The history of the Department of "Environmental Engineering and Ecology" spans 40 years, and throughout this time it has been fulfilling a very responsible mission in educating highly qualified personnel for the country.
The department is headed by the candidate of chemical sciences, professor Dimitri Eristavi. Address: room 707, II building, phone: 0322 77 11 11 (7363), e-mail: d.eristavi@gtu.ge
The department has appropriate human and material-technical resources for the implementation of educational programs and scientific research and practical works. 4 professors, 6 associate professors, 4 assistant professors, 1 senior specialist work in the department.
The corresponding direction of the department is:
Since its establishment, the department has trained more than 300 specialists, 51 master's students, who work as leading specialists in factories producing industrial products, in the Ministry of Environment and Agriculture of Georgia, in the National Agency of the Environment of Georgia, as well as in ministries, organizations and institutions whose practical work is related to environmental engineering. and environmental security issues.
The activity of the department in the education of scientific staff is fruitful in 1980-2020: 2 Doctor of Sciences, 7 Candidate of Sciences, 19 - Academic Doctor's theses have been protected. 4 more scientific works for obtaining the degree of academic doctor are in the stage of completion. We have received and implemented 5 scientific grants: two international, one local - Rustaveli Foundation and two internal university grants.
Employees of the department actively participate in various international and republican scientific-practical conferences, teacher trainings and retraining. They have adopted modern teaching methods, progressive teaching technologies, ways of integrating environmental education.
In connection with the development and implementation of the university program of environmental education, the department developed bachelor's and master's educational programs, published 16 textbooks, 21 auxiliary textbooks, 12 monographs, 17 methodological references, published more than 500 scientific works in leading local and foreign scientific journals, received 8 copyrights Certificate.
In 2010 and 2019, international scientific and technical conferences "Environmental protection and sustainable development" were held under the auspices of the department, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of Professor Viktor Eristavi, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, founder of the Department of Environmental Protection and Engineering Ecology. Students of our program actively participated in the conference. And on July 19-20, 2021, the Department of "Environmental Engineering and Ecology" and the Georgian Waste Management Association held a joint two-day workshop for university employees and students on the topic "Modern practices of solid waste management in Georgia". 40 trainees participated in the workshop and received certificates.
In the Department of Environmental Engineering and Ecology, fruitful scientific-research and practical works are carried out in the following main directions:
"Physico-chemical principles of assigning solid waste to technological raw materials on the example of slag from Rustavi metallurgical enterprise";
Study of the conditions of disposal of arsenic production waste and distribution
Ecological assessment of the area;
Joint processing of Chiatura manganese raw materials and ore pyrite concentrate containing noble metals by autoclave method;
Processing of technology of cleaning of quarry waters and utilization of metals;
Recycling as a means of implementing the technology of cleaning the acid quarry waters of the Madneuli mining and beneficiation complex;
Debarring of the molecular-ionic system, deuteration nanochemistry, membrane nanotechnologies and nanosystems processing-creation and production implementation.
Study of the impact of pathogenic bacteria on the ecological condition of Paliastomi Lake, modeling and preventive measures for its prevention;
Modeling of the spread of aerosols emitted from the Zestaponi ferroalloy plant and its ecological assessment;
Assessment of the ecological condition of the use of underground waters of the Khrami River basin as a drinking-agricultural system;
Development of wastewater treatment technologies for lead crown production;
Synthesis of tetracyclic pyrrole-containing heterocyclic compounds and study of their biological activity.
During the last period, the employees of the department received and fulfilled five scientific grants, two international, one local - Rustaveli Foundation and two internal university grants.
In 2004 - 2006, the department participated in the Ukrainian international scientific and technological project "Processing and manufacturing of a trial sample of a high-efficiency desalination plant" ISTC No. G-70;
In 2005 - 2008, work was carried out to fulfill the international grant G - 698.2, as a result of which a new technology for processing barite raw materials was developed for cleaning acidic quarry waters from heavy metals;
In 2010, GTU internal university grant No. 44 "Design and manufacture of drinking water disinfection equipment with colloidal silver obtained by nanotechnology" was received, through which it is possible to disinfect drinking water and give it bactericidal properties;
In 2010 - 2011, work is being carried out to fulfill the scientific grant of the National Science Foundation of Georgia - GNSF/ST 08/5-446 - "Cleaning of water contaminated with heavy metals by the electro-membrane method and concentration of metals, as well as;
Elaboration of highly efficient technology of utilization of metals from concentrate and creation of a model unit;
2013 Participation in the received GTU internal university grant No. 66 "Research on the characteristics of a new type of fuel". The goal of the project was to create an environment-friendly fuel (gasoline and diesel) - to specify the proportions of the components - and to examine its ecological indicators;
Professor of the Department of Environmental Engineering and Ecology of the Faculty of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy of the Georgian Technical University Leila Gverdtsiteli 2017-2019 was the recipient of the scientific grant of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation in the competition of the doctoral candidate Natia Gigauri's educational program "Investigation of Manganese Dioxide Pollution in Environmental Objects of Zestaponi Industrial District by Numerical Modeling".