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Isabel Oller is affiliated with the University of Almería in Spain and has an extensive research portfolio in environmental science and energy, with particular focus on water treatment technologies. Their work spans several subfields including water science and technology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, industrial and manufacturing engineering, pollution, and health, toxicology and mutagenesis.

Key topics of research covered by Isabel Oller include:

  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Wastewater treatment and reuse
  • Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
  • Advanced photocatalysis techniques
  • TiO2 photocatalysis and solar cells
  • Solar-powered water purification methods
  • Water quality monitoring and analysis

Their research has been published extensively in venues such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Chemosphere
  • Catalysis Today

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Photo-Fenton applied to the removal of pharmaceutical and other pollutants of emerging concern," 2021, Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry
  • "Direct oxidation of peroxymonosulfate under natural solar radiation: Accelerating the simultaneous removal of organic contaminants and pathogens from water," 2021, Chemosphere
  • "Simultaneous removal of contaminants of emerging concern and pathogens from urban wastewater by homogeneous solar driven advanced oxidation processes," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Monitoring photolysis and (solar photo)-Fenton of enrofloxacin by a methodology involving EEM-PARAFAC and bioassays: Role of pH and water matrix," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "UVC-based advanced oxidation processes for simultaneous removal of microcontaminants and pathogens from simulated municipal wastewater at pilot plant scale," 2020, Environmental Science Water Research & Technology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Isabel Oller include:

  • S. Malato
  • María Inmaculada Polo-López
  • Samira Nahim-Granados
  • Ana Agüera
  • Ilaria Berruti

Best Publications

  • Combination of Advanced Oxidation Processes and biological treatments for wastewater decontamination—A review

    I. Oller;S. Malato;J.A. Sánchez-Pérez

  • Decontamination industrial pharmaceutical wastewater by combining solar photo-Fenton and biological treatment.

    C. Sirtori;A. Zapata;I. Oller;W. Gernjak

  • Mature landfill leachate treatment by coagulation/flocculation combined with Fenton and solar photo-Fenton processes.

    Carlos Amor;Estefanía De Torres-Socías;José A. Peres;Manuel I. Maldonado

  • Application of solar AOPs and ozonation for elimination of micropollutants in municipal wastewater treatment plant effluents

    L. Prieto-Rodríguez;I. Oller;N. Klamerth;A. Agüera

  • Treatment of emerging contaminants in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) effluents by solar photocatalysis using low TiO2 concentrations

    L. Prieto-Rodriguez;S. Miralles-Cuevas;I. Oller;A. Agüera

  • Solar photocatalytic degradation of some hazardous water-soluble pesticides at pilot-plant scale.

    I. Oller;W. Gernjak;M.I. Maldonado;L.A. Pérez-Estrada

  • Decontamination and disinfection of water by solar photocatalysis: The pilot plants of the Plataforma Solar de Almeria

    Sixto Malato;Manuel I. Maldonado;Pilar Fernández-Ibáñez;Isabel Oller

  • Solar photocatalytic degradation and detoxification of EU priority substances

    M. Hincapié;M.I. Maldonado;I. Oller;W. Gernjak

  • Degradation of pesticides in water using solar advanced oxidation processes

    Margarita Hincapié Pérez;Gustavo Peñuela;Manuel I. Maldonado;Octavio Malato

  • Enhancing biodegradability of priority substances (pesticides) by solar photo-Fenton.

    Milena Lapertot;César Pulgarín;Pilar Fernández-Ibáñez;Manuel I. Maldonado

  • Partial degradation of five pesticides and an industrial pollutant by ozonation in a pilot-plant scale reactor

    M.I. Maldonado;S. Malato;L.A. Pérez-Estrada;W. Gernjak

  • Degradation of a four-pesticide mixture by combined photo-Fenton and biological oxidation.

    M.M. Ballesteros Martín;J.A. Sánchez Pérez;J.L. Casas López;I. Oller

  • Fe-zeolites as heterogeneous catalysts in solar Fenton-like reactions at neutral pH

    Rafael Gonzalez-Olmos;Rafael Gonzalez-Olmos;Maria J. Martin;Anett Georgi;Frank-Dieter Kopinke

  • Pilot plant scale reactive dyes degradation by solar photo-Fenton and biological processes

    Julia García-Montaño;Leonidas Pérez-Estrada;Isabel Oller;Manuel I. Maldonado

  • Removal of pharmaceuticals from MWTP effluent by nanofiltration and solar photo-Fenton using two different iron complexes at neutral pH

    S. Miralles-Cuevas;I. Oller;J.A. Sánchez Pérez;S. Malato

  • Photocatalytic degradation of EU priority substances : A comparison between TiO2 and Fenton plus photo-Fenton in a solar pilot plant

    M.I. Maldonado;P.C. Passarinho;I. Oller;W. Gernjak

  • Detoxification of wastewater containing five common pesticides by solar AOPs–biological coupled system

    I. Oller;S. Malato;J.A. Sánchez-Pérez;M.I. Maldonado

  • Bacteria and fungi inactivation using Fe3+/sunlight, H2O2/sunlight and near neutral photo-Fenton: A comparative study

    I. García-Fernández;M.I. Polo-López;I. Oller;Pilar Fernandez-Ibanez

  • Comparison of several combined/integrated biological-AOPs setups for the treatment of municipal landfill leachate: Minimization of operating costs and effluent toxicity

    D. Cassano;A. Zapata;G. Brunetti;G. Del Moro

  • Gender policies on board of directors and sustainable development

    María del Carmen Valls Martínez;Salvador Cruz Rambaud;Isabel María Parra Oller

  • A novel TiO2-assisted solar photocatalytic batch-process disinfection reactor for the treatment of biological and chemical contaminants in domestic drinking water in developing countries

    E. F. Duffy;F. Al Touati;S. C. Kehoe;O. A. McLoughlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Sixto Malato
Sixto Malato Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
Wolfgang Gernjak
Wolfgang Gernjak Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Pilar Fernández-Ibáñez
Pilar Fernández-Ibáñez University of Ulster
Ana Agüera
Ana Agüera University of Almería
J.A. Sánchez Pérez
J.A. Sánchez Pérez University of Almería
Cesar Pulgarin
Cesar Pulgarin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Julián Blanco
Julián Blanco Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
Luigi Rizzo
Luigi Rizzo University of Salerno
Laurence Gill
Laurence Gill Trinity College Dublin

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