Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
The research activities to be developed by the Research Area of Competence of “Water Resources and Environment” (WRE) under the 2015-2020 Strategic Programme will be focused on increasing knowledge in two broad fields: urban systems in a changing environment with the scope of redesigning systems enhancing quality of life, both within and beyond the urban environment and the social and economic shape of the city; and risk management and public health, considering key issues related to the assessment of infrastructures and the evaluation of disaster risks in order to better protect public health and contribute to increase resilience to natural calamities.
Research on “urban systems in a changing environment” will be organised in two main project areas: development of innovative solutions for water and wastewater systems, namely in rainwater applications and treated wastewater reuse, in low cost solutions for sanitation in high populated peri-urban zones, and in sustainable urban planning and water management; and searching for innovative approaches in water resources management under climate change challenges, including adaptive approaches to water resources management facing to climate change, the water–energy nexus in the context of sustainability, and solutions for the future water and energy threats.
Research on “risk management and public health” will be organised in two main project areas: risk assessment and risk management in urban water systems; and flooding risk assessment and risk management. The first area will cover topics of public health impacts of urban sanitary infra-structures, safety planning methodologies applied in drinking water and wastewater systems, and new concepts in risk analysis in urban water systems. The second area will focus on innovative approaches in forecast and manage floods in urban contexts, namely in developing and applying innovative hydrologic and hydrodynamics modelling, using ICT in developing decision support systems for floods forecasting, and implementing a centre of excellence in urban flood forecasting.
Academic Staff
Research Staff
Technical staff
Phd Student
"Avaliação do risco para a saúde devido à presença de trihalometanos na água de abastecimento",
GESTA - Revista Eletrônica de Gestão e Tecnologias Ambientais, vol. 8, issue 1, pp. 35-49, 2020.
Year: 2020 | JCR: SQ | SJR: SQ
"METODOLOGIA DE AVALIAÇÃO DO RISCO EM PLANOS DE SEGURANÇA DE ÁGUAS RESIDUAIS. APLICAÇÃO A UM CASO DE ESTUDO.",
GESTA - Revista Eletrônica de Gestão e Tecnologias Ambientais, vol. 8, issue 1, pp. 17-34, doi:10.9771/gesta.v8i1.36649, 2020.
Year: 2020 | JCR: SQ | SJR: SQ
"Performance assessment of micropollutants removal from water using advanced oxidation processes",
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, vol. 16, pp. 57-66, doi:10.37394/232015.2020.16.7, 2020.
Year: 2019 | JCR: SQ | SJR: Q4
"Improving operational management of wastewater systems. A case study",
Water Science & Technology, vol. 80, issue 1, pp. 173-183, doi:10.2166/wst.2019.264, 2019.
Year: 2019 | JCR: Q3 | SJR: Q2
"Assessing causes and associated water levels for an urban flood using hydroinformatic tools",
Journal of Hydroinformatics, issue 22, doi: 10.2166/hydro.2019.019, 2019.
Year: 2019 | JCR: Q3 | SJR: Q2
"Sustainability Strategy in Higher Education Institutions: Lessons learned from a nine-year case study",
Journal of Cleaner Production, doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.257 , vol. Volume 222, pp. pp 300-309, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.257, 2019.
Year: 2019 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q1
"Effect of the ski jump bucket angle on the scour hole downstream of a converging stepped spillway",
International Journal of River Basin Management, doi:10.1080/15715124.2019.1586717, 2019.
Year: 2019 | JCR: SQ | SJR: Q2
"An Introduction to the Hyperspace of Penman-Monteith Reference Evapotranspiration",
International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, IJHST, vol. 9, issue 1, pp. 48–64, doi:10.1504/IJHST.2019.096797, 2019.
Year: 2019 | JCR: SQ | SJR: Q3
"Assessing the impacts of population growth and climate change on performance of water use systems and water allocation in Kano River basin, Nigeria",
Water, 1766, vol. 10, issue 12, pp. 1-21, doi:10.3390/w10121766, 2018.
