[EN] Climate change is likely to strongly affect both the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of water resources. However, while potential impacts of climate change on water availability have been widely studied ...
[EN] Response surface methodology (RSM) was chosen to optimize the influence of solvent pH and relative proportion, and time of extraction, regarding polyphenols and radical scavenging capacity of almond (Prunus dulcis ...
[EN] This paper proposes a methodology for burnup credit of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) pool storage based on the axial burnup of the fuel assemblies. Following the NRC guidance and normative for NPP safety, axial burnup ...
[EN] An effective alternative for water purification is reverse osmosis (RO). Laboratory-scale RO
modeling is widely applied worldwide, and allows the evaluation of the behavior of the system to
find the most convenient ...
[EN] Temperature is one of the most influential weather variables necessary for numerous studies, such as climate change, integrated water resources management, and water scarcity, among others. The temperature and ...
[EN] Many water supply systems, conceived to operate in centralized manner, face difficulties to adapt to dynamic changes, such as population growth, city extension, and industrial development. Decentralization of these ...
[EN] Climate change undoubtedly will affect snow events as temperature and precipitation are expected to change in the future. Spanish mountains are especially affected by that situation, since snow storage is there focussed ...
Benito, Patricia; Ligorio, Daniele; Bellón, Javier; Yenush, Lynne; Mulet, José Miguel(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2022-09-15)
[EN] Background: According to the most popular defnition, a biostimulant is any substance or microorganism applied
to plants with the aim to enhance nutrition efciency, abiotic stress tolerance and/or crop quality traits, ...
De Castro Pardo, Mónica; Martín Martín, José María; Guaita Martínez, José Manuel; Ribeiro Soriano, Domingo Enrique(Springer-Verlag, 2023-03-06)
[EN] The current global freshwater crisis threatens the present and future supply of water as a resource for humans. The scarcity of drinking water and the dependence of the food industry on water-intensive supply chains ...
[EN] The publication opportunities in science require knowing the existing gaps in the academic debate. In recent decades, scholars specializing in fuzzy theory and applied methodologies have experienced an unprecedented ...
[EN] Although TiO2 materials have been extensively studied as photocatalysts, there is not any commercial TiO2- supported photocatalyst used for wastewater remediation. This fact set the goal to synthesize a new supported ...
[EN] The modelling of the activated sludge hindered settling velocity as a function of the flocs characteristics and the incorporation of these models to the secondary settling tanks simulation is a hardly studied subject. ...
Sant Anna, Caio; Tilmant, Amaury; Pulido-Velazquez, M.(Elsevier, 2022)
[EN] Climate change can significantly affect water systems with negative impacts on many facets of society and ecosystems. Therefore, significant attention must be devoted to the development of efficient adaptation strategies. ...
[EN] The presence of illicit discharges in sewerage systems generates an important impact in wastewater treatment plants and the ecosystem. In this paper, we present two prototypes for monitoring the presence of solids in ...
Capella Hernández, Juan Vicente; Bonastre Pina, Alberto Miguel; Campelo Rivadulla, José Carlos; Ors Carot, Rafael; Peris Tortajada, Miguel(MDPI AG, 2020-12)
[EN] In many water samples, it is important to determine the ammonium concentration in order to obtain an overall picture of the environmental impact of pollutants and human actions, as well as to detect the stage of ...
[EN] The various chemicals in industrial wastewater can be beneficial for improving its circularity. If extraction methods are used to capture valuable components from the wastewater and then recirculate them throughout ...
[EN] The purpose of this contribution is to develop a Circular Economy Composite indicator to benchmark EU countries performance. Europe is at the forefront of the global transition towards a sustainable and circular ...
[EN] This paper proposes a trivariate methodology for flood frequency estimation. It combines the flood peak, storm magnitude, and initial soil moisture condition (ISMC) as the main flood-related statistical variables to ...
[EN] The development of treatment trains for pollutant degradation employing zerovalent iron has been attracting a lot of interest in the last few years. This approach consists of pre-treatment only with zerovalent iron, ...
[EN] A semi-industrial scale AnMBR plant was operated for more than 600 days to evaluate the long-term operation of this technology at ambient temperature (ranging from 10 to 27 ¿ C), variable hydraulic retention times ...