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Sustainable Energy Systems | PhD Alumni

Alexandra Marques

alexandra.penedo@gmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/ area: Quantification of carbon emissions embodied in a country’s final demand and in the payments made to primary factors of production, using multi-region input-output (MRIO) models. Income-Based Carbon Responsabilityon May 5th, 2013.

Alexandra Tavares

aft17649@fct.unl.pt | IST/ ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Alexandre Lucas

alexandre.lucas@ist.utl.pt | IST/ ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 PhD supervisor : Carla Alexandra Silva ; PhD co- supervisor Rui Pedro Neto and Randolph Kirchain. PhD Thesis (2013): Evaluation of Energy Supply Infrastructure in the context of Life-cyce analysis of alternative light-duty vehicles Thesis abstract: Many transportation environmental life cycle analyses (LCA), neglect the contribution of the energy supply infrastructures. In alternative light-duty vehicle technologies, it has been shown through case studies that this can be a relevant factor. However, no model exists to generalize the evaluation of emissions and energy from construction, maintenance and decommissioning of such infrastructure in different scenarios. This study proposes a model, focusing on electricity and on hydrogen supply through centralized steam methane reforming, H2(a), and on-site electrolysis H2(b). The model outputs are in gCO2eq and MJeq per MJ of final energy. The model main inputs are: the region’s electricity mix, the annual distance driven, the supply chain losses and the number of vehicles per station or electric chargers. The evaluation of the number of vehicles served per each charger/station as a function of annual distance driven is also discussed. The uncertainty in the study is incorporated by using the pedigree matrix, the impact uncertainty and literature estimates. The study shows that infrastructure impacts are higher in alternative vehicle pathways. Moreover, higher renewable energy penetration in the electricity mix means higher contribution to infrastructure LCA. The model shows consistency in the results and in the uncertainty range. Charging policies that minimize the electricity infrastructure burden should incentivize approximately 37% of vehicle charging in normal chargers. H2(a) pipeline lifetime should be extended and improvements in the electrolyser should be undertaken, to approximate the ratio of vehicles per station to a conventional one.
Keywords: alternative propulsion technologies; alternative energy pathways; electricity, hydrogen; life-cycle analysis; energy supply infrastructure;
Alexandre Lucas has successfully discussed his thesis on November, 19th, 2013 with the following members of the jury:
  • Paulo Ferrão, Técnico Lisboa, ULisboa
  • João Afonso, School of Engineering, UMinho
  • Randolph Kirchain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Fausto Freire, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra
  • Tiago Domingos, Técnico Lisboa, ULisboa
  • Rui Pedro Neto, Técnico Lisboa, ULisboa
  • Carla Alexandra Silva, Técnico Lisboa, ULisboa
Publications:
  • Lucas, A; Silva C; Neto R. Impact of energy supply infrastructure in life cycle analysis of hydrogen and electric systems applied to the Portuguese transportation sector. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2012 (37): 10973-85
  • Lucas, A; Silva C; Neto R. Life Cycle Analysis of energy supply infrastructure for conventional and electric vehicles. Energy Policy 2011 (41): 537–547.
  • Lucas, A; Silva C; Neto R. Energy supply infrastructure LCA model for electric and hydrogen transportation systems. Energy 2013 (May 2013)
  • Lucas, A; Chang, S. Vehicle to grid decentralized dispatch control using consensus algorithm with constraints. Smart Grid and Renewable Energy 2013 (4) nº6A: 8-20.

Amir Safaei

amir263@yahoo.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 | Graduation year: 2014 Linkedin Current position: Project Manager at Internationlisation/ecoinvent Centre, Switzerland Research topic/ area: Life cycle optimization model for integrated co-generation and photov Thesis Title: Life-cycle Optimization Model for Distributed Generation in Buildings Supervisors: Carlos Henggeler Antunes (FCTUC), Fausto Freire (FCTUC), Stephen Connors (MIT)

Ana Gonçalves

ana_hgoncalves@yahoo.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 PhD Supervisor: Tiago Domingos, Técnico Lisboa, PhD Thesis (2014): Modeling Urban Growth and Electricity Consumption: The power of Power Laws

Ana Proença

ana.proenca@netcabo.pt | FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Ana Rita Caeiro

ana.caeiro@ist.utl.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2012 Research topic/area: Energy Efficiency for Agriculture and Industry SME’s Research Summary: Her research interests include energy efficiency, electric power systems, smart meters and solar photovoltaic systems.

Ana Rita Neves

ana.neves@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/area: Sustainable energy planning and assessment of local energy systems Thesis discussion on March, 19th, 2013.

Ana Soares

argsoares@gmail.com ; argsoares@inescc.pt | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2010 | Graduation year: 2016 LinkedIn ; ResearchGate ; Degois ; Google Scholar Current position: R&D EnergyVille Research topic/area: Integrated Energy Management Algorithms with Responsive Demand and local generation/storage Research Summary: The goal of the research is to design a methodology to be implemented in an integrated energy management system for controlling domestic energy resources in a smart grid scenario, taking into account different inputs signals as well as considering uncertainty and multiple criteria evaluation aspects in order to obtain robust decisions. Domestic energy resources comprise typical manageable loads, energy storage systems, plug-in electric vehicles and micro-generation systems. As a consequence of this management, impacts of automated demand response actions in the domestic aggregated load diagram must be adequately assessed, which in turn contribute for subsequent decisions to be made. Thesis Title: (Near) Real-Time Integrated Management of Residential Energy Resources Supervisors: Álvaro Gomes Martins (FCTUC), Carlos Henggeler Antunes (FCTUC) Book chapters
  • A. Soares, A. Gomes, C. Henggeler Antunes. “Integrated management of energy resources in the residential sector using evolutionary computation – a review”, In: M.S. García-Cascales, J.M. Sanchez-Lozano, A.D. Masegosa, C. Cruz-Corona, “Soft Computing Applications for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency”, IGI Global, 2014. (to be published)
  • A. Soares, A. Gomes, C. Henggeler Antunes, H. Cardoso, 2013. Domestic Load Scheduling Using Genetic Algorithms. In Applications of Evolutionary Computation, ed. Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, 142 – 151. ISBN: 978-3-642-37191-2. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-37192-9_15
Publications
  • A. Soares, A. Gomes, C. Henggeler Antunes, C “Categorization of residential electricity consumption as a basis for the assessment of the impacts of demand response actions”, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 30, 0: 490 – 503, 2014. doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.10.019
  • A. Soares, A. Gomes, C. Henggler Antunes “Integrated Management of Residential Energy Resources”, EPJ Web of Conferences 33, 1: 05005 – 05005, 2012. doi: 10.1051/epjconf/20123305005
Communications and conference presentations
  • A. Soares, “An agent-based modelling approach for domestic load simulation”, eceee 2013 Summer Study proceedings: Rethink, renew, restart, Belambra Presqu’île de Giens, 2013
  • A. Soares; A. Gomes; C. Henggeler Antunes; G. Nunes, “An evolutionary strategy for managing domestic loads”, Energy for Sustainability Multidisciplinary Conference 2013 – Sustainable Cities: Designing for People and the Planet, EfS, Coimbra, 2013
  • C. Henggeler Antunes, A. Soares, A. Gomes, “An evolutionary algorithm approach to an integrated energy management system”. In: J.Krope, A. G. Olabi, D. Goricanec (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Int. Conf. on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Protection – SEEP 2013, 572-577, Maribor, Slovenia, August 2013
  • A. Soares, M. Lopes, A. Gomes, C. Henggeler Antune, N. Martins, “Smart(er) Energy Management Systems in Smart(er) Grids”, International Workshop on Energy Efficiency for a More Sustainable World, Ponta Delgada, 2012
  • C. R. Vergara, A. Soares; A. Gomes; C. Henggler Antunes, J. P. Lopes “In-House Energy Consumption and Storage Optimization”, International Workshop on Energy Efficiency for a More Sustainable World, Ponta Delgada, 2012
  • A. Gomes, A. Soares, C. Henggler Antunes, “Impacts of demand side management and micro-generation units on low voltage distribution radial networks”, 11th International Conference on Electrical Power Quality and Utilisation (EPQU), Lisbon, Portugal, 2011
  • A. Soares, C. Henggler Antunes, A. Gomes “Assessing energy efficiency issues using Data Envelopment Analysis”, 11th IAEE European Conference – Energy Economy, Policies and Supply Security: Surviving the Global Economic Crisis, Vilnius, 2010.

Anabela Carvalho

anadu@isec.pt | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 | Graduation year: 2015 Research topic/ area: “Thermal Energy Storage Control for Space Heating Systems based on a Ground Source Heat Pump” Thesis Title: Thermal energy storage control for space conditioning systems based on ground source heat pump Supervisor: Aníbal De Almeida (ISR – University of Coimbra)

André Augusto

boaldeia@gmail.com | FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 | Graduation year: 2013 Linkedin Current Position: Postdoc Research Associate at Arizona State University Research area: Buildings efficiency/microgeneration Thesis Title: Study of process to grow silicon ribbons by fast CVD Supervisor: Joao Serra (FCUL)

André Pina

andre.pina@tecnico.ulisboa.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Current Position: Post-Doc Researcher at IST – IN+ Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research Research topic/area: Green Islands Project – Energy planning Thesis Title (2012): Supply and demand dynamics in energy systems modeling Supervisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST), Carlos Silva (IST), Stephen Connors (MIT) Thesis Abstract: The shift towards high penetrations of renewable energy sources and the increase in energy efficiency, on both the supply and demand sides, are currently the main challenges that energy systems are facing. To design economically and technically feasible transition pathways to more sustainable energy systems, detailed energy models are required. However, the most commonly used modeling methodologies are not prepared to perform long-term analysis of energy systems while taking into account the inherent hourly dynamics of supply and demand. The work presented in this thesis analyzes the importance of accounting for the dynamics of renewable energy sources availability and of the introduction of changes in the patterns of electricity consumption, through the implementation of demand side management policies or the deployment of electric vehicles, in the optimization of investments in new generation capacity. A new framework that allows modeling the long-term evolution of energy systems while having a high temporal resolution is proposed and tested to develop investment plans for systems with high penetrations of renewable energy sources. The results show that accounting for the dynamics is crucial for avoiding the overinvestment in new generation capacity and increase the cost-effectiveness of the systems.
Communications/Conference presentations: 1 – F. Amorim, A. Pina, H. Gerbelova, J. Vasconcelos, P.P. da Silva, V. Martins, “Electricity decarbonisation pathways for 2050: a TIMES based approach in closed versus open systems modeling”, Energy, Volume 69, May 2014, Pages 104-112.
2 – H. Gerbelová, F. Amorim, A. Pina, M. Melo, C. Ioakimidis, P. Ferrão, “Potential of CO2 taxes as a policy measure towards low-carbon Portuguese electricity sector by 2050”, Energy, Volume 69, May 2014, Pages 113-119.
3 – R. Paleta, A. Pina, C. Silva, “Polygeneration Energy Container: Designing and testing energy services for remote developing communities”, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, (accepted for publication 2014) . 4 – A. Pina, P. Baptista, C. Silva, P. Ferrão, “Energy reduction and environmental benefits potential from the shift to electric vehicles: the Flores island case study”, Energy Policy, Volume 67, April 2014, Pages 37-47.
5 – A. Pina, C. Silva, P. Ferrão, “High-resolution modeling framework for planning electricity systems with high penetration of renewables”, Applied Energy, Volume 112, December 2013, Pages 215-223 [5].

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André Ribeiro

IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Linkedin ; Researchgate Research topic/area: Urban/Business metabolism, Corporate sustainability, Urban ecology, Industrial Ecology, Smart-Metering

António Abreu

antonio.abreu1@sapo.pt | IST/ ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

António Ferreira dos Santos

ajferreiradossantos@gmail.com | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/area: Defining new control and management solutions for security assessment and preventive Personal webpage/Blog: www.energiaeficiencia.blogspot.com

Antónios Dragoneas

dragoneas@gmail.com | FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Ariovaldo Carvalho

ari_lc@msn.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Current position: Professor at Insituto Federal do Mato Grosso Research topic/ area: An Integrated Assessment Methodology Applied to the Brazilian Bioethanol Case Thesis Title: An Integrated Assessment Methodology Applied To The Brazilian Bioethanol Case Supervisors: Carlos Henggeler (FCTUC), Fausto Freire (FCTUC)