Year: 2018 | JCR: Q2 | SJR: Q1
"An Introduction to the Hyperspace of Hargreaves-Samani Reference Evapotranspiration ",
Sustainability, 4277, vol. 10, issue 11, pp. 1-18, doi:10.3390/su10114277, 2018.
Year: 2018 | JCR: Q2 | SJR: Q2
"Two models solutions for the Douro Estuary: flood risk assessment and breakwater effects",
Estuaries and Coasts, doi:10.1007/s12237-018-0477-5, 2018.
Year: 2018 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q1
"Integrating Water Footprint and Sefficiency: Overcoming Water Footprint Criticisms and Improving Decision Making",
Water Alternatives, vol. 11, issue 3, pp. 933-956, 2018.
Year: 2018 | JCR: Q3 | SJR: Q1
"Reutilización de aguas grises domésticas para el uso eficiente del recurso hídrico: aceptación social y análisis financiero. Un caso en Portugal",
Revista UIS Ingenierías, vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 223-236, doi:10.18273/revuin.v18n1-2019020, 2018.
Year: 2018 | JCR: SQ | SJR: SQ
"Sefficiency of a water use system: The case of Kano River Irrigation Project, Nigeria",
International Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 16, issue 8, pp. 929-939, doi:10.1007/s40999-017-0235-2, 2018.
Year: 2018 | JCR: Q3 | SJR: Q2
"Hazard Assessment of Storm Events for the Portuguese Northern Coast",
Geosciences (Switzerland), vol. 8, issue 178, pp. 1-14, doi:10.3390/geosciences8050178, 2018.
Year: 2018 | JCR: SQ | SJR: Q2
"Sete Fontes: a Challenge to Promote the Heritage Legacy and Facing Water Sources Scarcity in the city of Braga-Portugal",
Trends in Civil Engineering and its Architecture, vol. 2, issue 1, 2018.
Year: 2018 | JCR: SQ | SJR: SQ
"Water resource management for sustainable development",
Arabian Journal of Geosciences, vol. 11, issue 124, pp. 1-2, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-018-3411-z, 2018.
Year: 2018 | JCR: Q4 | SJR: Q2
"Physical model studies on the stability of emerged seaside perforated semicircular breakwaters",
Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences, vol. 47, issue 3, pp. 681-685, 2018.
Year: 2018 | JCR: Q4 | SJR: Q4
"Avaliação da conformidade de Sinais de Trânsito para melhorar a segurança rodoviária em meio urbano: uma aplicação no Centro de Guimarães, Portugal",
urbe. Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana (Brazilian Journal of Urban Management) - Supl. 1, vol. 9, issue Supl. 1, pp. 346-360, doi:DOI: 10.1590/2175-3369.009.SUPL 1.AO 07, 2017.
Year: 2017 | SJR: Q3
"Análise hidrodinâmica do estuário do rio Lima, Portugal, a partir de simulação numérica",
Ambiente & Água - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Science, vol. 12, issue 3, pp. 476-487, doi:10.4136/ambi-agua.1925, 2017.
Year: 2017 | SJR: Q3
"ON APPLICATION OF OPTIMAL CONTROL TO SEIR NORMALIZED MODELS: PROS AND CONS",
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING, 2017, vol. 14, issue 1, pp. 111-126, doi:10.3934/mbe.2017008, 2017.
Year: 2017 | JCR: Q3 | SJR: Q2
"Numerical model for hydrodynamics simulations of Trabalhador channel",
Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, vol. 28, issue 2, pp. 175-190, doi:10.1108/MEQ-07-2015-0148, 2017.
Year: 2017 | SJR: Q3
"Water management assessment methodology for urban planning",
Revista Ambiente & Água, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 33-46, doi:10.4136/ambi-agua.1917, 2017.
Year: 2017 | SJR: Q3
"Positive state observer for the automatic control of the depth of anesthesia - clinical results",
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2016.
Year: 2016 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q2
"Sefficiency (sustainable efficiency) of water–energy–food entangled systems",
International Journal of Water Resources Development, vol. 32, issue 5, pp. 721:737, doi:10.1080/07900627.2015.1070091, 2016.
