SOLAR TREATMENT OF WATER UNIT

Dra. Ana Ruiz-Delgado

Postdoctoral Fellow
Telephone: +34950387800 Ext.836
Email: anruiz@psa.es

ORCID: 0000-0003-4812-2711

Water Solar Treatment Unit
Plataforma Solar de Almería
Carretera de Senés, km 4
Tabernas, E-04200 Almería
Spain

Research interest

Dr. Ana Ruiz-Delgado (female) scientific career is focused on industrial and urban wastewater treatment through advanced oxidation processes (based or not on solar energy) and its combination with physical-chemical pre-treatment systems and advanced biological treatments for its reuse, in membrane technologies (membrane distillation, MD) applied to treated wastewater for the recovery of nutrients in addition to water disinfection by different advanced oxidation technologies.

Track record

Dr. Ana Ruiz-Delgado (ORCID: 0000-0003-4812-2771), has a degree in Chemical Engineering and obtained her Advanced Chemistry PhD in 2019 thanks to obtaining a pre-doctoral contract at the University of Almería of the Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment, Secretary General of Universities, Research and Technology of the Junta de Andalucía within the framework of the project: "Characterization and treatment of industrial wastewater of different origin (leachate from landfills and effluents from the cork industry) (RNM 1739)". She enjoyed a one-year postdoctoral contract associated with the said project at CIESOL in 2020 and she held a postdoctoral contract from March 2022 to September 2024 associated with the Margarita Salas Grants for the requalification of the Spanish university system. Currently, she is holding a postdoctoral contract associated with the project “Advanced tertiary treatments based on the combination of reduction/oxidation processes and new photocatalytic materials applied to the disinfection and simultaneous elimination of mobile and persistent compounds in urban wastewater” (PID2022-140875OB-C32). She has been involved in 6 national, 1 regional and 4 international projects. She has made 2 stays at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Portugal). She has participated in 20 posters and 20 oral presentations in several national and international congresses and scientific project meetings. She has 15 papers in SCI journals (H-index: 8, Scopus, February 2025) in the field of wastewater treatment and pollutant removal.

SCI PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2020 UP TO DATE:

  1. A. Ruíz-Delgado, P. Plaza-Bolaños, I. Oller, S. Malato, A. Agüera. Advanced evaluation of landfill leachate treatments by low and high-resolution mass spectrometry focusing on microcontaminant removal. Journal of Hazardous Materials 384, 121372, 2020. JCR 2020: IF=9.038 (8/265 Environmental Sciences).
  2. M. Roccamante, I. Salmerón, A. Ruíz-Delgado, I. Oller, S. Malato. New approaches to solar Advanced Oxidation Processes for elimination of priority substances based on electrooxidation and ozonation at pilot plant scale. Catalysis Today 355, 844 – 850, 2020. JCR 2020: IF=5.825 (15/143 Chem. Eng.).
  3. A. Ruíz-Delgado, M. A. Roccamante, S. Malato, A. Agüera, I. Oller. Olive mill wastewater reuse to enable solar photo-Fenton-like processes for the elimination of priority substances in municipal wastewater treatment plant effluents. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 27, 38148 – 38154, 2020. JCR 2020: IF=3.056 (99/265 Environmental Sciences).
  4. G. Luna-Sanguino, A. Ruíz-Delgado, A. Tolosana-Moranchel, L. Pascual, S. Malato, A. Bahamonde, M. Faraldos. Solar photocatalytic degradation of pesticides over TiO2-rGO nanocomposites at pilot plant scale. Science of The Total Environment 737, 140286, 2020. JCR 2020: IF=6.551 (22/265 Environmental Sciences).
  5. I. Sciscenko, A. Arques, C. Escudero-Oñate, M. Roccamante, A. Ruiz-Delgado, S. Miralles-Cuevas, S. Malato, I. Oller. A Rational analysis on key parameters ruling zerovalent iron-based treatment trains: towards the separation of reductive from oxidative phases. Nanomaterials 11(11), 2948, 2021. JCR 2021: IF=5.719 (38/159 Applied Physics).
  6. G. Luna-Sanguino, A. Ruiz-Delgado, C.J. Duran-Valle, S. Malato, M. Faraldos, A. Bahamonde. Impact of water matrix and oxidant agent on the solar assisted photodegradation of a complex mix of pesticides over titania-reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites. Catalysis Today 380, 114-124, 2021. JCR 2021: IF=6.562 (24/160 Chemical Engineering).
  7. M. Roccamante, A. Ruiz-Delgado, A. Cabrera-Reina, I. Oller, M. Malato, S. Miralles-Cuevas. Removal of microcontaminants by zero-valent iron solar processes at natural pH: Water matrix and oxidant agents effect. Science of The Total Environment 819, 153152, 2022. JCR 2022: IF=9.800 (26/274 Environmental Sciences).
  8. A. Ruiz-Delgado, L. Ponce-Robles, I. Salmerón, I. Oller, M.I. Polo-López, S. Malato.  Advanced microbiological tools for tracking complex wastewater treatment efficiency through the combination of physicochemical and biological technologies. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 10 (6), 108651, 2022. JCR 2022: IF=7.700 (16/140 Chemical Engineering).
  9. M. Roccamante, A. Ruiz-Delgado, A. Cabrera-Reina, S. Malato, I. Oller, A. Hernández-Zanoletty, S. Miralles-Cuevas. Microcontaminant removal in solar pilot scale photoreactors with commercial iron nanoparticles obtained from olive mill wastewater. Catalysis Today 413, 113968, 2023. JCR 2022: IF=5.300 (14/72 Applied Chemistry).
  10. P. Tucci, S. Fumagalli, S. Livolsi, G. L. Chiarello, E. Selli, A. Ruiz-Delgado, S. Malato, B. Massimiliano, S. Franz. Doping of photoactive TiO2 films by DC Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation: effect of transition metals. Catalysis Today 114851, 2024. JCR 2023: IF=5.2 (13/74 Applied Chemistry).