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Method based on life cycle assessment and TOPSIS to integrate environmental award criteria into green public procurement
Elsevier (2019-01-31)Green public procurement (GPP) aims to integrate environmental criteria into public tender as instrument to develop and encourage production and consumption of sustainable products and services. Inclusion of award criteria ... -
Methodological proposals for improved assessments of the impact of traffic noise upon human health
Springer-Verlag (2010)Several methodological shortcomings still hinder the inclusion of transport noise as an established impact category within life cycle assessment (LCA). Earlier attempts to quantify the health damages caused by traffic noise ... -
Methodology based on genetic heuristics for in-vivo characterizing the patient-specific biomechanical behavior of the breast tissues
Elsevier (2015)This paper presents a novel methodology to in-vivo estimate the elastic constants of a constitutive model proposed to characterize the mechanical behavior of the breast tissues. An iterative search algorithm based on genetic ... -
Methodology to design a municipal solid waste generation and composition map : A case study
Elsevier (2014-11)The municipal solid waste (MSW) management is an important task that local governments as well as private companies must take into account to protect human health, the environment and to preserve natural resources. To ... -
La metodología de aprendizaje basado en proyectos (ABP) aplicada a asignaturas de ciencia de los materiales en ingeniería en la red IdM@ti
Sociedad Española de Materiales SOCIEMAT (2017)En este trabajo se va a presentar una experiencia docente llevada a cabo de forma coordinada entre profesorado de la red de innovación docente en ciencia de materiales IdM@ti. Se trata por tanto de una experiencia ... -
Método para evaluar el impacto del ruido del transporte rodado en el marco del análisis del ciclo de vida.
Federación de Asociaciones de Ingenieros Industriales (2014)Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a widely used tool for assessing the environmental impacts of a product or service throughout its life cycle. This includes transportation, which causes various environmental problems such ... -
MgSO4·7H2O filled macro cellular foams: An innovative composite sorbent for thermo-chemical energy storage applications for solar buildings
Elsevier (2018)For seasonal energy storage using solar energy in buildings heating and DHW, thermochemical technology represents the most promising alternative due to the virtually absence of heat losses during storage period. This work ... -
Micro-generation and micro combined heat and power generation using “free” low temperature heat sources through Organic Rankine Cycles
European Association for the Development of Renewable Energies, Environment and Power Quality (2013-03)The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology is an efficient way for small-scale generation. It offers great benefits from low temperature heat sources, recovering waste heat and revaluing renewable thermal energy. This ... -
Microstructure and Mechanical Behavior of Porous Ti–6Al–4V Processed by Spherical Powder Sintering
MDPI (2013)Reducing the stiffness of titanium is an important issue to improve the behavior of this material when working together with bone, which can be achieved by generating a porous structure. The aim of this research was to ... -
Microstructure and mechanical properties of grains of silica nanofluids dried in an acoustic levitator
Elsevier (2012)The microstructure and mechanical properties of spray-dried grains are key factors in many applications. In this work single droplets of silica nanofluids were dried in an acoustic levitator under different experimental ... -
Modeling and multi-objective optimization of an R450A vapor compression refrigeration system
Elsevier (2019-01-05)The main objective of this work is to comprehensively investigate R450A behavior in refrigeration systems and subsequently optimize the main operating variables for the first time to reach the maximum performance. For this ... -
Modeling of a PCM TES Tank Used as an Alternative Heat Sink for a Water Chiller. Analysis of Performance and Energy Savings
MDPI (2019-09-24)Phase change materials (PCMs) can be used in refrigeration systems to redistribute the thermal load. The main advantages of the overall system are a more stable energy performance, energy savings, and the use of the ... -
Modeling of Drying Curves of Silica Nanofluid Droplets Dried in an Acoustic Levitator Using the Reaction Engineering Approach (REA) Model
Taylor & Francis (2013)The use of nanoparticles has become of great interest in different industrial applications. The spray drying of nanofluids forms nanostructured grains, preserving the nanoparticle properties. In this work, individual ... -
Modeling of wastewater treatment processes with hydrosludge
Wiley (2021-11-09)The pressure for Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRF) operators to efficiently treat wastewater is greater than ever because of the water crisis, produced by the climate change effects and more restrictive regulations. ... -
Modelling and evaluation of a high-temperature heat pump two-stage cascade with refrigerant mixtures as a fossil fuel boiler alternative for industry decarbonization
Elsevier (2022-05-22)High-Temperature Heat Pump (HTHP) is becoming a feasible technology for decarbonization, being proposed as an alternative to fossil fuel boilers in several industrial, commercial, and urban applications. This work presents ... -
Modelling and experimental investigation of horizontal buoyant gas jets injected into stagnant uniform ambient liquid
Elsevier (2017-07)In this article, an experimental and theoretical study on the buoyant non-condensable gas jet that is injected horizontally into a high-density liquid ambient at different initial conditions is performed. Direct and ... -
Modelling energy efficiency performance of residential building stocks based on Bayesian statistical inference
Elsevier (2016)This paper provides a model based on Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation to predict the energy performance of existing residential building stocks. The energy demand and the discomfort hours for heating and cooling ... -
Modified geometry of spur gear drives for compensation of shaft deflections
Springer (2015)One of the main problems when standard spur gears are in mesh is the appearance of edge contact on the gear tooth surfaces caused by misalignments. Those misalignments are caused partially by deflections of gear supporting ... -
Multi-objective optimization of a novel reversible High-Temperature Heat Pump-Organic Rankine Cycle (HTHP-ORC) for industrial low-grade waste heat recovery
Elsevier (2019-08-08)Nowadays, a high amount of industrial thermal energy is still lost due to the lack of competitive solutions for energy revalorization. Facing this challenge, this paper presents a novel technology, based on a reversible ... -
Multi-performance experimental assessment of autogenous and crystalline admixture-stimulated self-healing in UHPFRCCs: Validation and reliability analysis through an inter-laboratory study
Elsevier (2023-10-05)The huge benefits brought by the use of Ultra High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Cementitious Composites (UHPFRCCs) include their high “intrinsic” durability, which is guaranteed by (1) the compact microstructure and (2) ...