14 articles in this issue
Andrea Giacometti, Guido Perin and Maurizio Bonardi
The Espírito SantoBay is located in Espírito Santo state in the eastern part of Brazil. It is surrounded by the city of Vitória on one side and by the Atlantic Ocean on the other. Superficial sediments of Espírito Santo Bay wer... see more
Vera I. Slaveykova and Giulia Cheloni
Trace metals (TMs) have a central role in the functioning of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. [...]
Laura Álvarez-de Prado, Miguel De Simón-Martín, Ana-María Diez-Suárez, Jorge Juan Blanes-Peiró and Alberto González-Martínez
The promotion of the development of co-digestion power plants will be intensified in many European Union member states as the main target of the Union concerning energy generation is complete decarbonisation by 2050. This potential expansion prompts the n... see more
Makhbal Prikaz, Chunsheng Fang, Sanchirbayar Dash and Ju Wang
Particulate matter studies have been conducted regularly in the capital city of Mongolia. In contrast, studies related to the source and general estimation of levels of sulfur dioxide (SO2) over whole years are lacking. To explore the yearly trend in SO2,... see more
Paulo Henrique Trombetta Zannin, Eriberto Oliveira Do Nascimento, Elaine Carvalho Da Paz and Felipe Do Valle
In the modern world, noise pollution continues to be a major problem that impairs people’s health, and road traffic is a primary contributor to noise emissions. This article describes an environmental impact study of the noise generated by the recon... see more
Cesar Asensio, Luis Gasco, Guillermo De Arcas, Juan Manuel López and Jesus Alonso
Leisure noise is a continual source of complaints from residents of affected areas, and its management poses a difficult challenge for local authorities, especially in tourist destinations, such as Málaga. The city council of this city has set a go... see more
Álvaro De la Puente-Gil, Alberto González-Martínez, David Borge-Diez, Jorge Juan Blanes-Peiró and Miguel De Simón-Martín
Health Services building stock is usually the top energy consumer in the Administrative sector, by a considerable margin. Therefore, energy consumption supervision, prediction, and improvement should be carried out for this group in a preferential manner.... see more
Elena Bee, Alessandro Prada and Paolo Baggio
Matching demand profile and solar irradiance availability is necessary to meet space heating and domestic hot water needs by means of an air-source heat pump and photovoltaic system in a single-family house. Demand-side management, with smart control of t... see more
Meriame Mohajane, Ali Essahlaoui, Fatiha Oudija, Mohammed El Hafyani, Abdellah El Hmaidi, Abdelhadi El Ouali, Giovanni Randazzo and Ana C. Teodoro
The study of land use/land cover (LULC) has become an increasingly important stage in the development of forest ecosystems strategies. Hence, the main goal of this study was to describe the vegetation change of Azrou Forest in the Middle Atlas, Morocco, b... see more
Alessia Arteconi
The urgent need for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions requires efficient and integrated energy communities in order to decrease final energy demand and sustain energy transitions towards renewable energy sources (RES). This introduces a big ... see more
Alan K. Betts and Raymond L. Desjardins
Analysis of the hourly Canadian Prairie data for the past 60 years has transformed our quantitative understanding of land–atmosphere–cloud coupling. The key reason is that trained observers made hourly estimates of the opaque cloud fraction th... see more
Kourosh Kian, Caleb M Woodall, Jennifer Wilcox and Simona Liguori
H2 permeation and separation properties of two Pd-based composite membranes were evaluated and compared at 400 °C and at a pressure range of 150 kPa to 600 kPa. One membrane was characterized by an approximately 8 μm-thick palladium (Pd)-gold (Au) ... see more
Masaru Kurihara, Hiromu Takeuchi and Yohito Ito
The application of seawater desalination technology using a reverse osmosis (RO) membrane has been expanding because it requires less energy compared with other distillation methods. Even in Middle Eastern countries where energy costs are lower such as Sa... see more
Ad Straub and Ellard Volmer
A Home Energy Management System (HEMS) has no direct and immediate energy-saving effect. It gives insight into the resident’s behaviour regarding energy use. When this is linked to the appropriate feedback, the resident is in a position to change hi... see more