Assessment of treatment systems for highway runoff pollution control in Portugal

Assessment of treatment systems for highway runoff pollution control in Portugal.

Treatment systems for highway runoff pollution control are now common structures for environmental impacts reduction in Portugal. Such systems must be monitored and its performance periodically assessed, in order to understand if they are accomplishing the targets for environmental protection. Wise management decisions must incorporate the soundness of the project, the construction and maintena...

Assessment of pollution control technologies by using decision support systems

  Background and aims: Air pollution reduction is important in health being of people and environment. Applying of an effective and efficient strategy is key consideration in facing with environmental challenges of management and control of air pollution. Recently, the main effort of environmental researchers is finding low cost and effective methods to control of environmental pollutants. Po...

Development and Evaluation of Best Management Practices (bmps) for Highway Runoff Pollution Control

Highway runoff and potential for removal of heavy metals in an infiltration pond in Portugal

Highway runoff from IP 4, a mountain road in the north-east of Portugal, has been monitored using a system integrating a raingauge, a flowmeter and an automatic water sampler. Average daily traffic (ADT) is 6000 and the study catchment has 5970 m2 of total area and 2500 m2 of road pavement. A single stormwater outlet discharges into an infiltration pond with overflow to a creek. Sampling was ca...

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...