Wastewater treatment plants play a crucial role in water security and sanitation, ensuring ecosystems balance and avoiding significant negative effects on humans and environment. However, they determine also negative pressures, including greenhouse gas and odourous emissions, which should be minimized to mitigate climate changes besides avoiding complaints. The research has been focused on the validation… Continue reading Carbon neutrality in wastewater treatment plants: An integrated biotechnological-based solution for nutrients recovery, odour abatement and CO2 conversion in alternative energy drivers
Capacitive deionization (CDI), a promising ion removal technology, has shown encouraging results in the last decade. In this work a comprehensive characterization of a CDI prototype equipped with 3D graphite felt electrodes is shown. Initially, a study of different flow distributor designs, analyzed by Computational Flow Dynamic (CFD), determined the importance of elements such as… Continue reading Performance analysis of a capacitive deionization stack for brackish water desalination
Water and energy are two essential resources for our future since these two resources are strongly interconnected. The identification of the future scenarios and the evaluation of the possible impact on the water sector due the production of electricity are essential actions to be performed in order to obtain a picture of possible developments that… Continue reading Water–energy nexus: Evaluation of the environmental impact on the national and international scenarios