Bernardo Silva

bernardo.silva@fe.up.pt | INESC FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 Current Position: Researcher at INESCTEC
PhD Supervisor: Hélder Filipe Duarte Leite (FEUP) ; PhD co- supervisor: Carlos Coelho Leal Monteiro Moreira (FEUP). PhD Thesis (2014): Multi-terminal HVDC grids: control strategies for ancillary services provision in interconnected transmission systems with offshore wind farms Thesis abstract: Wind Energy (WE) has largely contributed to the de-carbonization of the energy sector and consequently to the definition of the European Commission (EC) targets on renewable-based electricity generation. During the last decade, massive investment has culminated in the substantial installation of Wind Farms (WF). Moreover, the ambitious plans for increasing these targets on renewable-based electricity generation demand the deployment of more WF. To tackle this challenge, a large amount of offshore WF is envisioned to be built during the next decade. From the technical perspective, the adoption of HVDC becomes crucial to allow the installation far from coast and large power WF. Most recent plans point for the adoption of DC-grids as the mean of interconnecting offshore WF and also inter-AC area, allowing further renewable integration and the development of a common European electricity market.This thesis presents control strategies based on a communication-free framework that were developed in order to allow DC grid-connected offshore WF and interconnected AC areas on providing advanced system services such as: a) primary frequency regulation, b) inertial behavior emulation, c) Fault Ride-through (FRT) capability. The association of the control strategies for primary frequency regulation and FRT has culminated in the design of the coordinated approach for increasing the DC grid reliability by allowing its operation following the disconnection of one onshore HVDC converter. The presented control strategies rely on local controllers to be housed in offshore and onshore High Voltage Direct Current – Voltage Source Converter (HVDC-VSC) as well as on WT. The local controllers operate autonomously providing the adequate regulation based on quantity variations. The main outcomes of this thesis consist on the development of communication-free control strategies for MTDC grid with offshore WF participating in the mainland systems frequency regulation, the capability of remaining connected to the mainland grids during voltage sags, thus mitigating the problems resulting from the disconnection of a large amount of wind power. Finally, a control scheme to guarantee the operation of the DC grid following the disconnection of one evacuation node (onshore HVDC-VSC) is presented. Publications:
  • C. Moreira, B. Silva, F.J. Soares, L. Seca, J. A. Peças Lopes, “Inertial Control in Off-shore Wind Farms Connected to AC Networks through Multi-terminal HVDC grids with VSC”, CIGRÉ SYMPOSIUM – Cigrè International Symposium , Bologna, Italy, Setembro, 2011.
  • Silva, B.; Moreira, C. L.; Seca, L.; Phulpin, Y.; Peças Lopes, J. A.; , “Provision of Inertial and Primary Frequency Control Services Using Offshore Multiterminal HVDC Networks,” Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on , vol.PP, no.99, pp.1, 0 – doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2012.2199774
  • E. Ciapessoni, D. Cirio, A. Gatti, A. Pitto, A. M. Denis, O. Despouys, L. He, C.C. Liu, C. Moreira, B. Silva, Y. Phulpin; “Dynamics and control of multi-terminal high voltage direct current networks for integration of large offshore wind parks into AC grids”; 44th Cigré Session, 26-31 August, 2012
  • B. Silva, C. Moreira, Fornecimento de controle primário de frequência em parques eólicos conectados através de redes HVDC multi-terminal, Brazil Wind Power 2012, Agosto, 2012
  • B. Silva, C. Moreira, H. Leite, J. P. Lopes, Barriers and solutions for AC low voltage fault ride-through on Multi-terminal HVDC grids, 11 th Wind Integration Workshop, November, 2012
  • N. Taveira, A. Mendonça, E. Quitmann, C.Moreira, B. Silva, J. Moreira, C. P. da Silva, The Connection Studies for 1200 MW Wind Power Integration in Portugal, 11 th Wind Integration Workshop, November, 2012
  • R.J. Bessa, C. Moreira, B. Silva, M.Matos, Handling Renewable Energy Variability and Uncertainty in Power Systems Operation, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment, 2013.
  • B. Silva, C. Moreira, H. Leite, J.A. Peças Lopes, “Control Strategies for AC Fault Ride-Through in Multi-terminal HVDC Grids”, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol.29, no.1, pp.395,405, Feb. 2014 doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2013.2281331

Carla Caldeira

caldeira.carla@gmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2012 | Graduation year: 2017 Linkedin Thesis Title: Blending optimization of biodiesel produced with waste and virgin oils Supervisor: Luís Dias (FEUC), Fausto Freire (FCTUC) Thesis Abstract: The main aim is to develop a multiobjective optimization (MO) model to optimize blends of virgin and waste oils (WO, i.e., waste cooking oils and animal fats) for biodiesel production that minimize costs and environmental impacts in a life-cycle perspective, incorporating uncertainty and variability. Analyses based on this model will allow industry stakeholders to obtain blends for biodiesel production in compliance with technical standards that are efficient in terms of cost and environmental impact, and will inform policy makers on the effects of changes to biodiesel regulations

Carla Rodrigues

ar.carla@gmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2012 | Graduation year: 2017 Linkedin Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Industrial Ecology | ADAI-LAETA | University of Coimbra Thesis Title: Sustainability Assessment of Building Retrofit: an Integrated Life Cycle Approach Supervisor: Fausto Freire (FCTUC) Thesis Abstract: The main goal of this PhD research is to identify strategies and select the most appropriate options for improving the life-cycle environmental and economic sustainability of buildings retrofit, for family households and service buildings in South Europe. An integrated cost and environmental life-cycle model combined with thermal dynamic simulation will be developed and implemented to different building retrofit projects in Coimbra. Uncertainty and contribution analyses associated with environmental impacts in an early design stage of a retrofit process will also be performed to allow generalization of the results and reduce the effort of performing a complete LCA while maintaining the fidelity and robustness of the results This research is expected to support decision-making of architects and engineers to optimize the life cycle environmental and economic performance of buildings.

Catarina Rolim

IST/ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Current Position: Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico Thesis Title: Impacts of adopting on board ICT and training on driving behavior, safety, energy and environment: application to light duty vehicles and buses Supervisors: Tiago Farias (IST-UL), Patricia Batista (IST-UL)

Catarina Serra

cserra@itecons.uc.pt | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 | Graduation year: 2017 Thesis Title: Use of thermography in assessing hygrothermal performance of building elements Supervisors: António Tadeu (FCTUC), Nuno Albino Vieira Simões (FCTUC) Thesis Abstract: In this research, numerical and experimental studies of heat transfer using Infrared Thermography (IRT) applied to buildings envelope thermal behavior are proposed. By developing and implementing analytical solutions and using numerical models to simulate transient heat transfer in layered media and studying heat and moisture diffusion features experimentally using active IRT, it is expected that the basis for the successful use of quantitative IRT in building inspections is set. This aims to further support the use of IRT in building diagnostics as an effective tool in the predictive maintenance of constructions and for promoting better thermal performance of building envelopes an essential aspect in reducing energy consumption in constructions.

Christian Wimmler

crisstian@gmx.de, c.wimmler@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems | Entering year: 2011 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Thesis Title: Towards Electrical Isolated Systems based on 100% Renewables Supervisors: Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto); Carlos Moreira (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto); Stephen Connors (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Research summary: Energy supply faces enormous challenges given the costs of fuels and the still inaccessibility of some new technologies. Islands and isolated energy systems even experience greater energy challenges; high import costs, higher sensitivity to greenhouse gas emissions and climate effects and higher costs for whatever technology. Renewable energy technologies can be a solution to overcome these challenges. A methodological concept for gradually covering all energy purposes that can be electricity based on 100% renewables will be established in this study. Consequently, energy demand and future development, reduction potential as well as local resource potential of renewables need to be assessed. In combination with storage technologies a 100% renewable electricity system will be built. The decision for a specific future supply scenario will be strengthened by a sustainability assessment, which will be compromised of technical, economic, environmental and social criteria. As there are many criteria to be considered, decision makers will have the flexibility to choose supply alternatives based on their preferences and priorities, including onshore and offshore technologies Communications and Conference presentations:
  • C. Wimmler, G. Hejazi, E. Oliveira Fernandes, C. Moreira, S. Connors, Multi-criteria decision support methods for renewable energy systems on islands, International Conference on Energy and Environment Research 18-19 July 2014, Madrid. (Accepted for publication)
  • G. Hejazi, C.Wimmler, E. Oliveira Fernandes, M. Matos, S. Connors, Imperative to overcome structural issues in energy policy for a clean energy future, International Conference on Clean Energy 8-12 June 2014, Istanbul. (Accepted for publication)
  • C. Wimmler, G. Hejazi, E. Oliveira Fernandes, C. Moreira, S. Connors, Evaluation of offshore technologies based on natural local conditions and characteristics, 2014 INORE Symposium 11-17 May 2014, La Vega, Spain. (Accepted for presentation)
  • G. Hejazi, C. Wimmler, E. Oliveira Fernandes, M. Matos, S. Connors, Approach to the Conception of Energy Solutions for Isolated Communities in Developing Countries, Young Energy Economists and Engineers Seminar 9-10 April 2014, University of Dresden, Dresden.
  • C. Wimmler, G. Hejazi, E. Oliveira Fernandes, C. Moreira, S. Connors, A Sustainable Approach Towards 100% Renewable Energy for all Electric Services on Isolated Islands, Young Energy Economists and Engineers Seminar 9-10 April 2014, University of Dresden, Dresden.
  • C. Wimmler, G. Hejazi, E. Oliveira Fernandes,M. Matos,C. Moreira, S. Connors, Increasing Urban Sustainability by Making Electricity Demand Side Management Appealing, 2nd International and 6th National Research and Innovation Festival on Urban Management (Tehran International Award), 14-16 December 2013, Tehran.
  • C. Wimmler, G. Hejazi, E. Oliveira Fernandes, C. Moreira, S. Connors, A Sustainable Approach Towards 100% Renewable Energy for all Electric Services, UKERC Summer School 7-12 July 2013, University of Warwick, Warwick.

Clarisse Magarreiro

clarixe@gmail.com | FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 | Graduation year: 2017 Linkedin Current Position: Data Analyst Intern at EDP Thesis Title: Radiation models for the Azores Islands Supervisors: Miguel Brito e Pedro Soares

Claudio Vergara

FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Graduation year: 2015 Linkedin Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thesis Title: Representing Battery Energy Storage in Electric Power System Studies Supervisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP), Ignacio Pérez-Arríaga (UPComillas)

Cristina Camus

ccamus@deea.isel.ipl.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/area:Smart Energy Networks Communications/Conference presentations:
  • Paper presented: ”Microgeneration. Evaluation of the zero Emissions Technologies in the Portuguese Market”, EEM08 5th International Conference on the European Electricity Market 28-30 May 2008
Links: http://pwp.net.ipl.pt/deea.isel/ccamus/

Daniel Wiesmann

daniewie@phys.ethz.ch | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/ area: Sustainable Energy Urban System (SUES) Thesis Title (2012): Quantify the Drivers of Residential Urban Metabolism Supervisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST) , Inês Azevedo (Carnegie Mellon University), John E. Fernandez (MIT). Thesis DiscussionQuantify the Drivers of Residential Urban Metabolism on December, 13th, 2012. Research Summary: Daniel Wiesmann and David Quinn (MIT PhD) have developed an interactive web-map that allows for an integrated understanding of resource use in cities- Urban Energy Patterns. By displaying measures of construction material (kg/person), building and transportation energy use (kWh/person) and population density (people/km2), the researchers hope to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between these measures and urban development patterns. Thanks to a Google Map satellite imagery, users can examine specific urban areas, and automatically generate a detailed PDF report of the area which they examined. This work was motivated by a desire to better understand how spatial patterns can be related to material and energy use in cities and therefore the two PhD students have mapped 40 cities across the United States hoping to contribute to the public discussion of urban sustainability. The data shown in the web-map uses a combination of publicly available datasets, survey data, and sophisticated spatial analysis methods at a high-resolution, enabling the prediction of values in cities where some data was not available.
More info here.

Danyela Samaniego-Rascón

danyela.samaniego@gmail.com; https://www.linkedin.com/in/danyela-samaniego/ | U Coimbra | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2013 | Graduation year: 2017 Research topic/area: Renewable Energy, Solar energy systems, Solar radiation, Risk analysis, Environmental conditions assessment, Green jobs hazards, Natural hazards and Climate change impacts, Occupational health and safety, Interdisciplinary Research Thesis Title (2017): Occupational And Safety Issues Of Workers In Central Tower SolarEnergy Facilities Supervisors: Manuel Carlos Gameiro da Silva and Almerindo Domingues Ferreira Research summary: The growing motivation of countries to use renewable energy for the production of electricity, nowadays solar thermal plants have increased in number. all solar thermal power plant has mirrors that concentrate sunlight on a point called white, so the presence of concentrated sunlight in large quantities is usual in this type of plants, so you may encounter various risks, including skin type, burns on the skin or ocular type, either from burns in the retina or momentary dazzle (post image effect), which can cause distractions. Some previous studies have provided the possible effects to such exposure. The need for risk assessment on this type of facilities is evident. With the help of Risk Management we pretend to achieve the overall purpose of this research, which is to propose technic security elements in thermal solar power facilities in the way of the development of standard proposal. Communications / conferences presentations:
  • Rascón, D. S., Ferreira, A. D., & da Silva, M. G. (2016). Occupational exposures to solar radiation in concentrated solar power systems: A general framework in central receiver systems. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 65, 387-401.
  • Rascón, D. S., Ferreira, A. D., & da Silva, M. G. (2017). Cumulative and momentary skin exposures to solar radiation in central receiver solar systems. Energy, 137, 336-349.
  • Rascón, D. S., Ferreira, A. D., da Silva, M. C. G., & Iriarte, C. (2018). Ocular risks assessment in a central receiver solar power facility based on measured data of direct solar radiation. Solar Energy, 164, 77-88.
  • Samaniego-Rascón, D., da Silva, M. C. G., Ferreira, A. D., & Cabanillas-Lopez, R. E. (2019). Solar energy industry workers under climate change: A risk assessment of the level of heat stress experienced by a worker based on measured data. Safety science, 118, 33-47.

David Rua

david.rua@ist.utl.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 PhD supervisor: João Abel Peças Lopes (FEUP) ; Co-supervisor: José António Ruela Simões Fernandes (FEUP) PhD Thesis (2014): Last-Mile Communications Systems for Smart Electric Distribution Grids

Dennis Metz

up201306934@fe.up.pt | FEUP Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2013 | Graduation year: 2017 Thesis Title: Economic evaluation of energy storage systems and their impact on electricity markets in a smart-grid context Supervisor: João Tomé Saraiva (FEUP) Thesis Abstract: The objective of the research is to evaluate the commercial benefits of distributed energy storage systems and determine the market risks associated with an investment in such a system. To assess the economics of energy storage and establish a clear value proposition, different storage implementations and operations will be simulated. This will provide an understanding of the benefits that a storage device can provide, including barriers and drivers to its deployment. Furthermore, reciprocal effects on market prices will be determined and analyzed to understand the impact of a wide-scale implementation of storage.

