Waste Management 2018

9th International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment

17 - 19 September, 2018

Seville, Spain

Introduction

The conference provides a forum for the exchange of scientific information and works on the current situation of waste management amongst professionals, researchers, government departments and local authorities.

Waste Management is one of the key problems of modern society due to the ever-expanding volume and complexity of discarded domestic and industrial waste.

Society is increasingly aware of the need to establish better practices and safer solutions for waste disposal. This requires further investigation into disposal methods and recycling as well as new technologies to monitor landfills, industrial mining wastes and chemical and nuclear repositories.

This creates a need for more research on current disposal methods such as landfills, incineration, chemical and effluent treatment, as well as recycling, clean technologies, waste monitoring, public and corporate awareness and general education.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Waste Management 2018. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

• Environmental impact
• Reduce, reuse, recycle and recovery (4Rs)
• Secondary raw materials (SRM)
• Refuse derived fuel (RDF)
• The circular economy
• Energy from waste
• Industrial waste management
• Hazardous waste
• Agricultural waste
• Wastewater
• eWaste
• Landfill optimization and mining
• Remote sensing
• Thermal treatment
• Environmental remediation
• Pre-treatment of municipal waste
• Behavioural issues
• Health care waste
• Decommissioning
• Radioactive waste management

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BEM/MRM 41

41st International Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods

11 - 13 September 2018

New Forest, UK

Introduction

The annual conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods (BEM/MRM) which started in 1978 is now in its 41st version, to take place in the New Forest, near Southampton (UK).

The meetings since 1978 have produced a collection of edited volumes in which the major developments in the field have been represented. This valuable series has been offered in digital form since 1993, with all papers available Open Access in the Wessex Institute’s eLibrary website (www.witpress.com/elibrary), where they can be easily accessed and downloaded for free.

Since starting in 1978 the Conference has attracted high quality papers that report further advances in techniques that reduce or eliminate the type of meshes associated with finite elements or finite differences, for instance.

Theoretical advances and new foundations have been requested at the Conference for more than 40 years, helping to expand the range of applications as well as the type of materials in response to industrial and professional requirements. This ability to evolve is reflected in the history of the Conference which has ensured the success of the meetings as well as the establishment of a community of stakeholders.

As design, analysis and manufacture become more integrated the chances are that the users will be less aware of the capabilities of the analytical techniques that are at the core of the process. This reinforces the need to retain expertise in certain specialised areas of numerical methods, such as BEM/MRM, to ensure that all new tools perform satisfactorily in the integrated process.

The maturity of BEM since 1978 has resulted in a substantial number of industrial applications which demonstrate the accuracy, robustness and easy use of the technique. Their range still needs to be widened, taking into account the potentialities of the Mesh Reduction techniques in general.

This well-established conference acts as a forum to discuss new ideas and critically compare results before the solution and tools are released to end users.

The meeting welcomes all stakeholders interested in the methods and particularly the participation of young researchers. Their new contributions have been the principal reason why the conference has continued to evolve.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics that can be presented at BEM/MRM 41.  Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

• Advanced formulations
• Hybrid foundations
• Advanced meshless and mesh reduction methods
• Structural mechanics applications
• Solid mechanics
• Heat and mass transfer
• Electrical engineering and electromagnetics
• Computational methods
• Fluid flow modelling
• Damage mechanics and fracture
• Dynamics and vibrations
• Engineering applications
• Interfacing with other methods
• Coupling with design and manufacturing
• Solution of large systems of equations

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Energy Quest 2018

3rd International Conference on Energy Production and Management: The Quest for Sustainable Energy

10 - 12 September, 2018

New Forest, UK

Introduction

The 3rd International Conference on Energy Production and Management: The Quest for Sustainable Energy, follows the very successful meetings held in Ekaterinburg (2014) and Ancona (2016). The aim of the meeting is to discuss the future of energy production and management in a changing world. 

