Censimento dei punti di prelievo e dati generali sulle utenze elettriche del CNR

Censimento completo, aggiornato a settembre 2015, dei punti di prelievo dell'energia elettrica e dei dati generali su tutte le utenze elettriche del CNR, realizzato per lo svolgimento delle attività di energy management del CNR.

Eficiência Energética, Gestão de Energia e Integração de Renováveis em Instalações Hospitalares

A presente dissertação é o resultado de um estudo realizado entre Março de 2015 e Março de 2016 centrado no tema Eficiência Energética nos Edifícios, no âmbito da Dissertação do 2º ano do Mestrado em Engenharia Eletrotécnica – Sistemas Elétricos de Energia no Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP). Atualmente, os edifícios são responsáveis por cerca de 40% do consumo de energia na maioria dos países da europa. Energia consumida, principalmente, no aquecimento, arrefecimento e na alimentação de aparelhos elétricos. Os hospitais, como grandes edifícios, são grandes consumidores de energia e, na maioria dos países europeus, situam-se entre os edifícios públicos menos eficientes. Neste contexto, representam um tipo de edifícios cuja atividade apresenta um potencial de poupança energético importante. O tipo de atividade aí desenvolvida, aliada às especificidades do sector da saúde, faz deste tipo de edifícios um alvo de análise e otimização energética bastante apetecível. O presente trabalho passa pelo estudo do potencial para a eficiência energética de um hospital situado na zona do Porto. Foi, inicialmente, efetuado um levantamento das necessidades energéticas, de modo a identificar os sectores prioritários de atuação. Este estudo conta com a análise dos consumos obtidos através do processo de monitorização, substituição da iluminação existente por uma mais eficiente, a instalação de painéis solares para reduzir o consumo destinado às águas quentes sanitárias, a substituição de caldeira a diesel por caldeira a biomassa, substituição de um chiller por um mais eficiente, entre outros. Os consumos registados no hospital em estudo serão comparados com um plano nacional (Eficiência Energética e Hídrica no Sistema Nacional de Saúde), para, desta forma, se perceber quais os consumos do hospital em estudo, quando comparados com outros hospitais.

KEY COMPONENTS OF TEAMWORK AND THE SERVICE (TO) YOU (A) (A) DOMESTIC (A) AND EXTERNAL (A)

The article examines a range of components for the customer service from the point of view of marketing.It start with the explanation of several features that are required for a company to crystallize teamwork that finally, after all, will be provided by the success or failure of that company.These features are named: engagement, cooperation, companionship, communication, motivation and leadership.Subsequently, this article presents a section which explores human relationships and conflict management within organizations, with emphasis on attitudes, skills and personality types that present human beings as part of its essence.Finally, this text includes a section that highlights concepts related to customer service and sales techniques that exist today.

La construction de relations de confiance au sein des équipes-écoles d’établissements en milieu autochtone du Québec selon les perceptions de leur direction

Résumé : La gestion des ressources humaines dans les écoles situées au sein de communautés autochtones est marquée par différents enjeux d’ordres social, culturel, ethnoculturel, économique et administratif qui impactent les pratiques de leurs directions. Ceux-ci touchent à tous les aspects de la gestion des écoles et peuvent être révélateurs d’un malaise dans l’encadrement des actrices et des acteurs à travers des structures administratives, juridiques, éducatives ou de gouvernance qui comportent des défis relationnels et interactionnels majeurs. Ce type de malaise peut moduler les actions des actrices et des acteurs des établissements et peut entrainer des impacts dans leurs relations, notamment au niveau de leurs relations de confiance, essentielles à la qualité de leurs actions communes. L’approfondissement de cette problématique porte essentiellement sur les conditions associées à la construction de la confiance qui sont de différents ordres, c’est-à-dire contextuel, institutionnel, organisationnel, relationnel ou individuel. Utilisant une approche qualitative, cette recherche repose sur vingt-trois entrevues semi-dirigées avec des directions d’établissement provenant de dix-sept communautés et de trois nations autochtones différentes. L’analyse est menée à partir d’une approche exploratoire constructiviste et interprétativiste. Les conclusions permettent de dégager que la construction de relations de confiance entre des actrices et des acteurs sont tributaires de conditions dans lesquelles s’inscrivent des dynamiques interactionnelles particulières. Influencées par le contexte autochtone singulier, ces conditions sont préalables aux actrices et aux acteurs ou associées à leurs comportements, attitudes, actions ou pratiques. Il apparait que ces dynamiques s’inscrivent dans une configuration des équipes-écoles se caractérisant par six catégories-types d’individus qui se déclinent selon leur origine et leur appartenance ou leur identité ethnique, à savoir les voyageurs autochtones et allochtones, les étrangers autochtones et allochtones et les natifs autochtones et allochtones. La meilleure compréhension de cette organisation conduit à une conception large de la configuration des dynamiques interactionnelles entre des individus et des groupes et entre des communautés d’individus. Ces individus s’affilient spécifiquement selon des identités ou des appartenances individuelles ou de groupe qui peuvent être de différents ordres soit particulièrement, mais non exclusivement, ethnique, linguistique, familial ou se rapportant à des croyances particulières.

