A5059654094- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Phosphorus and nutrient management
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
- Renal function and acid-base balance
- Noise Effects and Management
- Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Phytochemistry and Bioactivity Studies
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
Ghent University
2015-2023
Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja
2017-2023
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2018
The "horchata" is a herbal mixture infusion consumed in Southern Ecuador. It remains unknown how vendors group the plant species to sell them at traditional markets. This research documented following: 1) list of medicinal sold for drink; 2) culturally important species; 3) agreement among regarding plants and their therapeutic use; 4) groups preparation "horchata." Interviews were made 185 31 markets Loja province. Bunches purchased identify prepare voucher specimens. Culturally established...
The variety of contaminants entering the environment is constantly expanding. Their amounts, properties, and behaviour are highly individual, including their ability or rate degradation, affinity for sorbents, etc. Constructed wetlands represent nature-based solutions, which have proven to be efficient wastewater treatment elimination some emerging micropollutants. However, current systems not designed removal slowly degradable compounds. On other hand, reactive surfaces Fe-based Mn-based...
This study investigated the potential of Lemna minor to valorise agricultural wastewater in protein-rich feed material order meet growing demand for animal protein and reduce excess nutrients certain European regions. For this purpose, three pilot-scale systems were monitored 175 days under outdoor conditions Flanders. The fed with effluent aquaculture (pikeperch production—PP), a mixture diluted pig manure (PM), synthetic medium (SM). PM showed highest productivity (6.1 ± 2.5 g DW m−2 d−1)...
The increasing demand for sustainable, robust and cost-efficient wastewater treatment techniques strengthen the implementation of constructed wetlands (CWs) in agricultural sector. In countries like Belgium (Flanders), compliance strict water quality standards surface area requirements have hindered considerably their application. New wetland designs such as aerated CWs, could help to overcome these challenges. This study evaluated capacity artificially mesocosm systems decrease chemical...
Polder watercourses within agricultural areas are affected by high chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological (BOD5) concentrations, due to intensive farming activities runoff. Practical cases have shown that constructed wetlands (CWs) eco-friendly cost-effective treatment systems which can reduce levels of organic nutrient pollution from discharges. However, accumulated recalcitrant matter, originated in-situ sources or elements CWs (i.e., plants microbial detritus), limits the fulfilment...
Nitrate concentrations in numerous European fresh watercourses have decreased due to end-of-pipe measures towards manure and fertilization management, but fail meet the environmental objectives. The implementation of complementary attenuate diffuse nitrate pollution densely populated regions characterised by limited available area has been barely studied. To tackle this issue, study evaluates feasibility integrating Constructed Wetlands (CWs) along waterways as a promising tool facilitate...
Abstract Purpose Improving the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) noise conditions in public hospitals is challenging, especially low- and middle-income countries. The Isidro Ayora General Hospital Loja-Ecuador does not fall out of this reality. Therefore, case study evaluates levels a NICU hospital proposes mitigation program based on obtained results. Methods A descriptive, observational, quantitative was carried to determine decibels which newborns at two NICUs are exposed. An HD2010UC/A...