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Producció científica

 Publicacions en revistes de caràcter internacional:

 
 Reviews

 Nurchi, V.M., Villaescusa, I. (2012) Sorption of toxic metals by solid sorbents: A predictive speciation approach based on complex formation constants in aqueous solution, Coordination Chemistry Reviews , 256: 212-221.

 

Nurchi, V.M., Crisponi, G., Villaescusa, I. (2010) Chemical equilibria in wastewaters during toxic metal ion removal by agricultural biomass
Coordination Chemistry Reviews,  254 : 2181- 2192.

 

Nurchi, V.M., Villaescusa,I.  (2008) Agricultural biomasses as sorbents of some trace metals, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 252: 1178-1188.

 

Villaescusa, I., Bollinger, JC.,(2008) Arsenic in drinking water: sources, occurrence and health effects (a review), Review Environmental Science and Biotechnology, 7:307-323 (2008).

  

 Articles

 

Poch, J., Villaescusa, I., (2012) Orthogonal distance regression: A good alternative to Least squares for modeling sorption data, Journal of Chemical Engineering Data, 57: 490-499.

 

Villaescusa, I., Fiol, N;  Poch, J;  Bianchi, A;  Bazzicalupi, C (2011) Mechanism of paracetamol removal by vegetable wastes: The contribution of pi-pi interactions, hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic effect,  270 : 135 -142 .


Olivella, M.A., Jové, P., Sen, A., Pereira, H., Villaescusa, I., Fiol, N., (2011) Sorption performance of Quercus cerris cork with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and toxicity testing, Bioresources 6(3): 3363-3375.

 

Poch, J.; Villaescusa, I. (2010)  A Model to describe Cr(VI) kinetics biosorption, Journal of Hazardous Materials,  175:  770 - 778.

  

Escudero, C., Fiol, N., Villaescusa, I., Bollinger, JC. (2009) Arsenic removal by a waste metal (hydr)oxide entrapped into calcium alginate beads, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 164: 533-541.

 

Escudero, C.; Fiol, N.; Poch, J.; Villaescusa, I. (2009) Modeling of kinetics of Cr(VI) sorption onto grape stalks waste in a stirred batch reactor, Journal of Hazardous Materials:170(1):286-91

 

 Fiol, N., Villaescusa, I., (2009) Determination of sorbent point zero charge: usefulness in sorption studies, Environmental Chemistry Letters, 7: 79-84.

 

Escudero, C., Gabaldón, C., Marzal, P, Villaescusa, I. (2008) Effect of EDTA on divalent metal adsorption onto grape stalk and exhausted coffee wastes, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 152 :476-485.

 

 Nurchi,VM.,  Pinna,R., Fiol, N,  Villaescusa, I., (2008) Use of cyclic voltammetry to evaluate sorption properties of cork residues towards Mn(II) in waters, J Solution Chem 37:477-485.

 

Miralles,N., Martínez, M., Florido, A., Casas, I., Fiol,N., Villaescusa I., (2008) Grape stalks waste as low cost biosorbents: An alternative for metal removal from aqueous solution, Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange, 26: 261-270.

 

Fiol,N.,  Escudero, C.,  Villaescusa, I., (2008) Chromium sorption and Cr(VI) reduction to Cr(III) by grape stalks and yohimbe bark, Bioresource Technology, 99(11): 5030-5036.

 

Escudero, C., Fiol, N., Poch, J., Villaescusa, I., (2008) The kinetics of copper sorption onto yohimbe bark wastes, Int J Environment and Pollution, 34 (1/2/3/4): 215-230.

 

Fiol, N., Escudero, C., Villaescusa, I., (2008)  Re-use of exhausted ground coffee waste for Cr(VI) sorption, Separation Science and Technology, 43 1-15.

 

Fiol, N., De la torre, Florencio, Demeyere, Patrick, Florido, A., Villaescusa, I., (2007) Vegetable waste-based sensors for metal ion determination, Sensors and Actuators B 122: 187-194.

 

Fulladosa, F., Debord, J., Villaescusa, I., Bollinger, J.C., Murat, J.C. ,(2007) Effect of arsenic compounds on Vibrio fischeri light emission and butyrylcholinesterase activity, Envrion Chem Lett 5: 115-119.

 

Fulladosa, E., Murat, J.C., Bollinger, J.C., Villaescusa, I., (2007) Adverse effects of organic arsenical compounds towards Vibrio fischeri bacteria, Science of the Total Environment, 377: 207-213.

 

Nurchi, V.M., Floris, C., Pinna, R., Fiol, N., Villaescusa, I., (2007) Metal ion uptake from aqueous solution by olives tones: A Carbon-13 Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Potentiometric study, Water Environment Research,. 79:2363-2367

 

Fulladosa, E.,  Deane, E., .Y.Ng, A.H.,  Woo,  NYS, Murat, J:C., I. Villaescusa, I., (2006) Stress proteins induced by exposure to sublethal levels of heavy metals in sea bream (Sparus sarba) blood cells, Toxicology in vitro, 20: 96-100.