Year: 2016 | JCR: Q2 | SJR: Q1
"Nonlinear controller for bispectral index tracking: Robustness and on-line retuning",
Control Engineering Practice, doi:10.1016/j.conengprac.2016.03.021, 2016.
Year: 2016 | JCR: Q2 | SJR: Q1
"Random Walk Forecast of Urban Water in Iran Under Uncertainty",
Water Resources, vol. 43, issue 1, pp. 200–206, doi:10.1134/S009780781612006X, 2016.
Year: 2016 | JCR: Q4 | SJR: Q3
"Hazard assessment of storm events for The Battery, New York",
Ocean & Coastal Management, vol. Volume 118, pp. 22-31, doi:doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2015.11.006, 2015.
Year: 2015 | JCR: Q2 | SJR: Q2
"Assessment of Distinctive Road Runoff Quality in Coastal Areas, Based on a Monitoring Case Study",
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, vol. 226, issue 12, doi:10.1007/s11270-015-2657-2, 2015.
Year: 2015 | JCR: Q3 | SJR: Q2
"Identifying Household Water Use through Transient Signal Classification",
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2016, vol. 30, issue 2, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000476, 2015.
Year: 2015 | JCR: Q2 | SJR: Q1
"Comparison Between Two Hydrodynamic Models for Flooding Simulations at River Lima Basin",
Water Resources Management, doi:10.1007/s11269-014-0878-6, 2014.
Year: 2014 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q1
"Traffic air pollution monitoring based on an air-water pollutants deposition device",
International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology , doi:10.1007/s13762-014-0625-9, 2014.
Year: 2014 | JCR: Q2 | SJR: Q1
"Macro, meso, and micro-efficiencies and terminologies in water resources management: a look at urban and agricultural differences",
Water International, vol. 39, issue 1, pp. 35-48, doi:10.1080/02508060.2013.863588, 2014.
Year: 2014 | JCR: Q3 | SJR: Q2
"Domestic water uses: Characterization of daily cycles in the north region of Portugal",
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 458-460, pp. 444-450, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.04.018, 2013.
Year: 2013 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q1
"Estimating the potential water reuse based on fuzzy reasoning",
Journal of Environmental Management, 2013, vol. 128, pp. 883-892, doi:DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.06.048, 2013.
Year: 2013 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q1
"Parameter Estimation for Eutrophication Models in Reservoirs",
Water Science and Technology, 2013, vol. 68, issue 2, no. 2, pp. 319–327, doi:10.2166/wst.2013.248, 2013.
Year: 2013 | JCR: Q3 | SJR: Q2
"Plano de Segurança da água em mananciais de abastecimento de água para consumo humano",
Revista Eletrônica de Gestão e Tecnologias Ambientais (GESTA), 2013, vol. 1, issue 1, pp. 87-97, doi:10.17565/gesta.v1i1.7107, 2013.
"Analysis of Effective Efficiency in Decision Making for Irrigation Interventions",
Water Resources, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 700–707, 2012.
Year: 2012 | JCR: Q4 | SJR: Q3
"Dynamics of the Douro estuary sand spit before and after breakwater construction",
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 109, pp. 53–69, 2012.
Year: 2012 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q1
"Influência da Variação do Nível Médio das Águas do Mar no Estuário do Rio Mondego, Portugal",
Recursos Hídricos, no. 33, pp. 5–15, 2012.
"Macro, meso and micro efficiencies in water resources management: a new framework using water balance",
Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 235–243, 2012.
Year: 2012 | JCR: Q2 | SJR: Q1
"A risk management methodology for protozoa control in drinking water supply systems",
WIT Transactions on Information and Communication Technologies, vol. 44, pp. 203–214, 2012.
"Vensim PLE to Create Models for Water Management",
International Journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 405–412, 2012.
Year: 2012 | JCR: Q3 | SJR: Q4
"Analysis of spatial and temporal patterns in a large reservoir using water quality and hydrodynamic modeling",
Ecological Modelling, vol. 222, no. 14, pp. 2485–2494, 2011.
