[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. ...
Barbarroja-Ortiz, Paula; Zornoza-Zornoza, Andrés Miguel; Aguado García, Daniel; Borrás Falomir, Luis; Alonso Molina, José Luís(Elsevier, 2019-09)
[EN] The application of low ozone dosage to minimize the problems caused by filamentous foaming was evaluated in two bioreactors of an urban wastewater treatment plant. Filamentous and nitrifying bacteria, as well as protist ...
Alvim, Clara; Bes-Piá, M.A.; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio(Elsevier, 2021-06-01)
[EN] During the secondary treatment of Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) previous studies have reported that microplastics (MPs), which correspond to plastic fragments smaller than 5 mm, are mostly retained in the activated ...
[EN] This research studies the effect of the widely used coagulant ferric chloride on the activated sludge sedimentability through a vast array of hindered settling tests considering different application modes and a wide ...
[EN] The sedimentability of the activated sludge can be affected by the presence of a large variety of coagulants and polymers from a previous physical-chemical process. In this paper, the activated sludge settling process ...
Soler Hernández, Albert; García Hernández, Jorge; Zornoza-Zornoza, Andrés Miguel; Alonso Molina, José Luís(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
[EN] Currently, municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are mainly focusing on reduction of biological oxygen demand and on the removal of nutrients. However, there are microorganisms that interfere ...
Amat Payá, Ana María; Arques Sanz, Antonio; López Pérez, Maria Fernanda; Nácher Pastor, Marina; Palacios Guillem, Santiago(Mary Ann Liebert, 2015-06)
Methylisothiazolinone (MIT) is widely used as biocide in hair and skin care products and in high concentrations, more than 150 mg/L, in cooling towers in the paper mill and refinery industry. This product has been recognized ...
Jiménez Douglas, Emérita; Giménez García, Juan Bautista; Ruano García, María Victoria; FERRER, J.; Serralta Sevilla, Joaquín(Elsevier, 2011-07-29)
The effect of pH and nitrite concentration on the activity of the nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) in an activated sludge reactor has been determined by means of laboratory batch experiments based on respirometric techniques. ...
Alvim, C. Bretas; Castelluccio, S.; Ferrer-Polonio, Eva; Bes-Piá, M.A.; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Fernández-Navarro, J.; Alonso Molina, José Luís; Amoros, Inmaculada(Elsevier, 2021-04)
[EN] According to previous research, it has been proved that wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) can retain more than 90 % of the MPs contained in wastewater. However, a significant fraction of the MPs removed in WWTPs is ...
[EN] Conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) used to get an insufficient removal
of pollutants such as copper, nickel and cyanide, which can affect the aquatic media
quality that receiving the final effluent. In ...
DUQUE SARANGO, PAOLA(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2012-11-29)
[ES] El presente trabajo estudia la influencia que tiene la aplicación del coagulante cloruro férrico, mediante procesos de coagulación y floculación previos, en las velocidades de sedimentación zonal de los fangos activados.
Llorca Escrivá, Sara(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-10-18)
[ES] En el presente TFG se va a realizar un estudio sobre la reducción en la producción de fango que se genera en el tratamiento secundario en una estación depuradora de aguas residuales (EDAR), mediante la adición de ...
Lera Modino, María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-11-16)
[ES] Existen dos grandes grupos de tratamientos de aguas; la potabilización de las aguas de abastecimiento, cuyo propósito es producir un efluente apto para el consumo humano y la depuración de las aguas residuales, cuyo ...
Ivailova Petkova, Ivana; Solís, J. J.; Bes Piá, Mª Amparo; Aguado García, Daniel(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-07-31)
[ES] En una Estación Depuradora de Aguas Residuales (EDAR), el mayor consumo energético es el asociado al sistema de aireación del tratamiento biológico. Esto hace que los estudios relacionados con los sistemas de aireación ...
Pérez Muñoz, Jeisson Alejandro(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-12-28)
[ES] La sociedad actual enfrenta una serie de problemas ambientales que se han intensificado a razón del crecimiento exponencial de la población. Dos de los principales problemas ambientales a nivel local son el deterioro ...
Villa Martí, Josep Blai(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-09-03)
[CA] En els darrers anys ha hagut una preocupació creixent per la contaminació de plàstics i la seua capacitat de transportar contaminats als ecosistemes aquàtics. El plàstics tarda centenars d anys a descompondre s i, ...
Eight different phenotypes were studied in an activated sludge process (AeR) and anaerobic digester AnD) in a full-scale wastewater treatment plant by means of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) and automated FISH ...
The paper expresses an attempt to tackle the problem due to the presence of micropollutants in wastewater which may be able to disrupt the endocrine system of some organisms. These kinds of compounds are ubiquitously present ...
Andujar Gonzalez, Ana Belen; Zornoza-Zornoza, Andrés Miguel; Lledías Aparici, Marta; Alonso Molina, José Luís(Infoedita, 2013)
[ES] El crecimiento excesivo de bacterias filamentosas en fangos
activos origina problemas de explotación en las estaciones
depuradoras de aguas residuales (EDAR). Por ello, su identificación
y cuantificación correcta es ...
The biologically induced precipitation processes can be important in wastewater treatment, in particular treating raw wastewater with high calcium concentration combined with Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal. Currently, ...