 

Martínez, M., Miralles, N., Hidalgo, S., Fiol, N.,  Villaescusa, I.,  Poch, J., (2006)  Removal of lead(II) and cadmium(II) from aqueous solutin by using grape stalk wastes, Journal of Hazardous Materials B133: 203-211.

 

Fiol, N., Villaescusa, I.,  Martínez, M. , Miralles, N.,  Poch,  J., Serarols, J. (2006) Sorption of Pb(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Cd(II) from aqueous solution by olive stone waste, Separation and Purification Technology,  50: 132-140.

 

Fiol, N.,  Escudero, C., Poch, J.,  Villaescusa, I., (2006), Preliminary studies on Cr(VI) removal from aqueous solution using grape stalks wastes encapsulated in calcium alginate beads, Reactive and Functional Polymers, 66:795-807.

 

Fulladosa, E.,  Desjardin, V.,  Murat, J.C.,  Gourdon, R.,  Villaescusa, I.. (2006), Cr(VI) reduction into Cr(III) as a mechanism to explain the low sensitivity of Vibrio fischeri bioassay to detect chromium pollution, Chemosphere, 65: 644-650

 

Cochrane, E.L. ,  Lu, S.,  Gibb, S.W.,  Villaescusa, I.  (2006), A comparison of low-cost biosorbents and commercial sorbents fort he removal of copper from aqueous media, Journal of Hazardous Materials, B137: 198-206.

 

Escudero, C.,  Fiol, N.,  Villaescusa, I., (2006) Chromium sorption on grape stalks encapsulated in calcium alginate beads, Environmental Chemistry Letters, , 4: 239-242.

 

Fulladosa, E., Murat, J.C., Villaescusa, I. (2005),  Study on the toxicity of binary equitoxic mixtures of metals using the luminescent bacteria Vibrio fischeri as a biological target, Chemosphere, 58: 551-557.

 

Fiol, N., Poch, J., Villaescusa, I., (2005) Grape stalks encapsulated in calcium alginate beads for Cr(VI) removal from aqueous solutions, Separation Science and Technology, 40(5): 1013-1028.

 

Fulladosa, E., Murat, J.C., Martínez, M., Villaescusa, I., (2005) Patterns of metals and arsenic poisoning in Vibrio fischeri bacteria, Chemosphere, , 60: 43-48.

 

Fulladosa, E., Murat, J.C., Villaescusa, I., Effect of Cadmium(II). (2005) Chromium (VI) amd Arsenic (V) on Long-Term Viability- and Growth-Inhibition Assays using Vibrio fischeri Marine Bacteria, Archives of Environ Contamin and Toxicol, , 49: 299-306.

 

Fulladosa, E., Murat, J.C., Martínez, M., Villaescusa, I., (2004), Effect of pH on arsenate and arsenite toxicity to luminescent bacteria (Vibrio fischeri), Archives of Environ Contam & Toxicol 46(2):  176-182.

 

Villaescusa, I., Fiol. N., Martínez, M., Miralles, N., Poch, J., Serarols, J., (2004), Removal of copper an nickel ions from aqueous solutions by grape stalks wastes,  Water Research, 38: 992-1002.

 

Fiol, N., Poch, J. Villaescusa, I., (2004), Chromium (VI) uptake by grape stalks wastes encapsulated in calcium alginate beads: equilibrium and kinetics studies,  Chem Speci & Bioaval, 16(1/2): 25-33.

 

Fulladosa, E., Murat, J.C., Martínez, M., Villaescusa, I., (2004), Effect of pH on arsenate and arsenite toxicity to luminescent bacteria (Vibrio fischeri),  Archives of Environ Contam & Toxicol 46(2): 176-182.

 

Villaescusa, I., Fiol. N., Martínez, M., Miralles, N., Poch, J., Serarols, J., (2004), Removal of copper an nickel ions from aqueous solutions by grape stalks wastes,  Water Research, 38: 992-1002.

 

Fiol, N., Poch, J. Villaescusa, I., (2004) Chromium (VI) uptake by grape stalks wastes encapsulated in calcium alginate beads: equilibrium and kinetics studies,  Chem Speci & Bioaval, 16(1/2):  25-33.

 

Fiol, N., Villaescusa, I., Martínez, M., Miralles, N., Poch, J., Serarols, J., (2003), Biosorption of Cr(VI) using low cost sorbents, Environ Chem Lett, 1: 135-139.

 

Fulladosa, E., Delmas, F., Li Jun, Villaescusa, I., Murat J.C., (2002), Cellular stress induced in cultured human cells by exposure to sludge extracts from water treatment plants,  Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 53: 134-140.

