Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In order to achieve zero net emissions to limit the effects of climate change, a key sector that need decarbonising is transport. One idea is to use hydrogen-powered technologies. For example, Coexpair, a company specialised in composite materials, is interested in developing hydrogen tanks made of composite materials for the automotive and aeronautical sectors. To develop such a tank, it is important to have an idea of the certification process to be followed. It is essential to know the regulatory framework for the certification of hydrogen tanks. The lack of knowledge of the regulatory framework and the difficulty in navigating the regulations, codes and standards (RCS) is a significant barrier to market entry and the development of tank supply chains. Thus, in order to gain knowledge of the regulatory framework that applies to gaseous and liquid hydrogen tanks, a study on the certification process was performed. This study starts with the compilation of the different RCS that apply to both types of tanks. It continues with the compilation of the compliance and risk matrices for both tanks. The study then outlines the development plan for each tank and the associated development schedule. It concludes with the budget forecast estimates for developing the full-size gaseous and liquid hydrogen tanks to an approved prototype design. This report also proposes a general tank approval process for Type 5 hydrogen containers for the automotive sector and liquid hydrogen containers for the aeronautical sector.

Certification --- Quality --- LH2 Tanks --- GH2 Tanks --- Aeronautics --- Ground Transport --- Compliance Matrix --- Risk Matrix --- Development Plan --- Development Schedule --- Budget Forecast --- Ingénierie, informatique & technologie > Ingénierie mécanique

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Flooding is widely recognized as a global threat, due to the extent and magnitude of damage it causes around the world each year. Reducing flood risk and improving flood resilience are two closely related aspects of flood management. This book presents the latest advances in flood risk and resilience management on the following themes: hazard and risk analysis, flood behaviour analysis, assessment frameworks and metrics and intervention strategies. It can help the reader to understand the current challenges in flood management and the development of sustainable flood management interventions to reduce the social, economic and environmental consequences from flooding.

nonstationarity --- univariate model --- GAMLSS --- bivariate model --- copulas --- floodway --- optimization --- particle swarm optimization --- HEC-RAS --- flood mitigation --- hydraulic modeling --- flood risk perception --- natural flood management --- disaster mitigation --- flood-prone city --- questionnaire survey --- flood hazard --- land use --- urban growth --- Villahermosa --- architecture modelling flood resilience --- resilience engineering --- system-of-systems water systems --- multi-risk matrix --- resilience --- flood risk --- multi-hazard --- risk reduction --- flood resilience index --- flood resilience analysis --- urban floods --- flood risk assessment --- flood inundation modelling --- Artificial Intelligence --- machine learning --- flood --- preparedness --- flood resilience --- blue-green infrastructure --- flood risk management --- sustainable --- drainage systems --- systems --- flood control materials --- intelligent warehousing --- location allocation --- multi-objective optimization --- drone applications --- deployment time --- monitoring --- flood modelling --- evacuation --- rescue --- management strategy --- metrics

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This Special Issue is entitled “Environmental Sustainability in Maritime Infrastructures”. Oceans and coastal areas are essential in our lives from several different points of view: social, economic, and health. Given the importance of these areas for human life, not only for the present but also for the future, it is necessary to plan future infrastructures, and maintain and adapt to the changes the existing ones. All of this taking into account the sustainability of our planet. A very significant percentage of the world's population lives permanently or enjoys their vacation periods in coastal zones, which makes them very sensitive areas, with a very high economic value and as a focus of adverse effects on public health and ecosystems. Therefore, it is considered very relevant and of great interest to launch this Special Issue to cover any aspects related to the vulnerability of coastal systems and their inhabitants (water pollution, coastal flooding, climate change, overpopulation, urban planning, waste water, plastics at sea, effects on ecosystems, etc.), as well as the use of ocean resources (fisheries, energy, tourism areas, etc.).