The objective is to compare conventional energy sources, particularly hydrocarbons, with a number of other ways of producing energy, emphasising new technological developments, based on renewable resources such as solar, hydro, wind and geothermal.

A key issue is the conversion of new sustainable sources of energy into useful forms (electricity, heat, fuel) while finding efficient ways of storage and distribution. In many cases, the challenges lie as much with the production of such renewable energy at an acceptable cost, including damage to the environment, as with integration of those resources into the existing infrastructure.

The changes required to progress from an economy based mainly on hydrocarbons to one taking advantage of sustainable energy resources are massive and require considerable scientific research as well as the development of advanced engineering systems. Such progress demands close collaboration between different disciplines in order to arrive at optimum solutions.

The Conference also discusses the energy use of industrial processes, including the embedded energy contents of materials, such as those in the built environment. Energy production, distribution and usage, result in environmental risks which need to be better understood. They are part of the energy economics and relate to human environmental health as well as ecosystems behaviour.

An important objective of the conference is to discuss ways in which more efficient use can be made of conventional as well as new energy sources. This relates to savings in energy consumption, reduction of energy losses, as well as the implementation of smart devices and the design of intelligent distribution networks.

All published papers from previous meetings are permanently archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are freely available to the international community.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Energy Quest 2018. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

• Energy policies
• Energy management and economics
• Energy generation
• Energy efficiency
• Energy and the city
• Energy security
• Smart networks
• Energy networks
• Processing of oil and gas
• Emissions
• Renewable energies
• Biomass and biofuels
• Waste to energy
• Energy and the built environment
• Energy storage
• Automization of energy systems
• Energy conversion
• Hybrid energy systems
• Energy recovery
• Emergent applications
• Nuclear energy
• Environmental impact
• Safety management
• Energy and climate change

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FRIAR 2018

6th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management

23 - 25, May, 2018

A Coruña, Spain

Introduction

FRIAR 2018 is the sixth Conference of this successful series. The conference started at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London 2008 and was reconvened at the Lombardy Region Headquarters in Milano in 2010, Dubrovnik in 2012, Poznan in 2014 and Venice in 2016. Since 2012 a parallel seminar on the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water has taken place which is now an integral part of the conference.

Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims numerous lives worldwide each year. When flooding occurs in urban areas, it can cause substantial damage to property as well as threaten human life. In addition, many more people must endure the homelessness, upset and disruption that are left in the wake of floods. The increased frequency of flooding in the last few years, coupled with climate change predictions and urban development, suggest that these impacts are set to worsen in the future. How we respond and importantly, adapt to these challenges is key to developing our long-term resilience at the property, community and city scale.

Apart from the physical damage to buildings, contents and loss of life, which are the most obvious, impacts of floods upon households, other more indirect losses are often overlooked. These indirect and intangible impacts are generally associated with disruption to normal life as well as longer-term health issues including community displacements and stress-related illnesses. Flooding represents a major barrier to the alleviation of poverty in many parts of the developing world, where vulnerable communities are often exposed to sudden and life-threatening events.

As our cities continue to expand, their urban infrastructures need to be re-evaluated and adapted to new requirements related to the increase in population and the growing areas under urbanization. This conference also considers these problems and deals with two main urban water topics: water supply systems and urban drainage.

Topics such as contamination and pollution discharges in urban water bodies, as well as the monitoring of water recycling systems are currently receiving a great deal of attention from researchers and professional engineers working in the water industry. Water distribution networks often suffer substantial losses which represent wastage of energy and treatment. Effective, efficient and energy saving management is necessary in order to optimize their performance. Sewer systems are under constant pressure due to growing urbanization and climate change, and the environmental impact caused by urban drainage overflows is related to both water quantity and water quality.

FRIAR seeks to develop an improved understanding of emerging flood risk management and urban water management challenges, drawing on the expertise of numerous disciplines and considering a range of responses. The conference provides a rich forum for the development of innovative solutions that can help bring about multiple benefits toward achieving integrated flood risk and urban water management strategies and policy.

