Partners: Trinity College Dublin
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Expertise & Current Research Activities
Air Pollution
- Assessments of personal exposure to air pollution in the urban environment
- GIS pollution models
- Air Pollution Control Technologies:Development of energy efficient air pollution control devices, Investigation of passive controls for air pollution in the urban environment
- Validation of air dispersion models for road and industrial sources
- Transport impacts on the Environment
- Background concentrations monitoring for monitoring air pollution
- Monitoring ambient hydrocarbons
- Global environmental monitoring and health impacts
- Development of emissions estimation and prediction models from real time trip based data
Water & Waste Water Treatment
- Solar disinfection of drinking water
- On–site wastewater treat
- Constructed wetlands for domestic and agricultural wastewater treatment
Sustainable Energy
- Modelling carbon tax policy: Assessment of the impacts of carbon tax policy on CO2 emissions in the transport sector
- Research and development of drain water heat recovery systems
Hydrogeology and Hydrology
- Investigation of the linkages between groundwater quality, potential health risks, consumer awareness and well construction for private ground–water schemes.
Fluid Dynamics
- Residence Time Distribution modelling to characterise the hydraulic efficiency of reactor networks
- Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling of Environmental Systems: Air pollution dispersion, Air pollution control, Water treatment systems, Energy recovery systems
Noise pollution:
- Noise modeling
- Noise monitoring and assessment
- Virtual auditory environments
Smart Cities:
- Dissemination of results from environmental studies
- Mobile ad–hoc network of sensors
- Pervasive environmental sensing
| PILLA Francesco Lab.: Environment research group Org.: Trinity College Dublin Country: Ireland Tel. +353 857051836 - Fax e-Mail fpilla@tcd.ie Web http://www.tcd.ie/civileng/research/environmental/
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