96 research outputs found

    Clasificación y disposición de envases plásticos rígidos posconsumo

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    RESUMEN: La economía circular basada en el uso eficiente y sostenible de los recursos es la fuente para la reducción, aprovechamiento y gestión de residuos sólidos. Actualmente en Colombia, en un escenario y entorno tendencial (crecimiento en la urbanización, movilidad y población) se esperaría un notable aumento de residuos, en la variabilidad y cambio climático y en la escasez de recursos en el país, que demandarían extensas zonas para rellenos sanitarios; por lo cual se requieren generar cambios en la gestión integral de residuos sólidos. La clasificación y disposición desde la fuente de generación es uno de los factores críticos de generación de residuos sólidos debido al desconocimiento y separación inadecuada, por tanto, se proponen alternativas de educación, normativas (multas y sanciones) y didácticas con aplicaciones móviles que promuevan el manejo adecuado de los envases plásticos rígidos posconsumo en el valle de aburra y que ayuden a mantener el máximo valor de los envases tanto tiempo como sea posible y la minimización de sus residuos. Asimismo, se seleccionó entre estas alternativas la que mayor impacto tendría en el medio según las falencias y necesidades encontradas en el diagnóstico realizado. Posteriormente se realizó un análisis de viabilidad que sería útil en caso de una posible implementación

    Improving shadows detection for solar radiation numerical models

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    [EN]Solar radiation numerical models need the implementation of an accurate method for determining cast shadows on the terrain or on solar collectors. The aim of this work is the development of a new methodology to detect the shadows on a particular terrain. The paper addresses the detection of self and cast shadows produced by the orography as well as those caused by clouds. The paper presents important enhancements on the methodology proposed by the authors in previous works, to detect the shadows caused by the orography. The domain is the terrain surface discretised using an adaptive mesh of triangles. A triangle of terrain will be under cast shadows when, looking at the mesh from the Sun, you can find another triangle that covers all or partially the first one. For each time step, all the triangles should be checked to see if there are cast or self shadows on it. The computational cost of this procedure eventually resulted unaffordable when dealing with complex topography such as that in Canary Islands thus, a new methodology was developed. This one includes a filtering system to identify which triangles are those likely to be shadowed. If there are no self shadowed triangles, the entire mesh will be illuminated and there will not be any shadows. Only triangles that have their backs towards the Sun will be able to cast shadows on other triangles. Detection of shadows generated by clouds is achieved by a shadow algorithm using satellite images. In this paper, Landsat 8 images have been used. The code was done in python programming language. Finally, the outputs of both approaches, shadows generated by the topography and generated by clouds, can be combined in one map. The whole problem has been tested in Gran Canaria and Tenerife Island (Canary Islands – Spain), and in the Tatra Mountains (Poland and Slovakia).Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad del Gobierno de Españ

    Fourteenth Intercomparison Campaign of the Regional Brewer Calibration Centre Europe : El Arenosillo Atmospheric Sounding Station, Huelva, Spain, 17-28 June 2019

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    In this campaign, the Regional Brewer Calibration Center for Europe (RBCC-E) transferred its own absolute ozone calibration obtained from the Langley method at the Izaña Observatory to all other participating instruments. Such intercomparison campaigns, with a large number of participating instruments, provide an overview of the current state of ozone measurements being made by the European Brewer network. The instruments were compared with the RBCC-E standard Brewer#185 for ozone and with the European reference standard from the World Radiation Center (WRC) QASUME unit for UV

    Wavelength calibration of Brewer spectrophotometer using a tunable pulsed laser and implications to the Brewer ozone retrieval

