Reabilitação de um imóvel industrial em Marvila: projeto de investimento

Trabalho de Projeto para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil

Estudo da eficiência da ETAR da zona industrial da AutoEuropa por análise biológica

No tratamento de águas residuais por lamas activadas, existem diferentes populações de protozoários e metazoários que se podem desenvolver durante o processo. A sua presença é fundamental para o bom desempenho da ETAR. Além de reduzirem a turvação do efluente final, estimulam o crescimento bacteriano, promovem a floculação e algumas espécies reduzem a poluição. É possível estabelecer uma estreita relação entre a predominância de determinadas espécies ou grupos de espécies, com parâmetros operacionais da ETAR, tais como os índices bióticos. Este procedimento requer a identificação e enumeração das diferentes espécies. No entanto, existem outros métodos, que apresentam relações entre a abundância de uma dada espécie ou grupo e os parâmetros da estação. O presente trabalho tem como objectivos: avaliar o funcionamento do sistema de tratamento de lamas activadas através da observação microscópica de protozoários e metazoários, identificação e contagem das espécies relevantes; estabelecer relações entre os organismos que contribuem para o processo de depuração de águas residuais e as condições de operação, como parâmetros físicoquímicos ou o desempenho da ETAR; e produzir uma ferramenta de apoio à gestão da ETAR, baseada em princípios biológicos. Pretende-se, ainda, contribuir e incentivar para a adopção de metodologias semelhantes em outros sistemas de lamas activadas em funcionamento no nosso País. Em termos metodológicos, a colheita de amostras foi realizada semanalmente na ETAR da ZIA durante dois meses e meio. Os parâmetros operacionais e físico-químicos foram obtidos junto da ETAR. A análise biológica foi efectuada por microscopia óptica. Avaliou-se qualitativa e quantitativamente a microfauna presente no tanque de arejamento, no poço de mistura de lamas e no clarificado de ambos os decantadores, a fim de se verificar as possíveis correlações desses parâmetros com a eficiência do sistema. Aplicou-se os resultados biológicos obtidos, em quatro modelos propostos para a avaliação do processo de tratamento, baseada em análises biológicas. Em termos qualitativos e na maior parte das observações, a lama apresentou boa qualidade. A ETAR da ZIA foi colonizada por tecamebas, principalmente Arcella sp. e Euglypha alveolata, em todo, o estudo e em todos os pontos analisados. No tanque de arejamento foram sempre observados ciliados nadadores livres. A densidade total de organismos no tanque de arejamento variou de 2982 e 7330 organismos/mL, com valor médio de 5995 organismos/mL. Relativamente, aos parâmetros estudados, os objectivos de remoção para o CBO5, CQO, SST e SSV foram alcançados.

Verificação da segurança à ação sísmica da estrutura de um colégio em Ponta Delgada utilizando o Eurocódigo 8 - parte 3

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil na Área de Especialização em Estruturas

Gestão de um projecto de uma torre de arrefecimento industrial: estudo de caso

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

Accessibility and Local Development: Interaction between Cross-border Accessibility and Local Development in Portugal and Spain

One of de EU major concerns is cohesion and cross-border regional development. Usually cross-border regions are less dynamic, acting as bottlenecks mainly in peripheral territories. This paper is focused on the Portuguese-Spanish border using socio-economic and accessibility data. It considers Spatial Econometrics to produce statistical evidence on the relationship between accessibility and development at a local scale. A pilot study is conducted on North and Center region using variables such as population age, graduation characteristics, migrations, unemployment and daily accessibility to main towns in future this evaluation will be applied to the entire cross-border area between Portugal and Spain.

A wireless sensor network platform for structural health monitoring: enabling accurate and synchronized measurements through COTS+custom-based design

Structural health monitoring has long been identified as a prominent application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), as traditional wired-based solutions present some inherent limitations such as installation/maintenance cost, scalability and visual impact. Nevertheless, there is a lack of ready-to-use and off-the-shelf WSN technologies that are able to fulfill some most demanding requirements of these applications, which can span from critical physical infrastructures (e.g. bridges, tunnels, mines, energy grid) to historical buildings or even industrial machinery and vehicles. Low-power and low-cost yet extremely sensitive and accurate accelerometer and signal acquisition hardware and stringent time synchronization of all sensors data are just examples of the requirements imposed by most of these applications. This paper presents a prototype system for health monitoring of civil engineering structures that has been jointly conceived by a team of civil, and electrical and computer engineers. It merges the benefits of standard and off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and communication technologies with a minimum set of custom-designed signal acquisition hardware that is mandatory to fulfill all application requirements.

