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Laboratory of Circular Economy and Sustainability

Laboratory dedicated to promoting process integration (reaction-separation) and research into new technologies for the recovery and recycling of gaseous and aqueous effluents, as well as solid waste. The laboratory also has a unit to analyze the sustainability of processes both in the chemical industry and in the water treatment industry through process simulators and life cycle assessment software. It has a consolidated experience in the field of recovery and reuse of greenhouse gases (CO₂, fluorinated gases), water regeneration (through adsorption processes, advanced oxidation processes and membranes) and valorization of solid waste (bioplastics, determination of persistent pollutants).

AREAS OF WORK

  • CO₂ Capture
  • CO₂ conversion
  • Recovery of gaseous effluents
  • Waste recovery

 

  • Water treatments (adsorption, oxidation, membranes)
  • Optimization of environmental technologies
  • Life Cycle Assessment
  • Carbon Footprint and Water Footprint

 

EQUIPMENT

Equipment for the study of adsorbents (liquids / gases)

Gas solubility measurement equipment for studying liquid absorbents

Equipment for advanced oxidation studies (photoreactors, electrochemical reactors)

Equipment for wastewater analysis (phmeter, turbidimeter, spectrophotometer, probes)

Radiofrequency / plasma reactors

Life cycle assessment software

Software for simulating chemical processes

Simulation software for wastewater treatment processes

MANAGER

Rafael González Olmos, PhD

Head of GESPA Group - Associate Professor
+34932672000
rafael.gonzalez@iqs.url.edu
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BUSINESS SOLUTION AREAS

Environment, sustainability and energy

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RESEARCH GROUP

GESPA

Grup d'Enginyeria i Simulació de Processos Ambientals

School of Engineering

Engineering and Simulation of Environmental Processes Group

Its activity focuses on environmental engineering and molecular and process simulation to respond to current societal challenges: climate change, water scarcity, and population growth.
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LINKED NEWS

Doctoral thesis

Predicting Dioxin and Furan Emissions
15/06/2023
Dr Damià Palmer recently defended his doctoral thesis at IQS, in which he built a mathematical model capable of predicting dioxin and furan emissions in urban waste incineration processes, making it possible to control the emissions problems associated with these processes.
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Research

CO2 Capture and Reuse Technologies
13/06/2023
IQS and GasN2 are working together to optimize their own technology to capture and reuse CO2 through adsorption in industrial uses, a circular economy solution with great environmental significance.
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Doctoral thesis

Electric Vehicle Challenges: Critical Raw Materials
07/06/2023
Dr Jordi Mas Peiró recently defended his doctoral thesis at IQS, in which he studied the main battery technologies used in the electrification of the automotive sector and the critical raw materials necessary to produce them.
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Doctoral thesis

New methodologies and strategies for fluorinated gas recovery
31/03/2023
Dr Daniel Jovell recently defended his doctoral thesis at IQS, focused on the design and optimization of fluorinated gas recycling and recovery systems through multi-scale simulation and combining various advanced thermodynamic instruments.
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Research

Advancing towards the Elimination of Fluorinated Gases
16/12/2021
The GESPA group at IQS and the URV are working together on the STOP-F-GAS project, where they are studying, within the framework of the circular economy, the development of new technologies for absorbing fluorinated gases for their reuse and obtaining new, more sustainable refrigerant products.
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UV-LED Lamps for Sustainability in Water Treatment (REGiREU)
03/05/2021
Researchers from IQS have been part of the REGiREU project, in which the objective is to replace the current management of the water cycle with a model in accordance with the principles of Circular Economy, leading the study to replace mercury lamps with UV- LEDs.
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