Portugal

2021, Environment, Portugal / 19.07.2021

People die prematurely every year due to air pollution, mostly due to car traffic. Green infrastructures can act as PM sinkers, through the deposition and removal of airborne pollutants. ATMOS aimed at quantifying PM retention by trees, developing a new methodology to calculate PM retention, based on volume function and assessing the economic value of the ecosystem service provide by...

2021, Engineering, Portugal / 19.07.2021

Given the professional requirements of today's society, workers of various professions, are exposed to high levels of harmful radiations, which increases the risk of contracting severe illnesses. To efficiently monitor the exposure to dangerous ionizing radiations, this project presents a system that analyzes in real-time the exposure to harmful radiation and alerts the user when the daily exposure limit is...