Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bioelectrochemical system (BES) capable of converting the chemical energy contained in the chemical bonds of a substrate into electrical energy by means of electrochemical reactions catalyzed ...
In the last years, international and national policies have been developed in order to encourage the improvement of energy efficiency. They have also been developed in order to reduce the environmental, economic and social ...
During April-May 2010, the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland caused the larger breakdown of civil aviation after World War II. Although the eruption was weak in intensity, the dispersal of volcanic ash clouds ...
(English) The building sector has nowadays become a key point for policies and strategies to reduce energy and greenhouse gas emissions. The significant and unprecedented urban expansion that occurred in recent years and ...
El procés de compostatge és complex degut a que hi intervenen simultàniamentfenòmens de naturalesa molt diversa que interactuen entre ells. La modelitzaciómatemàtica és una eina que facilita l’anàlisi d’aquests sistemes ...
Intensive fish culture in floating cages is one of aquaculture activities that has grown fastest in recent years. However, this activity produces impacts ranging from alterations in the natural environment to social and ...
The available literature on Landslide Risk Assessment is less than the available on Hazard zonation topics. A reason is the inherent difficult to develop quantitative landslide risk assessment; this type of analysis requires ...
En 1950 vivían en Suramérica unos 113 millones de personas; en 2010, 393 millones, tres veces y media más. La mitad de ellos vive en la pobreza. En 2050, alrededor de 485 millones vivirán allí. Las figuras contemporáneas ...
Water is a limited resource essential for life. Human activities have been exercising considerable pressures on it. The unsustainable use and the need to improve the management of water are among the largest global concerns ...
Constructed Wetlands (CWs) are a wastewater treatment technology that inherits the purification potential of natural wetlands and optimizes it to comply with regulations for treated discharges. CWs have become an equally ...
Reactions and processes that occur in microalgae and bacteria systems are difficult to understand because most of them take place simultaneously and depend on many parameters such as temperature, solar radiation, nutrients ...
This thesis aims to identify other alternatives to evaluate the Development Plans and Territorial Planning (PDOT), since traditionally the system of evaluation of the municipalities is only to measure if the objectives, ...
This thesis analyzes the complexity of the urban system, being described with multiple variables that represent the environmental, economic, and social characters of the city. The portrayal of the urban diversity and its ...
In this thesis we analyzed the preferences of consumers towards foods enriched with healthy components, in particular omega-3 (n-3). Beef and egg have been chosen as case studies. In the first case study, the preferences ...
Based on technology and science developments as a way of knowing the world, our way of life and the way we interact with the environment have been transformed, in the last two and a half centuries. These changes imply ...
En esta tesis hemos elaborado una propuesta metodológica de análisis de la sostenibilidad regional utilizando la visión sistémica para su conceptualización, el paradigma de la sostenibilidad para su análisis, la metodología ...
Energy audits have been, and are basically the study and analysis of energy flows in a building, process or system with the aim of knowing its behavior in order to find possibilities for energy improvement. It is primarily ...
The energy sector reform is one of the major challenges that must be faced globally during the current century. The energy model, in which the economic growth of major economies is sustained, based mainly on the intensive ...
Access to energy is crucial to human welfare; no residential, commercial or industrial activity can be conceived without energy supply. At the same time, current dependence on fossil fuels and their negative effects on ...
The research "Antagonistic Territorial Projects and Symbolic Anticooperation in South American mega-infrastructures" aims to understand the confrontation of the various existing territorial projects in South America, as ...
