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Environmental Impacts of Promoting New Public Transport Systems in Urban Mobility: A Case Study
Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2017 Urban mobility is highly dependent on private vehicles causing pollution, traffic congestion and traffic accidents. The tram has become one of the most relevant public transport modes in those cities which need to reduce the private vehicle dependency ...
Abel Ortego +2 more
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Thermodynamic Rarity and the Loss of Mineral Wealth
Energies, 2015 The second law of thermodynamics and, specifically, exergy analysis have been traditionally used for the assessment and optimization of energy systems. Nevertheless, as shown in this paper, exergy could also constitute a powerful tool for the evaluation ...
Antonio Valero, Alicia Valero
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Predicting resource consumption of Kubernetes container systems using resource models
Journal of Systems and Software, 2023 Cloud computing has radically changed the way organisations operate their software by allowing them to achieve high availability of services at affordable cost. Containerized microservices is an enabling technology for this change, and advanced container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes are used for service management. Despite the flourishing
Turin G. +5 more
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Circular Economy: Problems and Solutions at the Present Stage
Вестник Российского экономического университета имени Г. В. Плеханова, 2022 Russia's transition to a circular economy requires the solution of a number of important problems which include various aspects of activity. The process of transition to sustainable economic development began at the end of the 20th century.
A. P. Epishov +3 more
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Materials & Design, 2020 A latent heat storage system based on Phase Change Materials (PCMs) is proposed to increase the energy and environmental efficiency by recovering and storing waste heat from combustion gases or other surplus sources at in the energy-intensive industries (
Patricia Royo +5 more
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Gratitude Reduces Consumption of Depleting Resources
Emotion, 2020 Sustaining finite public resources presents a dilemma between acting in self-interest for present benefit versus working toward long-term collective gain. Given gratitude’s links to prosociality and self-control, the present studies investigated whether gratitude would promote sustainable resource extraction under conditions of rapidly depleting ...
Shanyu Kates, David DeSteno
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PLANNING OF RESOURCE CONSUMPTION INDICATORS
ECONOMIC BULLETIN OF THE DNIPROVSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, 2021 The article is devoted to the problem of effective management of resource consumption processes at industrial enterprises in the conditions of economic instability and financial crisis. In the course of the research the current state of development of methods and tools of resource management processes of economic entities of Ukraine is considered.
Nataliia Shepel, Alevtina Voronina
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Dynamic Simulation of a Trigeneration Scheme for Domestic Purposes Based on Hybrid Techniques
Energies, 2016 In this paper, the design of a system providing electricity by coupling photovoltaic/thermal (PVT) collectors and a wind turbine (WT), sanitary hot water (SHW) coming from the PVT and evacuated tube collectors (ETCs) and fresh water (FW) produced in two ...
Luis Acevedo +6 more
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Multicriteria approach for evaluating biowaste-valorization cases
Energy Storage and SavingThe selection of waste-valorization projects is a complex decision process that involves many factors and variables to guarantee an appropriate definition of the best waste-management strategy to be applied for a specific waste typology.
Carlota Díaz García +4 more
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Decreasing Ore Grades in Global Metallic Mining: A Theoretical Issue or a Global Reality?
Resources, 2016 Mining industry requires high amounts of energy to extract and process resources, including a variety of concentration and refining processes.
Guiomar Calvo +3 more
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