Redução de ruído ambiental em área de produção industrial

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em: Instrumentação Manutenção Industrial e Qualidade

An internet remote laboratory to teach industrial automation

This paper presents the new internet remote laboratory (IRL), constructed at Mechanical Engineering Department (MED), Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), to teach Industrial Automation, namely electropneumatic cycles. The aim of this work was the development and implementation of a remote laboratory that was simple and effective from the user point of view, allowing access to all its functionalities through a web browser without having to install any other program and giving access to all the features that the students can find at the physical laboratory. With this goal in mind, it has been implemented a simple architecture with the new programmable logic controller (PLC) SIEMENS S7-1200, and with the aid of several free programs, programming technologies such as JavaScript, PHP and databases, it was possible to have a remote laboratory, with a simple interface, to teach industrial automation students.

The impact of Sinogram-Affirmed Iterative Reconstruction on patient dose and image quality compared to filtered back projection: a narrative review

Objective: Summarize all relevant findings in published literature regarding the potential dose reduction related to image quality using Sinogram-Affirmed Iterative Reconstruction (SAFIRE) compared to Filtered Back Projection (FBP). Background: Computed Tomography (CT) is one of the most used radiographic modalities in clinical practice providing high spatial and contrast resolution. However it also delivers a relatively high radiation dose to the patient. Reconstructing raw-data using Iterative Reconstruction (IR) algorithms has the potential to iteratively reduce image noise while maintaining or improving image quality of low dose standard FBP reconstructions. Nevertheless, long reconstruction times made IR unpractical for clinical use until recently. Siemens Medical developed a new IR algorithm called SAFIRE, which uses up to 5 different strength levels, and poses an alternative to the conventional IR with a significant reconstruction time reduction. Methods: MEDLINE, ScienceDirect and CINAHL databases were used for gathering literature. Eleven articles were included in this review (from 2012 to July 2014). Discussion: This narrative review summarizes the results of eleven articles (using studies on both patients and phantoms) and describes SAFIRE strengths for noise reduction in low dose acquisitions while providing acceptable image quality. Conclusion: Even though the results differ slightly, the literature gathered for this review suggests that the dose in current CT protocols can be reduced at least 50% while maintaining or improving image quality. There is however a lack of literature concerning paediatric population (with increased radiation sensitivity). Further studies should also assess the impact of SAFIRE on diagnostic accuracy.

A comparison of Sinogram Affirmed Iterative Reconstruction and filtered back projection on image quality and dose reduction in paediatric head CT: a phantom study

Background: Computed tomography (CT) is one of the most used modalities for diagnostics in paediatric populations, which is a concern as it also delivers a high patient dose. Research has focused on developing computer algorithms that provide better image quality at lower dose. The iterative reconstruction algorithm Sinogram-Affirmed Iterative Reconstruction (SAFIRE) was introduced as a new technique that reduces noise to increase image quality. Purpose: The aim of this study is to compare SAFIRE with the current gold standard, Filtered Back Projection (FBP), and assess whether SAFIRE alone permits a reduction in dose while maintaining image quality in paediatric head CT. Methods: Images were collected using a paediatric head phantom using a SIEMENS SOMATOM PERSPECTIVE 128 modulated acquisition. 54 images were reconstructed using FBP and 5 different strengths of SAFIRE. Objective measures of image quality were determined by measuring SNR and CNR. Visual measures of image quality were determined by 17 observers with different radiographic experiences. Images were randomized and displayed using 2AFC; observers scored the images answering 5 questions using a Likert scale. Results: At different dose levels, SAFIRE significantly increased SNR (up to 54%) in the acquired images compared to FBP at 80kVp (5.2-8.4), 110kVp (8.2-12.3), 130kVp (8.8-13.1). Visual image quality was higher with increasing SAFIRE strength. The highest image quality was scored with SAFIRE level 3 and higher. Conclusion: The SAFIRE algorithm is suitable for image noise reduction in paediatric head CT. Our data demonstrates that SAFIRE enhances SNR while reducing noise with a possible reduction of dose of 68%.

Manutenção industrial e custo do ciclo de vida - extracção oleaginosas

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia e Gestão Industrial

Spatio-temporal land use/land cover changes analysis and monitoring in the Valencia Municipality, Spain

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies

Análise de funções de segurança num processo industrial e num posto de transformação de energia eléctrica, numa industria papeleira, aplicando a metodologia SFA

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Industrial

Integração da análise energética na gestão Industrial de uma refinaria de açúcar

Mestrado em Engenharia Química - Optimização Energética na Industria Química