• The mechanical performance of recycled slate waste fiber composites based on unsaturated polyester resins 

  Ruiz Bustos, Rocío; López Uceda, Antonio; López Martínez, M.I.; Van Duijn, Joost (MDPI, 2023)

  In the last few decades, there has been increasing social awareness for environmental conservation, which is driving the development of composite materials based on natural fibers. These new materials have interesting ...

• Optimising the Performance of CO2-Cured Alkali-Activated Aluminosilicate Industrial By-Products as Precursors 

  Lamaa, Ghandy; Suescum-Morales, David; Duarte, António P. C; Vasco Silva, Rui; Brito, Jorge de (MDPI, 2023)

  Three industrial aluminosilicate wastes were studied as precursors to produce alkali-activated concrete: (i) electric arc furnace slag, (ii) municipal solid waste incineration bottom ashes, and (iii) waste glass rejects. ...

• Assessment of a Side-Row Continuous Canopy Shaking Harvester and Its Adaptability to the Portuguese Cobrançosa Variety in High-Density Olive Orchards 

  Aragón-Rodríguez, Fernando; Dias, Antonio B.; Pinheiro, Anacleto; Peça, José; Lourenço Días, Ivo; Castro García, Sergio (MDPI, 2023)

  The olive tree is an important crop in Portugal, where different levels of intensification coexist. The traditional olive orchards present profitability problems, mainly due to harvesting, so there has been a drastic ...

• Soil Salinity Patterns in an Olive Grove Irrigated with Reclaimed Table Olive Processing Wastewater 

  Vanderlinden, Karl; Martínez, Gonzalo; Ramos, Mario; Laguna, Ana; Vanwalleghem, Tom; Peña, Adolfo; Carbonell, Rosa; Ordoñez, Rafaela; Giráldez Cervera, Juan Vicente (MDPI, 2022)

  The agricultural use of saline table olive processing wastewater enables the implementation of closed water cycles in this socioeconomically important industry for rural southern Spain and relieves environmental, economic, ...

• Effect of Processed Volcanic Ash as Active Mineral Addition for Cement Manufacture 

  Rosales, Julia; Rosales, Manuel; Díaz-López, José Luis; Agrela Sáinz, Francisco; Cabrera, Manuel (MDPI, 2022)

  In the last quarter of 2021, there was a very significant eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma, belonging to the Canary Islands, Spain. It generated a large amount of pyroclastic volcanic materials, ...

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