Technology: general issues --- floating offshore wind --- concrete wind platform --- economic feasibility --- IRR --- NPV --- LCOE --- feasibility study --- offshore wind --- levelized cost of energy (LCOE) --- wave energy --- software --- EU ETS --- Emission allowances --- Greenhouse gas emissions --- Transparency --- Accounting regulation --- tidal current energy --- life cycle assessment --- ISO --- greenhouse gases emissions --- port infrastructure --- carbon footprint --- offshore waste disposal facility --- hazard analysis --- risk matrix --- subsystem --- environmental impact --- ocean renewable energy --- OTEC --- environmental and social impacts --- energy production --- renewable energy --- zero emissions port --- wave energy converter --- young mangroves --- mangrove restoration --- portable reef design --- field observation --- Amami Oshima --- geographic information system --- back-propagation neural network --- rainfall --- historical flood --- prediction --- formal planning --- informal planning --- spatial planning process --- coastal area spatial planning --- planning levels --- community involvement --- territorial community --- coastal communities --- coastal fisheries --- dry fish --- livelihood --- vulnerability --- AHP --- urban regeneration --- littoral landscape --- Mediterranean architecture --- sustainable mobility --- transport infrastructure --- greenway

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This Special Issue is entitled “Environmental Sustainability in Maritime Infrastructures”. Oceans and coastal areas are essential in our lives from several different points of view: social, economic, and health. Given the importance of these areas for human life, not only for the present but also for the future, it is necessary to plan future infrastructures, and maintain and adapt to the changes the existing ones. All of this taking into account the sustainability of our planet. A very significant percentage of the world's population lives permanently or enjoys their vacation periods in coastal zones, which makes them very sensitive areas, with a very high economic value and as a focus of adverse effects on public health and ecosystems. Therefore, it is considered very relevant and of great interest to launch this Special Issue to cover any aspects related to the vulnerability of coastal systems and their inhabitants (water pollution, coastal flooding, climate change, overpopulation, urban planning, waste water, plastics at sea, effects on ecosystems, etc.), as well as the use of ocean resources (fisheries, energy, tourism areas, etc.).

floating offshore wind --- concrete wind platform --- economic feasibility --- IRR --- NPV --- LCOE --- feasibility study --- offshore wind --- levelized cost of energy (LCOE) --- wave energy --- software --- EU ETS --- Emission allowances --- Greenhouse gas emissions --- Transparency --- Accounting regulation --- tidal current energy --- life cycle assessment --- ISO --- greenhouse gases emissions --- port infrastructure --- carbon footprint --- offshore waste disposal facility --- hazard analysis --- risk matrix --- subsystem --- environmental impact --- ocean renewable energy --- OTEC --- environmental and social impacts --- energy production --- renewable energy --- zero emissions port --- wave energy converter --- young mangroves --- mangrove restoration --- portable reef design --- field observation --- Amami Oshima --- geographic information system --- back-propagation neural network --- rainfall --- historical flood --- prediction --- formal planning --- informal planning --- spatial planning process --- coastal area spatial planning --- planning levels --- community involvement --- territorial community --- coastal communities --- coastal fisheries --- dry fish --- livelihood --- vulnerability --- AHP --- urban regeneration --- littoral landscape --- Mediterranean architecture --- sustainable mobility --- transport infrastructure --- greenway

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Modern engineering approaches focus on the design and operation of systems and products in a way that allows for the sustainable use of resources. Sustainable engineering aims to provide frameworks that ensure development without compromising the quality of the natural environment and the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In this context, decision making processes must be enriched by approaches and tools that allow decision makers to consider a wide range of sustainable options. Recently, great progress has been taking place in the fields of operation research and management science, where intelligent quantitative analysis, statistics, and prediction analytics are employed in a variety of interdisciplinary research areas, aiming to assist policy makers and managers with the consideration of a variety of sustainable options. This Special Issue consists of a 17-paper collection with published approaches and models that are designed to give answers for environmental impact and sustainability assessment, risk and knowledge management assessment, lifecycle assessment and energy management. Five papers are dedicated to advances in different literature review topics. The remaining papers deal with a variety of engineering approaches to address decision making which involves: mulricriteria decision analysis, ecological footprint and biocapacity estimations, fuzzy prediction models, advanced statistical analysis, simulation, systems dynamics model, task ontology and integration definition function modeling.

