Ramos, Helena M.; Simão, Mariana; Pérez-Sánchez, Modesto; Fernandes, João F.P.; Costa Branco, Paulo J.; López Jiménez, Petra Amparo(Associação Portuguesa de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental (APESB), 2020)
[PT] A crescente crise energética e o consumo excessivo de recursos levantam a
preocupação de encontrar novas fontes alternativas de energia, viabilizando novos
métodos de produção e/ou tornando mais eficientes os que já ...
Catelas, Joao M.R.; Fernandes, João F.P.; Pérez-Sánchez, Modesto; López Jiménez, Petra Amparo; Ramos, Helena M.; Costa Branco, P.J.(MDPI AG, 2024-03)
[EN] Using pumps operating as turbines (PATs) offers the possibility of increasing the sustainability of water and energy systems by recovering the excess energy that would be otherwise lost in pressure-reducing valves or ...
Ramos, Helena M.; Pérez-Sánchez, Modesto; Mullur Gurupr, Prajwal Shandilya; Carraveta, Armando; Kuriqui, Alban; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar Enrique; Fernandes, João F.P.; Costa Branco, Paulo J.; López Jiménez, Petra Amparo(MDPI AG, 2024-02)
[EN] The world's water infrastructures suffer from inefficiencies, such as high energy consumption and water losses due to inadequate management practices and feeble pressure regulation, leading to frequent water and energy ...
Fernandes, João F.P.; Pérez-Sánchez, Modesto; Ferreira, F.; López Jiménez, Petra Amparo; Ramos, Helena M.; Costa Branco, P.J.(Elsevier, 2019)
[EN] The use of pump working as turbine (PAT) was identified by many researchers as a way to improve the energy efficiency in the water systems. However, the majority of the researches consider the hydraulic machine connected ...
Pérez-Sánchez, Modesto; Fernandes, João F.P.; Costa Branco, P.J.; López Jiménez, Petra Amparo; Ramos, Helena M.(MDPI AG, 2021-05)
[EN] Sustainability and efficiency in irrigation are essential in the management of the water-
energy-food nexus to reach the Sustainable Development Goals in 2030. In irrigation systems, the
reduction of energy consumption ...