Diana Neves

dpneves@fc.ul.pt | FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 Current position: Post-Doc Researcher at IST – IN+ Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research Research topic/ area: Energy Planning Thesis Title (2016): “Optimization of hybrid renewable energy systems on isolated microgrids: a smart grid approach” Publications:
  • D. Neves, M. C. Brito, C. A. Silva, “Impact of solar and wind forecast uncertainties on demand response of isolated microgrids”, Renewable Energy, Volume 87, Part 2, March 2016, Pages 1003-1015
  • D. Neves, A. Pina, C. A. Silva, “Demand response modeling: a comparison between tools,” AppliedEnergy, vol. 146, pp. 288-297, May 2015
  • D. Neves and C. A. Silva, “Optimal electricity dispatch on isolated mini-grids using a demand response strategy for thermal storage backup with genetic algorithms”, Energy, vol. 82, pp. 436-445, March 2015
  • D. Neves, C. A. Silva, “Modeling the impact of integrating Solar Thermal Systems and Heat Pumps for Domestic Hot Water in electric systems – The case study of Corvo Island,” Renewable Energy, vol. 72, pp. 113-124, Dec. 2014
  • D. Neves, C. A. Silva, S. Connors, “Design and implementation of hybrid renewable energy systems on micro-communities: A review on case studies,” Renewable Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 31, pp. 935–946, Mar. 2014.

Diego Issicaba

issicaba@labplan.ufsc.br | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/area: Multi-Agent System for Self-Healing in Distribution Grids with Large Scale Integration of DERs and PEVs PhD Thesis (2013): “Block-Oriented Agent-Based Architecture to Support the Power Distribution System Operation: System Design and Environment Model” Diego Issicaba’s research was supervised by João Abel Peças Lopes (FEUP) and co-supervised by Mauro Augusto da Rosa (INESC TEC).

Donald Scott

scott.dd@telus.net | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Ehsan Asadi

ehsanasadi82@gmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/ area: Refurbishment Decision Support System (RDSS) for building renovation strategies PhD Thesis (2013): A Retrofit Decision Support Approach for Improving Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality in Buildings Ehsan Asadi has successfully discussed his thesis on November, 2013, with the following members of the jury:
  • António Gomes Martins
  • Gianfranco Rizzo
  • Paulo Manuel Cadete Ferrão
  • Helder Perdigão Gonçalves
  • Maria Teresa Costa Pereira da Silva Ponce de Leão
Ehsan Asadi’s research was supervised and co-supervised by Manuel Carlos Gameiro da Silva; Carlos Henggeler Antunes; Luís Dias & Leon Glicksman.
Thesis Summary: Retrofitting of existing buildings offers significant opportunities for reducing global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This is being considered as one of the main approaches to achieve sustainability in the built environment at relatively low cost and high uptake rates. Although there are a wide range of retrofit technologies readily available, methods to identify the most suitable set of retrofit actions for particular projects are still a major technical challenge. Such methods can be categorized into two main approaches; models in which alternative retrofit actions are explicitly know a priori and models in which alternative retrofit actions are implicitly defined in the setting of an optimization model. This thesis focuses on using modeling and optimization techniques to assess technology choices in the built environment. Firstly two multi-objective optimization models using a classical optimization technique, namely Tchebycheff technique are developed. The functionality of the proposed models is discussed through the application on a residential building. The results verify the practicability of the approaches and highlight potential problems that may arise. Afterward a multi-objective optimization model based on the Genetic Algorithm Integrating Neural Network (GAINN) approach is developed. The benefits of this approach with respect to the classical optimization models are its rapidity and computational efficiency. This model is used for the optimization of the energy consumption, retrofit cost and thermal comfort in a school building. The results from the optimization show the impact of each objective function on the building’s overall performance after retrofit and more importantly illustrate the trade-off between different objectives. Finally, the proposed methodology highlights the improvements added to the GAINN methodology by use of a multi-objective genetic algorithm.

Érica Castanheira

erica@dem.uc.pt | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 | Graduation year: 2014 Linkedin Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Coimbra, Portugal Research topic/ area: Environmental Sustainabillity Assessment of Bioenergy: A life cycle multi–criteria decision–support approach Thesis Title: Environmental sustainability assessment of soybean and palm biodiesel systems: A life-cycle approach Supervisor: Fausto Freire (FCTUC)

Eugénio Rodrigues

eugenio.rodrigues@gmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 ResearchGate ; Academia ; ORCID PhD Supervisor: Álvaro Gomes (UCoimbra) , Adélio Gaspar (UCoimbra) PhD Thesis: Automated Floor Plan Design: Generation, Simulation, and Optimization Thesis Abstract: “Architects need to design more energy efficient buildings. The best way to achieve this is to incorporate building performance simulation in the design process to estimate how they will behave. However, practitioners rarely make use of such tools. According to recent inquiries on the needs to improve these kind of programs, it can be concluded that they are non user-friendly, demand detailed building specifications that are usually absent from initial architectural design phases, take too much time to build the simulation model, results are not presented in a meaningful way to the architects, and in a trial-and-error design process it becomes unbearable to use. Researchers have been working in the usability of the graphical interface and in the development of optimization techniques to improve the designed building solution. However, such approaches aim to final design stages, when all the most important decisions have been already made and thus too late to implement meaningful design changes. The approach proposed in this research work is fundamentally different, as it aims to assist practitioner in the earliest design phase of architectural practice, the space planning phase. In this phase, architects seek to accommodate all preferences and requirements from the clients design program into floor plan designs. The approach aims to automatically generate, assess, and optimize alternative floor plan designs. Two algorithms were developed. The first generates floor plans by allocating spaces on one or more levels, served by parametric vertical circulation spaces that adapt their shape, dimensions, and position to the evolving design solution. A hybrid evolutionary computation technique is used, which couples the searching capabilities from an Evolutionary Strategy and local search technique. Clustering mechanism is used to incorporate morphological preferences of the user and to give structure to large design programs. Transformation operators perform random geometric and topological mutations aiming to satisfy all requirements and preferences. Self-adaptive mechanism and adaptive operators are used to reduce the computational time, and deepens the exploitation and widens the exploration of the search. The second algorithm imports those generated floor plans and assesses, ranks, and optimizes their thermal performance. It uses a sequential variable optimization procedure, where different architectural elements are added or changed with the purpose of maximizing the thermal performance. The two algorithms were tested in several case studies with different complexity levels, design programs, requirements, and constraints. Both algorithms have their performance analyzed. Results shown that both algorithm may be valuable instruments in speeding up the design process, in enlarging the number of design solutions to be compared, in improving thermal performance of floor plans, and in helping the architects in their decision-making process.” Full thesis available at Repository of the University of Coimbra . Publications:
  • Rodrigues, E., Gaspar, A. R., & Gomes, Á. (2013). An evolutionary strategy enhanced with a local search technique for the space allocation problem in architecture, Part 1: Methodology. Computer-Aided Design, 45(5), 887–897. doi:10.1016/j.cad.2013.01.001
  • Rodrigues, E., Gaspar, A. R., & Gomes, Á. (2013). An evolutionary strategy enhanced with a local search technique for the space allocation problem in architecture, Part 2: Validation and performance tests. Computer-Aided Design, 45(5), 898–910. doi:10.1016/j.cad.2013.01.003
  • Rodrigues, E., Gaspar, A. R., & Gomes, Á. (2013). An approach to the multi-level space allocation problem in architecture using a hybrid evolutionary technique. Automation in Construction, 35, 482–498. doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2013.06.005
  • Rodrigues, E., Gaspar, A. R., & Gomes, Á. (2014). Automated approach for design generation and thermal assessment of alternative floor plans. Energy and Buildings, 81, 170–181. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.06.016
  • Rodrigues, E., Gaspar, A. R., & Gomes, Á. (2014). Improving thermal performance of automatically generated floor plans using a geometric variable sequential optimization procedure. Applied Energy, 132, 200–215. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.06.068
  • Rodrigues, E., Gaspar, A. R., & Gomes, Á. (2013). A gradient descent technique coupled with a dynamic simulation to determine the near optimum orientation of floor plan designs. In K. Kabele, M. Urban, K. Suchý, & M. Lain (Eds.), CLIMA 2013. Prague, Czech Republic: Society of Environmental Engineering (STP).
  • Rodrigues, E., Gaspar, A. R., Gomes, Á., & da Silva, M. G. (2014). Contributions of natural ventilation on thermal performance of alternative floor plan designs. In Proceedings of RoomVent 201, 19th-22nd October. São Paulo, Brazil.

Felipe Calabria

pds12002@fe.up.pt ; felipecalabria@yahoo.com.br | FEUP | SES PhD | Entering year: 2012 | Graduation year: 2016 LinkedIn Current position: Specialist in regulation at ANEEL Thesis Title: A virtual reservoir model for power systems with large share of hydros: Analysis of the Brazilian case in a liberalized wholesale electricity market Supervoisors: João Tomé Saraiva (FEUP), Ana Paula Rocha (FEUP)

Filipa Amorim

filipa.amorim@tecnico.ulisboa.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 | Graduation year: 2014 Linkedin Research topic/ area: electricity markets, energy planning, costs assessment, regulation, renewables integration Thesis title: Planning generation in liberalising and decarbonising electricity systems: The Portuguese case. Supervisors: Victor Martins (ISEG-UL), Patrícia Pereira da Silva (FEUC), Jorge Vasconcelos (NEWES) Publications:
  • F. Amorim, A. Pina, H.Gerbelová, P.Pereira da Silva, J. Vasconcelos, V. Martins, “Electricity decarbonisation pathways for 2050 in Portugal: A TIMES (The Integrated MARKAL-EFOM System) based approach in closed versus open systems modelling”, Energy, Available online 11 February 2014, ISSN 0360-5442, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2014.01.052.
  • F. Amorim, J. Vasconcelos, I.C. Abreu, P.P. Silva, V. Martins, “How much room for a competitive electricity generation market in Portugal?”, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 18, February 2013, Pages 103-118, ISSN 1364-0321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2012.10.010.

Filipa Carlos

pds07004@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 PhD Supervisor: Eduardo Guimarães Oliveira Fernandes; PhD Co-supervisor: Maria do Rosário Sintra de Almeida Partidário Research topic/ area: Towards a Methodology for Ranking Natural Energy Resources based on Environmental Criteria PhD Thesis (2014): Prioritizing Renewable Energy Resources based on Environmental and Energy Quality Criteria The discussion of the thesis Prioritizing Renewable Energy Resources based on Environmental and Energy Quality Criteria took place with the following members of the Jury:
  • Maria do Rosário Sintra de Almeida Partidário, Técnico Lisboa da Universidade de Lisboa
  • António Jorge Viegas de Vasconcelos, Técnico Lisboa da Universidade de Lisboa
  • João António Muralha Ribeiro Farinha, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
  • Eduardo Guimarães Oliveira Fernandes, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
  • Vítor Manuel da Silva Leal, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto.
  • Ricardo Bessa’s research was supervised by Manuel Matos (FEUP).

Filipa Reis

filipa.n.c.reis@gmail.com | FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 LinkedIn Current position: Patent Examiner at INPI PhD Supervisor: Miguel Centeno Brito (FCUL) ;Gianfranco Sorasio PhD Thesis (2013): Development of photovoltaic systems with concentration Thesis abstract: The concept of Concentration Photovoltaic (CPV) systems appeared as an attempt to reduce the cost of Photovoltaic (PV) technology. In these systems, savings are achieved by the reduction of the area of the expensive PV cell which is compensated by the increase in the light intensity on the device through less expensive optical elements. This thesis focus on two main CPV systems: i) the DoubleSun® technology, a low CPV system, already commercialized; and ii) a new medium CPV system, the HSun technology. Regarding the DoubleSun®, the on-field performance and ageing tests are addressed, highlighting the main challenges that a CPV system has to face under outdoor exposure. Such results were relevant for the development of a new CPV system concept, the HSun, whose main target is to achieve grid parity. A Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCoE) analysis was performed showing that this objective can only be achieved with a concentration factor between 15-20 suns and integrating high efficiency silicon solar cells.Within the HSun project, this thesis focuses on the CPV receiver whose design, development, assembly, validation and optimization are discussed in detail. The analysis of its thermal behaviour is addressed through CFD-FEA in a model implemented in SolidWorks which determines the temperature profile across the solar cells showing that its integration on the HSun could be optimized to decrease the average temperature of the cell by about 60°C. Since both illumination and temperature profiles are spatially inhomogeneous, a distributed solar cell electric model is developed in order to understand and fully describe the behaviour of solar cells under such operating conditions. The model was experimentally validated and then applied to the optimization of the front grid of the solar cells on the HSun showing the efficiency may be increased by 1.5% if front grid design integrates more 21 fingers. K: Photovoltaic, Concentration photovoltaic systems, Silicon solar cell model, Inhomogeneous irradiation, Inhomogeneous temperature Full thesis available at Universidade de Lisboa’s Repositorium. Publications: F. Reis , M. Centeno Brito, V. Corregidor, J. Wemans and G. Sorasio, “Modeling the performance of low concentration photovoltaic systems”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells Volume 94, Issue 7, July 2010, Pages 1222–1226 F. Reis, J. Wemans, G. Sorasio, M.C. Brito, “Validation of a Model to Study CPV Silicon Solar Cells Behaviour under Inhomogeneous Irradiation”, EU PVSEC Proceedings, 2012,228 – 231, doi: 10.4229/27thEUPVSEC2012-1AV.3.19 F. Reis, L. Pina, J. Wemans, G. Sorasio, M.C. Brito, “LCoE Analysis as a Decision Tool for Design of Concentrated Photovoltaics Systems”, EU PVSEC Proceedings, 2011, 4581 – 4583, doi: 10.4229/26thEUPVSEC2011-6CV.1.28 F. Reis, J. Wemans, G. Sorasio, P. Fialho, M.C. Brito , “Photovoltaic Potential in Terceira Island (Azores)” EU PVSEC Proceedings, 2011, 4317 – 4319, doi: 10.4229/26thEUPVSEC2011-5BV.2.41 F. Reis , M. Centeno Brito, V. Corregidor, J. Wemans and G. Sorasio,”Ageing of Standard PV Module when Integrated in a V-trough Concentration System” MRS Proceedings / Volume 1210 / 2009, Materials Research Society 2010 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/PROC-1210-Q08-05

