Políticas de provisão de serviços de utilidade pública na Ilha Grande: o fornecimento de energia elétrica na Vila Dois Rios

Esta dissertação é apresenta como tema central o fornecimento de energia elétrica em áreas protegidas como é caso da Ilha Grande , distrito de Angra dos Reis e situada no litoral sul do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Os diferentes usos de energia elétrica estão relacionados às diferentes funções da ilha ao longo de cinco séculos de ocupação em que destaca-se a função de segurança pública com o complexo presidiário, a função de proteção ambiental com as categorias da APA , PARQUE, RESERVA BIOLÓGICA e com a função mais recente que é de atrativo turístico.

News from Academy Bay

The 25th anniversary of the Galapagos National Park. Fire at the Darwin Research Station. The control of introduced mammals. Good news about the Hood tortoises. The endangered land iguanas. Penguins, cormorants and flamingos in 1984. A workshop on national parks. International conservation award to Secretary Ripley. Visits and events at the Charles Darwin Research Station.

Robust design optimization of gas turbine compression systems

Gas turbine compression systems are required to perform adequately over a range of operating conditions. Complexity has encouraged the conventional design process for compressors to focus initially on one operating point, usually the most commonor arduous, to draw up an outline design. Generally, only as this initial design is refined is its offdesign performance assessed in detail. Not only does this necessarily introduce a potentially costly and timeconsuming extra loop in the design process, but it also may result in a design whose offdesign behavior is suboptimal. Aversion of nonintrusive polynomial chaos was previously developed in which a set of orthonormal polynomials was generated to facilitate a rapid analysis of robustness in the presence of generic uncertainties with good accuracy. In this paper, this analysis method is incorporated in real time into the design process for the compression system of a three-shaft gas turbine aeroengine. This approach to robust optimization is shown to lead to designs that exhibit consistently improved system performance with reduced sensitivity to offdesign operation.