Collaborative Systems for Smart Environments: Trends and Challenges

Part 1: Introduction

Mentoring When Librarians Have Faculty Status

Numerous academic libraries participate in their campuses' systems for faculty status for librarians, in separate tracks or identical tracks as those for teaching faculty. In either case, a practice is to encourage or require mentoring for librarians without tenure or permanent status. This chapter will cover the special challenges and benefits of mentoring and faculty status, the need for mentoring, and processes for best practices to make mentoring meaningful for all involved. The chapter will draw on the authors’ experiences, an environmental scan, a survey of selected institutional practice where librarians have faculty status, and published research and related literature. It will also feature mentoring programs developed by various institutions, including the University of Maryland Libraries.

Development and Verification of Control and Protection Strategies in Hybrid AC/DC Power Systems for Smart Grid Applications

Modern power networks incorporate communications and information technology infrastructure into the electrical power system to create a smart grid in terms of control and operation. The smart grid enables real-time communication and control between consumers and utility companies allowing suppliers to optimize energy usage based on price preference and system technical issues. The smart grid design aims to provide overall power system monitoring, create protection and control strategies to maintain system performance, stability and security. This dissertation contributed to the development of a unique and novel smart grid test-bed laboratory with integrated monitoring, protection and control systems. This test-bed was used as a platform to test the smart grid operational ideas developed here. The implementation of this system in the real-time software creates an environment for studying, implementing and verifying novel control and protection schemes developed in this dissertation. Phasor measurement techniques were developed using the available Data Acquisition (DAQ) devices in order to monitor all points in the power system in real time. This provides a practical view of system parameter changes, system abnormal conditions and its stability and security information system. These developments provide valuable measurements for technical power system operators in the energy control centers. Phasor Measurement technology is an excellent solution for improving system planning, operation and energy trading in addition to enabling advanced applications in Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control (WAMPAC). Moreover, a virtual protection system was developed and implemented in the smart grid laboratory with integrated functionality for wide area applications. Experiments and procedures were developed in the system in order to detect the system abnormal conditions and apply proper remedies to heal the system. A design for DC microgrid was developed to integrate it to the AC system with appropriate control capability. This system represents realistic hybrid AC/DC microgrids connectivity to the AC side to study the use of such architecture in system operation to help remedy system abnormal conditions. In addition, this dissertation explored the challenges and feasibility of the implementation of real-time system analysis features in order to monitor the system security and stability measures. These indices are measured experimentally during the operation of the developed hybrid AC/DC microgrids. Furthermore, a real-time optimal power flow system was implemented to optimally manage the power sharing between AC generators and DC side resources. A study relating to real-time energy management algorithm in hybrid microgrids was performed to evaluate the effects of using energy storage resources and their use in mitigating heavy load impacts on system stability and operational security.

Potential valorization as fertilizers of Humic Substances extracted from landfill leachate

In this study, four leachates samples from 3 different landfills localized in the north of Portugal were characterized and fractionated, to understand the decomposition degree and to evaluate their potential as an agent for fertilization. Humic substances (HS) were extracted, quantified, chemical characterized and further fractionated in humic acid (HA) and fulvic acid (FA). Keeping in mind the purpose to use these fractions as fertilizers, the phytotoxicity of HS, HA and FA solutions was evaluated on cress seed germination. The HS concentration was similar for all the leachates evaluated and was higher than 780 mg/L of total organic carbon. All the leachates analysed registered higher FA concentration than HA. The chemical characterization indicated that HA had a relatively higher aromatic character than the FA obtained from same sources. These results suggest that the HS from landfill leachates were in an early stage of humification, once the degree of humification increase as the landfilling age increase. Overall, the HS extracts showed absence of phytotoxicity, with germination index greater than 80% for samples treated to achieve low electric conductivity values. This suggests that the HS from the leachate may be used to produce liquid organic fertilizers.

