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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"sustainable technologies"”.
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The convergence of sustainable technologies and architectural design expression
… must now work in tandem with the advancement of sustainable technologies to achieve an architecture that responds in a positive and sensitive way to the environment in which it resides. Sustainable issues have become a significant participatory, yet not dominate, element within architectural …
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Functional nanostructured hydrothermal carbons for sustainable technologies : heteroatom doping and superheated vapor
… for this thesis was the growing need for more sustainable technologies. The aim was to synthesize a “palette” of functional nanomaterials using the established technique of hydrothermal carbonization (HTC). The incredible diversity of HTC was demonstrated together with small but steady advances …
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A Decision Support Framework For Selecting Innovative Sustainable Technologies For Delivering Low Carbon Retail Buildings
There is an urgent need to adopt innovative sustainable technologies (ISTs) to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions whilst improving process efficiency of existing retail buildings, due to rising energy prices and the impacts of retail buildings on the environment. Despite their reported …
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Performing Actionable Evaluations of Sustainability Investments
Businesses are rapidly pursuing investments in sustainable technologies to meet their climate goals, but performing actionable evaluations of technologies is difficult, especially in decentralized businesses. Actionable evaluations have high accuracy, high precision, and address uncertainty. …
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Sustainability and residential development : a guide to cost-efficient green building technologies
… lack reliable information about how to build sustainable homes. This lack comes from the difficulty found in trying to quantify energy savings and costs of different sustainable technologies. Focusing on the commonwealth of Massachusetts, this thesis has compiled costs and energy savings for …
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Strategic policy approaches to technological development for sustainability : the role of consensus building and experimentation
… goals. The focus is specifically on technologies that may imply a paradigm shift, which is a change in existing practices or norms. To overcome potential barriers to market and societal penetration, government has traditionally initiated regulations and economic incentives to help …
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An assessment of the smal-holder enterprise group (SHEG) programme: A case study of Kafue District
… on their productivity in relation with the sustainable technologies they had adopted. Finally, investigated on whether farmer groups were are able to access the market and market information for their produce through the programme.However, due to a gap in knowledge as to whether SHEG had …
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NEO-ZOOMORPHIC ARCHITECTURE: The Decaying Whale Pavilion
Sustainable design has recently become a hot topic in the field of architecture. With advancements in technology, sustainability has become more accessible to designers. However, instead of relying solely on various high-precision sustainable technologies, nature can be the best teacher. Learning …
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Diseño de la biolixiviación en continuo para la gestión de residuos piríticos
… an ideal scenario for the implementation of more sustainable technologies for the valorization of available resources. Currently, biohydrometallurgical biotechnologies applied to the mining and metallurgical sectors are used industrially for Cu production and as a pretreatment of Au ores and …
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Securing the Future: Critical Materials Policies for the US Energy Transition
… chains, it overlooks the crucial need for a sustainable and secure supply of critical materials. This oversight threatens the success of the nation’s sustainable transition due to limited resilience and dependencies on geopolitically, environmentally, and socially sensitive international …
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HYDRAULIC COMPATIBILITY OF GEOTEXTILES FILTERING RECYCLED MATERIALS
… at the same time providing cost-effective and sustainable technologies. Use of recycled materials instead of earthen materials is one way to improve sustainability of highway infrastructure. Similar benefits exist when sustainability is infused into designing modern landfill covers. Since …
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Investigating Droplet Impact Dynamics on Engineered Surfaces: Effects of Roughness, Wettability, and Prospects for Anti-Icing Applications
… implications for advancing safer and more sustainable technologies in aviation, energy, and infrastructure industries.
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The effect of heat compression on mechanical behaviour and moisture content of pineapple leaf fibre and sugarcane bagasse waste for plate disposal
… used as raw materials in construction to achieve sustainable technologies. This study focuses on the use of waste products from the pineapple leaf and sugarcane bagasse as compounds in replacing polystyrenes and others plastics glass in the manufacture of plate disposal. This platter is made from …
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Advanced methods of life cycle assessment for space systems
… envisioned within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which seeks to "balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental". Despite this, combining all three sustainability dimensions within a single life cycle study has thus far never …
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The Holistic Technology Impact Model
… developers to analyse at an early stage which sustainable innovations can provide the greatest value for their project. Elaborating on the urgency for change towards sustainable development approaches within the real estate industry, existing barriers were found between the approaches proposed …
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Tailored heterogeneous catalysts for biomass conversion
… designed to address pressing challenges in sustainable biomass conversion. The introductory chapter outlines the importance of catalysis in advancing sustainable technologies, highlighting the need for catalysts that balance high activity, selectivity, and stability under challenging …
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All fired-up about coal : technology & policy recommendations for the 2030 United Kingdom energy strategy
… will likely require future carbon abatement technologies on coal plants. In fact, several proposed UK coal generators are currently considering uncertain technology solutions to carbon emissions, Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS). For these reasons, the future price of coal generation …
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Understanding non-precious metal catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction and investigating corrosion and surface properties of carbon-doped aluminum alloys
The development of sustainable technologies to address the increasing global energy demand, to enable new ways to conserve energy, and to reduce the environmental impact of energy production and consumption is highly desirable. In many cases, a fundamental understanding is crucial for the discovery …
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