The meeting is aimed to attract researchers, academics and practitioners actively involved in improving our understanding of urban water systems and flood events. It will bring together social scientists, surveyors, engineers, scientists, and other professionals from many countries involved in research and development activities in a wide range of technical and management topics related to urban water and flooding and its impacts on communities, property and people.

Papers presented at this conference, as all other meetings run by the Wessex Institute, are archived in the Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) and permanently and freely available to the international community.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at FRIAR 2018. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

Floods

• Flood risk management
• Flood warning and forecasting
• Flood response and recovery
• Flood risk adaptation
• Flood protection
• Flood modelling
• Flood mitigation
• Flood vulnerability
• Urban flooding
• Flood risk assessment
• Coastal flooding
• Climate change impact
• Flood damage assessment
• Socio and economic impact
• Emergency planning
• Blue-green infrastructure
• Resilient approaches
• Flood case studies
• Catchment based approaches
• Natural flood management

Urban Water Systems

• Water supply networks
• Leakage and losses
• Modelling and experimentation
• Safety and security of water systems
• Water quality
• Water savings and reuse
• Waste water treatment and reuse
• Urban drainage systems
• Flood control
• Storm water management
• Watershed management
• Urban strategies
• Structural works and infrastructure
• Maintenance and repairs
• Sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDs)

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Sustainable Development and Planning 2018

10th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning

4 - 6 September, 2018

Siena, Italy

Introduction

The 10th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning builds upon a series that started in 2003 in Skiathos, Greece, followed by other meetings in Bologna (2005), Algarve (2007), Cyprus (2009), New Forest – home of the Wessex Institute, UK (2011); Kos, Greece (2013), Istanbul (2015), Penang (2016) and the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK (2017). 

Planners, environmentalists, architects, engineers, policymakers and economists have to work together in order to ensure that planning and development can meet our present needs without comprising the ability of future generations.

Problems related to development and planning, which affect rural and urban areas, are present in all regions of the world. Accelerated urbanisation has resulted in deterioration of the environment and loss of quality of life. Urban development can also aggravate problems faced by rural areas such as forests, mountain regions and coastal areas, amongst many others. Taking into consideration the interaction between different regions and developing new methodologies for monitoring, planning and implementation of novel strategies can offer solutions mitigating environmental pollution and non-sustainable use of available resources.

Energy saving and eco-friendly building approaches have become an important part of modern development, which places special emphasis on resource optimisation. Planning has a key role to play in ensuring that these solutions, as well as new materials and processes, are incorporated in the most efficient manner.

Sustainable Development and Planning 2018 will bring together academics, policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders from across the globe to discuss the latest advances in the field. The conference will discuss new academic findings and their application in planning and development strategies, assessment tools and decision making processes.

All published papers from previous meetings are permanently archived in the WIT eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are freely available to the international community

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at the conference. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the meeting are also welcome.

• Regional planning
• City planning
• Sustainability and the built environment
• Cultural heritage
• Environmental management
• Environmental policies and planning
• Education for sustainable development
• Sustainable tourism
• Resources management
• Impact assessment of urban expansion
• Sustainable supply chains
• Rural developments
• Sustainable solutions in emerging countries
• Transportation
• Energy resources and savings
• Urban utilities networks
• Climate change
• Urban mining
• Urban architecture
• Waste management
• Urban flooding and drainage
• Smart systems
• Sustainable development indicators
• UN sustainable development goals
• Governance
• Resilience
• Social and political issues
• Community planning
• Planning for equality
• Quality of life
• Case studies

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HPSM/OPTI 2018

The 2018 International Conference on
High Performance and Optimum Design of Structures and Materials

11 - 13 July, 2018

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Introduction

The use of novel materials and new structural concepts nowadays is not restricted to highly technical areas like aerospace, aeronautical applications or the automotive industry, but affects all engineering fields including those such as civil engineering and architecture.

