Johansson, Sara (Date of defense: 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 ...
Vilà-Rovira, Albert (Date of defense: 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 ...
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 ...
Liu, Chang (Date of defense: 2014-10-15)
A new technology for Cr(VI) and divalent metal ions removal based on metal sorption onto exhausted coffee waste has been developed. Physical and chemical characterization of exhausted coffee waste was ...
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 ...
Anfruns Bagaria, Alba (Date of defense: 2011-11-25)
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are one of the main groups of odour causing compounds in Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP). Adsorption technology is already established, in recent years the interest ...
Hadjimichael, Antonia (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)
With sustainable development as the new overarching goal, urban wastewater system (UWS) managers are now being asked to take all social, economic, technical and environmental facets related to their ...
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 ...
Chtourou, Mariem (Date of defense: 2018-10-25)
This thesis evaluates different technologies for treating wastewater with high concentrations of PPCPs. Firstly, a state-of-art revision of advanced treatment technology for removing Triclosan (TCS) ...