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    • Revisiting the dispersion safety factor (DSF) for vapor clouds of liquefied flammable gases (LNG and propane) 

      Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Subirana Puigcasas, Joan; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Miralles Schleder, Adriana; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2020-08-01)
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      The concept of the Dispersion Safety Factor (DSF) was introduced by Vílchez et al., 2013, Vílchez et al., 2014 and has been revisited in this work. The DSF is defined as the ratio between the flammable region of the vapor ...

    • Risk Assessment of water effluents in Catalan (NE Spain) waste-water treatment plants based on E-PRTR data 

      Ginebreda Marti, Antoni; Guillén, Daniel; Martínez, E.; Darbra Roman, Rosa Maria; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Barceló Cullerés, Damià; Moragas, Lucas; Robusté, Jordi (2011)
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    • Study of the daily and seasonal atmospheric CH4 mixing ratio variability in a rural Spanish region using Rn-222 tracer 

      Grossi, Claudia; Vogel, F. R.; Curcoll, Roger; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vargas Drechsler, Arturo; Rodó, Xavier; Morguí, Josep Anton (2018-04-26)
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      The ClimaDat station at Gredos (GIC3) has been continuously measuring atmospheric (dry air) mixing ratios of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), as well as meteorological parameters, since November 2012. In this study ...

    • Technical Note TN 2.2 Fuel load sampling of a Cupressus sempervirens hedge 

      Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2019-08-02)
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      In this document, data from a destructive sampling of a Cupressus sempervirens hedgerow are shown, as well as the followed methodology. Measures of sizes and weights have been taken. With these data, moisture content, fuel ...

    • Technical Note TN 2.4. Fuel sampling, tree ignition and burning tests in ADAI facilities 

      Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Agueda Costafreda, Alba (2019-12-04)
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      In this document, the followed methodology to characterize several natural fuels (trees of Cupressus arizonica, Cupressocyparis leylandii, Prunus laurocerasus and Thuja occidentalis) is presented. Also, the ignition method ...

    • Temporal and spatial variability of ground level atmospheric methane concentrations in the Ebro River Delta 

      Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Grossi, Claudia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Rioja, Eva (2017-07)
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      Deltas provide many worthy ecosystem services. Yet, delta basins are quite vulnerable, especially in the face of climate change, which can affect the outcome of both agriculture and biodiversity. Moreover, rice paddy ...

    • The “pudding effect” to promote solar-driving water purification 

      Mingot Béjar, Julia; Lanzalaco, Sonia; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Torras Costa, Juan; Armelín Diggroc, Elaine Aparecida (John Wiley & sons, 2023-12-21)
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      The use of solar energy (natural) and synthetic solar absorber hydrogels (SAHs) for purification of brackish water represent a challenge. Here in, this work reports the unexpected effect achieved for water desalination ...

    • Thermal effects of a sonic jet fire impingement on a pipe 

      Foroughi, Vahid; Palacios Rosas, Adriana; Barraza, C; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Mata Miquel, Cristian; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim (2021-07)
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      Although the effects of jet fires are often limited to rather short distances, if their flames impinge on a pipe or a vessel collapse can occur in very short times. In such cases, the heat flux on the affected equipment ...

    • Thermal radiation model for dynamic fireballs with shadowing 

      Bonilla Martinez, Juan M.; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Muñoz, Miguel; Vílchez Sánchez, Juan Antonio; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2019-08-01)
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      This paper presents a new methodology for determining the thermal radiation of dynamic fireballs considering the presence of obstructions (i.e. safety barrier, topographic elevation). The specific type of obstruction ...

    • Using fuzzy logic to evaluate fire vulnerability of dwellings located at the wildland-urban interface 

      Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vacca, Pascale; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2022)
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      WUI fires are posing great challenges to firefighting services, which are overwhelmed by the need to not only suppress the fire, but also protect the community. The need for self-protection is therefore growing, as is the ...

    • Variability of methane fluxes at the Ebro Delta due to rice field: comparison between inventories and Radon Tracer Method based results. 

      Curcoll Masanes, Roger; Morguí, Josep-Anton; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vargas Drechsler, Arturo; Grossi, Claudia (2023)
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      The Ebro River Delta, in the northwestern Mediterranean basin, has an extension of 320 km2 and is mainly covered by rice fields. Rice fields are known to be one of the main sources of anthropogenic methane emissions, and ...

    • Vulnerability analysis to wildland- urban interface fires in metropolitan areas: an integrated approach 

      Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Caballero Valero, David; Rodríguez Giralt, Israel; Arenas Conejo, Miriam; Morán Núñez, Francisca Josefa; Canaleta Garcia, Guillem; Vacca, Pascale; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2022)
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      Wildfires pose a growing threat to populated areas around the world and especially in the Mediterranean Basin. Numerous Mediterranean cities have typically developed neighbourhoods that expand into forest land in which ...

    • Wildland–urban interface fires in spain: summary of the policy framework and recommendations for improvement 

      Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Caballero Valero, David; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Dalmau Rovira, Ferran; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2019-01-01)
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      Southern Europe is recurrently being hit by forest fires affecting wildland–urban interface (WUI) areas which, particularly in the last decade, have resulted in tremendous consequences. In the years to come, self-protection ...

    • WUI state of the art and regulatory needs in Europe 

      Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Scarponi, Giordano Emrys; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Agueda Costafreda, Alba (2019-08-31)
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      The document summarizes the state of the art of the regulationsrelevant to WUI in Europe, providing an organized set of references to the specific regulatory documents. It is focused on three main relevant topics: i) ...