Research lines

  • 1 1.3 Effect and fate of Engineered Nanoparticles (ENP) in sewage treatment plants
  • 1. Waste & Wastewater Treatment & Resource Recovery
  • 1.1 Micropollutants and Nanopollutants Removal
  • 1.1.1 Removal of organic micropollutants (OMPs) from wastewater
  • 1.1.2 Advanced oxidation processes: Enzymatic, Fenton and photocatalysis
  • 1.2 Wastewater Treatment & Resource Recovery
  • 1.2.1 Autotrophic denitrification in mainstream (Anammox processes)
  • 1.2.2 Aerobic granular reactors
  • 1.2.3 Integrated Methanogenic/MBR (SIAM)
  • 1.2.4 New concepts in wastewater treatment
  • 1.3 Waste Treatment & Resource Recovery
  • 1.3.1 Ammonia Stripping from Anaerobic Digestion
  • 1.3.2 Integrated anaerobic codigestion /postreatment
  • 1.3.3 Microbiome in Anaerobic digesters
  • 2. Environmental Management
  • 2.1 Life Cycle Management
  • 2.1.1 LCC, LCA, S-LCA & Environmental Footprint
  • 2.1.2 Circular Economy: Ecodesign, Ecoefficiency, Responsible Consumption
  • 2.1.3 LCA-assisted decision-making
  • 2.1.4 Energy efficiency: the water and energy nexus
  • 2.2 Risk Management
  • 2.2.1 Risk Assessment
  • 3. Biorefinery
  • 3.1 Production of biopolymers
  • 3.1.1 Biopolymers (PHB) from renewable compounds
  • 3.1.2 Wastewater to Biopolymers
  • 3.2 Production of biofuels
  • 3.2.1 Biomass pretreatment and production of biofuels
  • 3.3 Production of biochemicals and added-value compounds
  • 3.3.1 Selective VFA Production from wastes
  • 3.3.2 Added-value compounds from agro-industrial residues
  • 3.3.3 New biologically active molecules obtained by enzymatic oligomerization