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Agrofood
New challenges in plant-based food
Environmental concern and awareness linked to the expected population growth, and with it the increase in demand for food and the need to ensure the sustainability of resources through more efficient processes has led to a change in the consumption trends. Consumers,...
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Energy & Environment
The art of thermal comfort: revolutionising buildings with PCM and heat pumps
Imagine living in a building where the temperature is as constant as grandma´s secret recipe. How to achieve it? This is where Phase Change Materials (PCM) and heat pumps powered by renewable energy come in, the dynamic duo of energy efficiency. PCM are like zen...
Today´s buildings, ready for tomorrow?
Did you know that we spend approximately 90% of our time inside buildings, and that they are responsible for more than 40% of energy consumption in the European Union? These places where we carry out our main activity are the core of our economy and society, but, how...
Environment
Biogenic CO2: challenges and opportunities for a sustainable future
In the fight against climate change, technological innovations is one of our most powerful allies. One of the most promising and challenging areas in this regard is the transformation of carbon dioxide (CO2), a prevalent greenhouse gas, into useful raw materials for...
Biogenic gas. What do you mean?
Biogas as an energy source is becoming more and more popular, but what is biogas and how does it differ from natural gas? The difference is that natural gas is a fossil fuel, while biogenic gas is renewable. Natural gas was formed millions of years ago, at the age of...
Industry
Hard to measure
Researchers are increasingly confronted with situations of "digitalise" something that has not been digitalised before, temperatures, pressures, energy consumes,etc. for these cases we look for measure systems or a sensor in a commercial catalogue: a temperature...
AI potential for process industry and its sustainability
The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is highly recognized as a key driver of the industrial digital revolution together with data and robotics 1 2. To increase AI deployment that is practically and economically feasible in industrial sectors, we need AI...
Health & Quality of life
It is a robot and it has feelings (II)
In an earlier post titled "It's a robot and it has feelings" I discussed about the possibility of incorporating "feelings" into robots in a similar way as human emotions are displayed when facing external stimuli. Following that post, an obvious question arises: But...
Smart, something more than your mobile phone
The SMART term has become part of our life. Thus, if we introduce it in Google about 1.8 million entries appear, which gives us an idea of how widespread it is. Now, not only phones are smart, we also find this term applied to watches, televisions, homes, cars or...
Construction and Heritage
New strategies (and technologies) against huge forest fires
Although sometimes we forget it, forests provides huge benefits to the planet in general and to the human being in particular. They help us to mitigate climate change effects acting as carbon sinks and eliminating huge quantities of carbon dioxide of the atmosphere....
Improvement of the road maintenance through Artificial Intelligence
We all know that roads are necessary but normally we only remember them when they found them in bad conditions. We take it for granted that must always be available and in perfect condition, but this requries a great effort in terms of personnel, time and material...
Digitalization
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