[EN] Treatment wetlands (TWs) are an efficient technology for removing microplastics (MPs) from wastewater, according to previous studies. This study investigates the dynamics and fate of MPs in two wastewater treatment
plants ...
Lake Albufera is one of the most eutrophic bodies of water in Spain due to the point and diffuse pollution over past decades and its sediments are likely to be anoxic because of the high organic matter flux. Hence, sulphides ...
Granell Ruiz, Josep(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-10-16)
La estación depuradora de aguas urbanas de Carrícola, España, ha sido monitorizada durante más de tres años por la Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Este sistema, basado en humedales artificiales (HA), está formado ...
[EN] In Austria, single-stage vertical flow (VF) wetlands with intermittent loading are a state-of-the-art technology for treating domestic wastewater. They are designed according to the Austrian design standard with a ...
Cortés Gómez, Mauricio(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-10-05)
[ES] Las comunidades rurales en Suramérica y sobre todo en Colombia, no poseen una buena infraestructura de saneamiento debido a la poca inversión económica y mala gestión que realizan las empresas de saneamiento locales ...
[EN] Three medium size constructed wetlands (CWs) with a total surface of 90 ha are working since 2009 in the Albufera de Valencia Natural Park (Spain). Two of them are fed with eutrophic waters from l'Albufera Lake. Their ...
Lake L'Albufera is a hypertrophic lake exposed to anthropic pressures. To reduce nutrient loads, a set of horizontal and vertical sub-surface flow constructed wetlands (CWs) were built to treat wastewater from a tertiary ...
Mejía Peralta, Fernanda Estefanía(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-11-14)
[ES] Debido al deterioro ambiental que presenta el barranco Carraixet, ubicado en la comunidad Valenciana, por las distintas actividades antropogénicas que se desarrollan en su entorno, se participó en una campaña de ...
Martínez Biosca, Adrián(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-10-25)
[ES] Los lodos a base de aluminio son un subproducto derivado de los procesos de purificación
del agua en las estaciones de tratamiento de agua potable (ETAP) cuando se utilizan sales de
aluminio como coagulante químico ...
[EN] Eutrophication is a widespread problem that is being tackled from many perspectives and the recently applied technology of constructed wetlands is being used in the treatment of eutrophic water. However, process-based ...
De Meyer, Amandine(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-02-28)
[EN] The Tancat de la Pipa is a reserve area within the Natural Park of l'Albufera. It was created in 2009 from the transformation of preexisting rice into a series of transformed wetlands to improve the water quality of ...
[EN] This paper presents the performance of a number of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS)
in the city of Xàtiva in the Valencia Region of Spain relatively soon after their
construction. The systems studied comprise two ...
[EN] Urban runoff is considered an important source of microplastic pollution. This review provides an in-depth analysis of studies that assess the role of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) as nature-based solutions, ...
[EN] Sustainable drainage systems are an alternative and holistic approach to conventional urban stormwater management that use and enhance natural processes to mimic pre-development hydrology, adding a number of ...
Martín Monerris, Miguel; Oliver Rajadel, Nuria; Hernández Crespo, Carmen; Gargallo Bellés, Sara; Regidor Perona, María Carmen(Elsevier, 2013-06)
Three free water surface constructed wetlands (FWSCWs) have been built in the border of the Lake L'Albufera de Valencia (Valencia, Spain). This lake is the emblematic element of one of the most important wetlands in Spain, ...
[EN] This study evaluates the applicability of drinking water sludge as an active substrate in vertical
subsurface flow constructed wetlands (VFCW) for advanced wastewater treatment. This treatment
enables the achievement ...
[EN] Drinking water treatment sludge (DWTS) is the main waste produced in drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs). Its valorisation as substrate for constructed wetlands (CWs) aimed at upgrading treated urban wastewater ...
Romero Gil, Inmaculada; Pachés Giner, María Aguas Vivas; Hernández Crespo, Carmen; Sebastiá Frasquet, María Teresa(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-09-28)
[EN] Project Based Learning (PBL) is an active learning methodology that is being used for students to learn collaboratively and cooperatively, fostering their motivation, and achieving deep learning. In this research we ...