Montserrat Royuela, Albert (Date of defense: 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 ...
Sauchelli Toran, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-07-18)
Forward osmosis (FO) is known to be particularly efficient at treating impaired water sources with a high fouling potential. In the context of water reuse FO is being introduced as a robust pre-treatment ...
Aymerich Blazquez, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2019-01-22)
For a long time, there has been a need and an ambition to better understand the behavior of integrated systems by considering the whole urban water cycle, including wastewater transportation, wastewater ...
Auguet Horta, Olga (Date of defense: 2016-07-13)
Sewer systems transport wastewater from its source to treatment plants. During this transport, wastewater microorganisms colonize pipe walls and develop biofilms. The activity of microbial communities ...
Rodríguez-Caballero, Adrián (Date of defense: 2015-03-20)
The exponential increase of the atmospheric concentration of green-house gases due to human activities is responsible for the acceleration of global warming and climate change. Recently, scientific ...
Mor Roy, Jordi-René (Date of defense: 2019-09-19)
Mediterranean rivers are characterized by high hydrological variability and heterogeneity of habitats, placing themselves amongst arid and temperate climates, and are associated with high biological ...
Ribera Guàrdia, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-12-12)
This thesis focuses on the study of the global green house gas (GHG) emissions from wastewater systems. Nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) are the main GHG directly emitted from wastewater treatment ...
Juan García, Pau (Date of defense: 2019-02-04)
The water sector is entering a period of uncertainty, as stressors such as climate change pose unknown risks to its infrastructure. Utilities need to build resilience to handle unpredictable changes, ...
Verkh, Yaroslav (Date of defense: 2019-01-28)
Individual hazardous chemicals and substance mixtures with synergistic toxicity ef-fects occur in the dissolved organic matter (DOM) of wastewater and negatively im-pact human health. Yet a large number ...
Sbardella, Luca (Date of defense: 2019-05-22)
The presence of several pharmaceutical active compounds (PhACs) in water bodies has garnered increasing attention and worldwide concern. The effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are one ...