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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1680-0338</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[riha]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1680-0338</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro de Investigaciones Hidráulicas (CIH). Facultad de Ingeniería Civil. Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana "José A. Hecheverría" CUJAE]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1680-03382020000200064</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Criterios de diseño y escalado de biodiscos para el tratamiento de aguas residuales]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Design and scaleup criteria of biodiscs for wastewater treatment]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Menéndez Gutiérrez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Carlos]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Dueñas Moreno]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jaime]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría (Cujae) Fac. de Ing. Química Centro de Estudios de Ingeniería de Procesos (CIPRO)]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Marianao La Habana]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,SEPI-ESIQIE del Instituto Politécnico Nacional Lab. Ing. Química Ambiental ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Zacatenco Ciudad de México]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>41</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>64</fpage>
<lpage>74</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1680-03382020000200064&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1680-03382020000200064&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1680-03382020000200064&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN En el trabajo se ofrece una visión general de las características de los biodiscos para el tratamiento de aguas residuales, así como algunas de sus principales ventajas y desventajas. De igual manera, sin proponer una metodología para su diseño, se brindan elementos para el mismo, y criterios de las variables de operación.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT The paper offers an overview of the characteristics of biodiscs for wastewater treatment, as well as some of its main advantages and disadvantages. In the same way, without providing a methodology for its design, elements for it and criteria of the operation variables are provided.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[aguas residuales]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[biodiscos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[escalado]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[diseño]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[wastewater]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[biodiscs]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[scaling]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[design]]></kwd>
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