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How can we monitor the composting process?
Nowadays, composting is one of the most sustainable alternatives for the management of solid waste. However, until now there are no reliable variables that can be used to monitor the biological processes of composting. In this article, the authors propose a new method, based on...
Optimizing the composting
Composting is established as one of the cleanest alternatives to manage our residues. Nevertheless, at industrial scale the composting also takes its disadvantages, as the production of ammonia. New methods of measurement of the biodegradable elements of the compost might solve these problems.
New treatments for industrial wastewater
Several technologies have shown their potential for treating industrial effluents. Nearly all of them are based on the oxidation of organic pollutants, which are converted into carbon dioxide and water (complete mineralisation) or into harmless intermediate products, more suitable for...
New microorganisms in the composting process
Composting is a process of controlled decomposition of organic matter. This practice is of great utility in agriculture, but it is used also as an effective recycling technique. UAB researchers have experimented with this technique to treat two types of industrial residues:...
Inorganic carbon to improve wastewater treatment
Wastewater Treatment Plant biological reactors where a complex population of microorganisms is grown degrading the organic matter of the wastewater. In this work, researchers have studied a possible way to eliminate, as well as organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus, two...
Rersearchers of the Organic Solid Residues Composting Group of the UAB Department of Chemical Engineering are studying how to control the temperature in the residues composting process, a biological technique that allows to treat the residues in an economic and sustainable way, and to recycle them. The results of this work show that deduction of...
The construction of an industrial composting unit often leads to conflict due to the social rejection it causes among local residents because of the contamination to the atmosphere and bad smells it creates. Researchers of the Organic Waste Compost Group of the Department of Chemical Engineering have now managed to minimise contaminant gases...
