As a Technological Centre, we carry out many projects in areas such as nature-based solutions, water reuse, desalination, resource recovery or the detection of microplastics and emerging pollutants. One of our latest success stories is the LIFE Green Sewer research project through which we obtained recycled water suitable for agricultural irrigation at the Ferrol WWTP and which we will now test in Almendralejo (Extremadura). ...
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Next Monday, November 28, Ferroglobe and CETIM Technological Center will organize in A Coruña, in the morning, the presentation event of the Volta Joint Research Unit (UMI, by its acronym in Spanish).
The UMI will work for the next 3 years to achieve technologically advanced electrochemical solutions, with high energy efficiency and environmentally sustainable based on silicon.
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The results of pilots in Ferrol and Calasparra verify the elimination of pollutants, increasing the availability of a basic and now “circular” resource to reduce water stresses associated with droughts.
In the 1,744 water analysis developed, the removal of heavy metals, fossil fuel residues, pesticides and contamination by E. coli bacteria was verified.
The conclusions of this project funded by the LIFE program of the European Union were presented during the final event inaugurated by the director of the Port Authority of Ferrol-San Cibrao, Jesús Casás López.
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