Institution
University of Almería
Education•Almería, Spain•
About: University of Almería is a education organization based out in Almería, Spain. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 4674 authors who have published 10905 publications receiving 233036 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Almeria & Universidad de Almería.
Papers published on a yearly basis
Papers
More filters
••
TL;DR: The effect of toxicants on the BOD degradation rate constant was used to quantitatively establish the toxicity of triclosan, phenol, and copper (II) against activated sludge microorganisms and the presence of 0.2% DMSO had no toxic effect on theactivated sludge.
Abstract: The effect of toxicants on the BOD degradation rate constant was used to quantitatively establish the toxicity of triclosan, phenol, and copper (II) against activated sludge microorganisms. Toxicities were tested over the following ranges of concentrations: 0-450 mg/L for phenol, 0-2 mg/L for triclosan, and 0-35 mg/L for copper sulfate (pentahydrate). According to the EC(50) values, triclosan was the most toxic compound tested (EC(50) = 1.82 +/- 0.1 mg/L), copper (II) had intermediate toxicity (EC(50) = 18.3 +/- 0.37 mg/L), and phenol was the least toxic (EC(50) = 270 +/- 0.26 mg/L). The presence of 0.2% DMSO had no toxic effect on the activated sludge. The toxicity evaluation method used was simple, reproducible, and directly relevant to activated sludge wastewater treatment processes.
68 citations
••
TL;DR: In this paper, a memetic optimization of a parabolic trough solar plant for industrial processes with memetic algorithms is developed, where the design domain variables considered in the optimization routine are the number of collectors in series, number of collector rows, row spacing, and storage volume.
68 citations
••
TL;DR: Pressurized liquid extraction (PLE) was applied to the simultaneous extraction of a wide range of pesticides from food commodities and limits of quantification (LOQ) were low enough to determine the pesticide residues at concentrations below or equal to the maximum residue levels specified by legislation.
Abstract: Pressurized liquid extraction (PLE) was applied to the simultaneous extraction of a wide range of pesticides from food commodities. Extractions were performed by mixing 4 g of sample with 4 g of Hydromatrix and (after optimization) a mixture of ethyl acetate:acetone (3:1, v/v) as extraction solvent, a temperature of 100°C, a pressure of 1000 psi and a static extraction time of 5 min. After extraction, the more polar compounds were analyzed by liquid chromatography (LC), and the apolar and semipolar pesticides by gas chromatography (GC); in both cases LC and GC were coupled with mass spectrometry in tandem (MS/MS) mode. The overall method (including the PLE step) was validated in GC and LC according to the criteria of the SANCO Document of the European Commission. The average extraction recoveries (at two concentration levels) for most of the analytes were in the range 70–80%, with precision values usually lower than 15%. Limits of quantification (LOQ) were low enough to determine the pesticide residues at concentrations below or equal to the maximum residue levels (MRL) specified by legislation. In order to assess its applicability to the analysis of real samples, aliquots of 15 vegetable samples were processed using a conventional extraction method with dichloromethane, and the results obtained were compared with the proposed PLE method; differences lower than 0.01 mg kg−1 were found.
68 citations
••
TL;DR: A simple physical model based on a characterization of the immobilized enzyme particle by mercury porosimetry agreed well with both the experimental data and the prior published data and may partly explain the observed inhibition when using low molecular weight alcohols and carboxylic acids in immobilized lipase-catalyzed processes.
68 citations
••
TL;DR: This paper studies how to apply Ant Colony Optimization algorithms to select requirements, and describes this problem formally extending an earlier version of the problem, and introduces a method based on Ant Colony System to find a variety of efficient solutions.
Abstract: The selection of a set of requirements between all the requirements previously defined by customers is an important process, repeated at the beginning of each development step when an incremental or agile software development approach is adopted. The set of selected requirements will be developed during the actual iteration. This selection problem can be reformulated as a search problem, allowing its treatment with metaheuristic optimization techniques. This paper studies how to apply Ant Colony Optimization algorithms to select requirements. First, we describe this problem formally extending an earlier version of the problem, and introduce a method based on Ant Colony System to find a variety of efficient solutions. The performance achieved by the Ant Colony System is compared with that of Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure and Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm, by means of computational experiments carried out on two instances of the problem constructed from data provided by the experts.
68 citations
Authors
Showing all 4758 results
Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
---|---|---|---|
Amadeo R. Fernández-Alba | 83 | 318 | 21458 |
Sixto Malato | 80 | 315 | 24216 |
Francisco Rodríguez | 79 | 748 | 24992 |
Yusuf Chisti | 76 | 347 | 33979 |
José Luis García | 73 | 453 | 17504 |
Anne-Marie Caminade | 69 | 580 | 15814 |
Elias Fereres | 68 | 236 | 18751 |
David Mecerreyes | 66 | 324 | 16822 |
Berta Martín-López | 64 | 177 | 16136 |
Ana Agüera | 63 | 168 | 12280 |
Alberto Fernández-Gutiérrez | 62 | 312 | 13557 |
Mary F. Mahon | 59 | 539 | 14258 |
José María Carazo | 59 | 309 | 12499 |
Claudio Bianchini | 57 | 368 | 13412 |
Manuel Marquez | 55 | 126 | 12237 |