The construction industry is a sector with high risk rates due to the nature of the activities and the chemical agents that are handled; For this reason, it is essential to guarantee the safety and health of workers to ...

This research focuses on the analysis of prescription cascades in pharmacological treatments in adults over 65 years of age in the city of Machala, Ecuador. This phenomenon refers to the unnecessary use of medicines resulting ...

The objective of this research was the production and physicochemical characterization of biochars from organic waste, specifically coconut shell and orange peel, collected from the "25 de Junio" market in Machala. The ...

In this project, a mine drainage treatment process was designed and implemented using the physicochemical systems of sedimentation and coagulation-flocculation. An effective sedimentation column was constructed that removed ...

Bromelain is a proteolytic enzyme present in pineapple (Ananas comosus), with applications in pharmaceutical, food and biotechnological industries. The study focused on the extraction of bromelain from pineapple residues, ...

This study addresses the need to develop sustainable adsorbent materials for gold recovery in metallurgical processes. Activated carbon (AC) was developed from banana rachis, an abundant agricultural waste in banana-producing ...

This study aimed to obtain an optimal ethanol yield by co-fermenting cocoa mucilage (CM) and ripe banana peel (RB), with a view to producing second-generation ethanol. To this end, several specific objectives were set, ...

The present study is governed by the extraction and characterization of the essential oil of mullein (Bonellia sprucei), by means of steam distillation. Through the application of gas chromatography coupled to mass ...