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During the years 2014 to 2016, a complete remodeling of the QUINTA DA BOMBA WWTP in Almada-Seixal (south of Lisbon-Portugal) was carried out to adapt it to the present flows and un...

Mobile bed biological systems (MBBR) have experimented a strong impulse in the last times due to their flexibility and simplicity in enlargement works for existing WWTP and applica...

THE MUNICIPAL WWTP OF BALSARENY AND THE INDUSTRIAL WWTP OF A TEXTILE AND A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES, ALL THREE CLOSE TO BARCELONA, ARE STILL WORKING AT FULL PERFORMANCE, 26 YEARS A...

A pharmaceutical multinational industry with two production centers in Catalonia (Barcelona area) had WWTP with low features. The new environmental regulation of the Autonomous G...

The treatment plant at Balsareny (Barcelona, España) was the first treatment plant that was inaugurated in Spain using the trickling filter system with a plastic media instead o...

Textile industry in general has different grades of contamination since it depends on the sector (dying, finishing, printing, etc) but a common feature in almost all of them: the...

A company has a biological treatment plant that did not reach the results of depuration for elimination of COD and NTK. This manufacturing plant discharges its treated wastewater...

Nitrates (NO3) and nitrites (NO2) are inorganic ions which exist in nature in small quantities, as part of the natural nitrogen cycle in the soil. They are released by rain from ...

In the last years, fix biomass moving bed reactors (MBBR), designed for wastewater treatment, ensure an efficient and total elimination of Kjeldahl nitrogen (NTK), biochemical oxyg...

PROBLEM Nº2.- TREATMENT OF THE OILS AND FATS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS INTRODUCTION The fats and oils that generate in a lot of industries (food, hot...