Characterization of MSW rejected fractions to fulfill RDF requirements and utilization

In order to fulfil European and Portuguese legal requirements, adequate alternatives to traditional municipal waste landfilling must be found namely concerning organic wastes and others susceptible of valorisation. According to the Portuguese Standard NP 4486:2008, refuse derived fuels (RDF) classification is based on three main parameters: lower heating value (considered as an economic parameter), chlorine content (considered as a technical parameter) and mercury content (considered as an environmental parameter). The purpose of this study was to characterize the rejected streams resulting from the mechanical treatment of unsorted municipal solid waste, from the plastic municipal selective collection and from the composting process, in order to evaluate their potential as RDF. To accomplish this purpose six sampling campaigns were performed. Chemical characterization comprised the proximate analysis – moisture content, volatile matter, ashes and fixed carbon, as well as trace elements. Physical characterization was also done. To evaluate their potential as RDF, the following parameters established in the Portuguese standard were also evaluated: heating value and chlorine content. As expected, results show that the refused stream from mechanical treatment is rather different from the selective collection rejected stream and from the rejected from the compost screening in terms of moisture, energetic matter and ashes, as well as heating value and chlorine. Preliminary data allows us to conclude that studied materials have a very interesting potential to be used as RDF. In fact, the rejected from selective collection and the one from composting have a heating value not very different from coal. Therefore, an important key factor may be the blending of these materials with others of higher heating values, after pre-processing, in order to get fuel pellets with good consistency, storage and handling characteristics and, therefore, combustion behavior.

Spatial and temporal downscaling of solar global radiation and mean air temperature from weather forecast data - an introductory numerical study and validation

This short paper presents a numerical method for spatial and temporal downscaling of solar global radiation and mean air temperature data from global weather forecast models and its validation. The final objective is to develop a prediction algorithm to be integrated in energy management models and forecast of energy harvesting in solar thermal systems of medium/low temperature. Initially, hourly prediction and measurement data of solar global radiation and mean air temperature were obtained, being then numerically downscaled to half-hourly prediction values for the location where measurements were taken. The differences between predictions and measurements were analyzed for more than one year of data of mean air temperature and solar global radiation on clear sky days, resulting in relative daily deviations of around -0.9±3.8% and 0.02±3.92%, respectively.

A gestão de talento numa empresa de consultoria e tecnologias de informação: o caso Capgemini

O relatório de estágio aqui apresentado foi realizado no âmbito do plano de estudos do Mestrado em Gestão – especialização em Recursos Humanos- da Universidade de Évora. Tendo por base a experiência de estágio curricular no Departamento de Recursos Humanos da empresa Capgemini Portugal – Serviços de Consultoria e Informática, S.A., procedeu-se a uma descrição detalhada das atividades realizadas e posterior análise de acordo com as dimensões (i) Estratégia de Gestão de Recursos Humanos, (ii) Gestão de Emprego, (iii) Recrutamento e Seleção, (iv) Formação e Desenvolvimento, e (v) Manutenção de Gestão de Recursos Humanos. Posteriormente, foram enquadradas as atividades a nível teórico, e partindo de uma análise crítica, elaborou-se um conjunto de propostas de intervenção/melhoria da realidade organizacional, nomeadamente ao nível dos Recursos Humanos; Abstract: “Talent Management on a Consulting and IT Organization – Capgemini case” The presented probation report was conducted as part of the Master’s curriculum in Management - specialization in Human Resources at Universidade de Évora. Based on the internship experience in the Human Resources Department of Capgemini Portugal – Serviços de Consultoria e Informática, S.A., the trainee proceeded to a detailed description of the activities and subsequent analysis according to the dimensions (i) Strategic Management of Human Resources, (ii) Employment Management, (iii) Recruitment and Selection, (iv) Training and Development, and (v) Maintenance of Human Resources Management. Afterwards, the activities were framed at a theoretical level, and a set of proposals for action / improvement of organizational reality were recommended, based on the previous critical analysis described.

O recrutamento e a formação nas Forças Armadas: caso do Exército Português

Este relatório tem como objetivo final a conclusão dum ciclo de estudos na área da gestão de recursos humanos. Decorrido no quartel Militar, a Direção de Formação em Évora e ainda com passagens por dois locais relacionados com recrutamento, possibilitou uma análise e compreensão de como é efetuado a formação e o recrutamento militar em Portugal dentro e fora do Exército. O capital humano e a gestão de recursos humanos são os ativos mais valiosos de uma empresa, desse modo, compreender as necessidades e antecipá-las torna-se fundamental para o bom desempenho de uma organização. Não só a gestão, mas a aposta em investimento e educação, reciclagem profissional e modernização são fatores a definir com cuidado e precaução por parte das repartições e do comando de pessoal. Do mesmo modo, o envelhecimento, a obsolescência e deterioração são fatores que podem influenciar de forma negativa o desempenho de uma organização; The recruitment and training in the Military Forces. The Portuguese Army Abstract: This report is the conclusion of a cycle of studies in the area of management of human resources. The internship in the headquarters - Direção de Formação do Exército- and two other locations, made it clear and understandable for me to comprehend and analyze the recruitment process and military training in and outside of the Portuguese army. The human capital and the management of human recourses are the most valuable assets of a company. Understanding the needs and anticipate them becomes vital to the performance of an organization. Not only the management, but also the investment in education, retraining and modernization, are key factors that should be defined with care and precaution by the divisions in command of the staff. At the same time, the obsolescence, aging, and deterioration can be negative factors to the organization.

