Yacoub López, Cristina (Date of defense: 2013-05-13)
The water quality status of an Andean river basin was characterised and the pressures from anthropogenic activities were evaluated to enhance the available knowledge of the environment within an ecosystem ...
Sotres Fernández, Ana (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)
A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bioelectrochemical system (BES) capable of converting the chemical energy contained in the chemical bonds of a substrate into electrical energy by means of electrochemical ...
Tejedor Papell, Gemma (Date of defense: 2019-11-21)
This research aims to improve engineering education in sustainability (EESD) through transdisciplinarity (td) learning approaches. The research comprised 3 phases. The first consisted of the analysis ...
Ortiz Ferrà, Joana Aina (Date of defense: 2016-11-11)
The energy renovation of buildings is an essential action to achieve the European target of 20/20/20. However, the dynamics of the energy renovation are very slow and the development of urgent policy ...
Affes Salah, Rim (Date of defense: 2013-05-14)
Anaerobic digestion is a biochemical process that transforms diverse categories of biomass feedstock to renewable energy, in the form of methane, and contributes to resources conservation and greenhouse ...
Cerrillo Moreno, Míriam (Date of defense: 2016-10-27)
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a widespread technology for treating high strength waste streams, such as livestock manure. AD has some limitations: i) high nutrient concentrations in effluents (especially ...