M. Folch
University of Barcelona
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Science of The Total Environment | 2017
Maria Solé-Bundó; Mirko Cucina; M. Folch; J.C. Tapias; Giovanni Gigliotti; Marianna Garfí; Ivet Ferrer
Microalgae anaerobic digestion produces biogas along with a digestate that may be reused in agriculture. However, the properties of this digestate for agricultural reuse have yet to be determined. The aim of this study was to characterise digestates from different microalgae anaerobic digestion processes (i.e. digestion of untreated microalgae, thermally pretreated microalgae and thermally pretreated microalgae in co-digestion with primary sludge). The main parameters evaluated were organic matter, macronutrients and heavy metals content, hygenisation, potential phytotoxicity and organic matter stabilisation. According to the results, all microalgae digestates presented suitable organic matter and macronutrients, especially organic and ammonium nitrogen, for agricultural soils amendment. However, the thermally pretreated microalgae digestate was the least stabilised digestate in comparison with untreated microalgae and co-digestion digestates. In vivo bioassays demonstrated that the digestates did not show residual phytotoxicity when properly diluted, being the co-digestion digestate the one which presented less phytotoxicity. Heavy metals contents resulted far below the threshold established by the European legislation on sludge spreading. Moreover, low presence of E. coli was observed in all digestates. Therefore, agricultural reuse of thermally pretreated microalgae and primary sludge co-digestate through irrigation emerges a suitable strategy to recycle nutrients from wastewater.
Water Science and Technology | 1999
F. Brissaud; M. Salgot; A. Bancolé; Claudia Campos; M. Folch
Infiltration percolation is used as a tertiary treatment in order to meet the WHO’s microbiological standards applying to unrestricted agricultural wastewater reuse. Faecal coliform removal, ∆fc, was investigated in laboratory columns and on a 565 m pilot plant. ∆fc observed in laboratory columns was shown to be closely related to water detention time distribution, DTD. The relationship between ∆fc and DTD, which has been determined from column tests, allowed a good prediction of the disinfection performances of the pilot plant for hydraulic loads of 0.54 and 0.66 m/d. For 0.82 m/d, the maximum load that could be tested on the plant, the mean faecal coliform removal was more than 1 log. unit higher than predicted. These unexpected good performances, though calling for more comprehensive explanation, speak for the widespreading of a reliable and cost-effective extensive technique.
Water Science and Technology | 2008
L. Alcalde; M. Folch; J.C. Tapias; F. Martínez; S. Enguídanos; I. Bernácer
A study was carried out to evaluate the efficiency of secondary effluent additional treatment, using a combination of pre-treatments (ring filter, physico-chemical and infiltration-percolation) followed by disinfection methods (chlorine dioxide, peracetic acid and ultraviolet light). Three different indicator microorganisms were determined: E. coli, total coliforms and somatic bacteriophages. The results show better efficiency of physico-chemical and infiltration-percolation processes. Bacteriophages were eliminated to a lesser extent than bacterial indicators in all the treatment systems. Chlorine dioxide and peracetic acid seems to be more efficient in disinfection than ultraviolet light when a ring filter is the pre-treatment used. For the same doses and contact times, the efficiency of the disinfection methods is higher when the pre-treatment used is the physico-chemical or the infiltration-percolation system. The final effluent quality from the physico-chemical treatment train and the infiltration-percolation treatment train, followed by the disinfectants, achieves an E. coli content that allows the reuse in most of the uses described in the Spanish legislation for wastewater reuse.
Water Science & Technology: Water Supply | 2002
M. Salgot; M. Folch; E. Huertas; J.C. Tapias; D. Avellaneda; G. Girós; F. Brissaud; C. Vergés; J. Molina; J. Pigem
Desalination | 2006
E. Huertas; M. Folch; M. Salgot; I. Gonzalvo; C. Passarell
Water | 2012
Miquel Salgot; Gerda K. Priestley; M. Folch
Journal of Water and Health | 2012
Laura Alcalde; M. Folch; J.C. Tapias
Water Science and Technology | 2007
L. Alcalde; M. Folch; J.C. Tapias; E. Huertas; A. Torrens; M. Salgot
Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health | 2018
Miquel Salgot; M. Folch
Water Science and Technology | 2007
F. Brissaud; M. Salgot; M. Folch; M. Auset; E. Huertas; Antonina Torrens