Portuguese
delegate for ISO/TC282 Water Reuse (2016-…),
Projects participated (nacional and international):
2020-2024. B-watersmart: Accelerating Water Smartness
in Coastal Europe. H2020-EU.3.5.4. & H2020-EU.3.5.2.2, Grant agreement ID:
869171 (Co-coordinator of tasks T1.4 and T6.3)
2018-2021: Avaler+ Assessment of energy efficiency and sustainability in urban water services
2017-2020: iEQTA: National Initiative for Energy, Water Quality and Treatment (Co-Coordinator and responsible of WWTP and IAM themes)
2016-2019: LIFE IMPETUS – Improving current barriers for controlling pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewater treatment plants
2014-2015: WaCCliM – Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation
2014-2016: LIFE HyMemb: Tailoring hybrid membrane processes for sustainable drinking water production
2011-2015: TRUST - TRansitions to the Urban Water Services of Tomorrow
2009-2014: PIP DHA_NES_5 "Tratamento de água e de águas residuais”
2009-2011: PASt21 – The Portuguese Initiative for Performance Assessment of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants
2007-2009: PAS – Performance Assessment of Water and Wastewater treatment plants
2008-2009: ETAR Lagos – Technical-scientific studies for diagnosis the operation of the Lagos wastewater treatment plant
2007-2009: ETA21 – Performance assessment and optimisation studies for Águas do Algarve water treatment plants
Relevant Publications
Teses
Silva Reis C. (2016). Assessing and Improving Wastewater Treatment Performance. A Contribution to the 3rd Generation of the Assessment System. Doutoramento em Engenharia do Ambiente. Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto SuperiorTécnico, Lisboa.
BooksCapítulos de Livro
Loureiro D., Silva C., Cardoso M. A., Alegre H., Cabral M., Covas D., Rosa M. J. (2021) Avaliação da eficiência energética nos serviços urbanos de águas. Guia para diagnóstico, priorização de alternativas, monitorização e revisão do plano de ação. Avaler+. Lisbon, december
Cardoso M. A., Rosa M. J., Brito R. S., Silva C., Beceiro P., Jorge C., Alegre H., Martinho G., Pina J., Silveira A., Alves A. V., Brito J., Ramos M., Carrega M. (2021) Guia técnico de avaliação da qualidade dos serviços de águas e resíduos prestados aos utilizadores. 4.ª geração do sistema de avaliação”. ERSAR, Lisbon, december
Campinas M., Viegas R.M.C., Silva C., Rosa M.J. (2016) Technical Guidelines of PAC/MF – Powdered Activated Carbon/Ceramic Microfiltration for Drinking Water Production. Deliverable of LIFE Hymemb. LNEC, Lisbon. ISBN: 978-972-49-2299-7
Published book chapters
Silva C., Alegre H., Rosa M. J. (2015) Chapter 3. Introduction to energy management in wastewater treatment plants. In Sewage Treatment Plants: Economic Evaluation of Innovative Technologies for Energy Efficiency, ed. Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis and Katerina Stamatelatou, 1 - 376. ISBN: 9781780405018. London: IWA Publishing.
Papers
with scientific refereeing
Silva C., Rosa M. J. (2022) A Comprehensive Derivation and
Application of Reference Values for Benchmarking the Energy Performance
of Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment. Water 14 (10) 1620
Silva
C., Rosa M. J. (2022) A treatment reliability-based method for
supporting infrastructure asset management of wastewater treatment
plants. Water 14 (78) 1106
Silva C., Rosa M. J. (2021) A
Practical Methodology for Forecasting the Impact of Changes in Influent
Loads and Discharge Consents on Average Energy Consumption and Sludge
Production by Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment. Sustainability 13
(21) 12293
Silva C., Almeida C. M. M., Rodrigues J. A., Silva
S., Coelho M. R., Martins A., Alves R., Cardoso E., Cardoso V. V.,
Benoliel M. J., Rosa M. J. (2021) Occurrence and seasonality of
pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewaters in two Portuguese regions.
Urban Water Journal 18 (6) 465–478
Campinas M., Viegas R. M.