Filipe Joel Nunes Soares

fjnsoares@gmail.com | FEUP Research topic/area: Impact of V2G systems in grid operation and expansion Thesis Title (2012): Impact of the deployment of electric vehicles in grid operation and expansion Supervisor: João Abel Peças Lopes (FEUP) ; James Kirtley (MIT)

Filipe Rodrigues

filipemrodrigues@netcabo.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007

Filipe Sim-Sim

fcsimsim@gmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008

Francisco Ribeiro

francisc_ribeiro@hotmail.com | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008

Golnar Hejazi

go1nar@yahoo.com; pds11002@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 Research topic/area: A multi-objective decision-support methodology for Planning of National or Regional Energy Supply (Temporary thesis’ title)
Research Summary:
[Research Interests] Sustainable Energy Systems planning; Assessment and planning methodologies, Renewable energy (Microgeneraion), energy management , energy as social issue, energy policy, Islands, Decision making

Gonçalo Cardoso

email@goncalocardoso.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 | Graduation year: 2013 Linkedin Current Position: Senior Scientific Engineering Associate at Berkeley Lab Research topic/area: Sustainable Urban Energy Systems (SUES) Thesis Title: Distributed Energy Resources for a Sustainable Built Environment Supervisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), Ana Póvoa (IST-UL)

Gonçalo Pereira

goncalo.duarte.pereira@tecnico.ulisboa.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2010 | Graduation year: 2016 Linked in ; ResearchGate Current Position: Post-Doc Researcher at the Trancik Laboratory, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previous Position: Data scientist at WATT-IS Research Topic/Area: Residential energy consumption; Energy storage; Distributed production Thesis Title (2016): Promoting a cleaner and more efficient energy use in the residential sector through a better understanding of energy consumption patterns Supervisor: Carlos Silva (IST), Susana Vieira (IST) Thesis Abstract: This thesis contributes to increasing the knowledge in the Portuguese residential energy consumption. The insight into consumption is provided by measurements from a smart meter project, the Portuguese survey to residential energy consumption and the Portuguese database of energy performance certificates in residential buildings. The analysis of consumption patterns showed the importance of thermal comfort-related consumption and the influence of external factors like temperature and day length. Furthermore, it was observed a performance gap, i.e., the households active energy consumption was not sufficient to meet the estimated thermal needs. The results suggest thermal comfort as a target for efficiency measures but, in a scenario of possible domestic energy poverty, it is difficult to propose actions when the majority of Portuguese households might not be able to meet thermal comfort needs.
The estimation and classification of residential energy consumption patterns are possible due to the deployment of smart meters. The pattern analysis contributed to the reduction of energy consumption through feedback of performance indicators to households. A shift to cleaner energy consumption could be achieved with distributed production, using on-site renewable energy production and storage. The achieved results suggest that current solar storage technologies and Portuguese legislation would be financially profitable making it an attractive option for households.
Energy efficiency measures (e.g. consumption feedback) and a shift to renewable energy use can increase sustainability in the residential sector.
Publications:
  • Pereira, Gonçalo; Vieira,Susana; Silva, Carlos;. Energy Consumption and Certification in the Portuguese Residential Sector. Robotics and Systems in Engineering and Science Workshop (LARSYS 2013), 4th and 5th July 2013, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Pereira, Gonçalo; Alves,Marina; Silva, Carlos; Indicators for evaluating and comparing energy consumption of households. International Workshop on Energy Efficiency for a More Sustainable World, 14th to 16th September 2012, São Miguel, Açores, Portugal.
  • Pereira, Gonçalo; Vieira,Susana; Silva, Carlos; Main drivers for the Iberian Market Price and Energy Storage in Portugal. International Annual Conference of the German OR Society, 4th to 7th September 2012, Hannover, Germany.
  • Pereira, Gonçalo; Baptista, Patrícia; Silva, Carlos; Pina, André; Duarte, Gonçalo; Rolim, Catarina; On road comparison of electric and conventional bicycles in Lisbon. Energy Night Portugal 2012, 1st of June 2012, Pavilhão Conhecimento, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Pereira, Gonçalo; Silva, Carlos; Energy Storage Impact in the Portuguese Electric System. 3rd MIT Portugal Conference, 28th and 29th May 2012, Guimarães, Portugal.
  • Pereira, Gonçalo; Pina, André; Silva, Carlos; Moutinho, Alexandra. Integrated Modeling Framework for Energy Systems Modeling. 23rd International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems (ECOS 2010), 14th to 17th June 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Pereira, Gonçalo; Moutinho, Alexandra; Silva, Carlos. Flexible Design of Sustainable Energy Systems under Uncertainty. 24th European Conference on Operations Research (EUROXXIV), 11th to 14th of July 2010, Lisbon, Portugal

Gonçalo Pinto Mendes

goncalo.p.mendes@ist.utl.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Research topic/ area: the research, in cooperation with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from the University of California, Berkeley, addresses the economic optimization of community-scale microgrids Distributed Energy Resources (DER) generation mix in case-studies of Portugal, the U.S. and Japan. The approach is customer-centered and intents to provide valuable insights to political decision makers, legislators and urban planners, on which directions to take in the design of modern cities, accommodating the new distributed energy paradigm. Thesis Title: Microgrids as Key for Energy Efficiency: A Multi-Country Investigation of Community-scale Power Systems’ Adoption Patterns Under Different Demand, Climate and Regulatory Characteristics Supervisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), Chris Marnay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Christos Ioakimidis (Deusto Institute of Technology) Communications / Conference presentations (first author):
  • Journal paper: “On the Planning and Analysis of Integrated Community Energy Systems: A Review and Survey of Available Tools”, Elsevier – Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2011.
  • Conference paper: ”Integrated Energy Microgrids for Community-scale Systems: Case Study Research in the Azores Islands”, Presented at EEM11 – 8th International Conference on the European Energy Market, 25-27 May 2011, Zagreb, Croatia.
  • Conference poster (Best Poster Award): “Modeling PEV Interactions Between a Small Community Microgrid and a Public Office Building”, Poster presented at the E3 – Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship Forum, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011.
  • Conference poster: “Modeling of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Interactions with a School Building using DER-CAM”, Poster presented at the MIT Transportation Showcase, Boston, USA, 2011.

Guillermo Pereira

gpereira@student.dem.uc.pt | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2014 LinkedIn; Research Gate; De Góis; website Research topic/ area: Electricity sector transition PhD supervisors: Patrícia Pereira da Silva, University of Coimbra – Faculty of Economics, Energy for Sustainability Initiative and INESC Coimbra Thesis title: The role of Electricity Distribution System Operators in the promotion of energy efficiency – Analyzing regulatory, stakeholders and firm level dimensions

Gustavo Souza

gustavo.souza@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/area: Energy efficiency in energy planning: Assessment and planning methodologies Thesis Title: A multi-objective decision support methodology for developing national energy efficiency plans Supervisors: Vitor Manuel Silva Leal (FEUP) ; Luís Miguel Cândido Dias (FEUC)

Hana Gerbelová

gerbelova@gmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 PhD Supervisor: Paulo Ferrão; Co-Supervisors: Edward Stephen Rubin and Christos Ioakimidis PhD Thesis (2013) : Feasibility Assessment of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology in the Portuguese Energy System Thesis Abstract: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one alternative in the portfolio of options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that allows significantly to reduce anthropogenic emissions of CO2 from industrial fossil fuel-based combustion plants. Fossil fuels have a dominant share in the Portuguese energy sector and, at the same time, there is a specific focus on the energy sector to maintain national levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, CCS has been lately receiving increasing interest. The work presented in this thesis improves the understanding of the techno-economics of CCS in the electricity sector and its contribution to the CO2 mitigation within a portfolio of other mitigation options applied to the Portuguese reality. In addition to this, the assessed case studies demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of using an amine-based post-combustion CO2 capture at particular Portuguese power plants and cement manufacturing plant. The established framework quantifies the contributions of CCS within the Portuguese energy system and as a result provides the most up-to-date and realistic estimates of the environmental and economic impacts that would result if CCS is implemented on large point sources of CO2 in Portugal. Keywords: CO2 emissions; carbon capture and storage; energy systems modeling; fossil fuel power plant; cement plant; CCS retrofitting; cost estimates; electricity generation; CO2 taxes; MEA post-combustion captu HanaGerbelova successfully discussed her thesis on December, 23rd, 2013 with the following members of the jury:
  • Paulo Ferrão, Técnico Lisboa, ULisboa
  • João Toste de Azevedo, Técnico Lisboa, ULisboa
  • Mário Vital Melo, Escola Superior Nautica Infante D. Henrique
  • Dulce Boa Vida, Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, LNEG
Publications:
  • H. Gerbelová, F. Amorim, A. Pina, M. Melo, C. Ioakimidis, P. Ferrão, “Potential of CO2 taxes as a policy measure towards low-carbon Portuguese electricity sector by 2050”, Energy 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2014.01.011.
  • H. Gerbelová, P. Versteeg, C.S. Ioakimidis, P. Ferrão, “The effect of retrofitting Portuguese fossil fuel power plants with CCS”, Applied Energy, 101, 280-287, 2013.
  • H. Gerbelová, A. André, S. Casimiro, M. Melo, P. Ferrão, “Assessment of carbon capture and storage opportunities: Portuguese case study”, Energy Procedia, 4, 6109-6116, 2011.
  • H. Gerbelová, C. Ioakimidis, P. Ferrão, “A techno-economical study of the CO2 capture in the energy sector in Portugal”, Energy Procedia, 4, 1965-1972, 2011.
Papers in conference proceedings:
  • H. Gerbelová, E.S. Rubin: Assessment of cost parameters used in economic evaluation of power plants with CCS. 10th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Pittsburgh PA (May 2011).
  • H. Gerbelová, A. Pina, C. Ioakimidis, M. Melo, P. Ferrão: Carbon capture and sequestration technology assessment into the Portuguese energy system. 23rd International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland (June 2010).

Helena Monteiro

helenamonte@gmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 | Graduation year: 2017 Linkedin Thesis Title: Integrating life cycle assessment and energy building simulation to improve residential buildings’ performance Supervisors: Fausto Freire (DEM-UC) and Adélio Gaspar (DEM-UC)

Henrique Pombeiro

henrique.pombeiro@tecnico.ulisboa.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems Advanced Studies | Entering year: 2012 http://pt.linkedin.com/pub/henrique-pombeiro Publications: Henrique Pombeiro, Carlos Silva, Modeling energy consumption in an educational building: comparative study between linear regression, fuzzy set theory and neural networks Studies. Chapter in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 591, Kohei Arai et al: Intelligent Systems in Science and Information 2014, doi: 978-3-319-14653-9.
Maria Machado, Henrique Pombeiro, Carlos Silva, “Aplicação de um algoritmo de otimização genético multiobjectivo no controlo de um sistema de ar condicionado e iluminação”. Energy at IST Conference 2014, September 12, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Carlos Gomes, Henrique Pombeiro, Carlos Silva, “Um Algoritmo de Aprendizagem como Controlador Térmico”, Energy at IST Conference 2014, September 12, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Henrique Pombeiro, Carlos Silva, “Linear, Fuzzy and Neural Networks models for definition of baseline consumption: Early findings from two test beds in a University Campus in Portugal “. Park Inn by Radisson Hotel & Conference Centre, August 27-29, London, UK. ISBN 978-0-9893193-1-7.
Henrique Pombeiro, Carlos Silva, “Novel multivariate adaptive self-learning methodology for efficient energy systems in buildings”. Poster presented in the 4th MIT Portugal Conference, June 27th 2014, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Henrique Pombeiro, Carlos Silva, “Novel multivariate adaptive self-learning methodology for efficient energy systems in buildings”. Poster presented in the LARSys 2014 Annual Meeting Conference, July 4th 2014, Ciência Viva Pavilion, Lisbon, Portugal
Henrique Pombeiro, Carlos Silva, Poster, “Towards conscious electricity consumption in households: Early findings from a living lab and recommendations”, 2014, June 20th, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
Henrique Pombeiro, Carlos Silva, Poster, “Intelligent management of energy systems in buildings – early results”, 2014, IN+ Annual Meeting, May 28-30, Técnico Lisboa – University of Lisbon, Portugal

Hermano Bernardo

hermano.bernardo@estg.ipleiria.pt | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Hrvoje Keko

hkeko@inescporto.pthrvoje.keko@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/area: Generation Coordination in Complex Systems with Stochastic Reservoirs Links to personal webpages: http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~ee03149/

Hugo Campaniço

hugo.campanico@hotmail.com | FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2010 | Graduation year: 2017 Linkedin Thesis Title: Passive cooling for buildings Supervisors: Pedro Soares (FCUL), Pierre Hollmuller (FCUL)

Jacob Huber

pds09007@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Joana Abreu

jmargaridaa@gmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/area: Sustainable Energy Urban System (SUES) Thesis Title (2012): Routines and feedback: a study about electricity consumption in household Supervisors: António Jorge Viegas de Vasconcelos (IST), David Hunter Marks (MIT), Francisco Câmara Pereira (FCUC).

