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Johansson, Sara (Fecha de defensa: 2019-04-29)
Increasing awareness on the limited nature of the raw materials for the production of inorganic fertilizer is pushing for a shift from removal to recovery of nutrients from waste streams. In municipal ...
Akaboci, Tiago Rogeiro Vitor (Fecha de defensa: 2019-07-15)
Anammox-based processes have been commonly applied for the treatment of reject water (high nitrogen content and low C:N ratio), in the sidestream line of urban wastewater tretament plants (WWTP). However, ...
Vilà-Rovira, Albert (Fecha de defensa: 2017-10-20)
This doctoral thesis has integrated biological models (activated sludge models “ASM”) with simulation tools of computational fluid dynamics “CFD”, and has applied them to the design of two advanced ...
Tarragó Abella, Elena (Fecha de defensa: 2018-03-09)
Human population has had an impact on the natural phosphorus’ cycle, a limited resource, and the predictions show that this resource could be exhausted in 100-250 years. Therefore, the actions for the ...
Gabarrón Fernández, Sara (Fecha de defensa: 2014-05-16)
This thesis is based on diagnosing, assessing and optimising the design and operation of membrane bioreactors (MBR) used for treating municipal wastewater. Specifically, this thesis has been carried out ...
Vega Martínez, Esther (Fecha de defensa: 2014-07-30)
Environmental pollution related to odour emission has become in the last years an important public concern. Closeness of odour-causing facilities such as waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) to urban ...
Santos Clotas, Eric (Fecha de defensa: 2019-11-08)
The anaerobic digestion of organic matter causes the formation of biogas that can be used in energy conversion systems for the production of electricity and heat, injection into the gas grid or as a ...
Montserrat Royuela, Albert (Fecha de defensa: 2015-07-03)
In combined sewer systems (CSS) wastewater and stormwater flow through the same pipes. During severe rain episodes, the excess combined flow of untreated wastewater and stormwater is released out from ...
Gabarró i Bartual, Jordi (Fecha de defensa: 2014-07-18)
The biological treatment of industrial wastewater containing high nitrogen concentrations (>1000 mg N L-1) and low biodegradable organic matter (bCOD) such as landfill leachate is nowadays challenging. ...
Castillo Llorens, Alba (Fecha de defensa: 2017-03-17)
The selection of the most appropriate wastewater treatment involves a complex decision making process. For that reason, some tools have been developed in recent years in order to deal with this complexity, ...