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Cláudio Meireis, Filipa S. Serino, Carlos Maia, André C. Fontes and Jorge M. Branco
Current buildings are responsible for the highest energy consumption, exceeding polluting sectors such as industry and transports. In Portugal, a large part of the building stock was built in the 1970s and 1980s, but buildings dated from the 1960s and 19...
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Sarmad Dawood Salman Dawood, Ahmad Salahuddin Mohd Harithuddin and Mohammad Yazdi Harmin
Mass reduction is a primary design goal pursued in satellite structural design, since the launch cost is proportional to their total mass. The most common mass reduction method currently employed is to introduce honeycomb structures, with space qualified...
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Marthoz Angulo-Calderón, Iván Salgado-Tránsito, Iván Trejo-Zúñiga, Carlos Paredes-Orta, Sajjad Kesthkar and Arturo Díaz-Ponce
In recent decades, advances in the development of solar tracking systems (STSs) have led to concentrating solar technologies to increase their energy conversion efficiency. These systems, however, still have areas of opportunity or improving their perfor...
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Matteo Gemignani and Salvo Marcuccio
Sounding balloons, available at very low cost from commercial vendors and operable with minimal training, have an excellent potential as testing platforms in the near-space environment. The work reported here was motivated by the need to perform an exper...
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Fernando Pagels, Ricardo N. Pereira, António A. Vicente and A. Catarina Guedes
Pigments from microalgae and cyanobacteria have attracted great interest for industrial applications due to their bioactive potential and their natural product attributes. These pigments are usually sold as extracts, to overcome purification costs. The e...
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