Search Results - "Devesa, Ricard"

Dioxanes and dioxolanes in source waters: Occurrence, odor thresholds and behavior through upgraded conventional and advanced processes in a drinking water treatment plant by Carrera, Guillem, Vegué, Lídia, Ventura, Francesc, Hernández-Valencia, Alejandra, Devesa, Ricard, Boleda, M. Rosa

“…Over the last years, the human probable carcinogen 1,4-dioxane and alkyl-1,3-dioxanes and dioxolanes have been detected and identified as the cause of several…”
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Predicting consumer preferences for mineral composition of bottled and tap water by Platikanov, Stefan, Hernández, Alejandra, González, Susana, Luis Cortina, Jose, Tauler, Roma, Devesa, Ricard

“…The overall liking for taste of water was correlated with the mineral composition of selected bottled and tap waters. Sixty-nine untrained volunteers assessed…”
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Influence of minerals on the taste of bottled and tap water: A chemometric approach by Platikanov, Stefan, Garcia, Veronica, Fonseca, Ignacio, Rullán, Elena, Devesa, Ricard, Tauler, Roma

“…Chemometric analysis was performed on two sets of sensory data obtained from two separate studies. Twenty commercially-available bottled mineral water samples…”
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Medically-derived radionuclides levels in seven heterogeneous urban wastewater treatment plants: The role of operating conditions and catchment area by Mulas, Dani, Camacho, Antonia, Garbayo, Ana, Devesa, Ricard, Duch, Maria Amor

“…In nuclear medicine radionuclides are administered to patients both for diagnosis or treatment. Subsequently, the excreta from patients, enriched in…”
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Identification of 3-(trifluoromethyl)phenol as the malodorous compound in a pollution incident in the water supply in Catalonia (N.E. Spain) by Quintana, Jordi, Hernández, Alejandra, Ventura, Francesc, Devesa, Ricard, Boleda, Maria Rosa

“…A study of organic compounds that caused a serious taste and odor episode of water supply in two residential areas in Catalonia (N.E. Spain) was carried out…”
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Removal of radionuclides in drinking water by membrane treatment using ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis and electrodialysis reversal by Montaña, M., Camacho, A., Serrano, I., Devesa, R., Matia, L., Vallés, I.

“…A pilot plant had been built to test the behaviour of ultrafiltration (UF), reverse osmosis (RO), and electrodialysis reversal (EDR) in order to improve the…”
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Integrating membrane technologies and blending options in water production and distribution systems to improve organoleptic properties. The case of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area by Raich-Montiu, Jordi, Barios, Joan, Garcia, Veronica, Medina, Maria Eugenia, Valero, Fernando, Devesa, Ricard, Cortina, Jose Luis

“…The Barcelona Metropolitan Area (BMA) drinking water supply network has been based on surface water resources for decades. Those resources have experienced…”
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Natural and artificial radionuclides in sludge, sand, granular activated carbon and reverse osmosis brine from a metropolitan drinking water treatment plant by Mulas, Dani, Camacho, Antonia, Serrano, Isabel, Montes, Sergio, Devesa, Ricard, Duch, Maria Amor

“…•40K showed the highest specific activities in sludge, sand and RO brine.•238U showed the highest specific activities in GAC.•Medically-derived 131I was…”
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The presence of radionuclides in wastewater treatment plants in Spain and their effect on human health by Montaña, M., Camacho, A., Devesa, R., Vallés, I., Céspedes, R., Serrano, I., Blàzquez, S., Barjola, V.

“…Wastewater treatment facilities can produce sludge containing measurable amounts of radioactivity. The radionuclides that are concentrated may originate from…”
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Water flavour improvement by membrane (RO and EDR) treatment by Devesa, Ricard, García, Verònica, Matía, Lleonard

“…With the aim of improving the physicochemical and organoleptic quality of the water supplied to Barcelona metropolitan area from the River Llobregat, a pilot…”
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Monitoring of (bio)available labile metal fraction in a drinking water treatment plant by diffusive gradients in thin films by Díaz, Alfredo, Arnedo, Rebeca, Céspedes-Sánchez, Raquel, Devesa, Ricard, Martin-Alonso, Jordi

“…A performance study of diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) was applied for the…”
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Temporal evolution of radionuclides in sludge from wastewater treatment plants by Camacho, Antonia, Montaña, Montserrat, Vallés, Isabel, Devesa, Ricard, Céspedes-Sánchez, Raquel, Serrano, Isabel

“…22 sludge samples were analyzed from three municipal wastewater treatment plants to assess both the occurrence and the temporal behavior of radioactivity…”
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Water taste and odor (T&O): Challenges, gaps and solutions from a perspective of the WaterTOP network by Akcaalan, Reyhan, Devesa-Garriga, Ricard, Dietrich, Andrea, Steinhaus, Martin, Dunkel, Andreas, Mall, Veronika, Manganelli, Maura, Scardala, Simona, Testai, Emanuela, Codd, Geoffrey A., Kozisek, Frantisek, Antonopoulou, Maria, Ribeiro, Ana Rita Lado, Sampaio, Maria José, Hiskia, Anastasia, Triantis, Theodoros M., Dionysiou, Dionysios D., Puma, Gianluca Li, Lawton, Linda, Edwards, Christine, Andersen, Henrik Rasmus, Fatta-Kassinos, Despo, Karaolia, Popi, Combès, Audrey, Panksep, Kristel, Zervou, Sevasti-Kiriaki, Albay, Meriç, Köker, Latife, Chernova, Ekaterina, Iliakopoulou, Sofia, Varga, Elisabeth, Visser, Petra M., Gialleli, Angelika Ioanna, Zengin, Zuhal, Deftereos, Nikos, Miskaki, Phani, Christophoridis, Christophoros, Paraskevopoulou, Aikaterina, Lin, Tsair-Fuh, Zamyadi, Arash, Dimova, Galina, Kaloudis, Triantafyllos

“…•Perspective from a wide interdisciplinary international network of experts in water T&O.•Gaps and prospects in sensory and chemical analysis, risk assessment…”
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