Computational Models Development and Demand Response Application for Smart Grids

This paper focuses on computational models development and its applications on demand response, within smart grid scope. A prosumer model is presented and the corresponding economic dispatch problem solution is analyzed. The prosumer solar radiation production and energy consumption are forecasted by artificial neural networks. The existing demand response models are studied and a computational tool based on fuzzy clustering algorithm is developed and the results discussed. Consumer energy management applications within the InovGrid pilot project are presented. Computation systems are developed for the acquisition, monitoring, control and supervision of consumption data provided by smart meters, allowing the incorporation of consumer actions on their electrical energy management. An energy management system with integration of smart meters for energy consumers in a smart grid is developed.

i sistemi di gestione dell’energia e la previsione dei consumi in ambito industriale ai sensi della norma uni cei en iso 50001

La Tesi nasce a seguito della richiesta da parte di un’Azienda Socia del Consorzio Esperienza Energia di un servizio di supporto per l’ottimizzazione del proprio Sistema di Gestione dell’Energia (SGE/EnMS) ed in particolare per l’implementazione di metodologie di budgeting più efficienti rispetto a quelle attualmente utilizzate. Questo lavoro di Tesi si è sviluppato in due parti: Nella prima parte viene descritto, a livello generale, che cosa si intende per Sistema di Gestione dell’Energia o Energy Management System e quali sono i vantaggi nell’implementazione di tale sistema in una realtà industriale. Successivamente, viene presentata la norma “UNI CEI EN ISO 50001: Sistemi di Gestione dell’Energia – Requisiti e linee guida per l’uso” attraverso una breve introduzione su quelli che sono i requisiti e gli obiettivi descritti nella norma. Nella seconda parte viene descritta l’implementazione pratica di un SGE presso un’Azienda Socia di CEE, partendo dalla raccolta sia dei dati di consumo a livello globale (LIVELLO A) che a livello di Edificio (LIVELLO B), sia dall'individuazione dei principali Energy Drivers (parametri) che veicolano i consumi. Attraverso questi dati è stato creato un Modello di calcolo per la definizione dei consumi di Riferimento (Energy Baseline); tale Baseline traccia i dati di prestazione energetica da cui si parte per andare a costruire per l’azienda i principali Indicatori Energetici (EnPI, Energy Performance Indicators). Il modello energetico così costruito è stato quindi tarato sui consumi energetici misurati al fine di fornire all'Azienda un algoritmo di stima dei propri consumi energetici futuri, sia mensili che annuali. Il processo di taratura ha dimostrato come il modello energetico dell’azienda che è stato costruito in questa Tesi sia da ritenersi uno strumento affidabile per la previsione dei consumi energetici futuri ipotizzando un certo livello di produzione industriale nel corso dell’anno oggetto di simulazione.

Long-term reliability of power GaN HEMTS

The world is quickly changing, and the field of power electronics assumes a pivotal role in addressing the challenges posed by climate change, global warming, and energy management. The introduction of wide-bandgap semiconductors, particularly gallium nitride (GaN), in contrast to the traditional silicon technology, is leading to lightweight, compact and evermore efficient circuitry. However, GaN technology is not mature yet and still presents reliability issues which constrain its widespread adoption. Therefore, GaN reliability is a hotspot for the research community. Extensive efforts have been directed toward understanding the physical mechanisms underlying the performance and reliability of GaN power devices. The goal of this thesis is to propose a novel in-circuit degradation analysis in order to evaluate the long-term reliability of GaN-based power devices accurately. The in-circuit setup is based on measure-stress-measure methodology where a high-speed synchronous buck converter ensures the stress while the measure is performed by means of full I-V characterizations. The switch from stress mode to characterization mode and vice versa is automatic thanks to electromechanical and solid-state relays controlled by external unit control. Because these relays are located in critical paths of the converter layout, the design has required a comprehensive study of electrical and thermal problems originated by the use of GaN technology. In addition, during the validation phase of the converter, electromagnetic-lumped-element circuit simulations are carried out to monitor the signal integrity and junction temperature of the devices under test. However, the core of this work is the in-circuit reliability analysis conducted with 80 V GaN HEMTs under several operating conditions of the converter in order to figure out the main stressors which contribute to the device's degradation.