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Joana Carneiro, Dália Loureiro, Marta Cabral and Dídia Covas
This paper presents and demonstrates a novel scenario-building methodology that integrates contextual and future time uncertainty into the performance assessment of water distribution networks (WDNs). A three-step approach is proposed: (i) System context...
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Pinar Mert Cuce, Erdem Cuce and Saffa Riffat
The construction sector, including in developed countries, plays a notable part in the overall energy consumption worldwide, being responsible for 40% of it. In addition to this, heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems constitute the lar...
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Jure Sr?e, Marko Perkovic and Aleksander Grm
The environmental effects of ship propellers were not even close to fully examined before the current massive ships were introduced to sea trade. Larger ships, result in greater length, beam, draft and propulsion power. Of concern here is the under-keel ...
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Christos Iliadis, Panagiota Galiatsatou, Vassilis Glenis, Panagiotis Prinos and Chris Kilsby
The expansion of urban areas and the increasing frequency and magnitude of intense rainfall events are anticipated to contribute to the widespread escalation of urban flood risk across the globe. To effectively mitigate future flood risks, it is crucial ...
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Aline Grard and Jean-François Deliège
Adsorption and desorption processes occurring on suspended and bed sediments were studied in two datasets from western Europe watersheds (Meuse and Mosel). Copper and zinc dissolved and total concentrations, total suspended sediment concentrations, mass ...
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Mustafa Korkmaz, Fatih Mangit, Ilayda Dumlupinar, Mehmet Arda Çolak, Mustafa Berkay Akpinar, Meltem Koru, Juan Pablo Pacheco, Arely Ramírez-García, Gültekin Yilmaz, Cihelio Alves Amorim, Ibrahim Kaan Özgencil, Deniz Innal, Sedat Vahdet Yerli, Korhan Özkan, Zuhal Akyürek, Meryem Beklioglu and Erik Jeppesen
Climate change is affecting freshwater ecosystems globally, particularly those in semi-arid and arid regions. The Central Anatolian Ecoregion (CAE) in Türkiye has a semi-arid climate and is home to numerous endemic fish species. We used species distribut...
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Helena M. Ramos, Maria Cristina Morani, Francesco Pugliese and Oreste Fecarotta
Urbanization and population growth have been responsible for a significant increase in consumption of water and energy at a global scale. A careful management of water resource and infrastructures is crucial for Energy Transition, as well as for achievin...
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Anatolijs Borodinecs, Kristina Lebedeva, Natalja Sidenko and Aleksejs Prozuments
Evaporative cooling is widely recognized as an energy efficient and environmentally-friendly air conditioning solution, and it has drawn a lot of market interest in recent years. However, this technology is accompanied by several challenges. For instance...
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Xinyue Yang, Xianglai Zeng, Carlo Gualtieri, Alan Cuthbertson, Ruo-Qian Wang and Dongdong Shao
With the rapid development of commercial aquaculture in recent decades, large numbers of submerged cages or pens are clustered in fish farms that are commonly located within inland lakes, reservoirs, and coastal embayments around the world. The submerged...
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Vusi Ntiyiso Masingi and Daniel Maposa
Extreme rainfall events have made significant damages to properties, public infrastructure and agriculture in some provinces of South Africa notably in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng among others. The general global increase in the frequency and intensity of ...
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