With a technical background rooted in over three decades of experience, Sergio Tuset has contributed to more than 400 environmental engineering projects across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. This section presents a curated selection of his most relevant engagements, structured by industrial sector and highlighting his expertise in advanced process design for water, air, and waste treatment systems.
Sergio Tuset has designed advanced treatment systems for large-scale battery production, including solvent recovery and ZLD processes adapted to lithium-ion and sodium-ion technologies.
Selected references:
Northvolt (Sweden) – Design of NMP vapor and solvent recovery systems in Li-ion battery manufacturing.
Northvolt (Sweden) – ZLD process design for wastewater generated during aluminum can washing.
Natron (USA) – Recovery system for Decalin vapors in sodium-ion battery production.
Expertise in critical raw materials recovery (Ni, Co, Mn, Li) and final effluent treatment with ZLD configurations in state-of-the-art recycling plants.
Selected references:
Mecaware (France), Pratgir (Spain) – Process design for selective recovery of nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium.
Redwood (USA), Mecaware (FR), Pratgir (ES), Ionway–Seen (Poland), Elemental Strategic Metals (Poland) – ZLD system for final leaching effluents in recycling of Li-ion batteries.
Development of water and gas treatment systems in thermal, CCPP and CSP plants, including DeSOx, DeNOx and ZLD implementations.
Selected references:
Naturgy (Spain) – Wastewater treatment design for DeSOx units in coal-fired power plants.
CFE (Mexico) – ZLD solutions for reject streams in combined cycle power plants (2 sites).
Atlantica Yield (USA) – Evaporation pond substitution by ZLD in a CSP plant (Solana, Arizona).
ACS (USA) – DeNOx system design from thermal energy storage at Crescent Dunes CSP plant.
Design of mitigation systems for odor and wastewater in phosphoric acid and organic fertilizer production.
Selected references:
OCP (Morocco) – Odor mitigation study and design of palliative system in phosphoric acid production.
Fertinagro, Tervalis Group (Spain) – Odor mitigation study and wastewater treatment system design for organic fertilizer production.
Advanced design for radioactive wastewater and leachate treatment, including separation of isotopes and remediation of legacy sites.
Selected references:
ENUSA (Spain) – Optimized runoff treatment design for a decommissioned uranium mine.
TEPCO (Japan) – Design for tritium removal in 1.37 million metric tons of wastewater following the Fukushima disaster (project awarded).
EDF (France) – Design for Ag-110 isotope removal using special adsorbents.
Campoverde (Italy) – Design for Cs-137 isotope removal from leachate.
IDOM Nuclear, NPP Kozloduy (Bulgaria) – Design of vacuum evaporator for boric acid liquid waste in nuclear decommissioning.
ORANO (France), KNF-KEPCO (Korea), Dioxitek (Argentina) – Treatment system design for liquid radioactive wastes in nuclear fuel production.
Specialized solutions for nitrate removal, desalination and biopolymer recovery in agriculture and aquaculture sectors.
Selected references:
CDTI (Spain) – Nitrogen (nitrate) removal design for underground infiltration from intensive agriculture (Rambla del Albujón, awarded project).
Alvarez Farms (Chile) – Irrigation water desalination from well sources (Valle Limarí).
JSC (Vietnam) – Design for chitin/chitosan concentration and recovery from shrimp shells.
Projects involving wastewater treatment and protein concentration in fish rendering, with odor mitigation strategies.
Selected references:
Valofish (Tunisia) – Design for protein concentration using vacuum evaporation and drying in fish rendering.
SANIMAX (Canada) – Wastewater treatment and protein recovery system design for rendering operations.
COPALIS (France) – Odor mitigation in fish rendering process for animal feed production.
Engineering of effluent treatment, metal recovery and residue valorization processes in galvanizing, casting and steelmaking.
Selected references:
INGALSA, GALVATOLEDO (Spain) – Process design for zinc removal in HCl spent pickling liquor from hot-dip galvanizing.
TAP, Tubos Reunidos (Spain); SEAH Steel (Korea) – Process design for SPL recovery from sulfuric acid steel pickling.
ZF (Germany) – Wastewater treatment design for aluminum die casting.
ALTEK (UK) – Design for salt recovery in aluminum salt slags recycling.
Befesa Zinc (Korea) – Optimization of wastewater treatment in zinc recovery from steelworks dust, including fluoride and antimony removal.