Joana Bastos

jmfbastos@gmail.com | U Coimbra | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 Supervisors: Fausto Freire (FCTUC), Stuart Batterman (MIT) Research topic/area Publications:
  • J. Bastos, S. Batterman, F. Freire, Life-cycle energy and greenhouse gas analysis of three building types in a residential area in Lisbon. Energy and Buildings 69: 344-353, 2014
Communications/conferences presentations:
  • J. Bastos, F. Freire and J. A. Bandeirinha, Urban form potential in sustainable development: a framework for the environmental assessment of urban patterns, Morfologia Urbana nos Países Lusófonos – Actas da Conferência Internacional PNUM 2012, ISBN 978-989-732-023-1

João Ferreira

joao.pr.ferreira@gmail.com | FCTUC | SES PhD | Entering year: 2010 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Current position: Lecturer/Researcher at Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra Research Summary: Urban population has been growing consistently worldwide, with large metropolitan areas experiencing persistent expansion phenomena. Unsurprisingly these processes are not occurring homogeneously throughout the territories. Over the last decade, population in suburbs has largely increased while the population living in Central Business Districts has shrunk in many large European and American cities. Portugal is not an exception. The main aim of this work is to establish a modelling framework suitable for the regional and national assessment of economic, social and environmental impacts of changes in urban forms and commuting patterns. Accordingly, this research proposes the construction of a commuting satellite account embedded in a Multi-Regional Input-Output framework. Thesis Title: Socio-Economic-Environmental Assessment of Commuting Supervisors: Pedro Ramos (FEUC), Luis Cruz (FEUC)

João Francisco Barreiros

jfra.barreiros@gmail.com | IST/ ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 Research summary: The recent development of new drilling technics, namely the combination of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with horizontal drilling technologies, in order to get much more oil and gas from a single hole, has opened up the perspective of accessing vast reserves of fossil energy trapped in shale rock formations. Recovery of unconventional oil and gas, however, involves injecting huge amounts of water at high pressures, mixed with sand and chemicals, to break up deep rock formations, and considerable concern has been arising on how this extraction technics might affect surface and groundwater water resources. Furthermore, there’s a growing consensus among major private companies and institutions that water is a strategic issue, as its scarcity, or difficulty to guarantee access at an acceptable cost, will affect industries and increase their business risk over the next 10 to 20 years. In this context, my research aims to determine how water scarcity/cost variability may determine, in a life-cycle perspective, the way different energy sources (with a particular emphasis on unconventional oil and gas) compete between each other

João Lagarto

jlagarto@deea.isel.ipl.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 | Graduation year: 2014 Research topic/ area: Electricity markets Thesis Title: Market power evaluation in electricity markets Supervisors: Álvaro Martins (ISEG-UL), Jorge Sousa (ISEL-IPL), Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL)

João Santos

joaomirandasantos@gmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Jorge Borges

jorge.g.borges@gmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007

José Gonçalves

jagoncalves@gmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Current Position: Researcher at INESC Coimbra Research topic/area: Feasibility Study of a Stationary Urban Distributed Energy Storage System Research Summary: The proposed research will focus on providing a methodology to assess the feasibility of a distributed urban electric energy storage solution, enabling the definition of an optimum configuration of a Urban Distributed Energy Storage System, given specific energy services, technology limitations, and an existing infrastructure, namely with long idle or low charged periods. The main goal is to optimize the distribution network management, given the operational infrastructure control requirements, also in order to simultaneously maximize the use of renewable energy injected in the grid Thesis Title: Methodology for real impact assessment of the best location of distributed electric energy storage systems Supervisors: António Gomes Martins (FCTUC), Luís Neves (IPL) Book chapters Gonçalves, J., Neves, L., & Martins, A. G. (2015a). Multiobjective Methodology for Assessing the Location of Distributed Electric Energy Storage. In C. Di Chio, A. Brabazon, G. A. Di Caro, M. Ebner, M. Farooq, A. Fink, J. Grahl, G. Greenfield, P. Machado, M. O’Neill, E. Tarantino, & N. Urquhart (Eds.), “Applications of Evolutionary Computation” (Vol. 6025, pp. 227–238). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16549-3_19
Publications Gonçalves, J., Neves, L. P., & Martins, A. G. (2015b). Multiobjective assessment of distributed energy storage location in electricity networks. International Journal of Sustainable Energy, (July), 1–15, 2015, doi:10.1080/14786451.2015.1066787 Conference proceedings and abstracts Gonçalves, José António Ribeiro; Martins, António Gomes; Neves, Luís. Potential Role of Stationary Urban Distributed Storage on the Management of Power Systems. In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT: BRINGING TOGETHER ECONOMICS AND ENGINEERING (ICEE2013), 2013. Porto. International Conference on Energy & Environment: bringing together Economics and Engineering. 2013. Gonçalves, José António Ribeiro; M. Vitorino, Romeu; Neves, Luís; Martins, António Gomes. Assessment of best location of distributed storage using improved genetic algorithms’. In: ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY 2013, SUSTAINABLE CITIES: DESIGNING FOR PEOPLE AND THE PLANET, 2013. Coimbra. Energy for Sustainability 2013, Sustainable Cities: Designing for People and the Planet. 2013. Gonçalves, José António Ribeiro; Miguel, Pedro C; Barata, Eduardo; Cruz, Luís. Eficiência Energética na Iluminação Pública. In: PORTUGAL EM CONFERÊNCIA PARA UMA ECONOMIA ENERGÉTICAMENTE EFICIENTE (PCEEE 2012), 2012. Coimbra. Portugal em Conferência para uma Economia Energéticamente Eficiente. 2012. Ruffa, Dario; Maia, Eduardo; Gonçalves, José António Ribeiro; Coelho, Marco; Abadi, Mohsen B; Figueiredo, Nuno; Miguel, Pedro C; Miguel, Rodrigo; Martins, António M. O. G. Energy efficiency and market transformation policies: an appraisal based on case-studies. In: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD, 2012. Ponta Delgada. Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Energy Efficiency for a More Sustainable World. 2012. Gonçalves, José António Ribeiro; Neves, Luís; Martins, António Gomes. Multiobjective methodology for impact assessment of the best location of distributed electric energy storage. In: WORKSHOP ON ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES – ENERGY, MOBILITY AND OTHER REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS, 2015. Coimbra. Workshop on Assessment Methodologies – energy, mobility and other real world applications. 2015.

Julija-Vasiljevska

pds07011@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 | Graduation year: 2012 Linkedin Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at European Commission, Joint Research Centre Research topic/area: Evaluation of Technical, Economic and Environmental Impacts resulting from large scale integration of Microgrids, including Responsive Demand, in Electrical Grids Thesis Title: Evaluation of Technical, Economic and Environmental Impacts Resulting From Large Scale Integration of Microgrids Supervisors: João Abel Peças Lopes (FEUP), Manuel António Cerqueira da Costa Matos (FEUP)

Kiti Suomalainen

kiti.suomalainen@dem.ist.utl.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 | Graduation year: 2011 Linkedin Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand Thesis Title: Wind Dynamics – Daily Patterns in Energy Systems Planning Supervisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), Carlos Silva (IST-UL), Stephen Connors (MIT) Publications:
  • Green Island Project, poster for AGS Annual Meeting 2008

Lauro Ribeiro

lauroribeiro@terra.com.br | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 | Graduation year: 2015 Linkedin Current position: Adjunt Faculty at Faculdade Meridional – IMED Thesis Title: Microalgae as Feedstock for Advanced Biofuels: Sustainability and Policy Assessment Supervisor: Patrícia Pereira da Silva (UC)

Leonardo Bremermann

leonardo.bremerman@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 PhD Supervisor: Manuel Matos Co- Supervisor: João Peças Lopes PhD Thesis (2014): Impact evaluation of the large scale integration of electric vehicles in the security of suply The discussion of the thesis Impact evaluation of the large scale integration of electric vehicles in the security of suply took placewith the following members of the Jury:
  • Mauro Augusto da Rosa, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil;
  • Pedro Manuel Santos de Carvalho, Técnico Lisboa da Universidade de Lisboa;
  • Paulo José Gameiro Pereirinha, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra do Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra;
  • Manuel António Cerqueira da Costa Matos, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto;
  • Jorge Manuel Pinho de Sousa, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto;
  • Vítor Manuel da Silva Leal, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto.
Leonardo Elizeire Bremermann’s research was supervised Vladimiro Henrique Barrosa Pinto de Miranda.

Leonardo Rosado

ltr@dem.ist.utl.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/ area: Sustainable Energy Urban System Project (SUES) Thesis Title (2012): A Standard Model for Urban Metabolism – Accounting Material Flows in Metropolitan Areas Supervisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST) , Samuel Niza (IST), John Fernandez (MIT)

Leonel Carvalho

carvalho.leonel@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/area: Optimization of large scale power system problems with new tools PhD Thesis (2013): Advances on the Sequential Monte Carlo Reliability Assessment of Generation-Transmission Systems using Cross-Entropy and Population-based Methods Leonel Carvalho’s research was supervised by Vladimiro Henrique Barrosa Pinto de Miranda (FEUP) and co-supervised by Mauro Augusto da Rosa (INESC TEC).
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Luciana Salles Barbosa

lu_salles@hotmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2012 LinkedIn ; ResearcherGate PhD Supervisores: Paulo Ferrão (Técnico Lisboa) and Artur Rodrigues (Universidade do Minho)
Research topic/area Publications:
  • K. Rocha, L. Salles, F. A. Alcaraz Garcia, J. A. Sardinha, J. P. Teixeira, Real estate and real options — A case study, Emerging Markets Review, Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 67-79, ISSN 1566-0141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2006.09.008
Communications/conferences presentations:
  • L. Barbosa, A. Sardinha. Deploying a Renewable Energy Project: An Equilibrium Analysis. 1st International Conference on Energy & Environment, Porto, Portugal, May 2013.
  • L.Salles Barbosa, M. Tarsalewska, A. Sardinha. An equilibrium analysis of feed-in tariff remuneration: market-dependent and market independent models. Conference on Corporate Sustainability and Eco-innovations, Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 2013.

Luís de Andrade de Freitas

luis.de.andrade@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 PhD Supervisor: Maria Teresa Costa Pereira da Silva Ponce de Leão; PhD co-Supervisors:Helder Leite, Paulo De Oliveira PhD Thesis: Time-Domain Impedance-based fault location for HVDC Transmission lines Thesis Abstract:
“In the last decades, High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) systems have had extensive growth due to the great development that has occurred in AC-DC-AC conversion technology based on power electronics, and also for being strongly promoted as a great solution for the connection of renewable energy sources through long distances, both offshore and onshore. However, there are still problems in the operation and maintenance of HVDC systems that can be reviewed and updated. Such is the case of automated methods of fault location. All currently available commercial methods are based on traveling wave technologies. These methods can have good accuracy, but they also have some disadvantages, such as the need for expensive measuring equipment dedicated exclusively to this purpose, and problems for detecting high impedance faults or faults close to the line terminals. This thesis develops a method for fault location on HVDC lines based on line impedance estimation, as a proposal to complement the current methods in cases where commercial methods are not capable to give a satisfactory result. The reason to develop this method based on a different technology than traveling wave, is because it’s intended to prevent the problems that affect these type of technologies. The proposed method uses a mathematical model of the transmission line as a basis for estimating the line’s impedance. This model was specifically attained to use in this project, and it was deducted from the transmission line differential equations in the time-domain. For this deduction is not required any approximation, so it was obtained a model that brings high accuracy to the fault location method. The method’s behavior is evaluated from the technical point of view, using both actual fault records and simulated fault records. The results are compared with results obtained by traditional methods in order to verify the performance of the different methods. The proposed method aims to assist in the operation process of HVDC systems, providing a robust fault locator, with high accuracy, and low cost. This method is intended to replace the current traveling wave-based methods, or at least complement them in cases where traditional methods have not performed well.”
Publications
  • L. de Andrade, H. Leite and M.T. Ponce de Leão. Time-Domain Distributed Parameters Transmission Line Model for Transient Analysis. Progress In Electromagnetics, Research B Journal, Vol. 53, pp. 25-46, 2013.
  • L. de Andrade and M.T. Ponce de Leão. Fault Location for Transmission Lines Using Wavelet . IEEE Latin America Trasactions, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 1043-1048, 2014.
  • L. de Andrade and E. Sorrentino, Inclusion of the Zero-Sequence Mutual Impedance in a Distributed Parameter Model of Transmission Lines, In Proceedings of IEEE 9th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 242-245, May 2010,
  • L. de Andrade, P. De Oliveira and M. Ponce de Le~ao, Current Strategic Environmental Assessment in the Electrical Industry, In Proceedings of IEEE 11th International Conference on Electrical Power Quality and Utilisation, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 6,
  • L. de Andrade and M. Ponce de Le~ao, Faults Location Methods Reviews for Transmission Lines, In Proceedings of CIGRE III Congreso Venezolano de Redes y Energa Electrica, Caracas, Venezuela, p. 8, March 2012
  • L. de Andrade and M. Ponce de Le~ao, Travelling Wave Based Fault Location Analysis for Transmission Lines, In Proceedings of 2nd European Energy Conference, Maastricht, Netherlands, p. 9, April 2012
  • L. de Andrade and M. Ponce de Le~ao, Impedance-Based Fault Location Analysis for Transmission Lines, In Proceedings of IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference, Orlando, USA, p. 6, May 2012
  • L. de Andrade and M. Ponce de Le~ao, A Brief History of Direct Current in Electrical Power Systems, In Proceedings of IEEE History of Electro-technology Conference, Pavia, Italy, p. 6, September 2012
  • L. de Andrade and M. Ponce de Le~ao, Current Interoperability of Electrical Systems, In Proceedings of IEEE IV International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 423-427, October 2012
  • L. de Andrade and M. Ponce de Le~ao, Direct Current Power Systems, In Proceedings of CIGRE Smarts Grids: Next Generation Grids for New Energy Trends International Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 8, April 2013
  • L. de Andrade, Y. Blanco and M. Ponce de Le~ao, Using Power Systems Simulation Software for Fault Analysis, In Proceedings of Encontro Regional Ibero-americano do CIGRE, Foz do Iguacu, Brasil, p. 8, May 2013
The discussion of the thesis Time-Domain Impedance-based fault location for HVDC Transmission lines, took place with the following members of the Jury:
  • Carlos Alberto Henggeler de Carvalho Antunes, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra;
  • José Manuel Dias Ferreira de Jesus, Técnico Lisboa da Universidade de Lisboa;
  • João Paulo Tomé Saraiva, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto;
  • José Rui da Rocha Pinto Ferreira, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto);
  • Maria Teresa Costa Pereira da Silva Ponce de Leão, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto.

