1000 resultados para Environmental Studies


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Um problema de grande relevância social na Amazônia é o fato das pequenas comunidades isoladas não serem contempladas pelos benefícios dos grandes empreendimentos hidrelétricos instalados na região. Uma solução alternativa a para este problema, é o aproveitamento da grande malha de pequenos rios e igarapés da região a partir da implantação de Centrais Geradoras Hidrelétricas – CGH’s (antigas mini e microcentrais).. Dentro deste contexto, o presente trabalho analisa e discute certos aspectos gerais inerentes à implantação das CGH’s, e principalmente, trazendo-os à realidade das pequenas bacias Amazônicas. Os aspectos a serem abordados neste trabalho dizem respeito às avaliações preliminares de terreno, aspectos hidrológicos, tecnológicos, ambientais e financeiros. Os aspectos são analisados de forma global para implantação de CGH’s e suas etapas, também analisados e aplicados a um estudo de caso – implantação da CGH irmã Dorothy na pequena bacia hidrográfica do Igarapé são João em Anapú-pa, onde foi possível a utilização de metodologia existente para um estudo aprimorado de implantação de CGH’s na Amazônia. No âmbito hidrológico, utilizou-se um modelo chuva-vazão desenvolvido por Blanco 2005 e aplicou a pequenas bacias da Amazônia que não possuem registros de vazão. Nos aspectos tecnológicos utilizou ferramentas computacionais para predição de desempenho de turbinas axiais de baixa queda adaptas ao relevo da região, e simulados para a turbina axial a ser implantada na CGH irmã Dorothy. No contexto ambiental atualmente há forte cobrança pelas autoridades competentes locais para realização do estudo ambiental inerente ao aproveitamento, e se tratando da região Amazônica, ambientalmente muita agredida pela ação do homem, os estudos devem ser bem definidos, apontando os possíveis impactos que podem ser causados pela CGH, descritos no RAS (Relatório Ambiental Simplificado) anexo deste trabalho. Desta forma foi desenvolvido um método para cálculo e simulação da área inundada para implantação de CGH’s na Amazônia, aplicado à CGH irmã Dorothy. No âmbito financeiro, são raras as informações referentes aos custos de implantação de CGH’s na Amazônia. Assim, foram levantados os custos referentes à implantação da CGH irmã Dorothy e comparados a custos de CGH’s e de geradores a diesel disponíveis na literatura.

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Os estudos ambientais necessitam de informações sobre a cobertura e o uso da terra. Este trabalho apresenta a aplicação de dados de sensores remotos orbitais (óticos e de radares) na validação de padrões de uso e cobertura do solo na planície costeira amapaense para fins de mapeamento e reconhecimento da dinâmica natural e antrópica. Esta costa é submetida a uma dinâmica intensa devido à magnitude dos processos costeiros (marés-pororoca), sua localização geográfica, influenciada pelo rio Amazonas e pela Zona de Convergência Intertropical, e processos antrópicos associados à bubalinocultura. A análise foi realizada aplicando-se dados de satélite (JERS-1, RADARSAT-1, Landsat 7 e DEM do SRTM) digitalmente processados em abordagem multisensor, multiescala e multitemporal, correlacionada com dados pretéritos e informações de campo. A análise dos produtos gerados e dados colaterais permitiu distinguir oito padrões de uso e cobertura do solo: florestas de mangue, florestas de várzeas, campos arbustivos, áreas de vegetação campestre, campo antrópico, zona de intermaré, canal estuarino e lagos, além de feições morfológicas lineares associadas a estes padrões. Estas informações são importantes para o mapeamento dos ambientes costeiros e fundamentais para o reconhecimento da dinâmica na região.

