[EN] Agriculture is a major source of diffuse pollution, where nitrogen and sediment pollution of water bodies are its main associated environmental impacts. Best management practices are effective tools for preventing and ...
GÓMEZ-MARTÍN, M. ESTHER; Gimenez-Carbo, Ester; Andrés-Doménech, Ignacio; Pellicer, Eugenio(Emerald, 2021-08-14)
[EN] Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the potential for implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the civil engineering bachelor degree in the School of Civil Engineering at Universitat Politecnica ...
Conejos Fuertes, P.; Martínez Alzamora, Fernando; Hervás-Carot, M.; Alonso Campos, J. C.(Taylor & Francis, 2020-09-13)
[EN] Digital Twins (DTs) are starting to be exploited to improve the management of water distribution systems (WDSs) and, in the future, they will be crucial for decision making. In this paper, the authors propose several ...
[EN] Crop models that can accurately estimate yield and final biomass have been used for major herbaceous crops and to a lesser extent in forage systems. The AquaCrop version 7.0 contains new modules that have been introduced ...
Ramos, Helena M.; Simão, Mariana; Pérez-Sánchez, Modesto; Fernandes, João F.P.; Costa Branco, Paulo J.; López Jiménez, Petra Amparo(Associação Portuguesa de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental (APESB), 2020)
[PT] A crescente crise energética e o consumo excessivo de recursos levantam a
preocupação de encontrar novas fontes alternativas de energia, viabilizando novos
métodos de produção e/ou tornando mais eficientes os que já ...
Hamous, Hanene; Khenifi, Aicha; Orts Maiques, Francisco José; Bonastre Cano, José Antonio; Cases, Francisco(Elsevier, 2021-04-15)
[EN] The efficiency of Orange G (OG) azo dye degradation using an electrochemical method under potentiostatic conditions has been comparatively studied in two electrolytic cells (divided and undivided cells) in the presence ...
Miguel Arbones, Eduardo María de; FERNANDEZ-VIVANCOS GONZALEZ, ENRIQUE(Universidad de Navarra, 2020-10-01)
[ES] El presente artículo reflexiona sobre la condición material de la
arquitectura, entendiendo la materia como el medio de expresión de
las ideas y el elemento capaz de transformarlas en obra construida.
Se centra en ...
[EN] The effectiveness of drinking water treatment is critical to achieve an optimal and safe drinking water. Disinfection is one of the most important steps to eliminate the health concern caused by the microbial population ...
Macián Pérez, Juan Francisco; Bayón, Arnau; García-Bartual, Rafael; López Jiménez, Petra Amparo; Vallés-Morán, F. J.(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2020-12-01)
[EN] A classical hydraulic jump with Froude number (Fr1=6) and Reynolds number (Re1=210,000) was characterized using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes OpenFOAM and FLOW-3D, whose performance was assessed. The ...
Gally, C.; García Gabaldón, Montserrat; Ortega Navarro, Emma María; Bernardes, A.M.; Pérez-Herranz, Valentín(Elsevier, 2020-05-01)
[EN] Phosphate is the main cause of eutrophication in many water bodies. Its presence in waters is associated to the fact that is not completely removed in conventional wastewater treatment plants. On the other side, ...
Santana Barros, Kayo; Martí Calatayud, Manuel César; Ortega Navarro, Emma María; Pérez-Herranz, Valentín; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano(Elsevier, 2020-12-15)
[EN] The use of EDTA as a complexing agent in electrodialysis has gained increasing attention in several industrial applications. Variations in pH at the membrane surface are known to alter the chemical equilibrium of EDTA ...
[EN] Climate change projections in many regions of the world show a critical reduction in precipitation and a significant rise in temperatures in the following decades. This change may affect the operation of water utilities ...
[EN] CONTEXT: Worldwide farmer managed irrigation systems have provided crops for food, feed and the market for centuries. From high mountain environments to river valleys and deltas, in all continents people have organized ...
[EN] Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Analytic Network Process (ANP) are helpful multi-criteria methods used by the decision-makers to prioritize the ecosystem services provided to humankind by a natural area. Despite ...
[EN] The suitability of a strategy for distributing the power generated by a photovoltaic pumping system equipped with two equal pumps working in parallel is proven. This strategy aims to improve energy management and ...
[EN] The electrochemical oxidation of the antibiotic Norfloxacin (NOR) in chloride media on different anodic materials was studied at two different electrochemical reactors. The results were compared with those obtained ...
Díez, José-Luis; Masip-Moret, Vicente; Santafé Moros, María Asunción; Gozálvez-Zafrilla, José M.(MDPI AG, 2022-09)
[EN] Peristaltic pumping is used in membrane applications where high and sterile sealing is
required. However, control is difficult due to the pulsating pump characteristics and the time-var ying properties of the system. ...
[EN] Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) can take many forms, but the main idea is to manage and use rainwater close to where it falls, i.e. at source. Permeable Pavements (PPs) are a specific type of SUDS aimed to ...
Cabrera Rochera, Enrique; Estruch-Juan, Elvira; Gomez Selles, Elena; Del Teso-March, Roberto(Springer-Verlag, 2022-07)
[EN] Regulation in the water sector emerged as a formula to protect customers from the natural monopoly that conforms water and wastewater services. As there is little information about regulatory practices in the sector ...
[EN] This paper examines sustainable entrepreneurship over time by focusing on the identification of the combinations of environmental factors (clean water and sanitation, affordable clean energy, urgent action to combat ...