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Vegetated coastal ecosystems, in particular mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses are highly efficient at sequestering and storing carbon, making them valuable assets for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The state of Queensland, in northeastern Australia, contains almost half of the total area of these blue carbon ecosystems in the country, yet there are few detailed regional or state-wide assessments of their total sedimentary organic carbon (SOC) stocks. We compiled existing SOC data and used boosted regression tree models to evaluate the influence of environmental variables in explaining the variability in SOC stocks, and to produce spatially explicit blue carbon estimates. The final models explained 75 % (for mangroves and tidal marshes) and 65 % (for seagrasses) of the variability in SOC stocks. Total SOC stocks in the state of Queensland were estimated at 569 ± 98 Tg C (173 ± 32 Tg C, 232 ± 50 Tg C, and 164 ± 16 Tg C from mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses, respectively). Regional predictions for each of Queensland's eleven Natural Resource Management regions revealed that 60 % of the state's SOC stocks occurred within three regions (Cape York, Torres Strait and Southern Gulf Natural Resource Management regions) due to a combination of high values of SOC stocks and large areas of coastal wetlands. Protected areas in Queensland play an important role in conserving SOC assets in Queensland's coastal wetlands. For example, ~19 Tg C within terrestrial protected areas, ~27 Tg C within marine protected areas and ~ 40 Tg C within areas of matters of State Environmental Significance. Using multi-decadal (1987-2020) mapped distributions of mangroves in Queensland; we found that mangrove area increased by approximately 30,000 ha from 1987 to 2020, which led to temporal fluctuations in mangrove plant and SOC stocks. We estimated that plant stocks decreased from ~45 Tg C in 1987 to ~34.2 Tg C in 2020, while SOC stocks remained relatively constant from ~107.9 Tg C in 1987 to 108.0 Tg C in 2020. Considering the level of current protection, emissions from mangrove deforestation are potentially very low; therefore, representing minor opportunities for mangrove blue carbon projects in the region. Our study provides much needed information on current trends in carbon stocks and their conservation in Queensland's coastal wetlands, while also contributing to guide future management actions, including blue carbon restoration projects.

BACT&PLAST-1 campaign will take place in the area is in front of the rivers mouths Llobregat and Besos. The tasks to be carried out consist of carrying out CTD transects and water sampling, obtaining sediment cores by multicorer, and trawling the manta trawl for microplastic fishing. Oceanographic data acquired during the BACT&PLAST-1 Cruise (29GD20210621) on board the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2021.

Abstract Pyrolysis is currently being considered as an alternative method of treating sewage sludge. It yields residual oils and gases, which can be used as fuels, and a solid which can either be burned or physically activated with air or CO 2 . The aim of this work was to study the influence of different pyrolysis conditions (e.g. temperature and heating rate) on the reactivity in air and in CO 2 of carbonaceous materials obtained from these types of residues. An anaerobic sewage sludge produced in a Spanish urban waste water treatment plant, containing 5 wt.% moisture after air-drying, was pyrolyzed in an electrical laboratory furnace under different pyrolysis conditions. Non-isothermal reactivities (up to 1100°C) in air and in CO 2 of the carbonaceous materials obtained after pyrolysis were performed in a thermobalance. The TG and DTG curves obtained from these experiments are discussed.

From the perspective of the recent orientations of virtual geographies, the idea of smart and novelty villages in the context of renovated material rural worlds is conceptualized. The sum of new virtual and new materiality produces virtual and novelty spaces and places, which acquire a precise territorial dimension in the rural policy and politics of smart villages. Smart villages can not only be framed in global smart contexts, but they can also play a fundamental role in de-global territorial horizons as an instrument of resistance to global processes of rural restructuring. The smart political idea or orientation takes shape in each rural community with a different expression in the form of new local materials. The concept of quality virtuality is developed theoretically along three axes: the encounter between smart, novelty and new materials; the smart in the equitable rural community; and the right to disconnection in remote rural areas.

