O presente trabalho de estudo de caso foi levado a cabo junto a escola São Paulo, em regime de gestão privada, que engloba apenas os dois níveis do ensino básico - Iº e IIº ciclos, com um universo total de 457 alunos. Sendo, em termos de género, 221 (48%) alunos do sexo masculino e 236 (52%) do sexo feminino. A escola localiza-se no Setor Autónomo de Bissau (SAB), concretamente no bairro São Paulo. A pesquisa t...
The sustainability assessment of an energy conversion process into electrical energy is carried out in technological, economical, environmental and social dimensions. A solid basis for a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary assessment using data obtained from the literature supports the sustainability comparison. Thus, indicators that best describe the technologies and that are related to each of the abovemention...
The sustainability of renewable energy conversion systems for electricity supply is quantified and compared. The energy conversion systems considered are: wind, photovoltaic, geothermal, hydro, hydrogen, ocean (wave and tidal power) and nuclear. The sustainability analysis is performed covering technological, economic, environmental and social aspects. The indicators selected to characterize and quantify the su...
A sustentabilidade de vários processos de conversão de energia em energia eléctrica, especialmente, os alternativos aos combustíveis fosseis, são analisados e comparados neste trabalho. As tecnologias analisadas são baseadas em fontes de energia renovável: eólica, solar, oceanos (ondas e marés), hídrica, geotérmica, nuclear e hidrogénio. Os dados relativos ao processo tecnológico de conversão de energia são fun...
The conversion of solar energy into electricity reveals a huge importance in the production of “clean” energy , mainly when applied to decentralized production systems (micro-generation). However, there is the need to develop and optimize these processes in order to turn it more sustainable in economic and technological scoops. The main purpose of this work is to study the solar energy conversion into electrici...