Anderson-Alejandro Benites-Zelaya; Soler Cabezas, José Luis; Ferrer-Polonio, Eva; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta(MDPI AG, 2020-07)
[EN] Nowadays, wastewater reuse in Mediterranean countries is necessary to cover the water demand. This contributes to the protection of the environment and encourages the circular economy. Due to increasingly strict ...
Martí Calatayud, Manuel César; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia; Lora-García, Jaime; Bergantinos Rodríguez, Enrique(Elsevier, 2010)
[EN] In this work, the ultrafiltration of macromolecules was analysed using a response surface methodological approach. The behaviour of two different inorganic membranes was investigated. The membranes selected were a ...
Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Cuartas Uribe, Beatriz Elena; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia; Lora García, Jaime(Elsevier, 2012-01-04)
Ultrafiltration is a widely used technique to remove hazardous pollutants from wastewaters. As ultrafiltration is a dynamic process, non steady-state UF models have been widely investigated and described in the literature. ...
Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Cuartas Uribe, Beatriz Elena; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia; Lora García, Jaime(Elsevier, 2011-04)
The mechanisms of fouling in the ultrafiltration of polyethylene glycol (PEG) are analysed using the complete blocking and the intermediate blocking Hermia's models adapted to crossflow filtration. The parameters of these ...
Corbatón Báguena, María José; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia; Lora García, Jaime(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2013-09)
This work analyses the measure of fit of experimental data of permeate flux decline with time for ultrafiltration experiments performed with polyethylene glycol aqueous solutions to two different ultrafiltration models. A ...
Corbatón Báguena, María José; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Ortega Navarro, Emma María; Pérez-Herranz, Valentín(Elsevier, 2016)
In this work, the effectiveness of electric fields to clean two ZrO2 TiO2 ultrafiltration (UF) membranes
fouled with three types of whey model solutions was investigated. Membranes tested had different
molecular weight ...
Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia; Lora García, Jaime; Carbonell Alcaina, Carlos; Sáez Muñoz, Marina(Taylor & Francis: STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles, 2014-07-17)
[EN] This work studies the adequacy of different reverse osmosis (RO) pretreatments applied to different petrochemical wastewater effluents. Three effluents from a caprolactam factory were analysed: ion-exchange resin ...
Barredo Damas, Sergio; Alcaina Miranda, María Isabel; Iborra Clar, María Isabel; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio(Elsevier, 2012-06-01)
Membrane technologies have emerged as one of the best suitable alternatives for the management of highly polluted effluents generated in the textile industry processes. These technologies are capable either of being used ...
[EN] Access to drinking water is a basic human right which has become an international goal. However, despite the efforts made in the framework of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations, about 700 million ...
[EN] The fermentation brines from table olive processing (FTOP) are hypersaline effluents (conductivities higher than 75 mS·cm-1) with high organic matter concentrations (COD around 10 g·L-1), which also include phenolic ...
Luján Facundo, María José; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Cuartas Uribe, Beatriz Elena; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia(Elsevier, 2016-11)
Membrane cleaning is a key point for the implementation of membrane technologies in the dairy industry
for proteins concentration. In this study, four ultrafiltration (UF) membranes with different molecular
weight cut-offs ...
Corbatón Báguena, María José; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta(Elsevier, 2014-04-07)
In this work, four ultrafiltration (UF) membranes with molecular weight cut-offs (MWCOs) of 5, 15, 30
and 50 kDa, respectively, were fouled with 1% BSA aqueous solutions and cleaned with different saline
solutions. The ...
Sánchez-Arévalo, Carmen María; Pérez García-Serrano, Ane; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia(MDPI AG, 2023-02)
[EN] Despite the environmental concerns raised every year by the generation of high volumes of wet olive pomace, it contains valuable phenolic compounds that are essential for the valorization of this by-product. In this ...
TORA GRAU, MIRIAM; Soler Cabezas, José Luis; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Martínez Francisco, Francisco Juan(Taylor & Francis: STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles, 2014-07-21)
The quality of the secondary treatment effluent (STE) from a municipal wastewater treatment plant (MWWTP) is not good enough for some applications such as agriculture. Membrane ultrafiltration (UF) has been proven to be a ...
Cifuentes-Cabezas, Magdalena Soledad; Carbonell Alcaina, Carlos; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia(Elsevier, 2021-03)
[EN] The production of olive oil generates wastewater with a high organic load and toxicity due to the high concentration of phenolic compounds. In recent years, the study on the treatments of these waters has been intensified ...
Cifuentes-Cabezas, Magdalena; Bohórquez-Zurita, José Luis; Gil-Herrero, Sandra; Vincent Vela, Maria Cinta; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia(Springer-Verlag, 2023-10)
[EN] Olive oil production generates a large amount of wastewater called olive mill wastewater. This paper presents the study of the effect of transmembrane pressure and cross flow velocity on the decrease in permeate flux ...
In this work the effectiveness of two saline solutions (NaCl and Na2SO4) to clean a permanently hydrophilic polyethersulfone (PESH) ultrafiltration (UF) membrane with a molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) of 30 kDa previously ...
Carbonell Alcaina, Carlos; Corbatón Báguena, María José; Alvarez Blanco, Silvia; Bes-Piá, M.A.; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Pastor Alcañiz, Laura(Elsevier, 2016)
[EN] In this work, the fouling mechanisms that dominate the ultrafiltration of residual brines from table olive packing plant wastewaters were investigated. For that purpose, Hermia's models adapted to crossflow filtration, ...
[EN] This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of applying a commercial porous membrane to direct filtration of municipal wastewater. The effects of membrane pore size (MF and UF), treated influent (raw wastewater and ...
Pérez García-Serrano, Ane(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-09-04)
[ES] En la industria del aceite de oliva, en el método de dos fases, que es el mayoritario en España,
se genera un residuo llamado alperujo. Este subproducto se caracteriza por ser una mezcla
semisólida compuesta de ...