The growing demand and increase in fossil fuel prices justifies the need to look for alternative fuels such as biodiesel. Rice bran is used as raw material to obtain it. The rice bran has low commercial value, is rich in ...

UN estimates that 54% of the population lives in cities. Directive 91/271/EEC obliges urban agglomerations to adequately treat wastewater before pouring it into rivers or bodies of water, for which many treatment plants ...

The interest of Ecuadorian companies to maintain the balance between production and good environmental practices has increased, starting in 2011 with the obtaining of "Neutral Carbon Certification" as a strategy to achieve ...

The multifractal analysis it’s as a useful tool to study the temporal structure of hydrometeorological variables. Different multifractal approaches can be applied for this purpose. In the present work, the multifractal ...

Under the premise that international treaties related to genetic resources (GR) represent an opportunity for scientific, technological, socio-economic and cultural development for megadiverse countries, international ...

The main goal of this paper is to determine the resistant properties of a stabilized jabre soil with cement CEM II BL 32,5N, analyzing the influence of the cement dosage (from 0 to 10%) and the curing time (2, 7 and 21 ...

The cultivation of rice and other Gramineae produces, after harvesting, a large amount of straw, which constitutes a waste and poses a serious environmental problem. In Valencia, traditionally, burning of straw has been ...

The environmental key performance indicators are gaining interest as a tool to internalize environmental performance in the scorecard of decision-making boards of higher education institutions. The carbon footprint is the ...

In the mechanical –biological treatment (MBT) plants for municipal solid wastes, several flows are generated. The flow of recovered materials, which are recycled, and the flow of rejects, that are generally landfilled. ...

Although Recommendation 2013/179/EU promotes the use of the environmental footprint to assess and communicate the environmental performance of organizations throughout their life cycle, they are choosing, as a starting ...