"Effective efficiency in water resources management using efficiency elasticity index",
Water and Environment Journal, vol. 25, pp. 532–539, 2011.
"Monitoring NO3 contamination of aquifer system of Bacia do Cávado/Ribeiras Costeiras",
Procedia Environmental Sciences, vol. 7, pp. 377–382, 2011.
"A new tool to assess water pipe networks vulnerability and robustness",
Engineering Failure Analysis, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 1637–1644, 2011.
"Plataforma web de suporte ao sistema de modelação da rede hidrográfica da bacia do rio Ave",
Recursos Hídricos, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 13–28, 2011.
"Risco de cenários de dano vulneráveis de redes de abastecimento de água",
Territorium, vol. 18, pp. 271–278, 2011.
"A strategic approach for water safety plans implementation in Portugal",
Journal of Water and Health, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 107–116, 2011.
"Contribution for the vulnerability assessment of water pipe network",
WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 236–245, 2010.
Year: 2010 | SJR: Q3
"Distribuição salina na embocadura e estuário do rio Lima em diferentes regimes hidráulicos",
Recursos Hídricos, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 5–14, 2010.
"Metodology to evaluate the risk of vulnerable failure scenarios in a water pipe network",
WIT Transactions on Information and Communication Technologies, vol. 43, pp. 515–526, 2010.
"Oil spills in coastal zones: predicting slick transport and weathering processes",
The Open Ocean Engineering Journal, no. 3, pp. 129–142, 2010.
"Sistemas de abastecimento de água: avaliação da vulnerabilidade",
Recursos Hídricos, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 61–71, 2010.
"Sustainability indicators of subsurface flow constructed wetlands in Portugueses small communities",
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 625–634, 2010.
Year: 2010 | SJR: Q3
"Uma abordagem estratégica para a implementação de planos de segurança da água à escala nacional",
Águas & Resíduos, vol. III, no. 14, pp. 4–13, 2010.
"The challenge of implementing a student-centred learning approach in large engineering classes",
WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 225–236, 2009.
"Drip irrigation using a PLC based adaptive irrigation system",
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 209–218, 2009.
"Emerging and innovative techniques for arsenic removal applied to a small water supply system",
Sustainability, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 1288–1304, 2009.
"Estuarine hydrodynamic as a key-parameter to control eutrophication processes",
WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 137–147, 2009.
"A global service quality index to evaluate the performance and sustainability in water supply utilities",
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 759–769, 2009.
"Remoção de arsénio em sistemas em sistemas de abastecimento de água. Um caso de estudo",
Águas e Resíduos, vol. 9, pp. 28–37, 2009.
"Comment: efficient irrigation; inefficient communication; flawed recommendations (C. Perry, Irrigation and Drainage 56: 367–378)",
Irrigation and Drainage, vol. 57, issue 2, no. 2, pp. 245–247, doi:10.1002/ird.423, 2008.
"Avaliação do desempenho de sistemas de leitos de macrófitas no tratamento",
Engenharia Civil: Revista do Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Universidade do Minho, vol. 33, pp. 163–173, 2008.
"Effective efficiency as a tool for sustainable water resources management",
Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 961–968, 2008.
"Monitorização ambiental de um projecto aquícola em zona costeira",
Engenharia Civil: Revista do Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Universidade do Minho, vol. 33, pp. 197–209, 2008.
"Monitorização da hidrodinâmica e da qualidade da água no estuário do Rio Mondego",
Engenharia Civil: Revista do Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Universidade do Minho, vol. 33, pp. 65–74, 2008.
"Os recursos rurais de Esposende: avaliação baseada em indicadores de sustentabilidade na Zona Vulnerável 1",
Engenharia Civil: Revista do Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Universidade do Minho, vol. 33, pp. 17–28, 2008.
"Pollutant dispersion modelling for Portuguese river water uses protection linked to tracer dye experimental data",
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, vol. 4, no. 12, pp. 1047–1056, 2008.
"Reabilitação de meios hídricos em ambiente urbano. O caso da Ribeira de Costa/Couros, em Guimarães",
Engenharia Civil: Revista do Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Universidade do Minho, vol. 33, pp. 187–196, 2008.
