Browsing by Subject "Air--Pollution"
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Emissions variation in urban areas resulting from the introduction of natural gas vehicles: application to Barcelona and Madrid greater areas (Spain)
(2009-03-05)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyOn-road traffic is the major contributor to pollutant emissions in urban areas. Nowadays different emission abatement strategies are being tested in order to improve urban air quality (e.g. the European Commission currently ... -
Energy efficient buildings, twin house research facility: air quality
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-11-26)
Bachelor thesis
Restricted access - author's decision
Covenantee: Høgskolen i OsloThis report is a contribution to adapt a Twin House Research Facility to Norwegian/European conditions. The report includes a survey of possible building materials, the gases they can exhaust and how those can be measured. ... -
Environmental assessment of 9 European public bus transportation systems
(Elsevier, 2016-08-29)
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Open AccessThe transportation sector is one of the largest sources of EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. In 2011, transportation represented approximately 25 percent of total EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. Urban mobility accounts for 40% ... -
Estudi de la combinació dels elements filtrants per a mascaretes
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-06)
Bachelor thesis
Restricted access - author's decisionLa contaminació és un tema de preocupació en els darrers anys com ja s‟ha mostrat mitjançant el diversos organismes i mitjans de comunicació. Aquesta preocupació és deguda als efectes nocius generats al medi ambient i ... -
Estudio de emisiones del parque automovilístico andorrano
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-06)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessEl presente documento pretende mostrar el desarrollo de un inventario de emisiones de vehículos para el parque automovilístico andorrano siguiendo la metodología tier 2 (metodologías de cálculo de emisiones preestablecidas). ... -
Estudio de los dispositivos y sistemas que permiten el control y reducción de la contaminación en el sector del transporte por carretera.
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-06-13)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessEl fin de este proyecto consiste en primer lugar en estudiar los diferentes dispositivos y sistemas que permiten el control y reducción de la contaminación atmosférica causada por el sector del transporte por carretera, ... -
Estudio del sistema de reducción de emisiones diesel particulate filter (DPF) y realización del ensayo específico de turismos de motor diesel
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2007-06)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Restricted access - author's decisionLos vehículos a motor representan una de las principales fuentes de contaminación ambiental. En consecuencia la comunidad Económica Europea establece ley tras ley, valores de emisiones más reducidos. Este proyecto se centra ... -
European primary emissions of criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases in 2020 modulated by the COVID-19 pandemic disruptions
(Copernicus Publications, 2022-06)
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Open AccessWe present a European dataset of daily sector-, pollutant- and country-dependent emission adjustment factors associated with the COVID-19 mobility restrictions for the year 2020. We considered metrics traditionally used ... -
Exploring the public's willingness to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from private road transport in Catalonia
(Elsevier, 2018-01-01)
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Open AccessInternalizing environmental externalities is a market-driven approach to correcting people's private costs and benefits. One way of quantifying these externalities is estimating the willingness to pay (WTP) of people to ... -
Future Climate Change under SSP Emission Scenarios with GISS-E2.1
(Wiley Open Access, 2022)
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Open AccessAbstract This paper presents the response to anthropogenic forcing in the GISS-E2.1 climate models for the 21st century Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) emission scenarios within the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project ... -
Geographic sources of ozone air pollution and mortality burden in Europe
(2024-06-03)
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Open AccessGround-level ozone (O3) is a harmful air pollutant formed in the atmosphere by the interaction between sunlight and precursor gases. Exposure to current O3 levels in Europe is a major source of premature mortality from air ... -
GREENET – An early stage training network in enabling technologies for green radio
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyIn this paper, we describe GREENET (an early stage training network in enabling technologies for green radio), which is a new project recently funded by the European Commission under the auspices of the 2010 Marie Curie ... -
Impact of HONO sources on the performance of mesoscale air quality models
(2012)
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Open AccessNitrous acid (HONO) photolysis constitutes a primary source of OH in the early morning, which leads to changes in model gas-phase and particulate matter concentrations. However, state-of-the-art models of chemical ... -
Influence of synoptic meteorology on airborne allergenic pollen and spores in an urban environment in Northeastern Iberian Peninsula
(Elsevier, 2023-10-20)
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Open AccessThe influence of the most frequent patterns of synoptic circulation on the dynamics of airborne pollen/spores recorded at the Barcelona Aerobiological Station (BCN) was analysed. Six pollen types (Platanus, Cupressaceae, ... -
Large spread in interannual variance of atmospheric CO2 concentration across CMIP6 Earth System Models
(Nature Research, 2023-12)
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Open AccessNumerical Earth System Models (ESMs) are our best tool to predict the evolution of atmospheric CO2 concentration and its effect on Global temperature. However, large uncertainties exist among ESMs in the variance of the ... -
Levels of exposure to particulate matter (PM) in schools in Barcelona
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-01)
Master thesis
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Mitigació d’emissions de CO2 difuses a l’àmbit urbà. El Pacte d’Alcaldes i les seves limitacions
(Escola Politècnica Superior d’Enginyeria de Manresa, 2010-12-02)
Conference lecture
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Modelling indoor air carbon dioxide concentration using grey-box models
(2017-05)
Article
Open AccessPredictive control is the strategy that has the greatest reported benefits when it is implemented in a building energy management system. Predictive control requires low-order models to assess different scenarios and ... -
Modelling the impacts of emission changes on O3 sensitivity, atmospheric oxidation capacity, and pollution transport over the Catalonia region
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2023-09-28)
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Open AccessTropospheric ozone (O3) is an important surface pollutant in urban areas, and it has complex formation mechanisms that depend on the atmospheric chemistry and on meteorological factors. The severe reductions observed in ... -
Performance of European chemistry transport models as function of horizontal resolution
(Elsevier, 2015-07-01)
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Open AccessAir pollution causes adverse effects on human health as well as ecosystems and crop yield and also has an impact on climate change trough short-lived climate forcers. To design mitigation strategies for air pollution, 3D ...
