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New Polymers from Biomass-Derived Hydroxycinnamic Acid Derivatives

Polymers play a central role in shaping our world across various fields, but their heavy reliance on petrochemicals poses climate change, environmental and health risks. To address and alleviate these issues, transitioning to sustainable polymers, sourced ...

EPFL2024

How to avoid the danger of pollutants in Swiss biochar production and use?

Nika Bilic

The study of pollutants found in biochar and its effects on agricultural soil was conducted in this paper. The aim of the research was to analyse organic and inorganic pollutants found in biochar which either originate from the biomass itself or are formed ...

2023

An innovative autonomous robotic system for on-site detection of heavy metal pollution plumes in surface water

Bhawna Nagar, Alexander Haider, Qiuyue Yang

Smart monitoring has been studied and developed in recent years to create faster, cheaper, and more user-friendly on-site methods. The present study describes an innovative technology for investigative monitoring of heavy metal pollution (Cu and Pb) in sur ...

SPRINGER2022

Upcycling Space Structures (Preface to special issue)

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Olivier Baverel

The construction industry’s contribution to the deterioration of Earth’s ecosystem is huge. 11% of all anthropic greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are due to the construction, demolition, and transformation of buildings and infrastructure. Construction an ...

2021

A new method to design structures that adapt to loads via large shape changes

Ian Smith, Gennaro Senatore, Arka Prabhata Reksowardojo

The construction industry contributes to more than a third of the global energy demand and consumes almost half of all mined material resources. It is thus important to include energy and material efficiency criteria for the design of civil structures. Ada ...

2018

Facilitating the incorporation of VIP into precast concrete sandwich panels

Andrea Bassi, Thierry Voellinger, Matthew Leslie Heitel

This research focuses on the development of thin, load bearing, composite concrete facade elements containing high performance thermal insulation. A pilot project involving the construction of a detached house has been completed resolving issues related to ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Comprehensive simultaneous shipboard and airborne characterization of exhaust from a modern container ship at sea

Athanasios Nenes

We report the first joint shipboard and airborne study focused on the chemical composition and water-uptake behavior of particulate ship emissions. The study focuses on emissions from the main propulsion engine of a Post-Panamax class container ship cruisi ...

2009

Toxic metal interactions with soil bacterium "Cupriavidus metallidurans"

Rita Hajdu Schenk

Living bacteria offer an ecological and cost-effective alternative to the classical physical and chemical techniques for the treatment of environmental contaminations. Although their increasing use in toxic metal removal, systematic studies on the influenc ...

EPFL2009

Recyclage des eaux usées en irrigation

Yeli Mariam Sou

The present study takes place in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), a typical Sub-Saharan city where water shortage and food crisis necessitate wastewater reuse in urban agriculture. Different issues linked to this practice were studied in two components separate ...

EPFL2009

Hydrodynamic characterisation of a groundwater - surface water system and evaluation of BTEX, PAHs decay and heavy metals fate

Jordi Batlle-Aguilar

Most contaminated sites related to past industrial activities in Europe are adjacent to rivers and urbanized areas. These sites pose a major problem for water authorities and policy makers in terms of contaminants mobility, natural attenuation (or degradat ...

2008

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