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Energy performance factors in wastewater treatment plants: A review
Cardoso, B. J.; Rodrigues, E.; Gaspar, A. R.; Gomes, Á.Given their increasing number and the implementation of more energy-intensive treatment methods, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) expect to increase energy consumption. In addition, climate change presents new challenges to the operation of these facilities, thus being critical to understand how to improve their energy performance and environmental sustainability while ensuring the quality of service provide...
Integrated Management of Residential Energy Resources
Soares, A.; Gomes, Á.; Antunes, C. H.The increasing deployment of distributed generation systems based on renewables in the residential sector, the development of information and communication technologies and the expected evolution of traditional power systems towards smart grids are inducing changes in the passive role of end-users, namely with stimuli to change residential demand patterns. The residential user should be able to make decisions a...