"Relevância sanitária dos subprodutos da desinfecção da água para consumo humano",
Águas e Resíduos, no. 4, pp. 38–46, 2008.
"Impacto das alterações climáticas na gestão da água",
Águas e Resíduos, no. 2, pp. 58–73, 2007.
"Optimal locations of groundwater extractions in coastal aquifers",
Water Resources Management, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1299–1311, 2007.
"Modelação da dispersão longitudinal em sistemas fluviais: casos de estudo",
Engenharia Civil: Revista do Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Universidade do Minho, no. 16, pp. 63–72, 2003.
"Effect of residence times on river Mondego estuary eutrophication vulnerability",
Water Science and Technology, vol. 44, no. 2-3, pp. 329–336, 2001.
"Modelação da hidrodinâmica e da dispersão longitudinal no rio Mondego",
Recursos Hídricos, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 93–102, 2000.
"Sistemas de apoio à decisão na gestão de recursos hídricos",
Engenharia Civil: Revista do Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Universidade do Minho, no. 7, pp. 5–21, 2000.
"Eutrophication vulnerability analysis: a case study",
Water Science and Technology, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 121–128, 1998.
"Caracterização dos ambientes estuarinos : mistura em estuários",
Engenharia Civil: Revista do Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Universidade do Minho, no. 6, pp. 41–55, 1997.
"Análise, modelação em cascata e projecção de consumos de água",
Engenharia Civil: Revista do Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Universidade do Minho, no. 1, pp. 59–72, 1995.
"Os Planos de Gestão de Região Hidrográfica em Portugal Continental: contributo para o desenvolvimento de um instrumento para a avaliação de planos de recursos hídricos",
Water Resources Management, pp. 416, 2016.
Year: 2016 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q1
"O Efeito da Deposição Salina nas Características das Escorrências Rodoviárias em Zonas Costeiras",
O Efeito da Deposição Salina nas Características das Escorrências Rodoviárias em Zonas Costeiras, 2015.
"Impactes das áreas de rega e da barragem do Alqueva nas temperaturas regionais : evidências no Sul da Península Ibérica",
Tese de doutoramento em Engenharia Civil (área de especialização em Hidraúlica), 2010.
"Influência da hidrodinâmica em sistemas estuarinos sujeitos a eutrofização",
Tese de doutoramento em Engenharia Civil, pp. 1–386, 2006.
"LDV Measurements of the Flow Induced by an Elongated Bridge Pier: The Fixed Bed Case",
Free Surface Flows and Transport Processes. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences., pp. 307-321, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70914-7_20, 2018.
"Mathematical Model for Primary Production Within the Portuguese Coastal Zone",
Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions, pp. 1-3, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70548-4_474, 2018.
"Photocatalytic Treatment Techniques using Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles for Antibiotic Removal from Water",
Application of Titanium Dioxide, pp. 125 - 146, 2017.
"Sete Fontes: a Challenge to Promote the Heritage Legacy and Facing Water Sources Scarcity in the city of Braga-Portugal",
Water Science and Technology: Water Supply , IWA Publishing, vol. n.d, issue n.d, pp. n.d, 2016.
Year: 2016 | SJR: Q2
"A Green City: Impossible Dream or Necessity?",
Environmental History in the Making, vol. Volume II: Acting, 2016.
"Estado da Arte do Plano de Segurança da Água",
PLANO DE SEGURANÇA DA ÁGUA NA VISÃO DE ESPECIALISTAS, 2015, pp. 29-45, 2015.
"Risk management in landfills. A public health perspective",
WASTES 2015 – Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, 2015, pp. 247–252, doi:10.1201/b18853-42, 2015.
"A Multi-Criteria Approach for Erosion Risk Assessment Using a New Concept of Spatial Unit Analysis, Wave Model and High Resolution DEMs.",
Remote Sensing and Modeling, Finkl, Charles W., Makowski, Christopher (Eds.), vol. 9, pp. 481-494, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06326-3_20, 2014.