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Um dos métodos clássicos da geofísica de exploração é o Método de Eletrorresistividade, estabelecido há um século pelos irmãos Schlumberger e desde então amplamente empregado em prospecção mineral, estudos ambientais e hidrogeologia e em pesquisa de fontes geotermais. Conceitualmente o método consiste de injeção de corrente elétrica na subsuperfície e de medida de diferença de potencial elétrico, resultante da interação da corrente com o meio. As localizações dessas fontes e receptores são determinadas pelo arranjo escolhido para o levantamento. Após o processamento, obtém-se pseudo-seções de resistividade aparente que indicam a distribuição de condutividade em subsuperfície. Devido à simplicidade dos fundamentos físicos de sua formulação, o método apresenta fácil implementação computacional quando comparado aos métodos eletromagnéticos de fonte controlada. Na literatura há inúmeros trabalhos de modelagem computacional, onde se calcula a resposta para problemas 2-D e 3-D. Nestes trabalhos, as pseudo-seções são obtidas a partir do cálculo do potencial elétrico total. Neste trabalho, apresentaremos a resposta da modelagem de eletroresistividade 2-D com o arranjo dipolo-dipolo, obtida a partir do potencial elétrico secundário. A solução é calculada através do método de elementos finitos usando malhas não estruturadas. Para efeito de validação, os resultados são comparados com a resposta 2-D obtida a partir dos potencias totais.

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ABSTRACT: In Guajará bay, mouth of the Amazon River, is located the capital of Pará state (Belém) and its metropolitan area. Exists in this area an intense boat traffic, as well as transportation and sale of fuels in floating docks and activities related to the storage and transportation of oil in Miramar Petrochemical Terminal (TEMIR). Small spills and discharges of oil in water can serve as sources of pollution by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs are organic compounds generated by incomplete combustion of organic matter (OM) and are among the contaminants of most interest in environmental studies due to their mutagenic and carcinogenic potential. One way to detect and evaluate the impact of PAHs in an environment is using biomonitors, however the qualitative and quantitative analysis in sediments are most widely used. This study aimed to evaluate, by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS), the 16 PAHs considered as priority by the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States in sediments and benthic organisms (Namalicastys abiuma) of TEMIR. Field expeditions were carried out in December 2012, March, May and June 2013 representing the dried, wet (two samples) and dried seasons successively. Fine sediments levels dominated in both sampling periods and the %Fines in Guajará bays has a direct relationship to the %OM. In relation to the 16 PAHs studied, 10 of them were detected in the wet season sediments samples and 8 in the dried season. Even with a low diversity of aromatic compounds, sediment samples of the dried season presented greater ΣHPAs (1.351,43 ng g-1) than the sediments of the wet season (263,99 ng g-1), which can be related to the increased hydrodynamic in Guajará bay this last period. Correlation analysis indicated that ΣHPAs not seem to be influenced by %Fine and %OM. Benzo(a)pyrene accounted for 87% of ΣHPAs during the wet season, the other PAHs showed percentage ≤ 3%. During the other period stood out: pyrene (18% of ΣHPAs) fluoranthene (16%), the chrysene, benzo(b)fluoranthene (15%) and benzo(a)pyrene (11%). The use of the geochemical reason to interpret likely sources of PAHs indicated that there is a predominance of aromatics from pyrolytic origin in TEMIR. The activities that may be responsible for the PAHs levels observed in sediments and benthic organisms in TEMIR are the discharge of untreated domestic sewage and the emissions of particulates from cars and small/medium boats. The ΣHPAs seems to influence the density of polychaetes because a reduction of about 50% in the number of organisms was observed during the dry season when there was the greater amount of ΣHPAs in their body structure. Among the 16 PAHs studied, 11 were detected in the polychaetes during the dry season (ΣHPAsMED = 848,71 ng g-1) and 10 in the wet season (ΣHPAsMED = 141,85 ng g-1). Were highlighted during the dried season: indeno(1,2,3-c,d)pyrene (47%) and pyrene (23%). While in the wet season: pyrene (23%), chrysene (17%), fluorene (17%) and fluoranthene (13%). The %Rec obtained was >>100% indicating a matrix effect and reducing the quantitative accuracy of results. The use of the polychaete N. abiuma as biomonitor of pollution by PAHs in estuaries not seem to be effective when the sample period is limited, because collecting it requires a great effort to obtain a small amount of mass and it still results in a matrix effect in the chromatographic analysis (method %Rec >> 100%) that may not be corrected due to the restricted availability of sample mass. Studies with a larger number of samples, enabling depth statistical analysis, and covering other collection points in Guajará bay are required to prove mathematically that has been stated in this dissertation.

