Heterogeneous azeotropic distillation is a widely used technique to separate binary azeotropic mixtures into their components. One of its most important applications is the dehydration of ethanol, which is blended with gasoline to obtain automobile fuel. Among all the compounds…

Design and optimization of distillation columns for ethanol dehydration, using a hydrocarbon as entrainer, implies a good knowledge of vapor-liquid (VLE), liquid-liquid (LLE) and vapor-liquid-liquid equilibrium (VLLE). Chemical process simulation programs always require the use of a thermodynamic model that…

Díptico del Octavo Foro de Bienestar Social realizado el 27 de marzo de 2012 en Alicante con el objetivo de difundir los principales resultados del proyecto de I+D INCASS acerca de los estándares de calidad que deberían de aspirar a…

Sierra Nevada es uno de los centros más importantes de diversidad ecológica y endemicidad de Europa, y constituye por ello un observatorio excepcional para estudiar el funcionamiento de sistemas y procesos naturales en un contexto de cambio global. Con vocación…

La titulación de Ingeniería Geológica es de reciente creación en España, a pesar de que en algunos países como Inglaterra cuenta ya con una larga tradición. Ingeniería Geológica se caracteriza por tratarse de una
carrera situada a medio camino entre…

Detrás de la actual crisis ambiental está nuestra limitada comprensión de los procesos ecológicos y sociales que operan a escalas espacio-temporales amplias. Esta falta de conocimiento ha desencadenado fallos en los esquemas de manejo y utilización de los servicios y…

Due to the imminent creation of the degree "Building Engineer", it has been thought appropriate to verify if the criteria set by the EHEA is being applied to the subject of "Construction of Non-structural Elements" in the third year of…

Web-based learning environments are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. One of the most important web-learning resources is the virtual laboratory (VL), which gives students an easy way for training and learning through the Internet. Moreover, on-line collaborative communication represents…

Geographic knowledge discovery (GKD) is the process of extracting information and knowledge from massive georeferenced databases. Usually the process is accomplished by two different systems, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the data mining engines. However, the development of those…

In big companies, managerial activities and organizational boundaries will over time hide most unevenly developed skill and knowledge distribution patterns; studying the organizations with the means of modern applied physics is thus quite difficult. People are forced to communicate along…