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Evaluation of energy saving measures and their contribution to energy and environmental sustainability
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2019)
The world population has doubled in the last 60 years and is expected to grow to 9700 million people in 2050 and to 11,200 million by the end of the 21st century, which will have a strong impact on population structure, ...
Water Related Properties to Assess Soil Quality in Two Olive Orchards of South Spain under Different Management Strategies
(MDPI, 2019)
Soil quality is usually assessed through the measurement of selected soil properties.
However, in spite of the diversity of the chosen properties, use of the soil water retention curve, like
the pressure head or the ...
A Methodology for Buildings Access to Solar Radiation in Sustainable Cities
(MDPI, 2019)
The growing need to improve the environmental and energy sustainability of buildings involves the use of solar radiation incident on their surfaces. However, in cities, this task is complicated due to the constructive ...
Proposal for the Design of Monitoring and Operating Irrigation Networks Based on IoT, Cloud Computing and Free Hardware Technologies
(MDPI, 2019)
In recent decades, considerable efforts have been devoted to process automation in agriculture. Regarding irrigation systems, this demand has found several difficulties, including the lack of communication networks and the ...
Biomass as Renewable Energy: Worldwide Research Trends
(MDPI, 2019)
The world’s population continues to grow at a high rate, such that today’s population is twice that of 1960, and is projected to increase further to 9 billion by 2050. This situation has brought about a situation in which ...
Date Seeds (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Valorization for Boilers in the Mediterranean Climate
(MDPI, 2019)
Energy saving is a global priority, as it is helping both energy and environmental sustainability by reducing CO2 emissions. The search for new energy solutions is therefore necessary. In the Mediterranean climate, resources ...
Analysis of Research Topics and Scientific Collaborations in Energy Saving Using Bibliometric Techniques and Community Detection
(MDPI, 2019)
Concern about everything related to energy is increasingly latent in the world and therefore
the use of energy saving concepts has been increasing over the past several years. The interest in the
subject has allowed a ...
Wind Power Cogeneration to Reduce Peak Electricity Demand in Mexican States Along the Gulf of Mexico
(MDPI, 2019)
The Energetic Transition Law in Mexico has established that in the next years, the country has to produce at least 35% of its energy from clean sources in 2024. Based on this, a proposal in this study is the cogeneration ...
Seasonal Wind Energy Characterization in the Gulf of Mexico
(MDPI, 2019)
In line with Mexico’s interest in determining its wind resources, in this paper, 141 locations along the states of the Gulf of Mexico have been analyzed by calculating the main wind characteristics, such as the Weibull ...
Carbon Dioxide Human Gains—A New Approach of the Estimation
(MDPI, 2019)
Human health is dependent on the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) of residential and public buildings, where people spend a substantial amount of time. Part of IAQ parameters, like temperature or humidity influence the thermal ...