Luísa Dias Pereira

luisa.pereira@uc.pt | FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 | Graduation year: 2016 LinkedIn ; ResearchGate Current Position: Science and Technology Manager (Fellowship) at University of Coimbra Institute for legal Research (Fellowship) Research topic/ area: Renewed Portuguese Schools – From IAQ and Thermal Comfort towards Energy Efficiency Plans; Modernised Portuguese Schools – From IAQ and Thermal Comfort towards Energy Efficiency Plans (energetic consumption evaluation, CO2 measurements, air temperature and RH) Research summary: The overall purpose of my research is to develop an energy efficiency (EE) plan for renewed schools. The Plan is to be adopted after the analysis of monitored indoor environment quality (IEQ) parameters from renewed schools (geographical and climatically distributed) and the adaptation of operation and maintenance (O&M) measures.Starting with an energy consumption assessment in the school buildings between the pre and post–intervention phases, this study, focusing on the relationships between energy performance and occupant feedback, also intends to explore whether energy use and associated CO2 emissions are correlated to occupant satisfaction and comfort. It aims to enlarge the actual EE plans based only on cost/energy control attending also to an equilibrium between IEQ evaluation and students performance/productivity. Thesis Title: Modernised Portuguese Schools: from IAQ and Thermal Comfort towards Energy Efficiency Plans Supervisor: Manuel Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC). Research topic/ area: Renewed Portuguese Schools – From IAQ and Thermal Comfort towards Energy Efficiency Plans; Modernised Portuguese Schools – From IAQ and Thermal Comfort towards Energy Efficiency Plans (energetic consumption evaluation, CO2 measurements, air temperature and RH) Research summary: The overall purpose of my research is to develop an energy efficiency (EE) plan for renewed schools. The Plan is to be adopted after the analysis of monitored indoor environment quality (IEQ) parameters from renewed schools (geographical and climatically distributed) and the adaptation of operation and maintenance (O&M) measures.Starting with an energy consumption assessment in the school buildings between the pre and post–intervention phases, this study, focusing on the relationships between energy performance and occupant feedback, also intends to explore whether energy use and associated CO2 emissions are correlated to occupant satisfaction and comfort. It aims to enlarge the actual EE plans based only on cost/energy control attending also to an equilibrium between IEQ evaluation and students performance/productivity. Publications:
  • L. Dias Pereira, D. Raimondo, S.P.Corgnati, M.Gameiro da Silva,“ Assessment of indoor air quality and thermal comfort in Portuguese secondary classrooms: Methodology and results”, Building and Environment, 2014, doi:0.1016/j.buildenv.2014.06.008;
  • L.Dias Pereira, Martim de Freitas School: IAQ and Energy Audit, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (ISBN: 978-3-659-19249-4), 2014
  • L.Dias Pereira, E. Cardoso, M.G. da Silva,“ Indoor air quality audit and evaluation on thermal comfort in a school in Portugal”, Indoor and Built Environment, 2013, doi:10.1177/1420326X13508966
Communications and conference presentations
  • VII Mediterranean Congress of Climatization – Climamed’13. Luísa Dias Pereira, Hermano Bernardo, Manuel Gameiro da Silva: “Energy performance of school buildings: from energy certificates to benchmarking”
  • 1st International Congress on Energy & Environment: bringing together Economics and Engineering. Manuel Gameiro da Silva, Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Hermano Bernardo, Humberto Jorge, Luís Cruz, Eduardo Barata, Luísa Dias Pereira, Mariana Coimbra, Gonçalo Luis, Luis Borges, Luís Neves, José Costa: “A preliminary assessment of energy performance in refurbished schools”.
  • YRSB13 – iiSBE Forum of Young Researchers in Sustainable Building 2013.Luisa Dias Pereira, Nelson Soares, João Pedro Ferreira, Pedro Conceição, Patrícia Pereira da Silva:“Improvement of the Energy Efficiency of a Portuguese University Building”.
  • People and Buildings MC2012. Luísa Dias Pereira, Edna Cardoso, Manuel Gameiro da Silva: “An evaluation of Indoor Climate in a school building in Portugal”.
  • CINCOS’12. Nelson Soares, João Pedro Ferreira, Luísa Dias Pereira, Pedro Conceição, Patrícia Pereira da Silva : “Energy efficiency of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra: assessment of the users’ behaviour ”.
  • Energy Night -MIT Portugal Energy Club, 2012. Luísa Dias Pereira, Manuel Gameiro da Silva: “Energy Efficiency Plans for (renewed) Schools”.
  • X Iberoamerican Congress on Mechanical Engineering. Luísa Dias Pereira, Edna Cardoso, Manuel Gameiro da Silva: “Escola Martim de Freiras, IAQ & Thermal Comfort evaluation”.
Competitions 2012, Green Campus GREEN CAMPUS – Desafio Eficiência Energética no Ensino Superior- Finalist Selection Project – Watt, we could save!, team Eco2green

Manuel Rocha

pds07001@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research Topic Area: Transmission Expansion Planning, a multiyear approach considering uncertainties Thesis Title: Transmission Expansion Planning, a multiyear approach considering uncertainties Supervisors: João Tomé Saraiva (FEUP) ; Stephen Connors

Manuel Silva

eae08006@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/ area: Long-term energy management of buildings based on a vintage stock-model

Manuela Carreiras

carreiras_xan@hotmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Marco Estrela

maestrela@netcabo.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research interests: Greenhouse gas emissions reduction; Emissions trading schemes

Maria Kapsalaki

pds07005@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/area: Economic-efficient design of residential net zero energy buildings with respect to local context Theiss Title (2012): Economic-efficient design of residential net zero energy buildings with respect to local context PhD Thesis is avaliable for online consultation at Univerisidade do Porto. Supervisors: Vítor Leal (FEUP), Matheos Santamouris (Universidade de Atenas), Leon Glicksman (MIT) Publications: A methodology for economic efficient design of Net Zero Energy Buildings, M.Kapsalaki, V.Leal, M.Santamouris (2012) , Energy and Buildings, Volume 55, December 2012,p.765-778; Recent Progress on Net Zero Energy Buildings, M.Kapsalaki & V.Leal, Advances in Building Energy Research, Volume 5, Issue 1 (2011).

Mariana Pereira

pds10001@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2010 | Graduation year: 2015 Linkedin Current position: Architect, teacher and researcher at NGO – M_EIA – Instituto Universitário de Arte, Tecnologia e Cultura, Supervisor – Leão Lopes Research topic/area: Urban Sustainability, Morphology and Energy in Architecture Research Summary: Cities have a specific role on the energy management regarding its impact on the global environment. Buildings are seen as part of the energy problem but can also be part of the solution by responding to the sustainability challenge through Architecture and Construction. The expected outcome of this thesis is a methodology based on an order of merit encompassing the parameters that influence the thermal behavior assuming both comfortable and healthy residential buildings for Portugal. A friendly roadmap for architects not versed in Physics will allow for a major step towards low-energy buildings just at the earlier architectural design stages. Thesis Title: Critical early inputs towards thermal performance in Architectural Design of Residential Buildings in Temperate Climates – the Portuguese case Supervisors: Eduardo Fernandes and Manuel Guedes.

Marta Lopes

mlopes@esac.pt | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2010 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Current position: Researcher at INESC Coimbra Research topic/area: Modelling Energy Behaviors in Buildings Towards Energy Efficiency Research Summary: Energy behaviours represent a significant untapped potential for end-use energy efficiency in buildings and are deemed to play an increasingly relevant role during the ongoing transformation of electric grids into smart(er) grids. This PhD research aims to develop a behavioral modelling approach that will enable to quantify behavioral energy savings and foresee behavioral changes when transitioning to smart(er) grids. This research is expected to be most valuable for energy policy making and of utmost interest for energy efficiency stakeholders such as governments, regulators, utilities, or energy service companies. Thesis Title: Energy behaviours as promoters of energy efficiency: An integrative modelling approach Supervisors: Carlos Henggeler Antunes (FCTUC), Nelson Martins (Universidade Aveiro) Publications: M. Lopes, C. Henggeler Antunes, N. Martins. Energy behaviours as promoters of energy efficiency: a 21st century review, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 16, 4095-4104, 2012

Marta Mota

marta.maria@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/area: Corporate Reporting Towards Sustainability – Development and application of an assessment method on the search of comprehensive and universal core for sustainability reporting. Thesis Title (2013) : On Corporate Sustainability Reporting – Case of Electric Utilities. Corporate Reporting Towards Sustainability – Development and Application of an Assessment Method on the Search of Comprehensive and Universal Core for Sustainability Reporting
Marta Mota’s research was supervised by Eduardo Guimarães Oliveira Fernandesa (FEUP) and co-supervised by Maria Isabel Rebelo Teixeira Soares (FEP).

Mathieu Richard

mgr@eneop.pt | IST/ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Michal Monit

mmonit@gmail.com | IST/ISEG | SES PhD | Entering year: 2010 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Research Summary: This thesis studies global material extraction, trade and consumption patterns at country level using regression and visualization techniques. The conducted analyses are rooted in material flow analysis (MFA) and utilize non-proprietary global data on: domestic extraction (DE) and international trade, both 1980-2010, and material footprint (MF), 1990-2008. Log-linear regression methods are used to determine the key drivers of domestic material consumption (DMC). Evolution of equitability and patterns of domestic extraction (DE) is studied using Lorenz curves. The impact of GDP/cap on DMC/cap (total) and MF/cap constituents is studied with respect to time and GDP/cap range using elasticies. Finally, the presented research is placed in a larger context of proposed data- and visualization-enabled opportunities. An applied example with rice flows is published at: ricestudyvis.weebly.com Thesis Title: Patterns and determinants of material consumption of economies Supervisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), André Pina (IST-UL)

Miguel Covas

miguel-a-covas@telecom.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/area: Sustainable Energy Urban System Project (SUES) – Building Technology – Energy Efficiency In Buildings with Data Centers PhD Supervisor: Carlos Santos Silva ; PhD Co-supervisor Luís Dias. PhD Thesis (2013): Multi-criteria decision analysis for the development of sustainable data centers Thesis Abstract: Data Centers (DCs) are complex organizational and technical infrastructures that contribute to the performance and reliability of modern information and communication systems. The high installation and operations costs of DCs and the stringent requirements regarding reliability and safety require a close attention to the location of this type of facility. Only if all these aspects are taken into account, it is possible to guarantee the design, construction and operation of a DC that is environmentally as friendly as possible, with the lowest cost possible and the highest social and economic benefits, i.e. a Sustainable DC. This thesis proposes a methodology to analyze and support the decision process for identifying regions for the development of a Sustainable DC, by using Geographic Information Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), taking into account technical, social, economic and environmental dimensions. The evaluation was formulated as a fourfold multi-criteria sorting problem and was analyzed using the outranking MCDA method ELECTRE TRI. Using this method this thesis also introduces a framework to assess the environmental sustainability performance of a DC. Other contributions in this thesis are the proposal of a new metric to evaluate the DC efficiency considering the climate region of the DC location and a characterization of the current landscape of DCs in Portugal. Key-words: Data Center; Sustainability; Site Selection; Multi Criteria Decision Analysis; ELECTRE TRI; Geographic Information Systems; Energy Efficiency; Information and Communication Technologies; Metrics; Criteria
Miguel Covas successfully discussed his thesis on December, 12th, 2013 with the following members of the jury:
  • Richard Neufville , Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
  • Paulo Ferrão, Técnico Lisboa, ULisboa;
  • João Sousa, Técnico Lisboa, ULisboa;
  • Luís Dias, Faculdade de Economia, UCoimbra;
  • João Claro, FEUP, UPorto;
  • Carlos Santos Silva, Técnico Lisboa, ULisboa.
Publications:
  • M.Covas, “Cloud Computing and Energy Eficiency”, Jornadas Engenharia Electrotécnica e Computadores, UBI , Covilhã November 2013
  • M.Covas, “Data Centers de Nova Geração”, 1st International Conference in Digital Game Design and Development, UBI , Covilhã April 2013.
  • M.Covas, “Green Data Centers”, INFOTEC’13 (Fórum de Informática e Novas Tecnologias), IPCB, Castelo Branco April 2013.
  • M.Covas, “Sustainable Data Centers”, Jornadas Informática IPG 2013, Guarda April 2013.
  • M.Covas, “Data Center da PT na Covilhã, um dos maiores do mundo!” Ordem dos Engenherios, Coimbra November 2012.
  • M. Covas, C. Silva, L. Dias, “On locating sustainable Data Centers in Portugal: problem structuring and GIS-based analysis”, Sustainable Computing Journal, 3, 27-25, 2013.
  • M. Covas, C. Silva, L. Dias, “Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Sustainable Data Centers Location”, International Transactions in Operational Research Journal, 3, 269-299, 2013.
  • M. Covas, C. Silva, L. Dias, “Multi-Criteria Assessment of Data Centers Environmental Sustainability”, Handbook on Case Studies in Evaluation and Decision Models with Multiple Criteria, Springer, 2013 (in preparation).
  • M.Covas, “Green Data Centers and Cloud Computing”, Jornadas Informática UBI2012; Covilhã, March 2012.
  • Orador – “ Abertura Solene Ano Lectivo Curso Eng. Aeronáutica da UBI”, Tema: Green Data Centers and Cloud Computing; UBI, Covilhã, Novembro 2011
  • M.Covas, “New Generation of Data Centers”, International Conference on Engineering UBI2011, Covilhã, November 2011.
  • M.Covas, C.Silva, L.Dias, “Multi Criteria Decision Making for Greener Data Centers”- 2nd MIT Portugal Annual Conference, September 2010.
  • M. Covas, C.Silva, L. Dias , “ Search Analysis to Locate a Sustainable Data Center in Portugal using GIS”, Euro XXIV – 24th European Conference on Operational Research, Lisbon, July 2010.
  • M.Covas, “Data Center Efficiency”, XXI Revolutions – Green Technology Seminar, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Oeiras-Porto Salvo, March2010.
  • Poster –M.Covas, “Sustainable Data Centers”- MIT Portugal Annual Conference, Lisbon, June 2009.

