Wastewater treatment plants are a key facility in municipalities to reach the required water quality before returning to the environment. Their energy consumption constitutes the most critical cost in their operation, ...

Microplastics are a pollutant of growing concern. Several studies have found microplastics in table salt worldwide in the last decade, although most have focused on already prepackaged salt. To the best of our knowledge, ...

Residues and by-products from vegetables and fruit wholesale markets are suitable for recovery in the form of energy through anaerobic digestion, allowing waste recovery and introducing them into the circular economy. This ...

This paper introduces the open-source Low-carbon Expansion Generation Optimization (LEGO) model. It is a multi-purpose tool to carry out numerous techno-economic analyses of the energy sector, ranging from short-term unit ...

Expansion planning models are tools frequently employed to analyze the transition to a carbon-neutral power system. Such models provide estimates for an optimal technology mix and optimal operating decisions, but they are ...

There are several lessons that can already be drawn from the current research programs on strong AI and building conscious machines, even if they arguably have not produced fruits yet. The first one is that functionalist ...

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