Environment
The environment is the total sum of the physical things on Earth that affects and conditions all its inhabitants.
These are the services that our research groups can develop. For customized information on the services, please contact us.
| Areas of service | Applications of the service | Scientific infrastructure |
| Air studies | Assessment of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air (indoor and outdoor) | Environment Centre Laboratory |
| Continuous control of VOC episodes via sensors | Environment Centre Laboratory | |
| Characterisation of activity emission sources | Environment Centre Laboratory | |
| Validation of particle transport models: measurement with remote sensing instruments. Detection of desert dust, ash from fires and volcanoes to adapt models for predicting the dispersion of these atmospheric components. | ORS infrastructure: UPC/Barcelona remote sensing station | |
| Detection of water vapour profiles in the atmosphere. Validation of models for predicting the formation of clouds and precipitation: measures with remote sensing instruments | ORS infrastructure: UPC/Barcelona remote sensing station | |
| Calibration of equipment for measuring radon in the air. Use of radon as an atmospheric tracer. | Radon Laboratory | |
| Detection, monitoring and modelling of fires | Modelling of urban and industrial fires using CFD tools | FlamesLab |
| Tools for monitoring forest fires. Modelling of forest fires at the urban-forest interface using CFD tools | FlamesLab | |
| Catalysts and photocatalysts | Development of catalysts and photocatalysts for energy and environmental purposes | Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering |
| Tests of catalysts and photocatalysts in energy and environmental applications in industrially relevant settings | Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering | |
| Resource recovery and environmental management | Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering | |
| Study and modelling of terrestrial problems and subsoil | Contamination of the subsoil: resource management, decontamination | Groundwater Hydrology Laboratory (GHS) |
| Environmental impact studies | Groundwater Hydrology Laboratory (GHS) | |
| Impact of underground water on infrastructure | Groundwater Hydrology Laboratory (GHS) | |
| Decision-making support and resource management | SARTI Metrology Laboratory | |
| Study and modelling of marine problems | Large infrastructure of wave flumes to reproduce the conditions that occur in maritime aquatic environments. They enable the development of projects to study the effects of climate change, reduce its impacts, etc. | LIM |
| Measurement of ground humidity, biomass, sea ice, waves, etc. using remote sensing systems | Algorithms | |
| Development of bioacoustic technologies for monitoring marine and terrestrial biodiversity: technological developments for the conservation of biodiversity and coexistence with human activities | Lab Aquatic acoustic tunnel | |
| Calibration of aquatic sensors, development of software to analyse acoustic aquatic samples | Lab Aquatic acoustic tunnel | |
| Design of methodology and acoustic protocols to fight against aquatic pests | Lab Aquatic acoustic tunnel | |
| Decision-making support and resource management | SARTI Metrology Laboratory | |
| Monitoring service for environmental and marine variables | OBSEA | |
| Laboratory to test instruments in a real marine environment | OBSEA | |
| Habitability studies | Environmental studies to identify parameters that affect urban habitability | Virtual Innovation Laboratory for Modelling Architecture and the City - VIMAC |
| Acoustic and Vibration Study | Acoustic and vibration field study. Preparation of mathematical models on any problem relating to noise and vibrations | Acoustics and Vibration Laboratory |
| Railway characterisation: test of train tracks to find out how the track behaves and determine vibration in the environment | Acoustics and Vibration Laboratory | |
| Modelling of propagation of vibrations | Acoustics and Vibration Laboratory | |
| Measurement of acoustic power. Acoustic design. Creation of acoustic maps. | Acoustics and Vibration Laboratory | |
| Acoustic leak detection in industrial facilities. | Acoustics calibration tunnel - TACMA- LAB | |
| Monitoring of lightning | Territorial deployment of a sensor network in Catalonia to monitor storm activity | Xarxa Lightning Research Group - LRG |
Climate change, sustainability, environment, air quality, VOC, volatile organic compounds, air pollutants, air pollutants, odor, air dispersion, mathematical model, indoor air, outdoor air emissions, sensorization, VOC sensors, air quality sensors, GC-MS , AERMOD, CALPUFF, TAPM, COMSOL, industrial risk, forest fires, risk at urban-forest interface, urban and industrial fires, catalysts, photocatalysts, environmental catalysts, chemistry, hydrogen, pollution, reuse, circular economy, wave channel, infrastructure ICTS, ICES, CIEMito, LaBassa, wave simulations, marine engineering, ports, aerosols, atmosphere, remote sensing, soil moisture, sea salinity, sea ice, swell, remote sensing, radon, calibration, metrology, digital survey, heritage, 3d model, gis , laser scanner, scan to bim, architecture, urbanism, building, urban spaces, acoustics, vibrations, mathematical models, noise, vibration propagation modeling, acoustic power measurement, disse acoustic ny, acoustic maps, lightning, storm, lightning predictions, acoustic tunnel, acoustic sensors, invasive species, pests, IoT, LPWAN, satellite, communications, sensors, networks, monitoring, marine, submarine, instrumentation, data acquisition, data processing, marine observation.
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