Valhondo, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-02-03)
Artificial recharge of aquifers through infiltration basins (AR) improves water quality and in- creases groundwater resources, which make of it an appropriate technique for the renaturalization of waters ...
García Alcaraz, María del Mar (Date of defense: 2016-03-04)
This thesis promotes an efficient use of shallow geothermal energy by means of an integrated management system to organize its exploitation. Shallow geothermal energy is a renewable resource based on ...
Flo Arcas, Eva (Date of defense: 2017-11-20)
Coastal inshore waters (CIW) are defined as the area of coastal waters between 0 and 200 m from the shoreline. They only represent < 1% of coastal waters, even though they are of main ecological, social, ...
Cornejo Castillo, Francisco Miquel (Date of defense: 2017-12-19)
Biological N2 fixation, the reduction of dinitrogen (N2) gas to biologically available nitrogen, is a fundamental process since it represents a source of new nitrogen for marine life in areas where this ...
Pinzón Ureña, Luis (Date of defense: 2020-09-18)
Earthquakes are defined as a "violent shaking of the Earth's crust and mantle, caused by forces acting inside the Earth". In most cases, these forces are caused by an energy release process generated ...
Fernández Pinos, María del Carmen (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
This thesis aims to assess the effects of the complex mixture of organic pollutants on the Prochlorococcus photosynthetic capability, in field, and at sublethal level, in the multifactorial context of ...
De Simone, Silvia (Date of defense: 2017-03-29)
Micro-seismicity, and especially felt seismicity, induced by Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) operations is a matter of scientific interest, not only because of the related risks and concerns, but also ...
Torres Serra, Joel (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
In the packaging industry, a wide range of powders and bulk solids are handled in bagging equipment using different bulk feeding techniques. Quality of the packaging is critically affected by feeder ...
Cuadrado Cabello, Agustín (Date of defense: 2019-03-07)
Coupled processes between the soil and the atmosphere control soil water evaporation in its first stage, which leads to soil shrinkage and cracking by drying. However, soil-atmosphere interaction has ...
Alvarado Bueno, Mauricio (Date of defense: 2018-04-23)
Risk associated with landslides of natural or man-made origin depends on the prediction of the post-failure behaviour of the mobilized mass. Numerical models capable of integrating the landslide geometry ...