Sustainable materials and biorefinery chemicals from by Martín-Luengo, M.A.; Yates, M.; Ramos, M.; Plou, F.;

By Martín-Luengo, M.A.; Yates, M.; Ramos, M.; Plou, F.; Salgado, J.L.; Civantos, A.; Lacomba, J.L.; Reilly, G.; Vervaet, C.; Sáez Rojo, E.; Martínez Serrano, A.M.; Díaz, M.; Vega Argomániz, L.; Medina Trujillo, L.; Nogales, S.; Lozano Pirrongelli, R

International locations with economies according to agriculture generate great quantities of low or null worth wastes that may even characterize an environmental possibility. In our workforce, agricultural business wastes were switched over into worth further liquid elements and fabrics with numerous goals: lowering toxins, giving further price to wastes and dealing in a sustainable demeanour during which the wastes of an can be utilized because the uncooked fabrics of an analogous or others, because the “cradle to cradle” philosophy states [1]. Sub-products from the rural nutrients are being hired as renewable competitively priced uncooked fabrics within the coaching of Ecomaterials, designed to be used in a couple of business techniques of significant curiosity. Given their foundation, those fabrics may possibly compete with traditional ones considering with this approach a sustainable cycle is closed, during which the residues of 1 are used as uncooked fabrics within the related or different industries [2]. near to the composition of the residues made from agriculture, the pH of soil is of serious significance, on account that crops can simply soak up the minerals which are dissolved in water and pH is needed for the actual, chemical and organic houses of soil and the most reason for many agronomic questions on the topic of nutrient assimilation [3-5]. diversifications of pH alter the solubility of so much components invaluable for the advance of vegetation and likewise impact the microbian task of soil, as a way to impact the transformation of components which are liberated to the soil and will be assimilated to shape vegetation or no longer [3]. for instance at pH less than 6 or larger than eight bacterian actions are decreased, the oxidation of nitrogen to nitrate is decreased and the volume of nitrogen to be had for plant nutrients is reduced. notwithstanding Al, Fe and manganese are extra soluble at low pHs, achieving even poisonous concentrations. Potassium and sulphur are simply adsorbed at pH greater than 6, calcium and magnesium among 7 and 8.5 and iron at pH less than 6. For alGiven its multidisciplinary procedure, this paintings is being performed in the course of the collaboration between nationwide (Institute of fabrics technology of Madrid (ICMM, CSIC), Institute of Catalysis (ICP, CSIC), Centre of Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa (UAM-CSIC), Polytechnic college of Madrid (UPM), college at distance (UNED), college Complutense of Madrid (UPM) and overseas (University of Sheffield and collage of Ghent) learn teams, as well as a number of industries drawn to the transformation in their residues and or sub-products into “value extra materials”, with whom a variety of learn initiatives were and are being subsidized via the MICINN and CDTI.  Read more...

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A. April May June July August September 15 31 40 43 0 27 150 120 150 180 90 0 8 2 0 0 0 0 Table 1. 2 m below sea level (Figure 15). The water level decreases rapidly everywhere during the summer, except for the area surrounding the irrigation channel (Figure 15) where an inverse gradient, with respect to the normal situation, is present during the whole irrigation time (from May to August 2011). As in winter the water level in the irrigation ditch is equal to the groundwater level, during the growing season the water level in the ditch is higher than the groundwater level, creating a hydraulic gradient in the phreatic aquifer that is directed to sea.

The objective of this study is to quantify in detail the effect of irrigation water on the groundwater hydrology with the help of geochemical analysis, geophysical profiling and infiltration measurements. We address, in particular, the mechanism of how excess irrigation water ends up in the aquifer and how that affects the salinity of the groundwater. By doing all this, we assess whether irrigation practices can help to counteract further groundwater and soil salinization. 2. Study area The study area (red rectangle in Figure 1) is part of the Quinto basin, the watershed that is confined between two rivers flowing from the Northern Apennines to the Adriatic Sea: the Uniti River in the north and the Bevano River in the south.

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