Dr. Antoine Ghauch

Assistant Professor
Analytical Chemistry

B.S., Lebanese University (1996); M.S., University of Rennes 1 (1997); Ph.D., University of Savoie (2000); Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor, Grenoble University Institute of Technology (2001-2004); R & D Manager, TERA Environnement, Grenoble (2001-2004); Lecturer, Lebanese University; Associate Researcher, Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission (LAEC), National Council for Scientific Research (NCSR) (2004-2006).

• My research interests lie in environmental sciences, and focus on 1. analytical and 2. instrumental aspects of water pollution remediation.
  The first branch is concerned with the development of new analytical techniques based on spectroscopic methods e.g. reflectance, absorbance and luminescence for the identification and the on-line analysis of organic and inorganic pollutants like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides, heavy metals, etc…
  The second part deals with the development and application of new instrumental methods of depollution of water and industrial effluents contaminated by pesticides and chlorinated compounds, using the redox properties of zero valent metals especially Zero Valent Iron (ZVI) due to its very encouraging cost and very low toxicity.

Selected Publications

• Use of FTIR spectroscopy coupled with ATR for the determination of atmospheric compounds, Talanta, 68, 4, 1294-1302, 2006 (with P. A. Deveau, V. Jacob and P. Baussand).

• Degradation of benomyl, picloram, and dicamba in a conical apparatus by zero valent iron, Chemosphere, 43, 8, 1109-1117, 2001.

• Reductive degradation of carbaryl in water by zero valent iron. Chemosphere, 42, 4, 419-424, 2001 (with C. Gallet, J. Rima, A. Charef and M. Martin-Bouyer).

  Remediation of s-triazines contaminated water in a laboratory scale apparatus using zero valent iron, Chemosphere, 41, 1835-1843, 2000 (with Joel Suptil).