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• Lithium-ion battery 2nd life used as a stationary energy storage system: Ageing and economic analysis in two real cases 

  Rallo Tolós, Héctor; Canals Casals, Lluc; De la Torre, David; Reinhardt, Robert; Marchante, Carlos; Amante García, Beatriz (2020-11-01)
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  Electric vehicles (EVs) are considered a viable alternative to internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) and as a result of recent advances in battery technologies, sales are increasing year by year. However, recycling ...
• Textile microfibers reaching aquatic environments: a new estimation approach 

  Belzagui Elder, Francisco; Gutiérrez Bouzán, María Carmen; Álvarez Sánchez, Antonio; Vilaseca, Mercè (2020-10)
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  Textile microfibers are one of the most important sources within primary microplastics. These have raised environmental concerns since its recent identification as pollutants. However, there are still no accurate models ...
• Cigarette butts as a microfiber source with a microplastic level of concern 

  Belzagui Elder, Francisco; Buscio Olivera, Valentina; Gutiérrez Bouzán, María Carmen; Vilaseca, Mercè (Elsevier, 2021-03)
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  Microplastic pollution is a growing environmental concern among the scientific community. These small particles (<5 mm) might come from the fragmentation or direct emission of artificial and synthetic polymers. Among them, ...
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  Treatment of textilewaste water by CAS, MBR, and MBBR: A comparative study from technical, economic, and environmental perspectives 

  Yang, Xuefei; López Grimau, Víctor; Vilaseca Vallvé, M. Mercedes; Crespi Rosell, Martin (2020-05-05)
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  In this study, three different biological methods—a conventional activated sludge (CAS)system, membrane bioreactor (MBR), and moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR)—were investigatedto treat textile wastewater from a local ...
• Economic analysis of the disassembling activities to the reuse of electric vehicles Li-ion batteries 

  Rallo, Héctor; Benveniste Pérez, Gabriela; Gestoso, I.; Amante García, Beatriz (2020-02-19)
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  Electric vehicles (EVs) are massively entering the mobility services. However, the high costs of their batteries, and thus of the vehicles, represent a real barrier that refrain consumers from buying EVs. In order to ...
• Performance analysis and methodology for replacing conventional lamps by optimized LED arrays for photocatalytic processes 

  Tapia Tlatelpa, Tecilli; Buscio Olivera, Valentina; Trull Silvestre, José Francisco; Sala Caselles, Vicenç (2020-04-01)
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  One of the main drawbacks of heterogeneous photocatalysis is the high consumption of electrical energy generated by conventional lamps. This study proposes a methodology to find the best distribution of light emitting ...
• Sustainable business model archetypes for the electric vehicle battery second use industry: towards a conceptual framework 

  Reinhardt, Robert; Christodoulou, Ioannis; Amante García, Beatriz; Gassó Domingo, Santiago (2020-05)
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  This paper explores sustainable business models (SBMs) evolution for the rapidly developing battery second use (B2U) market within the emerging electric vehicle (EV) industry. Previous work identified that SBMs and EV B2U ...
• A study on behaviour, interaction and rejection of paracetamol, diclofenac and ibuprofen (PhACs) from wastewater by nanofiltration membranes 

  Maryam, Bareera; Buscio Olivera, Valentina; Odabasi, Sevde Ustun; Buyukgungor, Hanife (2020-01-23)
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  Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are frequently reported in drinking and treated waters. Membranes can be used to inhibit the passage of micropollutants (Pharmaceuticals) into water that can be further reused. In this ...
• LCA study of a new electrochemical and ultraviolet (EC-UV) combined system to decolourise and reuse textile saline effluents: Environmental evaluation and proposal to improve the production process 

  Álvarez del Castillo, María Dolores; Buscio Olivera, Valentina; López Grimau, Víctor; Gutiérrez Bouzán, María Carmen (Elsevier, 2020-07)
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  In this work, the environmental performance of the reactive Jet dyeing process and the subsequent wastewater treatment currently carried out in the textile companies is compared with a new system. The developed system ...
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  Production and evaluation of antimicrobial microcapsules with essential oils using complex coacervation 

  Lopez, Arianne; Lis Arias, Manuel José; Maesta Bezerra, Fabricio; Vilaseca Vallvé, M. Mercedes; Valles, Betina; Prieto, Remedios; Simo, Mercedes (Springer, 2019-08-09)
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  Nowadays, the needs and requirements to avoid infections during surgical operations, require to be more imaginative than ever. The one-use textiles substrates that are used in hospitals can be, also, a way to transport the ...
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  Respirometric study of optical brighteners in textile wastewater 

  Salas Olivares, Héctor Manuel; Gutiérrez Bouzán, María Carmen; López Grimau, Víctor; Vilaseca Vallvé, M. Mercedes (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-03)
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  Optical brighteners (OBs) are colorless fluorescent dyes, widely used in industry to improve whiteness in materials. Nearly 80% of all OBs in the market are derivatives of stilbene. They absorb the near-ultraviolet light ...
• Towards sustainable business models for electric vehicle battery second use: a critical review 

  Reinhardt, Robert; Christodoulou, Ioannis; Gassó Domingo, Santiago; Amante García, Beatriz (2019-09)
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  A global mass market adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is still hindered by the high costs of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Repurposing degraded EV batteries in second use applications holds the potential to reduce ...

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