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In this work, a study will be made on the water-energy nexus in the two buildings of the Manresa Campus, the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Manresa (EPSEM) and the Library of the University Campus of Manresa (BCUM). To do this, it will be found out what the Campus's consumption is and will be analyzed in order to be able to link the consumption of electrical energy and the consumption of fuel with the volume of water that is necessary to generate this energy. In the first section of the work you can find the theoretical framework, where the foundation of hydroelectric energy is explained, going into detail about which elements are necessary to produce it, which types of power plants can be found and indicate the hydraulic power stations located in Catalonia. This section also explains the concept of the water-energy nexus and the water footprint involved in electricity consumption. In the methodology section, the different sources that have been used to do this work are presented, as well as the origin of the fuel and the electrical energy that the Manresa Campus uses. In the next section, the case study, the way in which electricity and fuel consumption will be evaluated is discussed. The results section presents the results obtained when carrying out the study on these consumptions, indicating the details of the consumption that each of the different sources of electricity consumption contributes to the total. In addition, you can also find the link with which hydroelectric plants near the Manresa Campus could supply the consumption that is needed. In this section, a calculation is also made of the greenhouse gases generated by the consumption of the Manresa Campus. Next, in the conclusions section, the results obtained in relation to the initial objectives of the work are discussed. Finally, there are the annexes, where you can find the information that has been obtained from the Manresa Campus, as well as the public information that has been acquired for the completion of this work.

This project aims to design a treatment to clean urban wastewater from a rural nucleus with a small population. To do this, a collection of information has been made on the type of pollutants that we can find in small populations, taking into account the specific situation of the population (in our case Galera), also on the existing treatments and the technologies that we currently have for the sanitation of water

This Final Degree Project is based on studying the effect of temperature and the agitation of an electrolyte for the recovery of copper by electrolysis to optimize this stage in the biolixiviation plant of the Biometallum project.