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Overview

Enrica Uggetti is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Environmental Science and Energy, with significant contributions to Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Additional subfields include Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to environmental and aquatic systems. Key areas include:

  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Water quality monitoring and analysis
  • Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment
  • Biocrusts and microbial ecology
  • Selenium in biological systems

Enrica Uggetti has published extensively in various journals. The most frequent venues include:

  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Algal Research
  • Environmental Pollution

Notable recent papers by Enrica Uggetti include:

  • Microalgae-based bioremediation of water contaminated by pesticides in peri-urban agricultural areas, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Bioremediation of agricultural runoff and biopolymers production from cyanobacteria cultured in demonstrative full-scale photobioreactors, 2020, Process Safety and Environmental Protection
  • Microalgae harvesting for wastewater treatment and resources recovery: A review, 2023, New Biotechnology
  • Can microalgae grown in wastewater reduce the use of inorganic fertilizers?, 2022, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Boosting pharmaceutical removal through aeration in constructed wetlands, 2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Rubén Díez-Montero
  • Joan García
  • María Jesús García-Galán
  • Ana Álvarez-González
  • Etiele Greque de Morais

Best Publications

  • Pretreatment of microalgae to improve biogas production: a review.

    Fabiana Passos;Enrica Uggetti;Hélène Carrère;Ivet Ferrer

  • Assessment of the mechanisms involved in the removal of emerging contaminants by microalgae from wastewater: a laboratory scale study

    Víctor Matamoros;Enrica Uggetti;Joan García;Josep M. Bayona

  • Anaerobic digestate as substrate for microalgae culture: the role of ammonium concentration on the microalgae productivity.

    Enrica Uggetti;Bruno Sialve;Eric Latrille;Jean Phillipe Steyer

  • Biogas production in low-cost household digesters at the Peruvian Andes

    Ivet Ferrer;Marianna Garfí;Enrica Uggetti;Laia Ferrer-Martí

  • Sludge treatment wetlands: a review on the state of the art.

    Enrica Uggetti;Ivet Ferrer;Esther Llorens;Joan García

  • Integrating microalgae production with anaerobic digestion: a biorefinery approach

    Enrica Uggetti;Bruno Sialve;Eric Trably;Jean Phillipe Steyer

  • Practical method based on saturated hydraulic conductivity used to assess clogging in subsurface flow constructed wetlands

    A. Pedescoll;E. Uggetti;E. Llorens;F. Granés

  • Sludge dewatering and stabilization in drying reed beds: Characterization of three full-scale systems in Catalonia, Spain

    Enrica Uggetti;Esther Llorens;Anna Pedescoll;Ivet Ferrer

  • Harvesting microalgae from wastewater treatment systems with natural flocculants: Effect on biomass settling and biogas production

    Raquel Gutiérrez;Fabiana Passos;Ivet Ferrer;Enrica Uggetti

  • Integrating microalgae tertiary treatment into activated sludge systems for energy and nutrients recovery from wastewater.

    Dulce Maria Arias;Maria Solé-Bundó;Marianna Garfí;Ivet Ferrer

  • Intermittent aeration to improve wastewater treatment efficiency in pilot-scale constructed wetland.

    Enrica Uggetti;Theodore Hughes-Riley;Robert H. Morris;Michael I. Newton

  • Technical, economic and environmental assessment of sludge treatment wetlands

    Enrica Uggetti;Ivet Ferrer;Jordi Molist;Joan García

  • New mechanistic model to simulate microalgae growth

    Alessandro Solimeno;Roger Samsó;Enrica Uggetti;Bruno Sialve

  • Production of polymers by cyanobacteria grown in wastewater: Current status, challenges and future perspectives.

    Dulce María Arias;Joan García;Enrica Uggetti

  • Cultivation and selection of cyanobacteria in a closed photobioreactor used for secondary effluent and digestate treatment

    Dulce María Arias;Enrica Uggetti;María Jesús García-Galán;Joan García

  • Microalgae recycling improves biomass recovery from wastewater treatment high rate algal ponds

    Raquel Gutiérrez;Ivet Ferrer;Andrés González-Molina;Humbert Salvadó

  • Microalgae-based bioremediation of water contaminated by pesticides in peri-urban agricultural areas.

    María Jesús García-Galán;Luis Simón Monllor-Alcaraz;Cristina Postigo;Enrica Uggetti

  • Bioremediation of agricultural runoff and biopolymers production from cyanobacteria cultured in demonstrative full-scale photobioreactors

    Estel Rueda;María Jesús García-Galán;Antonio Ortiz;Enrica Uggetti

  • Characteristics of biosolids from sludge treatment wetlands for agricultural reuse

    Enrica Uggetti;Ivet Ferrer;Steen Nielsen;Carlos Alberto Arias

  • Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions from sludge treatment wetlands

    Enrica Uggetti;Joan García;Saara E. Lind;Pertti J. Martikainen

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan García
Joan García Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Ivet Ferrer
Ivet Ferrer Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Michael I. Newton
Michael I. Newton Nottingham Trent University
Marianna Garfí
Marianna Garfí Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Víctor Matamoros
Víctor Matamoros Spanish National Research Council
Jean-Philippe Steyer
Jean-Philippe Steyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Carlos A. Arias
Carlos A. Arias Aarhus University
Cristina Postigo
Cristina Postigo University of Granada
Hans Brix
Hans Brix Aarhus University
Hélène Carrère
Hélène Carrère University of Montpellier

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