Falcão Dantas, Renato (Date of defense: 2007-07-05)
ENGLISH SUMMARY:<br/><br/>In this work, the ozonation of emergent contaminants represented by pharmaceuticals (Sulfamethoxazole and Bezafibrate) and surfactants (Quaternary Ammonium Compounds) was ...
Bausach Mercader, Marta (Date of defense: 2005-07-01)
The reactivity of Ca-based sorbents with acid gases (specifically SO2, HCl and NO2) at low temperature has been a subject of interest in the last decades, since it constitutes the fundamental reactive ...
Bacardit Peñarroya, Jordi (Date of defense: 2007-07-06)
Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) are suitable for achieving the complete mineralization of organic pollutants in wastewaters, since they are based on the generation of a powerful non-selective chemical ...
Pera Titus, Marc (Date of defense: 2006-05-29)
Zeolite NaA membranes have attracted special attention in the last years in light of their high selectivities (>40000) and fluxes in the dehydration of alcohol/water mixtures. This Ph.D. thesis is aimed ...
García Molina, Verónica (Date of defense: 2006-06-16)
The main objective of this work was to test the efficiency of wet oxidation processes when treating several types of aqueous wastes. On one side its performance for the abatement of chloro-organic ...
Dosta Parras, Joan (Date of defense: 2007-10-23)
The conventional Biological Nitrogen Removal (BNR) process consists on the oxidation of ammonia to nitrate (nitrification) and the subsequent reduction of nitrate to nitrogen gas (denitrification) using ...