An ever more environmentally conscious society demands the use of green, sustainable and high-efficiency renewable energy resources. However, large-scale energy storage remains a challenge for a deep penetration of power produced from renewables into the grid. The Calcium-Looping (CaL) process, based on the reversible carbonation/calcination of CaO, is a promising technology for thermochemical energy storage (TCES) in Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants. Natural limestone to be used as CaO precursor is cheap, non-toxic and abundant. Nevertheless, recent works have shown that carbonation of CaO derived limestone at optimum conditions for TCES is limited by pore-plugging, which leads to severe deactivation for large enough particles to be employed in practice. In our work, we have synthesized inexpensive CaO/SiO composites by means of a biotemplate method using rice husk as support. The morphological and compositional features of the biomorphic materials synthesized help improve the CaO multicycle activity under optimum CSP storage conditions and for particles sufficiently large to be managed in practical processes. Peer Reviewed

[ES] Los Lodos Rojos son el residuo insoluble de la extracción de alúmina a partir de la bauxita por el proceso Bayer. En Galicia se producen más de 400.000 toneladas anuales de este residuo industrial, constituido fundamentalmente por una mezcla de óxidos e hidróxidos de hierro, óxidos de titanio, cuarzo, con cantidades menores de, arcillas, y otros minerales. El presente trabajo describe el proceso de aprovechamiento industrial de los Lodos Rojos, para obtener ladrillos densos para acumuladores de calor, áridos para carreteras y otros productos cerámicos. Este tipo de materiales, hasta ahora fabricados de forma experimental en el Instituto de Cerámica de Galicia han dado lugar a la creación de una nueva empresa y a la actual construcción y puesta en funcionamiento, de una planta piloto valorada en 200.000.000 Ptas. ubicada en el norte de la Provincia de Lugo. Dicha planta permitirá la fabricación de 20 Tm/día de material para su estudio y comercialización. [EN] The Red Mud is the insoluble residue of the alumina extraction starting from the bauxite for the process Bayer. In Galicia they take place more than 400.000 annual tons of this industrial residue, constituted fundamentally by a mixture of oxides and iron hydroxides, titanium oxides, quartz, and small quantities of clays and other minerals. The present work describes the process of industrial use of the Red Mud, to obtain dense bricks used in heat accumulators, arid for highways and other ceramic products. This type of materials, up to now manufactured in an experimental way in the Institute of Ceramic of Galicia have given place to the creation of a new company and the current construction and setting in operation, of a pilot plant valued in 200.000.000 Ptas. Located in the north of the Province of Lugo, this plant will allow the production of 20 Tm/day of material for its study and commercialisation. Peer reviewed

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13 páginas, 7 figuras, 7 tablas. The trace elements (As, B, Ba, Be, Bi, Cd, Co, Cr, Cs, Cu, Ga, Ge, Hg, Li, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Rb, Sb, Se, Sn, Sr, Ta, Th, Tl, U, V, W, Y, Zn, Zr and REE) in a subbituminous coal and their behaviour during combustion in a large power station were characterized by their content and distribution in the fuel (organic and/or inorganic affinities) and in the combustion wastes (partition and volatility). Samples were fractionated by density and magnetic separations and cascade impactors. Quantitative analyses were performed by X-ray diffraction, ICP-MS, ICP-AES, AAS and ICP-AES with hydride generation. Among the findings is the important role of anhydrite (CaSO4) in the sorption of trace elements such as As, B, Ge, Se, Pb, Mo, Zn and Tl from flue gas and in the reduction of emissions of these potentially toxic elements. Calcium oxide has a high sorption capacity for some of the elements studied. This sorption phenomenon and the condensation, mainly as fine fly ash particles, of important fractions of the trace elements during the cooling of flue gas significantly reduce the gaseous emissions of potentially toxic trace elements from coal combustion in the power station studied. The present study has been supported by the European Coal and Steel Community Contract 7220-ED/014 and the Spanish Research Project NAT91-0571. Peer reviewed