Sandra Carpinteyro-Urban

• phD Candidate
• Professor at UNIVERSIDAD LA SALLE MEXICO

Desde el 2007, el Programa Adopte un Talento (PAUTA) busca dar respuesta a la necesidad de brindar espacios para vivir la ciencia de una manera diferente. PAUTA busca el desarrollo de las habilidades científicas que fomenten el pensamiento crítico en niños, niñas y jóvenes para que cuestionen su entorno y propongan su mejora. En este artículo se...

Se analizó el potencial turístico en la Reserva Ecológica Comunitaria San Miguel Topilejo (SMT), a partir del análisis del paisaje, la riqueza vegetal y la posibilidad de práctica turística. En el análisis del paisaje se encontró a los cuadrantes 1,3 y 5 como los mejores espacios para la dicha actividad. El análisis de la riqueza vegetal mostró que...

Some biopolymers have been used as an aid in wastewater treatment through coagulation-flocculation. Some of them are commercially available, like guar bean and locust bean seed gum, which are well known for their properties as coagulants-flocculants, besides being surfactants. The aim of this work is to show how three seed gums and two mucilages ar...

Galactomannans have a wide spectrum of applications. They can be used as thickening and gelling agents. Guar and locust bean gums have been reported with interesting applications in the printing and oil industries. At the end of the applications, the use of galactomannans as coagulant-flocculant aids has been reported recently. Our working group ha...

The aim of this work was to optimize the coagulation-flocculation (CF) process applied to municipal wastewaters (WW). Optimization of CF was performed to minimize chemical oxygen demand (COD), turbidity, sludge produced, and some metals in sludge. A Box-Behnken design was used to evaluate the effects and interactions of three factors such as type o...

The aim of this work was to evaluate the role of three biopolymers used as coagulant–flocculant aids in the treatment of a high-load cosmetic industry wastewater (WW) located in Mexico. Discussion is based on a surface response methodology. When using guar, locust bean gum, and Opuntia mucilage, conductivity and turbidity removals as high as 20.1 a...

Prosopis laevigata and Opuntia ficus-indica grow in arid and semiarid regions of Mexico and other countries. Both produce biopolymers with interesting characteristics from the rheological point of view as well as because of their coagulating -flocculating capabilities. Prosopis produce galactomannans inside the endosperm, very similar to those foun...