Planning for sustainable cities: modeling and technologies

• Grant number: 13/07287-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2013
• End date: July 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Thermal Engineering
• Principal Investigator: José Antônio Perrella Balestieri
• Grantee: José Antônio Perrella Balestieri
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia (FEG). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Guaratinguetá. Guaratinguetá , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Guaratinguetá
• Associated researchers: José Feliciano Adami ; Mateus Ricardo Nogueira Vilanova ; Rubens Alves Dias

Abstract

Cities and their buildings have been designed without a plan that guarantees the sustainability in terms of energy and environmental elements, and when cities are conceived considering concepts of urban planning, it is not always taken into account throughout its historical evolution. This results in dependency on external forms of energy supply to the city, while worsening their environmental problems with waste disposal, water supply, distribution, transportation routes, among others. Similarly, the building, that is the urban structure core of cities and roads, lacks attention from the point of view of sustainable planning. Only recently the evaluation of needed conditions for the buildings individual energy supply can pose environmental and perhaps economic gains. Several research have been proposed for the sustainability of cities: in technological terms, cogeneration systems applied to residences and condominiums, and cooling system generated by absorption thermo would be examples; in terms of public policy, it could be mentioned the compulsory installation of solar heating systems in public buildings in several cities, such as recently occurred in the city of São Paulo. This project aims to analyze the energy and environmental aspects of city planning in order to be sustainable; the proposed approach involves the study of the technologies that have been suggested for the aggregation of sustainable solutions problems to rural and urban cores of cities, as well as the study of the models proposed in the literature for the decision about the incorporation or not of such technologies to cities. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DA FONSECA FILHO, VALDI FREIRE; MATELLI, JOSE ALEXANDRE; PERRELLA BALESTIERI, JOSE ANTONIO. Carbon exergy tax applied to biomass integrated gasification combined cycle in sugarcane industry. ENERGY, v. 103, p. 715-724, MAY 15 2016. (13/07287-3)

ROBERTS, JUSTO JOSE; CASSULA, AGNELO MAROTTA; PRADO, PEDRO OSVALDO; DIAS, RUBENS ALVES; PERRELLA BALESTIERI, JOSE ANTONIO. Assessment of dry residual biomass potential for use as alternative energy source in the party of General Pueyrredon, Argentina. RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS, v. 41, p. 568-583, JAN 2015. (13/07287-3)

NOGUEIRA VILANOVA, MATEUS RICARDO; PERRELLA BALESTIERI, JOSE ANTONIO. Hydropower recovery in water supply systems: Models and case study. ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT, v. 84, p. 414-426, AUG 2014. (13/07287-3)

NOGUEIRA VILANOVA, MATEUS RICARDO; MAGALHAES FILHO, PAULO; PERRELLA BALESTIERI, JOSE ANTONIO. Performance measurement and indicators for water supply management: Review and international cases. RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS, v. 43, p. 1-12, MAR 2015. (13/07287-3)

NOGUEIRA VILANOVA, MATEUS RICARDO; PERRELLA BALESTIERI, JOSE ANTONIO. Energy and hydraulic efficiency in conventional water supply systems. RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS, v. 30, p. 701-714, FEB 2014. (13/07287-3)

NOGUEIRA VILANOVA, MATEUS RICARDO; PERRELLA BALESTIERI, JOSE ANTONIO. Exploring the water-energy nexus in Brazil: The electricity use for water supply. ENERGY, v. 85, p. 415-432, JUN 1 2015. (13/07287-3)

NOGUEIRA VILANOVA, MATEUS RICARDO; PERRELLA BALESTIERI, JOSE ANTONIO. Modeling of hydraulic and energy efficiency indicators for water supply systems. RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS, v. 48, p. 540-557, AUG 2015. (13/07287-3)

MARCONDES DOS SANTOS, HERIVELTO TIAGO; DIAS, RUBENS ALVES; PERRELLA BALESTIERI, JOSE ANTONIO. Application of factorial analysis to a Brazilian metropolitan region considering the Millennium Development Goals. RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS, v. 59, p. 276-291, JUN 2016. (13/07287-3)