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Robert B. Sowby and Braxton W. Porter
Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wildfires on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, have highlig...
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Fansheng Zhang, Lianglin Dong, Hongbo Wang, Ke Zhong, Peiyuan Zhang and Jinyan Jiang
During the construction of underground engineering, the prediction of groundwater distribution and rock body permeability is essential for evaluating the safety of the project and guiding subsequent design and construction. This article proposes an objec...
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Enrique Bonet and María Teresa Yubero
In Spain, irrigated agriculture is the most water-intensive sector, consuming around of 80% of water resources. Moreover, irrigation water distribution systems are the infrastructure by which one-third of water resource losses take place. Monitoring and ...
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Elias Tasca, Mohsen Besharat, Helena M. Ramos, Edevar Luvizotto, Jr. and Bryan Karney
Air valves are protective devices often used in pressurised water pipelines, ideally admitting air to limit sub-atmospheric pressures and controlling the release of entrapped air. This work summarises a comprehensive sensitivity analysis of the transient...
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Qinghua Wu, Yue Fan and Xiao Wang
Shallow geothermal energy (SGE) is a renewable energy source that has the advantage of being low-cost, clean, and locally sourced compared to fossil fuels, and is thus significant for China to achieve its future goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutral...
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Shuai Zhang and Xu-Sheng Wang
As a widely employed method for in situ remediation of groundwater contamination, the pump-and-treat (PAT) system involves the management of water recirculation between the extraction and injection wells. The recirculation zone (RZ) of an extraction-inje...
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Ada Vengust, Anja Koro?a, Janko Urbanc and Nina Mali
With increasing exploitation of groundwater resources and implementation of various activities in their recharge areas, it is vital to conduct a comprehensive assessment of aquifers to ensure their conservation and sustainable management. In the present ...
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Razvan Edmond Nicoara, Daniel Eugeniu Crunteanu and Valeriu Alexandru Vilag
Extensively used in modern gas turbine engines in various applications, ranging from aerospace, marine and terrestrial propulsion to power generation and gas pumping, the axial flow turbines have been continuously updated and are now capable of high perf...
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Baoyun Zhang, Junzhi Wang, Ruolin Zhang, Yasong Li, Xiangke Kong and Yaci Liu
Aquifer diffusivity is a basic physical parameter used in hydrogeological calculations and is important for the evaluation and rational utilization of water resources, pollution prevention, and wetland protection. In this study, with the assumptions of a...
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Ilyushin Pavel Yurievich, Vyatkin Kirill Andreevich and Kozlov Anton Vadimovich
The modern oil industry is characterized by a strong trend towards the digitalization of all technological processes. At the same time, during the transition of oil fields to the later stages of development, the issues of optimizing the consumed electric...
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