Rodríguez Abalde, Ángela (Date of defense: 2013-11-18)
The meat sector is one of the most important industrial sectors in Europe and it is associated with the generation of large quantities of animal by-products not intended for human consumption (ABPs). ...
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 ...
García-Almiñana, Daniel (Date of defense: 2015-09-01)
This PhD thesis shows the results of 10 years of energy audits for buildings as a proposal for a methodological improvement in the energy audit process itself. The main findings are referred to the three ...
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 ...
Chaperón Cordero, Wilson (Date of defense: 2015-06-17)
Intensive fish culture in floating cages is one of aquaculture activities that has grown fastest in recent years. However, this activity produces impacts ranging from alterations in the natural environment ...
Álvarez, Ma. Dolores (Date of defense: 2014-06-25)
In Chapter 1 of the thesis the responsibilities of the main actors involved in the decision-making are identified, listed and described, stressing that there are many actors involved in the decision-making. ...
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 ...
Fonseca i Casas, Antoni (Date of defense: 2017-02-27)
In the last years, international and national policies have been developed in order to encourage the improvement of energy efficiency. They have also been developed in order to reduce the environmental, ...
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 ...