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and Spain will explain in the UPCT the effectiveness of the brine denitrification system with wood bioreactors]
US experts
and Spain will address on December 3 at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena the need to implement the brine denitrification system with wood bioreactors for the Cartagena Field.
The Chair of Sustainable Agriculture in the field of Cartagena and the Ministry of Water, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Environment have organized an international day on denitrification of brines and agricultural drains through bioreactors with wood and wetlands.
Researchers from the Chair for Agriculture have explored the possibilities of a denitrification system "effective, economical and easy" to implement in farms to eliminate nitrates from brines produced on farms or agricultural drains.
After two years of research, they adapted the microbiological denitrification system in wood bioreactors developed in the USA, demonstrating that it is possible to denitrify the brines produced in the displacement of the Cartagena field.
In that sense, specialists from the sector such as the professor of the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Illinois, Laura Christianson and the American researcher Bryan Maxwell, who will explain how the application of this system, as well as the suitability of this Nitrate treatment system in Spanish agriculture.
Also participating in the conference will be the director of the Chair, Juan José Martínez, who will explain how the pilot scale monitoring of brine denitrification with wood bioreactors is carried out in the Cartagena field, a system that is in operation at the Farm Tomás Ferro from UPCT.
In addition to him, the professor of the Department of Agronomic Engineering of the UPCT, José Álvarez, who, together with Mercedes Guerrero, a researcher at the University of Murcia, and Carolina Díaz, a researcher at the UPCT, will present the design and data obtained from the pilot plant with wetlands and bioreactors for the treatment of agricultural drains in the Cartagena countryside.
In addition to them Francisco Torrella, emeritus professor of the Department of Genetics and Microbiology of the University of Murcia and Eloy Celdrán, manager of the Arco Sur Mar Menor Irrigation Community will participate.
The Chair of Sustainable Agriculture was born in March 2017 at the initiative of the Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives of Murcia (Fecoam), the Coordinator of Farmers and Livestock Organizations (COAG), along with 13 companies and agricultural cooperatives of the Campo de Cartagena, with the support to the la Caixa and Aguainnova Foundation.
Source: UPCT
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