Natural Resources Management Unit
About unit
The Natural Resources Management Technological Unit aims to promote innovation in the production of sustainable environmental goods and services in areas related to soil, water, effluents and solid waste from domestic, agricultural and industrial activities. It focuses on meeting the demands of the productive sector, promoting linkages between organizations to collaborate with regional development.
Take a virtual tour and interact with the laboratories:
- Effluent and Waste Laboratory
- Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Laboratory
- Water Laboratory
- Soil Laboratory
- Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
- Reactors Laboratory
- Cultivation Laboratory
- Soil and Foliar Laboratory
- Geotechnologies Laboratory
- Microscopy Laboratory
This unit offers the following services:
- Chemical and microbiological characterization of effluents and wastes.
- Analysis of Specific Methanogenic Activity of anaerobic sludge and Biochemical Methane Potential of waste and effluents.
- Water Footprint calculation (product, service or organization).
- Analysis of methanogenic activity in anaerobic treatment systems.
- Development of sludge co-digestion processes.
- Evaluation of the potential of microalgal biomass for agro-industrial purposes.
- Determination of financial indicators and technical and economic feasibility in irrigated crops.
- Altimetric maps; contour lines; land use maps; maps with spectral indices, geo-referenced sampling; productivity maps; estimation of grassland biomass; tree counting in forest and fruit orchards; bathymetric studies; monitoring of physicochemical variables in water bodies in situ.
Responsable técnico:
Ernesto Pecoits
Team:
María Fernanda Badell
Alice Martins Morita
Guillermo Zinola
Alejandra Szabo
Kelly Andresa Liesenfeld
Ángela Cabezas
Richard Rodríguez
Rodrigo Garcés
Yesica Ramírez Flores
Diego Barreto
Luis Ramírez
Wellington Mezzomo
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Contact
Sede UTEC Durazno
ernesto.pecoits@utec.edu.uy