 

Villaescusa, I., Fiol, F., Cristiani, F., Floris, C., Lai, S., Nurchi, V.M., (2002), Copper(II) and nickel(II) uptake from aqueous solutions by cork wastes: a NMR and potentiometric study,  Polyhedron, vol. 21: 1363-1367.

 

Serarols, J.; Poch, J.; Villaescusa, I., (2001), Determination of the effective diffusion coefficient of Zn(II) on a macroporous resin XAD-2 impregnated with di-2-ethylhexyl phosphoric acid (DEHPA). Influence of metal concentration and particle size,  Reactive and Functional Polymers,  48: 53-63.

 

Serarols, J.; Poch, J.; Villaescusa, I., (2001), Expansion of adsorption isotherms into equilibrium surface. Case 1: solvent impregnated resins (SIR),  Reactive and Functional Polymers, 48: 37-51.

 

Delmas, F.; Maisonnave, V.; Fulladosa, E.; Villaescusa, I.; Soleilhavoup, J.P; Murat, J.C. (2000), Comparative evaluation of the potential noxiousness in domestic sludge used in agriculture and in commercial fertilizer,  Ecotoxicol. Environm. Safety, 47: 292-297.

 

Villaescusa, I.; Casas, I.; Martínez, M.; Murat, J.C (2000), Effect of zinc chloro complexes to photoluminescent bacteria. Dependence of toxicity on metal speciation Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol., 64: 729-734.

 

Villaescusa, I.; Martínez, M.; Miralles, N,(2000), Heavy metal uptake from aquous solution by cork and yohimbe bark wastes,  J. of Chem. Tech & Biotech, 75: 812-816.

 

Delmas, F.; Villaescusa, I.; Croute, F., Soleilhavoup, J.P.; Murat, J.C. (2000), A biological method for the calculation of a safety index for monitoring sludge discharge,  Fresenius Environ Bull., 9: 257-264.

 

Delmas, F.; Villaescusa, I.; Woo, NYS.; Soleilhavoup, J.P.; Murat, J.C., (2000), Cellular method for the evaluation of the noxiousness of inorganic pollutants in industrial wastes: calculation of a safety index for monitoring sludge discharge,  Ecotoxicol & Environmental Safety, 45: 260-265.

 

Serarols, J., Poch, J., Llop, M., Villaescusa, I. (1999), Determination of the effective diffusion coefficient for gold (III) on the macroporous XAD-2 impregnated with tri-isobutyl phosphine sulfide,  Reactive Polymers, 41: 27-35.

 

De Gracia, J., Poch, M., Villaescusa, I., (1999), Application of natural computation techniques for optimal design of flow injection system,  Analytica Chimica Acta, 402: 263-271.

 

 

 Capítols de llibre

 

Fiol, N. Escudero, C., Peraferrer, C., Villaescusa, I. (2008) (proceedings IEX 2008) “Vegetable wastes as low cost cation exchangers for metal renoval in “IEX 2008 Recent Advances in Ion Exchange Theory and Practice” (pág. 283-289), editor M. Cox, Society of Chemical Industria (SCI), London, U.K.

 

Poch, J., Villaescusa, I., Serarols, J., (2007) “Obtención de los coeficientes de difusión y de transferencia de materia del Cr(VI) en raspo de uva mediante un método de colocación ortogonal por puntos, actas 8º Congreso Iberoamericano de Computación Aplicada a la Industria de Procesos, editor José O. Valderrama del Centro de Información Tecnológica, Chile, pág. 133-136, ISBN: 978-956-310-528-5.

 

Serarols, J., Villaescusa, I., Fiol, N., Poch, J., (2007) “Funciones de error aplicadas al ajuste de modelos de equilibrio”, actas 8º Congreso Iberoamericano de Computación Aplicada a la Industria de Procesos, editor José O. Valderrama del Centro de Información Tecnológica, Chile, pág. 85-88, ISBN: 978-956-310-528-5.

 

Poch, J., Fiol, N., Serarols, J., Villaescusa, I., (2005) Adsorción de mezclas binarias de iones metálicos de hueso de oliva triturado: estudio del equilibrio, Computación Aplicada a la Industria de Procesos, Actas del 7º Congreso Interamericano de Computación Aplicada a la Industria de Procesos, CAIP’2005, Vila Real (Portugal), editores José Boaventura Cunha, Manuel Cordeiro, Sérgio Leitao, 2005, Capítulo 1 – Simulación de Procesos, pp. 23-26, ISBN 972-669-677-1.

