Design and monitoring of a pilot plant with wetlands for the treatment of agricultural drainage water of the Campo de Cartagena

Contract
Regional
Public Funding
Funding

Entidad Regional de Saneamiento y Depuración de Aguas Residuales (Regional Entity for Wastewater Treatment and Purification) (ESAMUR), Murcia, Spain

Duration

01/2017-12/2020

Project Manager
Dr. José Álvarez Rogel
Staff
Dr. Héctor Miguel Conesa Alcaraz
Dr. María Nazaret González Alcaraz
Dr. Juan José Martínez Sánchez
Dr. Carolina Díaz García, Engineer
Graduada Mª Mercedes Guerrero Brotons
Partnership Entities

Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena and Universidad de Murcia

General Objectives

To design and monitor of a pilot plant with wetlands for the treatment of agricultural drainage waters of the Campo de Cartagena

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Project Results

PhD Thesis:

Títle: Denitrification of saline agricultural effluents (brine from groundwater desalination plants and agricultural leachates) in woodchip bioreactors in the SE of Spain. Student: Carolina Díaz García. Supervisors: Juan José Martínez Sánchez y José Álvarez Rogel tecnical University of Cartagena. ETSIA. Date: Feb 2021

 

PAPERS:

Díaz-García, C., Martínez-Sánchez, J.J., Álvarez-Rogel, J. 2023. Woodchip bioreactors for saline leachates denitrification can mitigate agricultural impacts in Mediterranean areas: The Campo de Cartagena-Mar Menor environmental issue. Journal of Environmental Management 331,117292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117292