History of engineering & technology --- higher education institutions --- sustainability assessment --- benchmarking --- energy flow --- carbon flow --- sustainable development --- problem-solving --- incident command system --- task ontology --- knowledge management --- sustainable healthcare supply chain --- performance measurement --- performance of perspectives and indicators --- sustainability aspects --- intangible characteristics --- lifecycle assessment --- recurrent embodied carbon --- system dynamics --- buildings --- CO2 emissions --- construction phase --- stochastic analysis --- Monte Carlo simulation --- implications --- fuzzy estimators --- lake eutrophication --- prediction model --- corporate sustainability --- business strategy --- decision-making --- decision support systems --- road network --- sustainability --- analytic hierarchical process --- crude-oil --- sour gas --- hydrogen sulfide --- crude stabilization --- hazard identification --- HAZOP study --- risk analysis --- operability study --- process safety --- risk-matrix --- DMRA --- multi-criteria decision-making --- Analytical-Hierarchy-Process --- Typical-AHP --- Fuzzy-AHP --- index --- sustainable mining --- threshold values --- sustainability indicators --- environmental sustainability --- environmental assessment --- anthropogenic spatial entities --- knowledge creation --- healthcare organizations --- hospital --- organizational learning --- sustainable knowledge management --- strategy --- validation --- questionnaire --- quality of care --- renewable energy sources --- energy policy --- SWOT analysis --- multi-criteria analysis --- AHP --- fuzzy TOPSIS --- Morocco --- Egypt --- strategic environmental assessment --- strategic environmental impact assessment --- methods --- techniques --- Greece --- MCDM --- fuzzy AHP --- PRAT --- FTA --- time-series --- risk assessment --- OSH --- telecom technical projects --- constructions --- carrying capacity --- regional sustainability assessment --- ecological footprint --- national park --- risk management --- performance assessment --- performance management --- performance evaluation --- earned value analysis --- construction projects --- fuzzy numbers --- higher education institutions --- sustainability assessment --- benchmarking --- energy flow --- carbon flow --- sustainable development --- problem-solving --- incident command system --- task ontology --- knowledge management --- sustainable healthcare supply chain --- performance measurement --- performance of perspectives and indicators --- sustainability aspects --- intangible characteristics --- lifecycle assessment --- recurrent embodied carbon --- system dynamics --- buildings --- CO2 emissions --- construction phase --- stochastic analysis --- Monte Carlo simulation --- implications --- fuzzy estimators --- lake eutrophication --- prediction model --- corporate sustainability --- business strategy --- decision-making --- decision support systems --- road network --- sustainability --- analytic hierarchical process --- crude-oil --- sour gas --- hydrogen sulfide --- crude stabilization --- hazard identification --- HAZOP study --- risk analysis --- operability study --- process safety --- risk-matrix --- DMRA --- multi-criteria decision-making --- Analytical-Hierarchy-Process --- Typical-AHP --- Fuzzy-AHP --- index --- sustainable mining --- threshold values --- sustainability indicators --- environmental sustainability --- environmental assessment --- anthropogenic spatial entities --- knowledge creation --- healthcare organizations --- hospital --- organizational learning --- sustainable knowledge management --- strategy --- validation --- questionnaire --- quality of care --- renewable energy sources --- energy policy --- SWOT analysis --- multi-criteria analysis --- AHP --- fuzzy TOPSIS --- Morocco --- Egypt --- strategic environmental assessment --- strategic environmental impact assessment --- methods --- techniques --- Greece --- MCDM --- fuzzy AHP --- PRAT --- FTA --- time-series --- risk assessment --- OSH --- telecom technical projects --- constructions --- carrying capacity --- regional sustainability assessment --- ecological footprint --- national park --- risk management --- performance assessment --- performance management --- performance evaluation --- earned value analysis --- construction projects --- fuzzy numbers