Miguel Heleno

pds10003@fe.up.pt, mdheleno@inescporto.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2010 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley Lab
Thesis Title: Provision of Advanced Ancillary Services through Demand Side Integration Thesis Abstract: In the context of Smart Grids, the intermittence of renewable sources requires new ancillary services. This thesis aims at developing a technical framework on the provision of electricity reserve services through Demand Response (DR) strategies. Methods to quantify the potential of the domestic appliances to provide upward and downward reserve to the system are developed and the market and regulation aspects of DR are discussed.In the context of Smart Grids, the intermittence of renewable sources requires new ancillary services. This thesis aims at developing a technical framework on the provision of electricity reserve services through Demand Response (DR) strategies. Methods to quantify the potential of the domestic appliances to provide upward and downward reserve to the system are developed and the market and regulation aspects of DR are discussed. Supervisors: Manuel Matos (FEUP), João Peças Lopes (FEUP)

Miguel Moreira da Silva

pds07003@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 | Graduation year: 2013 Linkedin Current position: Head of Asset Management at REN & Visiting Professor at IST Research topic/area: Strategies for energy storage and sustainable mobility in an isolated power system Thesis Title: Energy Planning with Electricity Storage and Sustainable Mobility: The Case of Isolated Systems Supervisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP), Manuel Matos (FEUP)

Nathan Coenen Lee

nathancoenenlee@gmail.com | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 | Graduation year: 2016 Research Summary:Energy is a crucial input to almost all economic activities, in addition to supporting human development efforts. The energy planning (EP) activity is a principal step in the development of an energy strategy. EP objectives which are specific to the local context may aid in ensuring the implementability and sustainability of energy plans and policies. The purpose of this research was to identify EP objectives specific to the local context of developing countries, together with their respective operational attributes, and to structure these within a transparent multi-objective decision making methodology at the national level. A national energy system model was constructed to support the EP methodology. The Economic Community of Western African States, and Ghana specifically, served as a representative area of study. The results may support successful energy strategy formulation. Thesis Title: Decision support methodology for national energy planning in developing countries: An implementation focused approach Supervisors: Vítor Leal (FEUP), Luís Dias (FEUC)

Nelson Brito

nelsonsilvabrito@gmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/ area: Retrofitting opportunities for buildings in historical centers: balancing energy efficiency, sustainability and comfort

Nelson Soares

nelson.soares@dem.uc.pt | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 | Graduation year: 2016 Research summary: My research is focused on the study of renewable energy based applications of PCMs in construction solutions towards the improvement of buildings’ energy efficiency. His research interests include sustainability, light steel framing, thermal behavior and energy efficiency of buildings, passive thermal energy storage systems, numerical modeling of heat transfer with phase change and dynamic simulation of energy in buildings. The problems to be studied lie in the mainstream area of the passive thermal heat storage in buildings considering latent heat loads from PCMs phase change processes. It is believed that the proposed work will give new and relevant contributions to the present knowledge in this field. Thesis Title: Passive latent heat thermal energy storage systems with phase change materials for the improvement of lightweight buildings’ energy efficiency Supervisors: José Costa (FCTUC), Adélio Gaspar (FCTUC), Paulo Santos (FCTUC) Selected publications:
  • N. Soares, A.R. Gaspar, P. Santos, J.J. Costa (2014), Multi-dimensional optimization of the incorporation of PCM-drywalls in lightweight steel-framed residential buildings in different climates, Energy and Buildings (in press). doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.11.072
  • N. Soares, J.J. Costa, R. Vicente, A. Samagaio (2014), PCM-shutter: a new system using solar thermal energy for winter night time indoor heating, Journal of Building Physics (in press). doi: 10.1177/1744259113496388
  • N. Soares, J.J. Costa, A.R. Gaspar, P. Santos (2013), Review of passive PCM latent heat thermal energy storage systems towards buildings’ energy efficiency, Energy and Buildings 59 (2013) 82-103. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.12.042
  • T. Silva, R. Vicente, N. Soares, V. Ferreira (2012), Experimental testing and numerical modeling of masonry wall solution with PCM incorporation: a passive construction solution, Energy and Buildings 49 (2012) 235-245. doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.02.010

Nilton Oliveira

nilton_janicas@hotmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Nuno Carvalho Figueiredo

nuno.figueiredo@portugen.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 | Graduation year: 2017 Linkedin Current Position: Operations Manager at Elecgas SA Thesis Title: Evaluation Of Key Determinants Of Electricity Market Integration In A Context Of High Penetration Of Renewable: The European Internal Electricity Market Supervisor: Patrícia Pereira da Silva (FEUC)

Nuno Climaco Pereira

nuno.climaco@yahoo.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/area: Sustainable Energy Urban System (SUES) – Sustainable Built Environment/Integrated Building Design – Energy-Efficient Retrofit of Residential Buildings in Lisbon Thesis Title (2012): Energy-Efficient retrofit of residential buildings – Lisbon 1960’s-70’s case-study Supervisors: Maria Luísa Caldas (Fac. Architecture, UTL), Manuel de Arriaga Correia Guedes (IST), Leon Glicksman (MIT)

Nuno Creado

nuno.rolo@hotmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems | SES PhD Research topic/area: Sustainable Energy Urban System (SUES)

Nuno Martins

FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2012 LinkedIn; Google Scholar PhD Supervisor: Guilherme Carrilho da Graça (SESUL, FCUL). Research topic/area: sustainable built environment, energy and buildings, net zero and low energy analysis, energy efficiency Publications:
  • G. Carrilho da Graça, N. Martins, C. S. Horta, Thermal and airflow simulation of a naturally ventilated shopping mall, Energy and Buildings,50, 177-188,2012
Communications/conference presentations:
  • N. Martins, G. Carrilho da Graça, A climate performance indicator for analysis of low energy buildings, “Proceedings of BS2013: 13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, Chambéry, France, August 26-28, p.1348-1356, 2013

Nuno Santos

nmg_santos@yahoo.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008

Onésimo Silva

onesimo.silva@ist.utl.pt | IST/ ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Patrícia Baptista

patricia.baptista@gmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 | Graduation year: 2011 Thesis Title: Evaluation of the impact of new vehicle and fuel technologies in the Portuguese road transportation sector Thesis abstract: The road transportation sector faces increasing energy, emissions and congestion challenges. This research work performed an integrated analysis on the energy and environmental impacts of different choices for the road transportation sector, in order to assess the possible evolution pathways for the future.
A methodology was developed in order to estimate yearly evolution of the road transportation sector and the impacts in terms of energy consumption and local and global emissions. Additionally, decision support scooping maps were also developed in order to understand the minimum and maximum energy and emissions bounds for the road transportation and to identify the main drivers influencing this sector.
In a full life-cycle approach, the BAU presented a 30% increase in energy consumption and 18% increase in CO2 emissions in 2050 compared to the 1990 value. The minimum limit was obtained considering a low population and fleet profiles, with mobility reductions happening, in an hydrogen or electricity powered vision and a high shift to alternative vehicle technologies and allowed a 52% reduction in 2050 compared to the BAU for energy consumption and 64% for CO2 emissions. If an option of high population, high vehicle density fleet profile, without mobility reduction, in a vision that does not shifts to alternative vehicle technologies was considered a maximum 32% increase in 2050 compared to the BAU both for energy and CO2 was observed.
Supervisors: Tiago Farias (IST), Carlos Silva (IST), John Heywood (MIT) Research topic/ area: Green Islands Project

Pedro Cabral Vicente

pedro.cabral.vicente@gmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems Phd | Entering year: 2010 | Graduation year: 2016 Thesis Title: Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics of Arrays of Floating Point – Absorbers Wave Energy Converters Supervisors: António Falcão (IST-UL), Luis Gato (IST-UL)

Pedro Carvalho Miguel

pcmiguel@gmail.com | FCUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 | Graduation year: 2016 Research topic/area: Simulation of Large Scale Application of Residential Energy Management Systems in the Electricity Grid Research Summary: The outcome of this research consists in the development of a methodology and a tool to evaluate the energy and power resources that can be made available by the large deployment of a Residential Energy Management System (REMS) based on the Energy Box. The Energy Box was proposed, by Livengood and Larson in the Service Science Journal in 2009, as a 24/7 background processor operating on a local computer, managing a dwelling electrical energy usage taking into consideration the homeowners preferences and desired comfort level.
This research is inserted in the development of a PhD Thesis at the University of Coimbra and also in the collaborative scope of the Energy Box Group comprising researchers of the Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra, the Institute of Cognitive Psychology, Vocational and Social Development and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research Interest: The Energy Box concept will be studied, as an instrument to assess the attractiveness to the distribution system operator, among other agents, to promote the installation or use of REMS. The study will evolve to provide simulation scenarios in order to determine the Energy Box value under different conditions of, e.g., penetration, resource use, load controllability, type of consumers, season of the year and electricity price.
Thesis Title: Methodology to simulate the impact of a large deployment of a residential energy management system in the electricity grid Supervisors: Professor António Gomes Martins (FCTUC); Professor Luís Miguel Pires Neves (IPLeiria) Publications: Miguel, Pedro; Neves, Luís; Martins, A. G. 2014. “Methodology to simulate the impact of a large deployment of a residential energy management system in the electricity grid”, Electric Power Systems Research 116, EPSR116: 399 – 407;doi: 0.1016/j.epsr.2014.07.012 Communications and conference presentations: Miguel, Pedro C; Neves, Luís M. P; Martins, António M. O. G; Sousa, João M. C.. 2013. “Review of load research studies applied to the Portuguese household sector”, Trabalho apresentado em 7th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL2013), In 7b – Demand Response, Coimbra; doi: 10.2790/2313 .

Pedro Fazenda

pfazenda@cedet.isel.ipl.pt | IST/ ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Thesis Title: Energy Efficiency Monitoring and Management to Promote Sustainable Behaviors Thesis Abstract: Smart buildings are expected to extend beyond just simple automation to include advanced automatic management systems capable of interacting in real-time. This research focuses on of enhancing the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. Considering that tenants tend to forget to adjust the operation of this system appropriately and that, in many spaces, the conditioning requirements are not adjusted to the context of those spaces, the result is unnecessary energy waste. An optimal supervisory control for such a system should consider the cost of energy, activity schedules, occupancy patterns, the individual preference of each user, and any other information that might contribute to increase performance. The result will be an adaptive controller that learns the statistical regularities of the environment and operates to meet comfort requirements, while optimizing energy costs.Smart buildings are expected to extend beyond just simple automation to include advanced automatic management systems capable of interacting in real-time. This research focuses on of enhancing the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. Considering that tenants tend to forget to adjust the operation of this system appropriately and that, in many spaces, the conditioning requirements are not adjusted to the context of those spaces, the result is unnecessary energy waste. An optimal supervisory control for such a system should consider the cost of energy, activity schedules, occupancy patterns, the individual preference of each user, and any other information that might contribute to increase performance. The result will be an adaptive controller that learns the statistical regularities of the environment and operates to meet comfort requirements, while optimizing energy costs. Supervisors: Pedro Urbano de Almeida Lima (IST-UL), Una-May O’Reilly (MIT)

Pedro Fonte

pfonte@deea.isel.ipl.pt | FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007| Graduation year: 2015 Current position: Auxiliar professor at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal Research topic/area: Electric grids, Wind power forecast, Hydrogen storage Thesis Title: Advanced forecast and scheduling of power systems with highly variable sources Links: www.cipromec.isel.ipl.pt | www.distres.eu

Pedro Gonçalves

pgoncalves.pt@gmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/ area: Energy Systems Analysis for High Performance Buildings Pedro Gonçalves’ research was supervised by Manuel Carlos Gameiro da Silva & Adélio Manuel Rodrigues Gaspar (UCoimbra).
Thesis Title (2013): Energy and exergy assessments for an enhanced use of energy in buildings Thesis abstract: Exergy analysis has been found to be a useful method for improving the conversion efficiency of energy resources, since it helps to identify locations, types and true magnitudes of wastes and losses. It has also been applied for other purposes, such as distinguishing high- from low-quality energy sources or defining the engineering technological limits in designing more energy-efficient systems. In this doctoral thesis, the exergy analysis is widely applied in order to highlight and demonstrate it as a significant method of performing energy assessments of buildings and related energy supply systems. It aims to make the concept more familiar and accessible for building professionals and to encourage its wider use in engineering practice. This thesis is divided into five main cases studies, which have different scopes and follow slightly different approaches but all with the same common objective. Case study I aims to show the importance of exergy analysis in the energy performance assessment of eight space heating building options evaluated under different outdoor environmental conditions. This study is concerned with the so-called “reference state”, which in this study is calculated using the average outdoor temperature for a given period of analysis. Primary energy and related exergy ratios are assessed and compared. Higher primary exergy ratios are obtained for low outdoor temperatures, while the primary energy ratios are assumed as constant for the same scenarios. The outcomes of this study demonstrate the significance of exergy analysis in comparison with energy analysis when different reference states are compared. Case study II and Case study III present two energy and exergy assessment studies applied to a hotel and a student accommodation building, respectively. Case study II compares the energy and exergy performance of the main end uses of a hotel building located in Coimbra in central Portugal, using data derived from an energy audit. The results show that the most energy-efficient hotel end use does not necessarily correspond to the most exergy-efficient one. A diagram including information related to primary energy demand and energy and exergy efficiencies is proposed, revealing to be a very useful tool for including in future legislation on energy performance of buildings. Case study III uses data collected from energy utilities bills to estimate the energy and exergy performance associated to each building end use. Furthermore, the building end uses are ranked by inefficiencies or exergy destruction levels, using the concept of “Exergy Destruction Ratio”. Additionally, a set of energy supply options are proposed and assessed as primary energy demand and exergy efficiency, showing it as a possible benchmarking method for future legislative frameworks regarding the energy performance assessment of buildings. Case study IV proposes a set of complementary indicators for comparing cogeneration and separate heat and electricity production systems. It aims to identify the advantages of exergy analysis relative to energy analysis, giving particular examples where these advantages are significant. The results demonstrate that exergy analysis can reveal meaningful information that might not be accessible using a conventional energy analysis approach, which is particularly evident when cogeneration and separated systems provide heat at very different temperatures. Case study V follows the exergy analysis method to evaluate the energy and exergy performance of a desiccant cooling system, aiming to assess and locate irreversibilities sources. The results reveal that natural gas boiler is the most inefficient component of the plant in question, followed by the chiller and heating coil. A set of alternative heating supply options for desiccant wheel regeneration is proposed, showing that, while some renewables may effectively reduce the primary energy demand of the plant, although this may not correspond to the optimum level of exergy efficiency. The thermal and chemical exergy components of moist air are also evaluated, as well as, the influence of outdoor environmental conditions on the energy/exergy performance of the plant. This research provides knowledge that is essential for the future development of complementary energy- and exergy-based indicators, helping to improve the current methodologies on performance assessments of buildings, cogeneration and desiccant cooling systems. The significance of exergy analysis is demonstrated for different types of buildings, which may be located in different climates (reference states) and be supplied by different types of energy sources. Full Thesis is available for download at Universty of Coimbra.

