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Investigating the environmental sustainability of a seabass and seabream aquacu...
Briones-Hidrovo, Andrei; Quinteiro, Paula; Dias, Ana CláudiaAquaculture plays an essential role in supplying animal-source food and protein worldwide, in this way contributing to several sustainable development goals. Notwithstanding this, the aquaculture sector's long-term environmental sustainability is a major concern due to overall environmental impacts. To date, and to the best of the authors' knowledge, assessments of aquaculture systems in Portugal from an enviro...
Environmental and energy performance of residual forest biomass for electricity...
Briones-Hidrovo, Andrei; Copa, José; Tarelho, Luís A.C.; Gonçalves, Cátia; Pacheco da Costa, Tamíris; Dias, Ana CláudiaBioenergy systems have a great potential worldwide to substitute fossil fuels mainly because they may contribute to greenhouse gas emissions reduction. In Portugal, several biomass combustion-based power plants have been built in the last decade. Biomass gasification is a potential alternative to combustion but its environmental impacts should be evaluated. The goal of this study is to assess and compare the en...