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Este artigo apresenta informações sobre o meio físico obtidas por meio da compartimentação fisiográfica em uma imagem Landsat 7 ETM+, visando o planejamento territorial do Município de Cananéia, no litoral sul do estado de São Paulo. Os compartimentos fisiográficos foram identificados a partir de diferentes níveis hierárquicos de classificação por meio da análise dos elementos texturais de relevo e drenagem, posteriormente associados às informações referentes aos mapeamentos geológicos e geomorfológicos já existentes, aliados a trabalho de campo. O produto final, um mapa de Unidades Básicas de Compartimentação (UBCs), serviu para nortear considerações referentes aos processo de expansão urbana municipal. A metodologia utilizada mostrou-se com potencial de aplicação em outros estudos relacionados ao meio físico, sendo necessária apenas a adequação dos dados a serem trabalhados. Palavras-chave: Compartimentação fisiográfica, planejamento territorial, sensoriamento remoto.

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A geofísica aplicada em estudos ambientais é uma alternativa viável e promissora diante da demanda crescente por novas técnicas de investigação, essencialmente na caracterização e monitoramento de áreas contaminadas. Este trabalho apresenta os resultados de aplicação do método Polarização Induzida (IP), por meio da técnica de caminhamento elétrico, para determinação da área de percolação de material lixiviado proveniente de aterro de resíduos sólidos domiciliares do tipo vala. Os resultados sugerem uma associação entre anomalias de alta cargabilidade e prováveis acumulações de minerais férricos na base das valas de resíduos recentemente fechadas, em contraste com valas mais antigas, onde a cargabilidade tende aos valores naturais para a área. Palavras-chave: Polarização Induzida, resíduos sólidos, cargabilidade, mineralização, geoquímica.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

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The process of environmental impact assessment (EIA), in the extent of previous environmental studies, has as one of its functions to provide subsidies to the actions of environmental managment of enterprises. However, the proper estructuring of programs that allows to support this managment does not often occurs. This research sought as one of its objectives to evaluate in which extent the process of EIA can be a subsidie for the EMS, providing basic elements of this system. In addition, more specifically, the research had as one of its objetives the development of subsidies for the implantation of an Environmental Managment System (EMS), based on the model of ISO 14001 (2004), for a sewage treatment plant yet to be constructed in the city of President Venceslau / SP. In order to achieve theses objetives, a discussion was held based on the evaluation of environmental studies available in the library of Cetesb / SMA. Still, for the elaboration of subsidies for the EMS of the treatment plant, the research was focused on the structuring of environmental management program, based on the information contained in its Preliminary Environmental Report (PER). The research had as one of its products, the development of subsidies for the planning and control of the environmental aspects and impacts and for the environmental program of the enterprise, based on the use of environmental indicators. It was concluded, based on the results that, in general, the previous environmental studies analyzed showed little emphasis on the phase of development of structured environmental programs that offer guidelines to achieve the desired results for the environmental performance of the company.

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The landfill biogas can be an alternative energetic resource as a fuel to electrical energy generators, although, there are not too many techniques to prospect the gas. Usually, landfills receive home waste, which in most are constituted by organic matter whose degradation by anaerobic activity produces the biogas. Geophysics is an important tool in environmental studies and the electrorresistivity, an important method employed in contaminated areas by slurry or necroslurry, including a monitoring for each contaminator flow. The electrorresistivity has not too much application in finding biogas. For this work, two biogas drains in Rio Claro-SP landfill were selected: one whose waste disposition correspond to the initial activities in the landfill and another drain whose disposition started more recently. The result consists in a higher biogas production if compared to the biogas from the older drain. The present paper consists in a monitoring along one year, with dates collection in each fifteen days. These dates were tabled in Excel 2010 program and graphics of resistivity x depth were generated. Hereafter, most variable resistivity values depth were chosen, to further graphics pluviosity x resistivity generation in Grapher 8 program and the biogas output (m³/h) in monitoring period. The use of pluviosity parameter can be justified by its influence above resistivity. The results show that there is a horizon with possibly biogas accumulation. Lastly, the method was effective, although, for any application of geophysical methods, the knowledge about its limitations is necessary; in this case the influence of pluviosity and also that the measurements were made in one single point, it will not show any side variation