Pedro Neto

pedroneto@gmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD

Pedro Nunes

pmnunes@gmail.com | FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2010 | Graduation year: 2015 Linkedin Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidade de Lisboa Thesis Title: Enabling solar electricity with electric vehicles in future energy systems Supervisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP), Ignacio Pérez-Arríaga (UPComillas) Supervisors: Miguel Brito (FCUL)

Pedro Rocha Almeida

pedro.almeida@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/area: Impact of Vehicle to Grid in the Power System Dynamic Behaviour Thesis Title (2012) : Impact of Vehicle to Grid in the Power System Dynamic Behaviour Supervisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP) , James Kirtley (MIT)

Pedro Silva

pds07008@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/area: Selection of glazing and shading devices for office buildings: criteria and integrated optimization Thesis Title (2012): Influence of control patterns for lighting and shading systems on the predicted energy performance of buildings Supervisors: Vitor Manuel Silva Leal (FEUP) and Co-supervised by Marilyne Anderson (MIT)

Pedro Vicente

pedro.cabral.vicente@gmail.com | IST/ ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009>

Raquel Segurado Silva

raquelsegurado@hotmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 | Graduation year: 2015 Linkedin Research topic/area: Green Islands Project – Energy planning, sustainable development, renewable energies Thesis title: Integrated Planning of Energy and Water supply in Islands Supervisors: Maria da Graça Silva Carvalho and Mário Gonçalves da Costa both from Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon Communications/Conference presentations:
  • 6th May 2008 – Participation in the Workshop of the EMINENT Project “Early-Stage Energy Technologies for Sustainable Future: Assessment Development, Application”, held in the University of Pannonia, in Veszprém, Hungary, with the paper: Comparison between EMINENT and other Energy Technology Assessment Tools
  • 15th May 2008 – Participation in the International Conference Cities and Climate Change, held in the Centre of Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon, in Portugal, with the poster: Energy and Climate Change Strategy for the Municipality of Cascais
Links: http://www.rgesd-sustcomm.org/sustenergy/

Reza Fazeli

pds08003@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/area: Design of pathways for sustainable road transportation accounting for uncertainty Thesis discussion A combined multi-criteria and system dynamics methodology for mid-term planning of light duty vehicle fleets on March, 20th, 2013.

Ricardo Abrantes

ric_abrantes@hotmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Ricardo Barbosa Vicente

ricardobvicente@ist.utl.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering Year 2012 Research topic/ area: Atmospheric water vapour processing (AWVP) technologies and their contribution to the mitigation of the hydrological risk.

Ricardo Bessa

pds09004@fe.up.pt | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 PhD Thesis (2013): Methodologies for the Participation of an Electric Vehicles’ Aggregator in the Electricity Markets Ricardo Bessa’s research was supervised by Manuel Matos (FEUP).

Ricardo Manso

ricardo.manso@estg.ipleiria.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007

Rita Garcia

ritapinheirogarcia@gmail.com | FCTUC | SES PhD | Entering year: 2010 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Coimbra Research Summary: Electric vehicles (EVs) have been promoted as an alternative to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, fossil fuel dependence, and urban pollution caused by the transportation sector; however, a large scale adoption of EVs faces significant challenges. This research aims to develop a dynamic fleet-based life-cycle framework to assess the effects on environmental impacts of the introduction of EVs in a fleet, focusing on GHG emissions. The framework combines fleet analysis and dynamic life-cycle modelling of vehicles to investigate the displacement of conventional vehicles over time, and consequential life-cycle assessment of electricity to assess the changes induced in the electricity system due to EV charging. The analysis focuses on the case of introducing battery electric vehicles in the Portuguese light-duty fleet. Thesis Title: Dynamic fleet-based life-cycle assessment: addressing environmental consequences of the introduction of electric vehicles in Portugal Supervisor: Fausto Freire (FCTUC)

Rita Hogan Almeida

rhalmeida@fc.ul.pt | rita.hogan@ies-def.upm.es | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2015 linkedIn PhD Supervisors: Miguel Centeno Brito (Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdadede Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa) and Luis Narvarte (Instituto de Energia Solar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Thesis Title: Large power hybrid PV pumping for irrigation Research summary: Agricultural irrigation is a highly consuming activity of electricity and water. Accordingly, the world of irrigation requires innovative solutions, less water and energy dependent, to face up this problem. This work aims to show the technical and economical viability of efficient and variable-free large scale PV pumping systems for irrigation allowing up to 100% renewable energy; to reduce the water consumption, using automatisms, ICT and Precision-Agriculture-based solutions; and to market uptake and market replication of a new green product consisting of PV pumping systems consuming up to 100% renewable electricity and 30% less water. To show the long-term viability of the innovation, real scale irrigation systems will be studied: a hybrid PV-diesel motor pumps for constant pressure irrigation (in Portugal) and a hybrid PV-grid connected motor pumps (in Morocco). Publications: R. H. Almeida, M. C. Brito. A review of technical options for solar charging stations in Asia and Africa. AIMS Energy, 2015, 3(3): 428-449. DOI: 10.3934/energy.2015.3.428 Communications/ conference presentations: R. H. Almeida, I. B. Carrêlo, J. Maia Alves, Intelligent stand alone solar street light. 4th Symposium on Small PV Applications, 9-10 June 2015, Munich, Germany
Conference posters: Rita Hogan Almeida, Miguel Centeno Brito, Solar energy kiosks. 2015 MIT Portugal Annual Conference – Light: Designed by Nature, Transformed by Science, 19 June 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, and 1st Joint Conference and Exhibition of the International Partnerships – Fostering Science and Innovation Ecosystems, Portugal-USA Partnerships, 28-29 May 2015, Lisbon, Portugal

Rita Paleta

rita.paleta@ist.utl.pt | IST/ ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Current Position: Learning Modules and MOOC operations Research topic/area: Sustainable energy development and rural electrification Research Summary: Rita’s PhD thesis is focused on rural electrification methodologies, more specifically, from the demand point of view. I expect to achieve not only an efficient electrification methodology by defining sustainable pathways to accomplish it, but also to work on its business model, since I am working directly with an energy services company in their remote electrification projects’ market approach. My goal is to develop a modeling tool able to estimate current and future energy demand of developing countries’ isolated communities, based on development indicators. This tool will be important for electrification projects as it helps to customize solutions for each location depending on the development status and energy resources availability. The aim is to develop a business activity of this area and this tool will give a competitive advantage, when compared to the currently available solutions. Thesis Title: Remote Autonomous Energy Systems Design for Developing Countries Supervisors: Carlos Augusto Santos Silva (IST-UL), André Pina (IST-UL) Publications: Rita Paleta, André Pina, Carlos A. Silva, Remote Autonomous Energy Systems Project: Towards sustainability in developing countries, Energy, 10.1016/j.energy.2012.06.004. R. Paleta, C.A. Silva. RAES Project: Towards sustainability in developing countries, 6th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, Croatia, 2011 R. Paleta, C.A. Silva. RAES Project: Towards sustainability in developing countries, accepted in World Engineers’ Convention 2011

Rui Bernardo

bernardo.rui@gmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/ area: Green Islands Project

Rui Gomes

rgomes@hidro1.ist.utl.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 Research topic/area: Development of an Offshore Wave Energy Conversion System Thesis Title (2013): Wave Energy Extraction from oscillating Systems: Numerical modelling and Experimental Testing Rui Gomes has successfully discussed his thesis with the following members of the Jury:
  • António Oliveira Falcão, IST ULisboa
  • Francisco Taveira Pinto, FEUP
  • António Almeida, IST ULisboa
  • Luís Gato, IST ULisboa
  • Nuno Fonseca, IST ULisboa
  • Paulo Justino, LNEG
Rui Gomes’ research was supervised by Luís Gato and co-supervised by António Oliveira Falcão.

Sandrina Pereira

sandrinapereira@ist.utl.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007 | Graduation year: 2016 Supervisors: Maria da Graça Carvalho and Mário Costa. Thesis Title: Poplar Short Rotation Coppice For Bioenergy: From Biomass Characterization to Establishment

Sara Moreira Coelho de Magalhães

saramagalha@gmail.com | FEUP | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2011 | Graduation year: 2016 Linkedin Current Position: Doctoral Researcher/engineer | Data Scientist Sustainable Energy Systems at MIT Portugal Program Thesis Title: Development of a methodology for large-scale assessment of fuel poverty and heating gap Supervisor: Vítor Leal (FEUP)

Sequeira Gomes

sequeiragomes@hotmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2007

Sérgio Casimiro

smac81@gmail.com | IST/ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 | Graduation year: 2015 Linkedin Current Position: Principal Investigator at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Center for Complex Engineering Systems (CCES), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Research topic/ area: Green Islands Project Thesis Title: Concentrating Solar Power + Desalination Plants (CSP+D): Models and Performance Analysis Supervisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), Christos Ioakimidis (Deustos Institute of Technology)

Seyedeh Shiva Saadatian

shiva.saadatian@gmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2013 Publications:
  • S. Saadatian & B. Chenari “Cities and Nature ”, INTED2014, 8th International Conference on Technology, Education and Development, Valencia, Spain, 2014. http://iated.org/inted/announcement
  • B. Chenari, A. Frreira & S. Saadatian “Wave energy systems_ an overview of different wave energy convertors and recommendation for future improvements”, INTED2014, 8th International Conference on Technology, Education and Development, Valencia, Spain, 2014.http://iated.org/inted/announcement
  • S. Saadatian &. F. Freire F, & N. Simões & B. Chenari ,“Comparative life-cycle assessment of three foam insulation materials used in Portuguese residential buildings”, ICERE 2014, International Conference on Environment and Renewable Energy, Paris,France, 7-8 May 2014.http://energy.conference-site.com/
  • B. Chenari, S.Saadatian & A.D. Ferreira, “Numerical Modelling of RegularWaves Propagation and Breaking Using waves2Foam”, ICEER2014, International Conference on Energy and Environment Research, Madrid, Spain, 2014.http://www.iceer.net/index.htm

Sophie Ndiaye-Zhadeev

sophiezhadeev@hotmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Tiago Duarte

tduarte@hidro1.ist.utl.pt | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2010 Research topic/area: Floating Wind Turbine Modeling and Assessment Research Summary: The current worldwide energy consumption growth requires that new sources of energy become readily available. Floating platforms for the installation of offshore wind turbines applications will enable to explore a larger range of depths and locations. The power potential of this technology is significant, as it can be installed virtually anywhere in the ocean. The wind resource is always more reliable and higher on offshore locations. However, the technology is stills the demonstration phase, relying on the knowledge from offshore oil and gas platforms and onshore wind energy. The outcome of this work should be an integrated analysis tool for the different floating offshore wind turbine concepts, with special focus on the WindFloat prototype. These kind of tools are required in order to optimize the design and operation of this future energy system.

Vanessa Mateus

pds09005@fe.up.pt | FEUP Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Vanessa Tavares

vanessamtavares@gmail.com | FCTUC | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Vasco Granadeiro

vascogranadeiro@gmail.com | IST | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2008 Research topic/ area: Sustainable Energy Urban System Project (SUES) PhD Thesis (2013): Early design and optimization of the building envelope: integrating architectural generative design systems and energy performance calculation Vasco Granadeiro’s research was supervised by José Manuel Pinto Duarte (UTL) and co-supervised by João Pedro Ramoa Ribeiro Correia (IST) and Vitor Manuel Silva Leal (FEUP).

Vasco Portugal Rato

me@vascoportugal.com | IST/ ISEG | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2009

Zeus Guevara

zshrzmgv@gmail.com | FCUL | Sustainable Energy Systems PhD | Entering year: 2010| Graduation year: 2015 Linkedin Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute of Economic Research UNAM Thesis Title: Three-level energy decoupling Supervisors: Tiago Morais Delgado Domingos (IST) and João Manuel de Almeida Serra (FCUL) Research topic/area: Modeling of economic development of renewable energy projects in small scale economies Research Summary:The purpose of this research is to build models to determine the real / potential effect on economic development of renewable energy for development projects, based on growth theory and development economics. In order to accomplish so, effects of energy consumption on social and environmental dimensions of economic development –along with its productive dimension– should be evaluated, as well as synergies between them. The outcome models may help increase the predictability of project results. So these results support decisions on energy policy and help justify investment in these projects before government and international development organizations
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