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    In this contribution we present the wavelength calibration of the travelling reference Brewer spectrometer of the Regional Brewer Calibration Center for Europe (RBCCE) at PTB in Braunschweig, Germany. The wavelength calibration is needed for the calculation of the ozone absorption coefficients used by the Brewer ozone algorithm. In order to validate the standard procedure for determining Brewer’s wavelength scale, a calibration has been performed by using a tunable laser source at PTB in the framework of the EMRP project ENV59 ATMOZ “Traceability for the total column ozone”. Here we compare these results to those of the standard procedure for the wavelength calibration of the Brewer instrument. Such a comparison allows validating the standard methodology used for measuring the ozone absorption coefficient with respect to several assumptions. The results of the laser-based calibrations reproduces those obtained by the standard operational methodology and shows that there is an underestimation of 0.8 % of the ozone absorption coefficients due to the use of the parametrized slit functions.This work has been supported by the European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) within the joint research project ENV59 “Traceability for atmospheric total column ozone” (ATMOZ). The EMRP is jointly funded by the EMRP participating countries within EURAMET and the European Union

    Internal consistency of the Regional Brewer Calibration Centre for Europe triad during the period 2005–2016

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    Total ozone column measurements can be made using Brewer spectrophotometers, which are calibrated periodically in intercomparison campaigns with respect to a reference instrument. In 2003, the Regional Brewer Calibration Centre for Europe (RBCC-E) was established at the Izaña Atmospheric Research Center (Canary Islands, Spain), and since 2011 the RBCC-E has transferred its calibration based on the Langley method using travelling standard(s) that are wholly and independently calibrated at Izaña. This work is focused on reporting the consistency of the measurements of the RBCC-E triad (Brewer instruments #157, #183 and #185) made at the Izaña Atmospheric Observatory during the period 2005–2016. In order to study the long-term precision of the RBCC-E triad, it must be taken into account that each Brewer takes a large number of measurements every day and, hence, it becomes necessary to calculate a representative value of all of them. This value was calculated from two different methods previously used to study the long-term behaviour of the world reference triad (Toronto triad) and Arosa triad. Applying their procedures to the data from the RBCC-E triad allows the comparison of the three instruments. In daily averages, applying the procedure used for the world reference triad, the RBCC-E triad presents a relative standard deviation equal to σ = 0.41%, which is calculated as the mean of the individual values for each Brewer (σ157 = 0.362%, σ183 = 0.453% and σ185 = 0.428%). Alternatively, using the procedure used to analyse the Arosa triad, the RBCC-E presents a relative standard deviation of about σ = 0.5%. In monthly averages, the method used for the data from the world reference triad gives a relative standard deviation mean equal to σ = 0.3% (σ157 = 0.33%, σ183 = 0.34% and σ185 = 0.23%). However, the procedure of the Arosa triad gives monthly values of σ = 0.5%. In this work, two ozone data sets are analysed: the first includes all the ozone measurements available, while the second only includes the simultaneous measurements of all three instruments. Furthermore, this paper also describes the Langley method used to determine the extraterrestrial constant (ETC) for the RBCC-E triad, the necessary first step toward accurate ozone calculation. Finally, the short-term or intraday consistency is also studied to identify the effect of the solar zenith angle on the precision of the RBCC-E triad.This work has been supported by the European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) within the joint research project ENV59 “Traceability for atmospheric total column ozone” (ATMOZ)

    Stability of the RBCC-E Triad during the period 2005 - 2015

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    Póster elaborado para el Quadrennial Ozone Symposium celebrado en Edinburgh los días 4–9 de septiembre de 2016

    Preliminar results on the operative cosine correction in EUBREWNET

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    Póster elaborado para el Quadrennial Ozone Symposium celebrado en Edinburgh los días 4–9 de septiembre de 2016

    Brewer direct irradiance measurements: polarization effects

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    Comunicación presentada en: COST ES1207, Brewer Ozone Spectrophotometer/Metrology Open Workshop celebrado del 17 al 20 de mayo de 2016 en Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal

    Eubrewnet Web

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    Comunicación presentada en: Brewer Ozone Spectrophotometer/Metrology Open Workshop celebrado del 17 al 20 de mayo de 2016 en Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal

    Eubrewnet Configurations

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    Comunicación presentada en: Brewer Ozone Spectrophotometer/Metrology Open Workshop celebrado del 17 al 20 de mayo de 2016 en Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal
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