C., Silva C., Rosa M. J. (2021) Operational performance and cost
analysis of PAC/ceramic MF for drinking water production: exploring
treatment capacity as a new indicator for performance assessment and
optimization. Separation and Purification Technology
Campinas
M., Silva C., Viegas R. M. C., Coelho R., Lucas H., Rosa M. J. (2021) To
what extent may pharmaceuticals and pesticides be removed by PAC
conventional addition to low-turbidity surface waters and what are the
potential bottlenecks? Journal of Water Process Engineering 40, 101833
Silva
C., Rosa M. J. (2020) Performance assessment of 23 wastewater treatment
plants - a case study. Urban Water Journal 17(1) 78–85
Loureiro
D., Silva C., Cardoso M.A., Mamade A., Alegre H., Rosa M.J. (2020) The
Development of a Framework for Assessing the Energy Efficiency in Urban
Water Systems and Its Demonstration in the Portuguese Water Sector.
Water 12(1)
Silva C., Rosa M. J. (2020) Performance assessment
of 23 wastewater treatment plants - a case study. Urban Water Journal
17(1), 78-85, doi: 10.1080/1573062X.2020.1734634
Loureiro
D., Silva C., Cardoso M.A., Mamade A., Alegre H., Rosa M.J. (2020) The
Development of a Framework for Assessing the Energy Efficiency in Urban
Water Systems and Its Demonstration in the Portuguese Water Sector.
Water 12(1). 14 pp. doi: 10.3390/w12010134
Campinas, M.; Viegas,
R.M.C.; Silva, C.; Sousa, I.; Coelho, R.; Costa, L.; Lucas, H.; Rosa,
M.J.. 2017. "Tratamento de água com carvão ativado em pó/microfiltração
cerâmica (PAC/MF) – quando e onde?", Águas e Resíduos 2, 17 - 29.
Ribeiro,
R.; Silva, C.; Rosa, M.J.. 2017. "Estratégia para recuperação de
fósforo de águas residuais urbanas", Águas e Resíduos 2, 38 - 50.
Silva
C., Saldanha Matos J., Rosa M.J. (2016). Performance indicators and
indices of sludge management in urban wastewater treatment plants. J.
Environmental Management 184 (2) 307-317. doi:
10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.09.056
Silva C., Saldanha Matos J., Rosa
M.J. (2016). A comprehensive approach for diagnosing opportunities for
improving the performance of a WWTP. Water Sci. & Technol, 74 (12)
2935-2945. doi: 10.2166/wst.2016.432
Silva C., Matos J. S, Rosa
M.J. (2016). Estratégia para o desenvolvimento da 3.ª geração do sistema
de avaliação de desempenho de ETAR, Águas&Resíduos 1 (70-82). doi:
10.22181/aer.2016.0107
Silva C., Quadros S., Ramalho P., Alegre
H., Rosa M. J. (2014). Translating removal efficiencies into operational
performance indices of wastewater treatment plants, Water Research 57,
202 - 214. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.03.025
Silva C., Quadros
S., Ramalho P., Rosa M. J. (2014). A tool for a comprehensive assessment
of treated wastewater quality, Journal of Environmental Management, 1 -
7. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.03.028
Silva C., Ramalho P.,
Quadros S., Alegre H., Rosa M. J. (2012). Results of ‘PASt21’ – the
Portuguese initiative for performance assessment of water and wastewater
treatment plants, Water Science and Technology: Water Supply 12(3), 372
- 386. doi: 10.2166/ws.2012.004
Quadros S., Rosa M. J, Alegre
H., Silva C. (2010). A performance indicators system for urban
wastewater treatment plants, Water Science and Technology, 62: 2398 -
2407.
120 technical reports and 16 tools
Other scientific and technical Activities
Taught short course
Abastecimento de água e gestão de águas residuais e pluviais e Tratamento de águas residuais (2019). Módulos ProAguas - Programa avançado de gestão de serviços de águas (in Portuguese).
Estratégias de controlo de agentes biológicos resistentes e de subprodutos da oxidação química no tratamento de águas (2013), LNEC, APESB, APRH (in Portuguese).
Curso de Avaliação de Desempenho de ETA e ETAR (2011), LNEC/APESB/APRH (in Portuguese).