HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning) heating and cooling systems are responsible for the largest share of energy use in buildings and play an important role as they represent 40% of the energy consumption in Europe and 36% of the Greenhouse Gases. In this context, heat pumps have positioned themselves in the market as the most appropriate solution for saving emissions, as demonstrated by the high le...
This work focuses on the development of a regional P-T-path from the Malpica-Lamego Ductile Shear Zone, NW Portugal, based on the microstructures of shearband boudins evolved during progressive simple shear. The combination of microstructural analysis, fluid inclusion studies, crystallographic pre- ffered orientation and fractal geometry analyses, allows to link several stages in the internal evolution of the b...