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Environmental Sciences Proceedings, Volume 2, Issue 1

EWaS-4 2020 2020 - 71 articles

The 4th EWaS International Conference: Valuing the Water, Carbon, Ecological Footprints of Human Activities

Online | 24–27 June 2020

Volume Editors:
Vasilis Kanakoudis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Evangelos Keramaris, University of Thessaly, Greece

Cover Story: The concept of valuing the water, carbon, ecological footprints of human activities attempts to enlighten the re-evaluation of human activities’ foot-printing, presenting international case studies to bring together theory and practice. It aims to address integrated management and interconnected risks to water and energy security. The demand for freshwater and energy has rapidly increased in the last decade. The 4th Efficient Water Systems (EWaS) International online Conference held in Greece, from 24 to 27 June 2020, attempted to present the latest research findings on the specific topic.
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Articles (71)

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,651 Views
7 Pages

Seasonal Forecast Climate Data and Hydropower Production in the Douro Basin, in Portugal

  • Paulo Alexandre Diogo,
  • Pedro Beça,
  • Sofia Simões,
  • Filipa Amorim and
  • Babar Mujtaba

The project CLIM2POWER aims at developing a climate service including state-of-the art seasonal climate forecasts in the planning of the operation of the power systems. This work presents part of the project, addressing the forecasting of the hydropo...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,572 Views
7 Pages

Acoustic survey methods have been used in recent years in Greece due to rapid growth of technology for leakage detection in water distribution networks. The application of the latest methodologies and technologies allowed water authorities to improve...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,192 Views
10 Pages

Only a few scientific research studies referencing extremely low flow conditions have been conducted in Greece so far. Forecasting future low stream flow rate values is a crucial and decisive task when conducting drought and watershed management plan...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,683 Views
8 Pages

Chios Island undergoes scarcity of freshwater, forcing local authorities to establish a sea-water desalination plant to cope with island’s water needs. Karyes village is plentiful with freshwater springs, augmented every year by the rainfall oc...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,792 Views
9 Pages

The Effect of Green Walls on Humidity, Air Temperature, Co2 and Well-Being of People

  • Zuzana Poórová,
  • Adriana Turcovská,
  • Peter Kapalo and
  • Zuzana Vranayová

The experimental study of vegetated walls and their effects on humidity, air temperature and CO2is essential. This paper presents an experiment on a green wall to apprehend its thermal and hydrological behavior and its impact inside the building. The...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,309 Views
7 Pages

Sewer Mining as A Basis for Technological, Business and Governance Solutions for Water in the Circular Economy: The NextGen Athens Demo

  • Argyro Plevri,
  • Efthymios Lytras,
  • Stylianos Samios,
  • Christos Lioumis,
  • Klio Monokrousou and
  • Christos Makropoulos

The Athens Water in the Circular Economy demo case examines all three of the following as associated with Circular Economy (CE) in wastewater streams: water, energy and materials. The application area is the Athens Urban Tree Nursery, which is locate...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,532 Views
7 Pages

Micromixing Nanoparticles and Contaminated Water Under Different Velocities for Optimum Heavy Metal Ions Adsorption

  • Evangelos Karvelas,
  • Christos Liosis,
  • Theodoros Karakasidis and
  • Ioannis Sarris

Effective mixing between contaminated water and nanoparticles is of great importance in various purification applications of microfluidics, especially when heavy metals are involved. Electromagnetic and shear mixing is combined here to explore optimi...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,289 Views
10 Pages

Drinking water distribution networks are among the most resilient infrastructure systems to disasters, specifically hazards such as accidental pollution, floods, droughts, earthquakes, and pandemics. Water operators experiencing these kinds of hazard...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,229 Views
8 Pages

Waste Water Networks (WWNs) Modeling and Optimization. Application to a Study in Northern Coast of Spain

  • Guadalupe Torre-Gómez,
  • Joaquin Fernández-Francos,
  • Francesco Pugliese,
  • Eduardo Álvarez-Álvarez and
  • Eduardo Álvarez-Álvarez

The change of the hydrologic cycle is one of the biggest concerns related to global warming effects. Larger intensities of rainfall events greater in magnitude are foreseen in the coming years, strongly affecting Waste Water Networks (WWNs), leading...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,307 Views
8 Pages

An Interface Extension for the New EPANET 2.X

  • João Muranho,
  • Ana Ferreira,
  • Joaquim Sousa,
  • Abel Gomes and
  • Alfeu Sá Marques

The EPANET 2.0 is a public domain software used to model water distribution networks. The last main release dates to 2000. Recently, the Open Source EPANET Initiative has fixed some bugs and has brought new features to the EPANET solver, such as impr...

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