TREATMENT, MANAGEMENT, AND DISTRIBUTION OF DRINKING WATER

 

Infrastructure and management of water resources

  • Infrastructure and integrated management of water resources, monitoring, and advanced control of urban drinking water networks.
  • Security and efficiency of smart infrastructures: water networks, sewage systems, canals, and rivers.
  • Territorial planning for sustainable water management and drought prevention.
  • Tools for global management of hydraulic infrastructures: supply and urban drainage.
  • Sensors and algorithms for leak detection.
  • Treatment and use of bamboo in sanitation and sewage systems.

Drinking water treatment

  • Evaluation of groundwater quality and risks for pathogens and contaminants.
  • Improvement of drinking water quality through microalgae and acai biochar.

Desalination

  • Renewable energy and advanced membranes for desalination.
  • Sustainable recovery of value-added elements from brine.
  • Desalination with conductive polymer hydrogels.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT, RECYCLING, AND DECONTAMINATION

Treatment

  • Production of bioproducts and high-quality regenerated water with microalgae.
  • Recovery of ammonia from urban and industrial waste.
  • Heat and wastewater recovery with membranes in the industry.
  • Removal of emerging contaminants, antibiotics, and hormones.
  • Production of bio-stimulants and bio-fertilizers with cyanobacteria.
  • Removal of metals and sulfates from wetlands with Acid Rock Drainage (ARD).
  • Control of micro and nanoplastics and antibiotic-resistant genes in soils and aquifers.

Industrial water reuse and recycling

  • Electrochemical treatment of textile wastewater with hydrogen production.
  • Efficiency in water, energy, and chemical consumption, reduction of microplastics in laundries.

Rainwater harvesting

  • Permeable bituminous mixtures for drainage pavements.
  • Hydraulic modeling of drainage grates with computational fluid dynamics.

Pollution and waste management in aquatic environments

  • Predictive models of microplastic movement in rivers and seas.
  • Monitoring and quantification of microplastics with deep learning.
  • Treatment of precipitated silica waste with total water recovery and sodium sulfate production.
  • Technologies for contaminant degradation and pathogen retention in aquifers.

Effluent and discharge treatment

  • Quantification of water and solute flux in submarine discharge.
  • Digital twins for early detection of pollution in wastewater treatment plants.
  • Processes to improve contaminant degradation and pathogen retention in aquifers.

Pollution reduction

  • Microfluidic systems to detect and eliminate microplastics and contaminants from algae.
  • Removal of metals and sulfates from water.
  • Aquifer recharge to improve water quality and availability.
  • Control of seawater intrusion into coastal aquifers.
  • Mine Acid Drainage (MAD) treatment with nature-based solutions.
  • Diagnosis of river pollution with low-cost instrumentation.
  • Impact of climate change on groundwater quality.

CONSERVATION AND EFFICIENT USE OF WATER AND ECOSYSTEMS

Efficient irrigation in agriculture

  • Regenerative and precision agriculture for sustainable production.
  • Digital twins for irrigation and water and nutrient recirculation systems in hydroponic crops.
  • Production of alternative proteins with microalgae.

Water-saving technologies in urban environments.

  • Strategies for sustainable water use and drought management.
  • Sustainability evaluation between bottled and tap water.
  • Natural solutions for water management in peri-urban areas.
  • Reuse of wastewater in urban green spaces.

SUSTAINABLE USE OF AQUATIC RESOURCES

Aquaculture and mariculture

  • Feasibility studies for aquaculture operations.
  • Marine reserve networks for the recovery of fishery interest species.
  • Acoustic tags for marine species tracking.
  • AI for automatic calibration of fishery operations.

Marine biotechnology

  • Circular biomaterials for marine ecosystem regeneration.

ENERGY GENERATION

Ocean energy

  • Evaluation of the energy resource from waves and optimization of capture devices.
  • Fluid-structure interaction analysis for buoys and floating wind turbines.
  • Optimization of moorings for offshore wind turbines.

 

Hydraulic energy (waves and tides)

  • Generation of undulating and tidal energy.
  • Predictive diagnosis and maintenance of machinery.
  • Numerical simulation of turbulent flows and hydrodynamic characterization for tidal energy.
  • Optimization of turbines in micro-hydro power plants.

MARITIME AND INLAND WATER TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS

  • Ship traffic studies and air quality with AIS data.
  • Technologies to reduce emissions and use of sustainable fuels.
  • Energy management optimization and pollution reduction in shipyards.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND ADAPTATION IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS

Blue economy

  • Study of natural and human impacts on the sea.
  • Development of ocean observation systems.
  • Climate risk management and early warning systems.
  • 3D printing of marine biotopes using recycled steel slag.

Environmental monitoring and management

  • Oceanic and river observation networks.
  • Participatory monitoring platforms for coastal environments.
  • Analysis of physical and biological processes in coastal bays.
  • Impact of human activity on river sediments and flood risks.

Exploration technologies

  • Mitigation of acoustic pollution on aquatic species.
  • Autonomous underwater vehicles for marine observation.
  • Cost-effective solutions for water challenges and aquatic ecosystem restoration.

RELEATED PROJECTS