Soler Cabezas, José Luis; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Martínez Francisco, Francisco Juan(Elsevier, 2012)
[EN] It is well known that there is a scarcity of drinking and irrigation water around the world nowadays. According to the United Nations, water scarcity affects 1.2 billion people (one-fifth of the world's population) ...
[EN] In this study, membrane fouling caused by paperboard mill treated effluent (PMTE) was investigated based on a dead-end ultrafiltration (UF) pilot-scale study. The membranes employed were commercial hydrophobic UF ...
Sánchez Arévalo, Carmen María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-10-20)
[ES] El sector agroalimentario constituye una de las industrias con mayor relevancia. Durante la producción de aceite de oliva, se generan grandes volúmenes de subproductos, destacando el alperujo, que contiene todos los ...
Palop Donat, Carla(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-11-08)
[EN] This work is part of the project called Textile Membrane Bioreactors (TEX-MEM), carried out at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Ås, Norway), in the Department of Water and Environmental Engineering. It arises ...
Barredo Damas, Sergio; Alcaina Miranda, María Isabel; GEMMA, MATTEO; Iborra Clar, María Isabel; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio(IWA Publishing, 2011)
[EN] This work studies the performance of three commercial ceramic ultrafiltration membranes (ZrO 2-TiO 2) treating raw effluent from a textile industry. The effect of crossflow velocity at 3, 4 and 5 m s -1 as well as ...
Ferrer-Polonio, Eva; Fernández-Navarro, Julián; Alonso Molina, José Luís; Bes-Piá, M.A.; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio(John Wiley & Sons, 2018)
[EN] BACKGROUND
Membrane fouling is the main limiting factor for the application of ultrafiltration (UF) to wastewater treatment as tertiary treatment or in membrane bioreactors. Soluble microbial products (SMP) play the ...
Carbonell Alcaina, Carlos; Soler-Cabezas, José Luis; Bes-Piá, M.A.; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Pastor-Alcañiz, Laura; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia(MDPI AG, 2020-10)
[EN] Management of wastewater is a major challenge nowadays, due to increasing water demand, growing population and more stringent regulations on water quality. Wastewaters from food conservation are especially difficult ...
Roig Bataller, Bárbara(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-09-18)
[EN] Study of the fouling of ultrafiltration membranes used for the treatment of residual brines from the elaboration of table olives and application of conventional cleaning methods (alkalis, acids, commercial detergents) ...
Sancho, M.; Arnal Arnal, José Miguel; Verdú Martín, Gumersindo Jesús; Trull-Hernandis, Cristina; García-Fayos, Beatriz(American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2021)
[EN] Radioactive liquid wastes are produced at hospitals from diagnostic and therapeutic applications of radionuclides. The most usual management of these wastes is temporary storage at the hospital for radioactivity decay ...
Pereira de Morais, Carlos Eduardo; Awater, Lisa Christina; Athayde Júnior, Gilson Barbosa; de Sena, Rennio Félix; Martí Calatayud, Manuel César; Bohner, Christoph(Asociación Interamericana de Ingeniería Sanitaria y Ambiental, 2021-12-06)
[EN] The market for Membrane Bioreactors (MBR) technology has recently grown due to increasingly strict standards for
effluent discharge and the need for alternative water sources. The high quality of the effluent produced, ...
Luján Facundo, María José; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Cuartas Uribe, Beatriz Elena; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] Cost reduction and minimization of environmental impacts, based on by-product recovery, is the
objective of applying the ultrafiltration technology for the treatment of cheese whey. In this work, ultrafiltration
process ...
Catalán Martínez, David(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-06-24)
[ES] En este trabajo, se han empelado redes neuronales artificiales para modelar la disminución de la densidad de flujo volumétrico de la ultrafiltración de polietilenglicol con membranas cerámicas. Las redes neuronales ...
Santos-Sousa, Mayko Rannany; Lora-García, Jaime; López Pérez, Maria Fernanda(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] In this work, ultrafiltration (UF) is used to remove dissolved and colloidal substances (DCS) from a secondary clarifier effluent from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in a papermaking factory. The approach has ...
Martí Calatayud, Manuel César; Schneider, S.; Wessling, Matthias(Elsevier, 2018-10-15)
[EN] The manifestation of critical fluxes in membrane filtration has typically served to set an upper value above which detrimental fouling events and a substantial increase of membrane resistance occurs. Despite the ...
Sousa, Mayko Rannany S.; Lora-García, Jaime; López Pérez, Maria Fernanda; Santafé Moros, María Asunción; Gozálvez-Zafrilla, José M.(MDPI AG, 2020-08)
[EN] Optimization of the ultrafiltration (UF) process to remove colloidal substances from a paper mill's treated effluent was investigated in this study. The effects of four operating parameters in a UF system (transmembrane ...
Pérez Fernández, Daniel Alejandro(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-10-19)
The scientific-technical objective of the project proposal is to study and develop an optimal operating methodology for an ultrafiltration membrane process for the removal of organic matter in the process water regeneration ...
Santos Sousa, Mayko Rannany(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-11-25)
[ES] En la presente Tesis Doctoral se investigó la aplicación del proceso de ultrafiltración (UF) y el fenómeno de ensuciamiento de las membranas en la eliminación de sustancias disueltas y coloidales (DCS) de efluentes ...
[EN] The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of an outdoor membrane-coupled high-rate algal pond equipped with industrial-scale membranes for treating urban wastewater. Decoupling biomass retention time ...
Zuriaga Agustí, Elena; Alventosa de Lara, Elena; Barredo Damas, Sergio; Alcaina Miranda, María Isabel; Iborra Clar, María Isabel; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio(IWA PublishingElsevier, 2014-05-01)
Ultrafiltration membrane processes have become an established technology in the treatment and reuse of secondary effluents. Nevertheless, membrane fouling arises as a major obstacle in the efficient operation of these ...
Veces Gadea, Beatriz; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Bes Piá, Mª Amparo; Ferrer Torregrosa, Carlos; Martínez Francisco, Francisco Juan(Taylor & Francis, 2012-02)
Wastewater reclamation and reuse has become one of the most important environmental issues nowadays. Thus, municipal wastewater treatment plants are being upgraded converting conventional activated sludge processes into ...