 

Serarols, J., Fiol, N., Poch, J., Villaescusa, I., (2005) Determinación de los coeficientes de difusión y transferencia de materia en procesos de adsorción de Cr(VI) con raspo de uva encapsulada en alginato cálcico, Computación Aplicada a la Industria de Procesos, Actas del 7º Congreso Interamericano de Computación Aplicada a la Industria de Procesos, CAIP’2005, Vila Real (Portugal), editores José Boaventura Cunha, Manuel Cordeiro, Sérgio Leitao, 2005, Capítulo 4 –Automatización y Control de Procesos, pp. 219-222, ISBN 972-669-677-1.

 

Fiol, N., Serarols, J., Poch, J., Martínez, M., Miralles, N., Villaescusa, I., (2005), Low cost material for metal uptake from aqueous solutions, in Environmental chemistry, volum 1: Green Chemistry and Pollutants, chapter 24: 215-258, Editorial: Lichffouse, E., Shawarzbauer, J., Didier, R., Eds, Springer ISBN 3-540-22860-8.3

 

Fulladosa, E., Villaescusa, I., Martínez, M., Murat, J.C., (2005), Study of Cr(VI) and Cd(II) ions toxicity using the Microtox bacterial bioassay, in Environmental chemistry, volum 1: Green Chemistry and Pollutants, chapter 66: 725-734, Editorial: Lichffouse, E., Shawarzbauer, J., Didier, R., Eds, Springer ISBN 3-540-22860-8.3

 

Fulladosa, E., Villaescusa, I.Gaubin, Y, Skandrani, D, Murat, J.C., (2005), Cultured human cell as biological detectors for assessing environmental toxicity, in Environmental chemistry, volum 1: Green Chemistry and Pollutants, chapter 67: 735-741, Editorial: Lichffouse, E., Shawarzbauer, J., Didier, R., Eds, Springer ISBN 3-540-22860-8.3.

Fiol, N., Villaescusa, I., Martínez, M., Miralles, N., Poch, J., Serarols, J. (2003) Use of solid wastes from wine production for Cr(VI) removal, en Chemical Industry and Environment IV, 1st volume, pags. 123-130, ed. A. Macías Machín & J. Umbria, Grupo Energía y Medio ambiente, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ISBN 84-89528-60-8.

 

Fulladosa, E., Murat, J.C., Martínez, M., Villaescusa, I., (2003) Biological indicatiors for assessing metal toxicity, en Chemical Industry and Environment IV, 2ond volume, pags. 359-367,  ed. A. Macías Machín & J. Umbria, Grupo Energía y Medio ambiente, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ISBN 84-89528-60-8.

 

Serarols, J., Poch, J., Villaescusa, I., (2003) Determinación de los coeficientes de difusión y de transferencia de materia en procesos de adsorción utilizando el concepto de superficie de equilibrio, Computación aplicada a la Industria de Procesos, Actas del 6º Congreso Interamericano de Computación Aplicada a la Industria de Procesos, CAIP’2003, Puebla (Méjico), editores Bülent U. Kozanoglu y José Luis Patiño, 2003, La Puebla (Méjico), ISBN 968-6254-81-7.

 

Poch, J., Fuentes, M., Serarols, J., Villaescusa I., (2003) Determinación del coeficiente de difusión efectivo del Cr(VI) en raspa de uva encapsulada en alginato cálcico, Computación aplicada a la Industria de Procesos, Actas del 6º Congreso Interamericano de Computación Aplicada a la Industria de Procesos, CAIP’2003, Puebla (Méjico), editores Bülent U. Kozanoglu y José Luis Patiño, 2003, La Puebla (Méjico), ISBN 968-6254-81-7.

  

Villaescusa, I., Call, J., Arnaldos, J. (1994) Extracción de metales mediante resinas impregnadas (SIR) en lecho fluidizado. Estudio de la transferencia de material, en Fluidización, volumen II, pags.77-86, ed. A.Macias Machín y J.E. González, Univerisda de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ISBN 84-7806-094-4.

  

Villaescusa, I., Bover, R., Call, J., Aguilar, M., de Pablo, J., Arnaldos, J. (1993) Removal of polluting metals with solvent impregnated resins using fluidized bed technology, en Chemical Industry and Environment, volume II pags.267-276, ed. J. Arnaldos and P. Mutjé, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ISBN 84-600-8490-6.

 

Florido, A., García-Raurich, J., Villaescusa, I., (1993) Flow-throug tubular ion-selective electrodes based on metal-extractant agents for ion determination in wastewater, en Chemical Industry and Environment, volume I pags.267-298 ed. J. Arnaldos and P. Mutjé, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ISBN 84-600-8490-6.

 

ARTICLES DE DIFUSIÓ

   

Laboratori Metalls i Medi Ambient: Utilització de residus vegetals per eliminar metalls de les aigües. rEPiSTA (Revista digital de l'Escola Politècnica Superior ) num 2. http://eps.udg.edu/repista/numero2/recerca.htm