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Currently with the growing technological advancement and global, new areas are being devastated, and as a result, the erosion became more frequent causing loss of soil, infiltration capacity of the surface and weathering of rocks. In this way, environmental studies are increasingly frequent to understand the environment in which we live, but also to avoid any degradation of the same and of finite natural resources, which are essential for human life. From this, this work has as main goal, analyzing the rates of chemical and mechanical erosive watershed of Ribeirão Jacutinga, at its mouth, in the city of Rio Claro, supporting environmental studies and sustainable development today. Order to reach these values were measured and total dissolved solids in suspension in the stream during the months from January to July 2012. As results included higher rates of both physical and chemical weathering in the rainy months, especially january

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The evaluation of soil permeability throughout the weathering profile is one of the most important features to be considered in environmental studies. This study, developed from field testing and analysis of data obtained by geostatistical methods, aims at mapping the permeability around the Ribeirão Claro river. The intent is to simulate an accident with toxic liquids where soil permeability is of fundamental importance. Another purpose of the research was to determine the minimum time that, in the event of an accident, a possible contaminant to reach the water table level and be routed to the nearest drain, in this case, the Ribeirao V Claro river constitutes fundamental information. The studied area of approximately 4 km² is located within the UNESP-Rio Claro campus, consisting of colluvial soil from Fm. Rio Claro superimposed on residual soil of Fm. Corumbataí. The method used to determine the permeability is the concentric cylinders performed on a sampling grid with 64 points containing spacing of 5 meters EW and 10 meters NS. In the places of permeability tests were collected samples for laboratory determination of the percentage of fines. From particle size analysis was performed and analysis statistical and geostatistical on this data. The histogram was based on the statistical studies, and the semivariograms were based on geostatistical estimation methods. Based on the comparison between the maps and the data obtained, it was determined that the percentage of fines in colluvial surface soil has little influence on permeability, which the proximity to the Ribeirao Claro river, the eastern portion, a factor that influences the distribution of permeability values

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The mining of sand, currently, is essential for urban growth, by providing input for the building industry. The consequences of this mining activity to environmental triggers may be severe and irreversible. Among the major impacts caused by sand mining the riparian vegetation removal is detached. The riparian vegetation is essential for balance and maintaining the local ecosystem. For all that had been shown, is possible to verify the importance of environmental studies in areas wich there are mining. This study aimed specially to assess environmental impacts triggered by a mining, located near the headwaters of the stream Mandu, situated in Ajapi, District of Rio Claro-SP. For this purpose, we used remote sensing techniques and GIS to produce thematic maps of slope, pedology, geology, land use and occupation of the soil, and riparian vegetation, using the capabilities of GIS / ArcGIS. The slope map was based on data from the Cartographic IGC 1979, scale 1:10,000. For the production of pedological and geological maps were used Semi-Detailed soil survey of the state of São Paulo, 1981 (1:100,000) and the Geological Map of Zaine (1994), scale 1:50,000, respectively. Since the maps of Use and Land Occupation and Riparian Forest were obtained by visual interpretation of the image of CBERS 2010 following the merger between the HRC and CCD images. From these mappings, and through multi-criteria analysis, map of susceptibility to erosion was made, which supported the environmental assessment of the studied area, indicating susceptible and unsuitable areas for the deployment of economic activities and urban sprawl. This study serves as a model can be replicated in other watersheds, assisting in the proper use planning and land use, aiming at the rational use of natural resources