


Du, Y., Wang, Z., Cooper, N.J., Gilron, J., Elimelech, M., (2022)
Module-scale analysis of low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis: Design guidelines and system performance
Water Research, v. 209, DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117936


Uwayid, R., Guyes, E.N., Shocron, A.N., Gilron, J., Elimelech, M., Suss, M.E., (2022)
Perfect divalent cation selectivity with capacitive deionization
Water Research,v. 210, DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117959


Book chapters
J. GilronPI (2018), Wind-Aided Intensifed Evaporation, Ch. 9 in Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes, A.Basile and E. Curcio, eds., Elsevier, 2018.

J. GilronPI, N. NystromPI, J.TanninenS, L.KamppinenS, Pretreatment and hybrid processes, Ch. 9 in Nanofiltration – Principles and Applications, 2nd ed., A. Schaefer and A.G. Fane, eds. Wiley-Verlag, 2021.

Patents:
J. Gilron, S.Mitra, N.Daltrophe, U.S. Patent Application No. 16/550,584
Title: EDUCTOR-BASED MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR, Allowed: Jan. 2022

B.A. Chemistry, Brandeis Univ. (1974),
M.Sc. Phys. Chem. , Cornell Univ. (1977),
D.Sc. Chem. Eng., Technion- Israel Inst. of Technology (1987)

Present projects

BIRD-CoWERC – High recovery desalination

BARD - In collaboration with UCLA and North Arava Research center – Desalination tailored for irrigation

E.U.-India– in Collaboration with IIT-Madras - Ion -exchange membrane bioreactors (IEMB) for nitrate removal from wastewater and groundwater

Marburger Foundation - in collaboration with Ghana – treatment of contaminated groundwater