The European Union aims to achieve at least a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, en route to reaching climate neutrality by 2050, as outlined in the European Green Deal. Achieving these ambitious targets ...

Structural engineering continues to advance and push boundaries enabling taller, more slender and flexible structures to be realised. However, these structures are often more susceptible to significant wind-induced ...

Worldwide, 300 billion m3 of domestic wastewater was produced every year, which contained around 600 billlion kWh of energy. Current wastewater treatment methods, which rely heavily on aeration, are highly energy-intensive, ...

This thesis reports the results of research on the analysis of data emerging from electric vehicles (EV) and charging infrastructure and the applications of the data on the study of the impacts increasing numbers of EVs ...

The principal objective of this thesis is the development of a stochastic risk assessment methodology for earthworks for roads schemes. The proposed methodology is intended to make the best possible use of past investigation ...

Energy consumption in water distribution networks (WDNs) is a widely publicised problem, one which results in the industry contributing high carbon emissions to the environment. Ways in which the carbon emissions of the ...

Hybrid Photovoltaic/Thermal (PV/T) systems generate both electricity and heat simultaneously. Typically 15 - 18 % of solar radiation incident on a PV module is converted to electricity and 82 - 85 % is converted to heat. ...

This research project aims to enhance Photovoltaic (PV) technology's power conversion efficiency by adding a Luminescent Downshifting Layer (LDS). An LDS increases the solar spectrum absorption range of a PV cell, enabling ...

The European Union (EU) has established ambitious renewable energy targets in order to de-carbonise the energy sector. In Ireland, it is estimated that 2.3GW of offshore wind capacity will be installed by 2030 at an estimated ...

Plastic waste and pollution have become a global environmental challenge due to their detrimental impacts on the environment, ecosystems, and human health. Since 1950s, plastic waste, particularly single-use plastics, has ...