Dr. Carolina Díaz García, Engineer

Researcher hired at University of Illinois, USA
Email
carolina.diaz@upct.es
Education
PhD. Civil Engineer. Master's Degree in Land and Water Engineering
Current Position

Postdoc researcher in USA

Codes and Identifiers

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8845-9320

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carolina-Diaz-Garcia

Key Words
Bioreactors, Wetlands, Denitrification
Overview of Scientific Production

Díaz-García, C.; Christianson, L.E. 2024. Batch-Mode Denitrifying Woodchip Bioreactors for Expanded Treatment Flexibility. Water, 16, 206. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/w16020206

Díaz-García, C., Martínez-Sánchez, J.J., Maxwell B.M., Franco, J.A., Álvarez-Rogel, J.2021. Woodchip bioreactors provide sustained denitrification of brine from groundwater desalination plants. Journal of Environmental Management 289 (2021) 112521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112521.

Díaz-García, C., Martínez-Sánchez, J.J. & Álvarez-Rogel, J. 2020. Bioreactors for brine denitrification produced during polluted groundwater desalination in fertigation areas of SE Spain: batch assays for substrate selection. Environ Sci Pollut Res. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09567-6.

Maxwell, B., Díaz-García, C., Martínez-Sánchez, J.J., Birgand, F., Álvarez-Rogel, J. (2020). Temperature sensitivity of nitrate removal in woodchip bioreactors increases with woodchip age and following drying-rewetting cycles. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0EW00507J.

Maxwell, B., Díaz-García, C., Martínez-Sánchez, J.J., Álvarez-Rogel, J. 2020. Increased brine strength increases nitrate reduction rates in batch woodchip bioreactors treating brine from desalination. Desalination 495, 114629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2020.114629.

Research Subjects

Efficiency of wood bioreactors in brine denitrification

Efficiency of constructed wetlands in agricultural effluents depuration

Recent Publications

Díaz-García, C.; Christianson, L.E. 2024. Batch-Mode Denitrifying Woodchip Bioreactors for Expanded Treatment Flexibility. Water, 16, 206. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/w16020206

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

Díaz-García, C., Martínez-Sánchez, J.J., Maxwell B.M., Franco, J.A., Álvarez-Rogel, J.2021. Woodchip bioreactors provide sustained denitrification of brine from groundwater desalination plants. Journal of Environmental Management 289 (2021) 112521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112521.

Díaz-García, C., Martínez-Sánchez, J.J. & Álvarez-Rogel, J. 2020. Bioreactors for brine denitrification produced during polluted groundwater desalination in fertigation areas of SE Spain: batch assays for substrate selection. Environ Sci Pollut Res. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09567-6.

Maxwell, B., Díaz-García, C., Martínez-Sánchez, J.J., Birgand, F., Álvarez-Rogel, J. (2020). Temperature sensitivity of nitrate removal in woodchip bioreactors increases with woodchip age and following drying-rewetting cycles. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0EW00507J.

Maxwell, B., Díaz-García, C., Martínez-Sánchez, J.J., Álvarez-Rogel, J. 2020. Increased brine strength increases nitrate reduction rates in batch woodchip bioreactors treating brine from desalination. Desalination 495, 114629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2020.114629.

 

Projects
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Contracts
REPORT ON THE TREATMENT FOR DENITRIFICATION OF WATER FROM THE QUATERNARY AQUIFER OF CAMPO DE CARTAGENA USING A BIOREACTORS SYSTEM
Study of existing alternatives, technical feasibility and design criteria for the implementation of denitrifying bioreactors within the reuse actions planned for the Rincón de León and Monte Orgegia WWTPs (Alicante)
Design and monitoring of a pilot plant with wetlands for the treatment of agricultural drainage water of the Campo de Cartagena
Pilot study for brine denitrification with woodchip bioreactors in the Campo de Cartagena
Pilot plant for tratment of groundwater desalination brine, to obtain fresh water and crystallized salts.
Innovative techniques for the denitrification of irrigation water from agricultural activity. (Operative Group-CARM. Rural Development Program of the Murcia Region 2014-2020 (REF .: 5578 / 18PV-P)