You Chen, Xialei (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
In the last years has been performed a huge number of research related to nutrients (mainly N and P) recovery from waste water in order to promote their reuse and also to avoid eutrophication. Recovering ...
Maazouz, Yassine (Date of defense: 2018-10-15)
The present work addresses two different applications enabled by a specific and useful property of calcium phosphate cements (CPCs): injectability. On the one hand minimally invasive procedures involving ...
Royuela Alcázar, Sara (Date of defense: 2018-06-11)
Nowadays, applications from dissimilar domains, such as high-performance computing and high-integrity systems, require levels of performance that can only be achieved by means of sophisticated heterogeneous ...
Ghahderijani, Mohammad Moradi (Date of defense: 2018-10-09)
This thesis focuses on the control methods applied to current source resonant converters, especially in two different applications of switching power supplies and wire-less power transfer systems. In ...
Carvajal Jaramillo, Henry Hernan (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)
In the practice of restoration, knowledge on the primitive spatiality of buildings, their transformations throughout time and their materiality is crucial to responsibly approach this hard task. This ...
Méndez Rodríguez, Sergi (Date of defense: 2018-02-07)
INTRODUCTION: The interest of this research is the assessment of the quality of architecture and urban planning through human experience. Specially, focusing on the critical point of view of child ...
Casas González, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2018-10-30)
In this work we study the numerical simulation of particle-laden fluids, with a focus on Newtonian fluids and spherical, rigid particles. We are thus dealing with a multi-phase (more precisely, a ...
Ruiz Sánchez, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
The anaerobic digestion (AD) consists of a cascade of syntrophic interactions between several microbial groups that result in the breakdown of biodegradable organic matter in the absence of oxygen, ...
Barrias, António (Date of defense: 2018-11-05)
In this doctoral thesis it is proposed to research and assess the performance of the use of distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS), more specifically the case of the optical backscattered reflectometry ...
Blanco Romero, María Elena (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)
The design of industrial equipment or product in a developed country is a process characterized by creativity and, at the same time, conditioned by the fulfillment of requirements imposed by the customer, ...