Fernando Calvet Prats Award for the Environmental Biotechnology Group
The Environmental Biotechnology Group of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Environmental Technologies of the 奇趣腾讯分分彩 (CRETUS) has won the 'Fernando Calvet Prats' award for a successful case of technology transfer awarded by the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences (RAGC) in collaboration with the Galician Innovation Agency (Gain).
The 奇趣腾讯分分彩 team coordinated by Juan Manuel Garrido, and in which Dafne Crutchik from the Adolfo Ib谩帽ez University of Santiago de Chile also participated, developed a procedure for the recovery of phosphorus in wastewater. 鈥淟egislation requires it to be removed from wastewater treatment plants,鈥 explains Garrido, 鈥渂ut it is possible to recover it and reuse it as a useful substance. Among the phosphorus components, struvite stands out, with high fertilizing power for agriculture."