The conference addresses issues involving advanced types of structures, particularly those based on new concepts or new materials and their system design. Contributions will highlight the latest development in design, optimisation, manufacturing and experimentation in those areas. The meeting also aims to search for higher performance sustainable materials.

Most high-performance structures require the development of a generation of new materials, which can more easily resist a range of external stimuli or react in a non-conventional manner. Particular emphasis will be placed on intelligent structures and materials as well as the application of computational methods for their modelling, control and management.

The conference also addresses the topic of design optimisation. Contributions on numerical methods and different optimisation techniques are also welcome, as well as papers on new software. Optimisation problems of interest to the meeting involve those related to size, shape and topology of structures and materials. Optimisation techniques have much to offer to those involved in the design of new industrial products.

The development of new algorithms and the appearance of powerful commercial computer codes with easy to use graphical interfaces has created a fertile field for the incorporation of optimisation in the design process in all engineering disciplines.

This scientific event is a new edition of the High-Performance Design of Structures and Materials conference and follows the success of a number of meetings on structures and materials, and on optimum design that originated in Southampton as long ago as 1989. As the meetings evolved they gave rise to the current series, which started in Seville in 2002, and followed by Ancona in 2004, Ostend in 2006, the Algarve in 2008, Tallinn in 2010, the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute in 2012, Ostend in 2014 and Siena in 2016.

The meeting will provide a friendly and useful forum for the interchange of ideas and interaction amongst researchers, designers and scholars in the community to share advances in High Performance and Optimum Design of Structures and Materials.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at HPSM/OPTI 2018. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

• Composite materials
• Material characterisation
• Experiments and numerical analysis
• Natural fibre composites
• Nanocomposites
• Green composites
• Composites for automotive applications
• Transformable structures
• Environmentally friendly and sustainable structures
• Structural optimisation
• Design optimisation under uncertainties
• Non deterministic approaches
• Evolutionary methods in optimisation
• Aerospace structures
• Biomechanics application
• Structures under extreme loading
• Surface modification
• Lightweight structures
• Design for sustainability
• Design for durability
• Lifecycle assessment/analysis
• Structural reliability
• Maintenance
• Social impacts
• Smart materials and structures

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AFM 2018

12th International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics

10 - 12 July, 2018

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Introduction

AFM 2018 is the 12th International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics. The meeting is reconvened following the success of all previous conferences in the series, the first of which took place in New Orleans (1996), followed by Udine (1998); Montreal (2000); Ghent (2002); Lisboa (2004); Skiathos (2006); the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute (2008); The Algarve (2010); Split (2012); A Coruña (2014) and Ancona (2016).

The success of the Conference continues to attract high-quality contributions presenting original results. The evolution of the meeting is reflected in the variety of topics and applications published in the conference book series since its beginnings in 1996.

The field of fluid mechanics is vast and has numerous and diverse applications. The conference covers a wide range of topics, including basic formulations and their computer modelling as well as the relationship between experimental and analytical results. The emphasis is on new applications and research currently in progress.

The papers – like others presented at Wessex Institute conferences – are part of the WIT Transactions in Engineering Sciences series and are archived online in the WIT eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary), where they are freely available to the international scientific community.

The object of the meeting is to provide a forum for discussing new work in fluid mechanics and, in particular, for promoting the interchange of new ideas and the presentation on the latest applications in the field.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at AFM 2018. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

• Computational methods
• Boundary elements and other mesh reduction methods
• Fluid structure interaction
• Cooling of electronic devices
• Environmental fluid dynamics
• Industrial applications
• Energy systems
• Nano and micro fluids
• Turbulent and complex flows
• Jets
• Droplet and spray dynamics
• Bubble dynamics
• Multiphase fluid flow
• Pumping and fluid transportation
• Experimental measurements
• Rheology
• Chemical reaction flow
• Hydroelectromagnetic flow
• High speed flow
• Wave theory
• Energy conversion systems

                     

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