ENVIRONMENT

Sustainability of industrial processes.

• Advice on environmental legislation in different industrial sectors.
• Evaluation and environmental improvement of industrial processes.
• Characterization of environmental samples: water, soils, sediments and waste.
• Drawing up studies to design minimization strategies.
• Application of tools for sustainable development.
• Life Cycle Analysis.
• Evaluation of clean technologies.
• Ecodesign.
• Life Cycle Costing (LCC).
• End of Life Design.

Water Technologies. Treatments

• Biological treatments (aerobic and anaerobic).
• Membrane technologies (micro-ultra and nano filtration, pervaporation).
• Advanced oxidation technology (photolysis, photocatalysis, photo-Fenton and ozonation).
• Processing trains and combinations.

Contaminated Soils and Waste. Treatments

• Biological treatment (Bioremediation, Composting, Bioslurry, Land Farming, etc.)
• Contaminant extraction systems.
• Systems to separate non-contaminated fractions.
• Supercritical fluid extraction.
• Stabilization/solidification processes.

Characterization of soils, waste, industrial effluents and water

• Physical-chemical characterization.
• Microbiological characterization.
• Evaluation of eco-toxicity (Microtox, test on invertebrates, test on plants, etc.).
• Evaluation of mobility of soil contaminants.
• Biodegradability studies.

Recycling and Recovery

• End of life technologies.
• Recycling - prototyping pilot plants.
• Logistics and transport of waste.
• Separation and classification, reuse and disassembly technologies.
• High added-value products made from recycled material: prototypes.
• Refused Derived Fuels (RDF)
• Life Cycle Cost (LCC) Analysis.
• Design for recycling and disassembly.