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Subcooling methods for CO 2 refrigeration cycles: A review
Elsevier (2018-09)CO2 subcooling has resulted a method to upgrade the performance of CO2 refrigeration plants in the recent years, with overall improvements up to 12% with internal heat exchangers, 22% with economizers, 25.6% with thermoelectric ... -
Summarizing the impacts of future potential global change scenarios on seawater intrusion at the aquifer scale
Springer (2020-02-21)Climate change afects rainfall and temperature producing a breakdown in the water balance and a variation in the dynamic of freshwater–seawater in coastal areas, exacerbating seawater intrusion (SWI) problems. The target ... -
Supporting Connectivism in Knowledge Based Engineering with Graph Theory, Filtering Techniques and Model Quality Assurance
Elsevier (2018-10)Mass-customization has forced manufacturing companies to put significant efforts to digitize and automate their engineering and production processes. When new products are to be developed and introduced the production is ... -
Surveying the Perception of the Environmental Advantages of an Adaptable Product
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Bogotá). Facultad de Ingeniería (2020)The aim of adaptable design is to create products that can easily adapt to different needs. The objective if this study is to analyze the effectivenes in communication to promote an adaptable baby stroller, in order to ... -
Sustainability on the urban scale: proposal of a structure of indicators for the Spanish context
Elsevier (2015-07)Some efforts to assess sustainability on the urban scale have been made and different tools for measuring the impact on and caused by cities have emerged. However, the sustainability concept varies from region to region, ... -
Sustainability reports as a tool for measuring and monitoring the transition towards the circular economy of organisations: Proposal of indicators and metrics
Elsevier (2022-08-11)Sustainability reports may play an important role as a supporting tool in the transition of organisations towards more circular economy models, since their content can help to measure, monitor and communicate the organisations’ ... -
Sustainability-oriented stimuli and their effects on circularity and novelty in conceptual design (Epub ahead of print)
Taylor and Francis Ltd. (2024-02-14)The controlled provision of stimuli during idea generation is considered effective to boost creativity in early design phases. As the interest for sustainable product development and circular design is growing, this paper ... -
Synchronous communication in PLM environments using annotated CAD models
Springer Verlag (2016-06)The connection of resources, data, and knowledge through communication technology plays a vital role in current collaborative design methodologies and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems, as these elements act as ... -
Synergy-Based Sensor Reduction for Recording the Whole Hand Kinematics
MDPI (2021)Simultaneous measurement of the kinematics of all hand segments is cumbersome due to sensor placement constraints, occlusions, and environmental disturbances. The aim of this study is to reduce the number of sensors required ... -
Synthesis and characterization of gold/water nanofluids suitable for thermal applications produced by femtosecond laser radiation
Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) (2016-07)A laser-based “green” synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) was used to manufacture gold NPs in water. The light source is a Ti:Sapphire laser with 30 fs FWHM pulses, 800 nm mean wavelength, and 1 kHz repetition rate. The ... -
System for the experimental evaluation of anthropomorphic hands. Application to a new 3D-printed prosthetic hand prototype
Taylor & Francis (2017)In the present study, we propose a new actuation device and protocol for testing the grasping performance of low-cost 3D-printed hand prototypes. The actuation device is connected to the forearm of a healthy user and allows ... -
Taking the customer into account in collaborative design
Springer Verlag (2010)This article describes the improvement of a model of collaborative design for the ceramic industry. A new stakeholder playing a crucial role is now included in the design process, i.e. the customer. Specifically, we present ... -
Teachers as Designers of Formative e-Rubrics: A Case Study on the Introduction and Validation of Go/No Go Criteria
Springer Verlag (2019-07-18)Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) offer new roles to teachers to improve learning processes. In this regard, learning rubrics are commonplace. However, the design of these rubrics has focused mainly ... -
Techno-economic analysis of a PV/T waste heat–driven compound ejector-heat pump for simultaneous data centre cooling and district heating using low global warming potential refrigerants
Springer Nature (2022-08-05)A comprehensive techno-economic evaluation is evaluated based on an innovative compound ejector-heat pump system with PV/T (photovoltaic thermal) waste heat-driven. The aim of the system is simultaneous data centre cooling ... -
Technologies for Building a Spatial Augmented Reality Prototype to Act as a Creative Resource for Designers and Artists
Common Ground Publishing (2015-07)This paper analyzes the technologies, devices and equipment available today that can contribute to the creation of an interactive environment based on Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR). The objective is to define what should ... -
Temporal evolution of the environmental performance of implementing selective collection in municipal waste management systems in developing countries: A Brazilian case study
Elsevier (2018)The aim of this study is to analyse the evolution of the municipal solid waste management system of João Pessoa (Brazil), which was one of the Brazilian pioneers cities in implementing door-to-door selective collection ... -
Tensile test on interlayer materials for laminated glass under diverse ageing conditions and strain rates
Elsevier (2020-05-20)Laminated glass is obtained by bonding two or more glass layers with a polymeric interlayer. The coupling between glass layers depends on the shear stiffness of the interlayer. The mechanical and optical properties of the ... -
Ternary refrigerant blends for ultra-low temperature refrigeration
Elsevier (2023)The absence of GWP limitation for refrigerants operating in vapour compression systems with a target temperature below –50 ◦C has caused slower market development. Therefore, while typical refrigeration applications have ... -
Testing the degree of biostabilization in the refuse from composting plants
Science Publishing Group (2014-10-30)In composting plants, aerobic fermentation could not to be complete and therefore, the fate of unstabilyzed wastes from the compost refining, uses to be landfill. This fact provokes an extra biogas generation in landfills, ... -
TEWI analysis of a standalone refrigeration system using low-GWP fluids with leakage ratio consideration
Elsevier (2020-06-04)In few years, stand-alone systems will rely on low-GWP refrigerants in order to reduce their direct impact, which agrees with the recent regulations and standards. However, the energy performance of the system is dependent ...