This study aims to reduce the release of organic compounds (MCs) in the aquatic environment, eliminating these MCs from the wastewater by applying an advanced treatment that allows their direct or indirect reuse. This work ...

Technologies based on anaerobic biological processes have been known for decades. However, its use has focused mainly on the treatment of sludge generated in conventional wastewater treatment plants. Certain micropollutants ...

Nowadays, in the Spanish cities streets there are several kind of skips to collect the municipal solid waste (MSW): organic matter and reject fraction skips, paper and card-board skips, light packaging skips, glass skips, ...

It is presented a research work performed in a plantation of Vetiveria in ground slopes to diminish the erosion provokated by the rains. For this purpose, the material used in the plots with cultures and without them has ...

The electrocoagulation is an electrochemical technique of waste water treatment based on the generation of coagulant in situ. Sacrificial anodes of Iron or Aluminium are used to produce Fe3+ or Al3+, which act as coagulants ...

The footwear sector generates environmental impacts affecting to different stages of the life cycle depending of the materials and processes of manufacturing selected. The companies are forced to be competitive and add ...

To contribute to the correct management of the waste generated by society is very useful the design and the implantation of tools that from the analysis of the initial situation allow to reduce the quantity of generated ...

Phytoextraction is a technology that allows the remediation of heavy metal-polluted soils by taking advantage of some plants capacity of extracting and translocating the metals to their harvestable parts. In spite the fact ...

Climate change is one of the most complex environmental problems facing humanity and is expressed in the increase of the average temperature as a result of the issuance of significant amounts of carbon and gases (NOx, SOx, ...

A change in tendency has taken place with regard to the urban and industrial consumption of water in Spain, with an important decrease since 2005, resulting in that the flow entering the WWTPs has been reduced. Also, ...