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An integrated PROMETHEE II-Roadmap model: Application to the recovery of residu...
Alves, Adriana S.F.; Nunes, Leonel J.R.; Matias, João C.O.; Espadinha-Cruz, P.; Godina, RaduRural fires are currently one of the main global disasters, and Portugal is among the countries that have suffered from them for decades. These fires pose economic, environmental, and social threats to the country. A primary cause of rural fires is the burning of biomass to clear agroforestry residues. Thus, combating rural fires requires more effective forest management, particularly the removal of forest resi...
Reducing Rural Fire Risk through the Development of a Sustainable Supply Chain ...
Casau, Margarida; Dias, Marta Ferreira; Teixeira, Leonor; Matias, João C.O.; Nunes, Leonel J.R.In the European Mediterranean region, rural fires are a widely known problem that cause serious socio-economic losses and undesirable environmental consequences, including the loss of lives, infrastructures, cultural heritage, and ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and the provisioning of raw materials. In the last decades, the collapse of the traditional rural socioeconomic systems that once chara...
Assessment of Woody Residual Biomass Generation Capacity in the Central Region ...
Nunes, Leonel J.R.; Casau, Margarida; Matias, João C.O.; Dias, Marta FerreiraBiomass is an alternative energy source with high potential to contribute to the global energy mix and to countries’ energetic independence. The case of Portugal is particularly relevant, given its biomass availability. Thus, the quantification of woody residual biomass is assumed to be urgent. To achieve the objective of quantifying residual woody biomass, various available data were used, namely the Land Cove...
Residual Biomass: A Comprehensive Review on the Importance, Uses and Potential ...
Casau, Margarida; Dias, Marta Ferreira; Matias, João C.O.; Nunes, Leonel J.R.The paradigm shift towards sustainable growth is urgent, and biomass, which is the oldest energy source that humans have used since the discovery of fire, might play an important role. Biomass waste from forestry and agriculture is expected to fuel part of the increasing demand for biomass, and its valorization allows for more the efficient use of nutrients and resources. In this study, we carried out an extens...
A comprehensive review of industrial symbiosis
Neves, Angela; Godina, Radu; Azevedo, Susana G.; Matias, João C.O.Industrial symbiosis, which allows entities and companies that traditionally be separated, to cooperate among them in the sharing of resources, contributes to the increase of sustainability with environmental, economic and social benefits. Examples of industrial symbiosis have grown over the years with increasing geographic dispersion. Thus, through a comprehensive review of previous studies, this work aims to ...
Evaluation of the utilization of woodchips as fuel for industrial boilers
Nunes, Leonel J.R.; Godina, Radu; Matias, João C.O.; Catalão, João P.S.This study aims to evaluate the implications of the use of maritime pine non-debarked wood chips as an alternative solid fuel in industrial boilers in Portugal, highlighting the energy properties and chemical composition of the produced ash. Several samples are collected from different sources, on which a proximate analysis is carried out in order to determine the volatile matter content, fixed carbon content, ...