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Events | L-C seminars Collaborations |
The Center for Industrial Ecology (CIE) at the
University of Coimbra was established to provide an organizational focus
for research and teaching in industrial ecology. CIE brings together faculty,
researchers and doctoral/master students from the University of Coimbra and
elsewhere to develop new knowledge at the forefront of the field. Research is
carried out in collaboration with other institutions and with international
partners mainly in Europe, USA and Latin America. Current research activities include:
CIE has strong involvement in the Energy for
Sustainability initiative at the University of Coimbra (www.uc.pt/en/efs), and is also part of the research group Energy,
Environment and Comfort (at ADAI - Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Aerodinâmica Industrial) of the Associated
Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aeronautics (LAETA). O Centro para a Ecologia Industrial (CIE)
da Universidade de Coimbra foi criado para estabelecer uma estrutura
organizacional para promover a investigação e o ensino em Ecologia
Industrial. O Centro para a Ecologia Industrial reúne Professores,
Investigadores e Estudantes de Doutoramento/Mestrado da Universidade de
Coimbra, para desenvolver novos conhecimentos na vanguarda desta área
científica. A investigação é levada a cabo em colaboração com outras
instituições e parceiros internacionais, principalmente na Europa, EUA e
América Latina. Investigação
actual inclui:
O
CIE tem um forte envolvimento na iniciativa Energia para a Sustentabilidade (http://www.uc.pt/efs)
e faz parte do grupo de investigação “Energia, Ambiente e Conforto” (da ADAI –
Associação para o desenvolvimento da Aerodinâmica Industrial) do Laboratório
Associado em Energia, Transportes e Aeronáutica (LAETA). |
News __________________________________________________________________________ A doctoral degree research grant
(BI-PhD) is opened to work in the R&D project “EMSURE - Energy and Mobility for Sustainable Regions” -
co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the Operational
Programme for the Central Region of Portugal 2007-2013 (PORC) under the
«Sistema de Apoio a Entidades do Sistema Científico e Tecnológico Nacional»
(CENTRO-07-0224-FEDER-002004) and the Foundation for Sciences and Technology.
Deadline for application: between 28/05/2013 and
11/06/2013. More information here. __________________________________________________________________________ The project “Life
Cycle Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Bioenergy” aiming at
promoting the exchange of researchers between CIE and Cenbio (University of
S. Paulo, Brazil) in the scope of FCT/CAPES 2013-2014 convention has been
approved. _____________________________________ Vlad Coroama was invited to deliver the presentation
“How much energy does it take to send
a gigabyte of data?” at Google’s
event “How green is the Internet?”, Mountain View, CA, USA, June 6th
2013. _____________________________________ Érica Castanheira attended the course “Modelling Indirect Land-Use Changes In
Life Cycle Assessment” in 8-10th May 2013, at the International Life Cycle Academy (Barcelona, Spain). _____________________________________ Fausto Freire has been invited to give the
talk “Avaliação de ciclo de vida de
biocombustíveis” at the BIOCOM
– Simpósio Nacional de Biocombustíveis, ULBRA Canoas, Brazil, 24-26 April
2013. During his visit to Brazil, he has also been invited
to visit and give a talk at the Faculty of Engineering (FENG) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio
Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil, in
the scope of the Post-graduation Program in Engineering and Technology
(PGETEMA) and give the talk “Ferramentas
da Ecologia Industrial Aplicada na Gestão Ambiental de Biocombustíveis: A
experiência da Universidade de Coimbra - Portugal” at Instituto de
Pesquisas Hidráulicas (IPH), Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
_____________________________________ 3 new papers
on international journals with scientific refereeing resulting from collaborations between CIE and
LEDAP-ADAI, ISR-UC, and the University of S. Paulo - Brazil have recently
been accepted for publication: - Ferreira, C., Ribeiro,
B., Mendes, R., Freire, F. (2013). “Life-Cycle Assessment of ammunition demilitarisation in a static kiln”.
Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 2013, 38, 296 – 302.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prep.201200088 - Faria, F., Marques, P.,
Moura, P., Freire, F., Delgado, J., Almeida, A. T. (2013). “Impact of the electricity mix and
use profile in the life-cycle assessment of electric vehicles”. Renewable and
Sustainable Energy Reviews, 24, 271-287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2013.03.063 - Silva, D., Lahr, F.,
Garcia, R., Freire, F., Ometto, A. (2013). “Life cycle assessment of medium density
particleboard (MDP) produced in Brazil”. International Journal of Life Cycle
Assessment. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11367-013-0583-3
_____________________________________ Fausto Freire presented the following
posters at CILCA 2013 - V Conferencia
Internacional sobre Análisis de Ciclo de Vida, 24-27 March 2013,
Mendonza, Argentina: João Queirós, Carla
Caldeira, Érica Castanheira, Fausto Freire (2013) LCA of biodiesel from waste cooking oil: alternative collection
scenarios; Pedro Marques, Rita
Garcia, Fausto Freire (2013) LCA of
electric cars in Portugal. ___________________________________ Fausto Freire has recently been elected Treasurer of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. _____________________________________ Foram
atribuídos os prémios do concurso
Logótipo do CIE: ·
1º prémio (disco
externo de 500 Gb): Bruno Pinto ·
2º prémio (pendrive de 4 Gb): Hélder
Santos ·
3º prémio (pendrive de 4 Gb): Marisa
Passos Parabéns
aos vencedores! _____________________________________ Fausto
Freire and
Pedro Marques presented
two invited talks at the
Seminário ACV: Fundamentos e Estudos
de Caso, December 14, 2012, Departamento de
Ambiente e Ordenamento, Universidade de Aveiro, Associação Industrial do
Distrito de Aveiro: “Key issues, uncertainty and variability in LCA” and “Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment of Electric and Conventional Passenger Cars for Portugal”. _____________________________________ |
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