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ICEER2016 - a review & ICEER2017 - a preview
Caetano, Nídia Sá; Felgueiras, Carlos; Forment, Marc AlierThis volume of Energy Procedia serves as proceedings of ICEER2016, the 3rd International Conference on Energy and Environment Research, 7-9 September 2016, Barcelona, Spain. The ICEER2016 conference was organized by BarcelonaTECH (Universitat Poltècnica de Catalunya), assisted by University Research Institute for Sustainability Science and Technology, ISEP (School of Engineering of Polytechnic of Porto), Birla ...
New trends in energy production and utilization
Caetano, Nídia Sá; Mata, Teresa M.; Martins, António A.; Felgueiras, CarlosEnergy has been the engine of nations’ development, and this has driven mankind towards growing energy needs, in particular for transportation, agricultural and industrial activities and buildings. Energy for transportation is based on oil derived fuel, whereas energy in buildings consists mainly of electricity, which is produced from fossil fuels, nuclear power and/or from renewable energy sources, such as hyd...
Engineering education towards sustainability
Felgueiras, Carlos; Rocha, João S.; Caetano, Nídia SáThe traditional systems have been studied in an isolated mode, seek to respond to a specific need and deal with a restricted set of variables. The targets established for energy efficient systems and energy sustainability imply that new systems are more comprehensive and combine the various individual systems. This new topology requires a new kind of engineering professionals provided with new skills. New engin...
Lipid Content and Productivity of Arthrospira platensis and Chlorella vulgaris ...
Mata, Teresa M.; Martins, António A.; Oliveira, Octávio; Oliveira, Sandra; Mendes, Adélio M.; Caetano, Nídia SáThis study aims at evaluating the influence of mixotrophic growth and salinity stress in the lipid content and productivities of microalgae Arthrospira platensis (A. platensis) and Chlorella vulgaris (C. vulgaris). For comparison purposes, both microalgae were also cultivated in the standard autotrophic conditions: modified Zarrouk’s medium for A. platensis and Bold’s basal medium for C. vulgaris. The mixotroph...
Sustainability Evaluation of Biodiesel from Arthrospira platensis and Chlorella...
Martins, António A.; Mata, Teresa M.; Oliveira, Octávio; Oliveira, Sandra; Mendes, Adélio M.; Caetano, Nídia SáThis study performs a sustainability evaluation of biodiesel production from microalgae Arthrospira platensis (A. platensis) and Chlorella vulgaris (C. vulgaris) cultivated in mixotrophic conditions, with and without salinity stress, in comparison to autotrophic conditions. The life cycle steps considered for the evaluation are microalgae cultivation, biomass harvesting, lipids extraction, biodiesel production,...
Buildings Sustainability: The HVAC Contribution
Felgueiras, Carlos; Santos, Rute; Fonseca, Luís Miguel; Caetano, Nídia SáA very important part of the globally produced energy is consumed in buildings, being an important share frequently used in the HVAC systems. These ones are increasing both in performance and in complexity, taking advantage from the use of the recent advances in mechanical and power electronic devices, particularly in the speed variation field. However the improved efficiency only occurs while the HVAC unit is ...
Learning Sustainability with EPS@ISEP – Development of a Water Disinfection System
Jenei, Ádám; Bazylinska, Aleksandra; Walczak, Joanna; Küttis, Sander; Malheiro, Benedita; Ribeiro, Maria Cristina; Silva, Manuel; Caetano, Nídia SáThe European Project Semester (EPS) is a one-semester capstone project/internship programme offered to engineering, product design and business undergraduates by 18 European engineering schools. EPS aims to prepare future engineers to think and act globally by adopting project-based learning and teamwork methodologies. The EPS@ISEP programme – the EPS programme provided by ISEP – the School of Engineering of th...
A multicultural approach to teach sustainability
Caetano, Nídia Sá; Rocha, João; Quadrado, José Carlos; Cardoso, José Marílio; Felgueiras, CarlosGlobalization is a trend that covers all society perspectives in general, and higher education in particular. The main traditional objective of higher education institutions has been to prepare domestic students with a given set of skills. Research competition and University’s rankings, as well as the need to reach other publics, pushed them towards internationalization. The exchange of students across the EU i...
Learning Sustainability and Social Compromise Skills – a new Track is Born
Caetano, Nídia Sá; López, David; Cabré, JoseThis is a new conference track that is about the relationship between engineering education and sustainability. In this paper the need for introduction of Sustainability and Social Compromise skills in the curricula of the engineering courses (either bachelor or master degrees) is discussed. A few aspects that have to be taken into consideration are pointed out for discussion.
Design and Development of a Solar Dryer for Microalgae Retrieval - An EPS@ISEP ...
Brygider, Aleksandra; Marciniak, Bartlomiej; Verbraeken, Bénédicte; Ahlskog, Paul; Petersen, Sven; Malheiro, Benedita; Ribeiro, Maria CristinaCurrently excessive fossil fuel consumption has become a serious problem. People are searching for new solutions of energy production and there are several options to obtain alternative sources of energy without further devastating the already destroyed environment. One of these solutions is growing microalgae, from which biodiesel can be obtained. The microalgae production is a growing business because of its ...