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Seungtaek Lim, Jiwon Yoon, Hosaeng Lee and Hyeonju Kim
South Korea is currently in the preparatory stage of commercializing an ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) system, as the demonstration of a 1 MW scale OTEC system has been accomplished. However, the commercialization of OTEC requires the establishme...
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Andreia Raposo, Susana M. F. Ferreira, Rodolfo Ramos, Catarina Anjos, Sílvia C. Gonçalves, Pedro M. Santos, Teresa Baptista, José L. Costa and Ana Pombo
A population of sea urchins, Paracentrotus lividus, from the central west coast of Portugal was studied to characterise their reproductive biology and possible relationships with environmental factors. An annual gametogenic cycle was found, with a broad ...
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Christos Sammoutos, Angeliki Kitsopoulou, Panagiotis Lykas, Evangelos Bellos and Christos Tzivanidis
The exploitation of solar irradiation is a critical weapon for facing the energy crisis and critical environmental problems. One of the most emerging solar technologies is the use of solar towers (or central receiver systems) coupled with high-performanc...
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Ping Jiao and Shun-Jun Hu
Shallow groundwater is an important water source for Haloxylon ammodendron (H. ammodendron). The accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ETg) from groundwater is of great significance for the water cycle and the maintenance of ecological stability. Us...
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Meng Yao, Qing Wang, Qingbo Yu, Jianzhong Wu, Hui Li, Jiaqi Dong, Weitong Xia, Yan Han and Xinlei Huang
Artificial reclamation is one of the main means of land expansion in coastal cities. However, the permeability of underlying soft clay (USC), derived from the dredged load, has not been paid enough attention, although it is closely related to the long-te...
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Serhii Halko, Oleksandr Vershkov, Jakub Horák, Oleksandr Lezhenkin, Larysa Boltianska, Anatolii Kucher, Olena Suprun, Oleksandr Miroshnyk and Vitalii Nitsenko
This article deals with the problem of harvesting combed straw by mixing it with the soil and the process of combed straw decomposition in particular. The idea and purpose of the research are also analysed in terms of circular economy, which represents a...
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Elnaz Ghanbary Kalajahi, Mehran Mahboubkhah and Ahmad Barari
Closed-loop manufacturing is crucial in Industry 4.0, since it provides an online detection?correction cycle to optimize the production line by using the live data provided from the product being manufactured. By integrating the inspection system and man...
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Jana Gerta Backes, Pamela Del Rosario, Anna Luthin and Marzia Traverso
This study assesses the environmental performance in the end-of-life (EoL) of double walls made of carbon-reinforced concrete (CRC) and steel-reinforced concrete (SRC). The most feasible CRC EoL scenarios are evaluated using life cycle assessment and the...
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Yuri S. Karinski, David Z. Yankelevsky and Vladimir R. Feldgun
Cracking is an inherent characteristic of a reinforced-concrete (RC) element subjected to tension or bending. The crack width growth with loading depends on the rebar-concrete bond behavior. RC bridges are designed under strict requirements to ensure the...
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J. Philip O?Kane
The Harvard Water Program is more than sixty years old. It was directed by an academic Steering Committee consisting of the professors of Government and Political Science, Planning, Economics, and Water Engineering. In 2022 we would add to the notional S...
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