Gimeno Furió, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2019-04-08)
The present thesis evaluates the potential of solar nanofluids as direct absorption solar collectors and to generate steam. Nowadays, as energy consumption continues to rise while conventional energy ...
Alberola Borràs, Jaume Adrià (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
An increasing concentration of greenhouse gases makes necessary changing the energy model to one in which photovoltaics play an important role. This thesis aims to assist the development of a novel ...
Mateu Royo, Carlos (Date of defense: 2021-05-27)
One of the major challenges of this decade is developing more sustainable energy systems that contribute to environmental concern, especially climate change mitigation. Extending the operating conditions ...
Jarque Bou, Néstor José (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
This thesis presents contributions to the kinematic and muscular characterisation of the hand during the activities of daily living (ADL). Orientation and position data of the rotation axes of ...
Tena Tena, David (Date of defense: 2022-02-21)
The main objective in this thesis is to bring disturbance observers closer to control engineering practice, focusing in their applications in fault detection and disturbance rejection or fault tolerant ...
Navarrete Argilés, Nuria (Date of defense: 2020-06-23)
The present thesis deals with the synthesis and characterisation of nanofluids including phase change materials as the nanoparticles. The main aim of the work is to develop new materials that suppose ...
Miguel Escrig, Oscar (Date of defense: 2021-11-10)
This thesis studies the robustness and performance of Event-Based Controllers applied to network control. In these systems, event generation techniques are of paramount importance, among them, sampling ...
Beltrán Pitarch, Braulio (Date of defense: 2020-11-10)
Els dispositius termoelèctrics (TEs) poden convertir directament calor en electricitat o usar electricitat per crear una diferència de temperatura, no obstant això, actualment no estan molt estesos a ...
Gracia Ibañez, Verónica (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
Aquesta tesi per articles aporta diferents contribucions pràctiques a l'avaluació de la funcionalitat de la mà en el desenvolupament d'activitats de la vida diària (AVD), començant amb una revisió de ...
Roda Sales, Alba (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)
This thesis presents contributions to the characterisation of hand kinematics during product manipulation in activities of daily living (ADLs). The main contributions have been: (í) providing quantifiable ...
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