"Sectoral indices to evaluate the sustainability of wastewater utilities",
Recent Researches in Environment, Energy Systems and Sustainability, Energy, Environmental and Structural Engineering Series | 1 , issue 1, pp. 203-209, 2012.
"Assessment of dissolved zinc removal using new sorbent materials",
Recent Researches in Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development, vol. 3, pp. 101–106, 2012.
"Coastal defense in NW Portugal: the improbable victory",
The Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization, pp. 251–266, 2012.
"Efficiency removal of copper from potable water using a pine bark",
Recent Researches in Environment, Energy Systems and Sustainability, pp. 291–296, 2012.
"Hargreaves and other reduced-set methods for calculating evapotranspiration",
Evapotranspiration - Remote Sensing and Modeling, pp. 59–80, 2012.
"A hydroinformatic tool for sustainable estuarine management",
Hydrodynamics : natural water bodies, pp. 3–26, 2012.
"Developing a catchment water safety plan",
Drinking Water Quality Management from Catchment to Consumer, 2011, pp. 51–89, 2011.
"Web-based decision support framework for water resources management at river basin scale",
Current Issues of Water Management, pp. 43–66, 2011.
"Increasing the quality of water pipe network systems by tracing the vulnerability",
Advances in Waste Management, pp. 172–177, 2010.
"Performance evaluation of Portuguese constructed wetlands for municipal wastewater treatment",
Advances in Waste Management, pp. 124–129, 2010.
"Effect of tidal regime on estuarine residence time spatial variation",
Energy, environment, ecosystems, development and landscape architecture, pp. 240–245, 2009.
"A learning-by-project experience for motivating large engineering classes",
Recent Advances in Engineering Education (ISI Book), pp. 85–90, 2009.
"Mitigation of estuarine eutrophication processes by controlling freshwater inflows",
River Basin Management V and WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, vol. 124, pp. 339–350, 2009.
"Hydrodynamic modelling for Mondego estuary water quality management",
Aquatic ecology of the Mondego river basin global importance of local experience, pp. 29–42, 2002.
"Comparision of numerical techniques solving longitudinal dispersion problems in the river Mondego",
VII EPMESC, vol. 2, pp. 1167–1177, 1999.
"Mesh generation and refinement in 2D modelling. A case study",
VII EPMESC, 1999.
Main Equipments
The Bubbler Flow Module uses an internal air compressor to force a metered amount of air through a bubble line submerged in the flow channel to accurately determine the water level, converting this value to flow rate. This method is suitable for small channels, and it is not affected by wind, steam, foam or turbulence. Since only the bubble tube contacts the flow, corrosive chemicals are not a problem, making it ideal for stormwater applications.
All level data stored in the sampler is available for later retrieval, reporting, and graphing using Isco Flowlink® software.
The Isco 674 Rain Gauge is a precision instrument that uses a tipping bucket design for rainfall measurement. It has an 8-inch diameter orifice and is factory-calibrated, allowing to: - store rainfall data in internal memory for retrieval and analysis with Isco Flowlink® Software
- activate sampling based on rainfall - plot graphs and print reports of rainfall - data on the flow meter’s built-in printer
In Stormwater runoff monitoring programs, the rain gauge supports: - TMDL and Watershed surveys
- inflow and infiltration studies - sewer overflow monitoring and prevention analysis - general rainfall measurement Standard Features
This monitoring system was acquired in the framework of the FCT project PTDC/AMB/64953/2006.
Hydroinformatics Laboratory is a facility of the Department of Civil Engineering of University of Minho that makes available numerical modeling applications for solving hydraulics and water resources problems and where different hydroinformatic tools were developed in the context of R&D projects.
The Laboratory includes modeling tools to support the development of dissertations of students of the Master Courses of Civil Engineering and Urban Engineering and Doctoral Course in Civil Engineering of University of Minho.
In recent years, several computer applications were build whose main purpose is either to facilitate the use of hydroinformatics tools during educational activities and their use by water managers. The web page www.hydroinformatics.pt presents a detailed description of the developed applications as well as prototypes that can be experimented.