Metodologia de tratamento de lamas e organização do balanço de massas

A gestão das lamas tornou-se uma das questões mais críticas para a indústria do tratamento das águas residuais em todo o mundo. Cada vez é mais rápido o incremento do volume de lamas produzido, como consequência do aumento do número de habitantes ligados aos sistemas de drenagem existentes e às estações de tratamento de águas residuais (ETAR). Por outro lado os critérios de descarga nos efluentes são cada vez mais exigentes. O trabalho consiste no estudo de um modelo de cálculo para determinar os caudais e cargas orgânicas, CBO (carência bioquímica de oxigénio) e de SST (sólidos suspensos totais) dos sobrenadantes (clarificados) produzidos no tratamento das águas residuais e do tratamento das lamas com base no conhecimento dos caudais e características tratar. A elaboração do balanço de massas é a primeira ferramenta para compreender as e dimensionar uma ETAR. Este balanço permite determinar não só o incremento de caudais de sólidos e de cargas poluentes (sobrenadantes) que são reintroduzidos a montante da ETAR, como também é uma ajuda importante para o correcto dimensionamento das diversas fases de tratamento.

Solution enthalpies of hydroxylic compounds

Solution enthalpies of adamantan-1-ol, 2-methyl- butan-2-ol, and 3-methylbutan-1-ol have been measured at 298.15 K, in a set of 16 protogenic and non-protogenic solvents. The identification and quantification of solvent effects on the solution processes under study were performed using quantitative-structure property relationships. The results are discussed in terms of solute-solvent-solvent interactions and also in terms of the influence of compound's size and position of its hydroxyl group.

On performance of distributed model predictive control in power system frequency regulation

This paper describes the implementation of a distributed model predictive approach for automatic generation control. Performance results are discussed by comparing classical techniques (based on integral control) with model predictive control solutions (centralized and distributed) for different operational scenarios with two interconnected networks. These scenarios include variable load levels (ranging from a small to a large unbalance generated power to power consumption ratio) and simultaneously variable distance between the interconnected networks systems. For the two networks the paper also examines the impact of load variation in an island context (a network isolated from each other).

Deficiência, autonomia e teatro: trabalho de projecto

Trabalho de Projeto submetido à Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Teatro - especialização em Teatro e Comunidade.

‘Thy love afar is spite at home' Emerson, Thoreau and Carey: an alternative perspective of communication in US

The conquest of the West by the stagecoaches and then by railway, Ford and the automobile civilization, the Moon landing by Apollo 11, Microsoft, Apple, CNN, Google and Facebook have appeared to us as celebratory examples of the willingness and ability of the US to overcome the distance and the absence through so-called modern progress of transportation and communication. Undoubtedly, the imaginary and the instrumental power associated to transports and communication of the last century and a half are identified with the mental images that the world has of the US. A world that has eagerly imported and copy their technology and technological culture. Beyond the illusions, this attempting, which has always been praised to transcende space and eclipse the time to get to places and peole increasingly distant and fast, has always a dark side: the political control of population, commercial advertising, the spread of the rumors, noise and gossip. However, since at least the nineteenth century, the political project incorporated in modern transportation and communication technologies was not shared by some of the most remarkable thinkers in the US not only in that century, but also in the 20th century. This paper begins by rescue Ralph W. Emerson and Henry D. Thoreau legacy regarding to communication. Emerson conceived communication as a give-and-take with no coordination between the two, and does not involve contact with the other. Thoreau, in turn, argued that modern trasnportation and communications inventions are but pretty toys which distract attention from serious things, nothing more than 'improved means to an end that is not perfected.' Secondly, we show that this skeptical view of the techological improvement of transport and communication was proceed in an original way with James W. Carey, a media studies thinker who became known for his criticism of the transmission view of communication.