Sustainability and natural resources

 
The area of sustainability and natural resources of CINTECX is concerned with providing knowledge and instruments that contribute to the management and protection of natural resources. This work seeks to achieve a sustainable balance between their availability and the current and future needs of society and the economy, obtain the maximum value from bio-waste and by-products, through new and efficient processes, and apply innovative technologies to heritage conservation.

We work on the sustainable use of mineral and energy resources, the use of modelling for the control of water and air quality using advanced mathematical techniques such as machine learning or functional analysis. Likewise, we work on the conservation of tangible cultural heritage, mainly on the reduction of consumption and recycling of materials. .

Among the problems associated with the forestry sector, our activities focus on the analysis of the sensitivity of forests to the risk of forest fires. We work in the field of eco-innovation, renewable energies, management of natural resources and also of waste. On the one hand we work to reduce the negative environmental impact of that waste and to introduce it in some way into the production chain to improve the performance of the processes while reducing an environmental problem.

We work in the field of biosurfactants, trying to make them more biocompatible, more biodegradable and also seeking additional capabilities from them such as their antimicrobial capacity and their ability to allow the permeation of active compounds through the skin. In the line of bioabsorbents, we work on the use of solid waste of an organic nature, to obtain a material similar to activated carbon, which can be used in water treatment.

 

Sustainable Development Goals