996 resultados para Casares, Tomás
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The Portuguese northern forests are often and severely affected by wildfires during the summer season. These occurrences affect significant and rudely all ecosystems, namely soil, fauna and flora. Preventive actions such as prescribed burnings and clear-cut logging are frequently used and have showed a significant reduction of the natural wildfires occurrences. In Portugal, and due to some technical and operational conditions, prescribed burnings in forests are the most common preventive action used to reduce the existing fuel hazard. The overall impacts of this preventive action on Portuguese ecosystems are complex and not fully understood. This work reports to the study of a prescribed burning impact in soil chemical properties, namely pH, humidity and organic matter, by monitoring the soil self-recovery capacity. The experiments were carried out in soil cover over a natural site of Andaluzitic schist, in Gramelas, Caminha, Portugal, who was able to maintain itself intact from prescribed burnings from four years. The composed soil samples were collected from five plots at three different layers (0-3cm, 3-6cm and 6-18cm) 1 day before prescribed fire and after the prescribed fire. The results have shown that the dynamic equilibrium in soil was affected significantly.
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No presente trabalho são apresentados os resultados obtidos num estudo realizado na região do Norte de Portugal, onde uma equipa multidisciplinar, em estreita cooperação com a Autoridade Florestal Nacional, estudou as variações de pH e teores de humidade e matéria natural orgânica do solo antes e após a execução de um fogo controlado. Foi avaliada também a evolução destes parâmetros nos 90 dias seguintes após a queimada no sentido de estudar o nível de recuperação natural dos solos. Deste estudo foi possível concluir-se que o fogo controlado causou um aumento do pH do solo e uma redução no teor de humidade. Relativamente à recuperação natural dos solos, foi verificada uma recuperação parcial das características do solo não se tendo atingido, ao fim de 90 dias, os valores observados antes da acção do fogo. Os trabalhos de monitorização/ avaliação prosseguirão com periodicidade trimestral.
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Relatório da Prática Profissional Supervisionada Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar
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Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, vol. 22, n.1, March 2004, p. 47–62
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The prediction of the time and the efficiency of the remediation of contaminated soils using soil vapor extraction remain a difficult challenge to the scientific community and consultants. This work reports the development of multiple linear regression and artificial neural network models to predict the remediation time and efficiency of soil vapor extractions performed in soils contaminated separately with benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, trichloroethylene, and perchloroethylene. The results demonstrated that the artificial neural network approach presents better performances when compared with multiple linear regression models. The artificial neural network model allowed an accurate prediction of remediation time and efficiency based on only soil and pollutants characteristics, and consequently allowing a simple and quick previous evaluation of the process viability.
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The proper disposal of the several types of wastes produced in industrial activities increases production costs. As a consequence, it is common to develop strategies to reuse these wastes in the same process and in different processes or to transform them for use in other processes. This work combines the needs for new synthesis methods of nanomaterials and the reduction of production cost using wastes from citrine juice (orange, lime, lemon and mandarin) to produce a new added value product, green zero-valent iron nanoparticles that can be used in several applications, including environmental remediation. The results indicate that extracts of the tested fruit wastes (peel, albedo and pulp fractions) can be used to produce zero-valent iron nanoparticles (nZVIs). This shows that these wastes can be an added value product. The resulting nZVIs had sizes ranging from 3 up to 300 nm and distinct reactivities (pulp > peel > albedo extracts). All the studied nanoparticles did not present a significant agglomeration/settling tendency when compared to similar nanoparticles, which indicates that they remain in suspension and retain their reactivity.
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Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente, perfil Ordenamento do Território e Impactes Ambientais
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Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente, perfil Gestão e Sistemas Ambientais
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Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica
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Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obtenção do grau Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente, perfil Ordenamento do Território e Impactes Ambientais
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Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente, perfil Ordenamento do Território e Impactes Ambientais
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Engenharia Informática, Área de Especialização em Arquiteturas, Sistemas e Redes
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Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal, nº 4(5), p. 363-381
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Business Strategy and the Environment nº 15, p. 71–86
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Journal of Cleaner Production, nº 17, p. 36-52