By Arkady Wey FiltrationFiltration is the separation of particles from fluid, usually by passing it through a membrane (Figure 1). It is used extensively for wastewater decontamination, and for harmful-particulate removal from exhaust gases in combustion plants. There are few larger problems facing humanity: The WHO has predicted that 10% […]
Read moreBy Torin Fastnedge and Chloe Bernard Research estimates suggest that up to 35% of the microplastics found in our oceans originate from our clothing, specifically microfibres, which are released during the washing machine cycle. Subsequently, these minuscule particles enter the water and are ingested by humans through our food and […]
Read moreby Ellen Luckins Following a chemical weapons attack, it is crucial for public safety that any hazardous chemical agent remaining in the environment is properly removed. In particular, if the hazardous agent has seeped into porous building materials such as plasterboard, brick, or concrete, it cannot simply be wiped away. […]
Read moreThe Industrial Mathematics Research Group at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica in Barcelona is seeking Post-doctoral researchers to join the project Environmental applications of diffusion with a moving boundary. The project focus is on the analysis and solution of advection-diffusion systems to model contaminant removal, with applications such as carbon/greenhouse gas capture or […]
Read moreBuilding on the work begun by the Royal Society’s Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) initiative, this three-day science meeting on the Environmental and Aerosol Transmission of COVID-19 will review existing work and identify where further research is most urgently needed. With the reduction of lockdown restrictions over the […]
Read moreThe Industrial Mathematics group at the Centre de Recerca Matematica are currently involved in two research areas related to current environmental challenges, namely carbon capture and green roofs. Carbon Capture The carbon capture involves modelling the flow of a gas through a porous media contained in a column. This represents […]
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We have developed a method, called Experts Method, to forecast the evolution of a multivariate set of time series, of big dimension, and with partially censored data. It has been applied to the data provided by the H2020 Big Data Horizon Prize 2017 (http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizonprize/index.cfm?prize=bigdata). The data subject to the forecast […]
Read moreAlgal blooms of inland and coastal waters are frequent events that should be broadcast to the general public as a warning. This is rarely done because there are few real-time monitoring systems that allow them to be detected and mapped in real time. The Finnish Environment Centre SYKE aims to […]
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