Alberto Cruz Alcalde

Alberto Cruz Alcalde

Lecturer Professor

ORCID: 0000-0001-5534-0764
Scopus Author ID: 57194237907
Researcher ID: J-5837-2017
Knowledge area: Enginyeria Química

Research group: Enginyeria de processos d'oxidació avançada

Contact Information
Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry
Martí i Franquès 1
934039789
alberto.cruz(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

PhD, Chemical/Environmental Engineering . Universitat de Barcelona . 2019 . (Ph.D.)
MSc, Environmental Engineering . Universitat de Barcelona . 2016 . (Official Master)
BSc, Chemical Engineer . Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya . 2014 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Research interests

Advanced wastewater technologies for micropollutants removal and disinfection
Wastewater treatment: techno-economic and environmental assessment
Characterization and modelling of oxidation processes for wastewater treatment
Degradation of organic pollutants in aqueous phase by chemical oxidation processes: kinetics and mechanisms

Participation in Projects (last 10 years)

Una perspectiva de la economía circular: De los residuos orgánicos al biocarbón para promover la gestión sostenible de los recursos hídricos . 2022 - 2024 . Ref.TED2021-131569B-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Carmen Sans Mazon; Jaime Gimenez Farreras
Desarrollo de nuevas estrategias de gestión y tratamientos avanzados de aguas con contaminantes tóxicos y persistentes, hacia un medio ambiente libre de tóxicos . 2021 - 2024 . Ref.PID2020-112674RB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Carmen Sans Mazon; Jaime Gimenez Farreras
Smart tools and technologies for assessing the environmental fate and risk of pollutants in a climate change scenario (CICLIC) . 2019 - 2022 . Ref.RTI2018-097158-B-C33 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Sandra Pérez Solsona
KNOWLEDGE FOR PESTICIDES CONTROL (KNOWPEC) . 2016 - 2022 . Ref.690618 . Unió Europea . PI: Carmen Sans Mazon
Identifying and interrupting micropollutants of EU concern by using Smart Carbon Materials . 2018 - 2021 . Ref.NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-03104 . Fundaçao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal . PI: Adrián Manuel Tavares da Silva
Novel Enhanced Primary Treatment of Combined Sewer Overflow using Combinations of Oxidants and Coagulants . 2015 - 2019 . Ref.RES0026336 . Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada . PI: Mohamed Gamal El-Din
Aplicación de los procesos de oxidación avanzada para obtener agua de reuso de alta calidad . 2018 - 2020 . Ref.CTQ2017-86466-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Carmen Sans Mazón; Jaime Gimenez Farreras
Tratamiento de aguas de lavado de membranas mediante la ozonización . 2017 - 2018 . Ref.309550 . ACCIONA Agua S.A. . PI: Carmen Sans Mazon
Enginyeria de processos d'oxidació avançada . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR131 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Carmen Sans Mazon
Procesos de oxidación avanzada en el tratamiento de contaminantes emergentes: aplicación, impacto y estandarización . 2015 - 2017 . Ref.CTQ2014-52607-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Santiago Esplugas Vidal

Journal Publications (last 10 years)

Oriol Porcar-Santos; Alberto Cruz-Alcalde; Bernardí Bayarri; Carmen Sans (2022). Reactions of bisphenol F and bisphenol S with ozone and hydroxyl radical: Kinetics and mechanisms. Science of the Total Environment, 846(157173) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0048-9697
López-Vinent, L.; Cruz-Alcalde, A.; Moussavi, G.; del Castillo Gonzalez, I.; Hernandez Lehmann, A.; Giménez, J.; Giannakis, S. (2022). Improving ferrate disinfection and decontamination performance at neutral pH by activating peroxymonosulfate under solar light. Chemical Engineering Journal, 450(137904) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1385-8947
Lopez-Vinent, N.; Cruz-Alcalde, A.; Ganiyu, S.O.; Sable, S.; Messele, S.A.; Lillico, D.; Stafford, J.; Sans, C.; Gimenez, J.; Esplugas, S.: Gamal El-Din, M. (2021). Coagulation-flocculation followed by catalytic ozonation processes for enhanced primary treatment during wet weather conditions. Journal of Environmental Management, 283, p. 111975 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0301-4797
Cruz-Alcalde, A.; López-Vinent, L.; Ribeiro, R.S.; Giménez, J.; Sans, C.; Silva, A.M.T. (2021). Persulfate activation by reduced graphene oxide membranes: Practical and mechanistic insights concerning organic pollutants abatement. Chemical Engineering Journal, 427(130994) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1385-8947
Lopez-Vinent, N.; Cruz-Alcalde, A.; Malvestiti, J.; Marco, P.; Gimenez, J.; Esplugas, S. (2020). Organic fertilizer as a chelating agent in photo-Fenton at neutral pH with LEDs for agricultural wastewater reuse: Micropollutant abatement and bacterial inactivation. Chemical Engineering Journal, 388(124246) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1385-8947
Porcar-Santos, O; Cruz-Alcalde, A.; López-Vinent, N.; Zanganas, D.; Sans, C. (2020). Photocatalytic degradation of sulfamethoxazole using TiO2 in simulated seawater: Evidence for direct formation of reactive halogen species and halogenated by-products. Science of the Total Environment, 736(139605) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0048-9697
Bustos, N.; Cruz-Alcalde, A.; Iriel, A.; Fernández-Cirelli, A.; Sans, C. (2019). Sunlight and UVC-254 irradiation induced photodegradation of organophosphorus pesticide dichlorvos in aqueous matrices. Science of the Total Environment, 649, pp. 592 - 600 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0048-9697
Malvestiti, J.A.; Cruz-Alcalde, A.B.; López-Vinent, N.; Dantas, R.F.; Sans, C. (2019). Catalytic ozonation by metal ions for municipal wastewater disinfection and simulataneous micropollutants removal. Applied Catalysis B-Environmental, 259(118104) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0926-3373
Cruz-Alcalde, A.; Sans, C.; Esplugas, S. (2018). Abatement of ozone-recalcitrant micropollutants during municipal wastewater ozonation: kinetic modelling and surrogate-based control strategies. Chemical Engineering Journal, 360, pp. 1092 - 1100 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1385-8947
Cruz-Alcalde, A.; Sans, C.; Esplugas, S. (2017). Priority pesticides abatement by advanced water technologies: the case of acetamiprid removal by ozonation. Science of the Total Environment, 599-600, pp. 1454 - 1461 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0048-9697