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Overview

Paulo Ferrão is affiliated with Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal. Their research spans several interrelated fields with a primary focus on engineering and environmental science. Within these broad domains, their work specifically addresses building and construction, environmental engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and strategy and management.

Their research output includes studies on environmental impact and sustainability, building energy and comfort optimization, sustainable building design and assessment, sustainable supply chain management, recycled aggregate concrete performance, energy efficiency and management, and sustainable industrial ecology.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Energies
  • Sustainability
  • Environments
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of CO2 Utilization

Paulo Ferrão has collaborated extensively with various co-authors. Among these frequent collaborators are Joana Fernandes, Fernanda Margarido, Sónia Cunha, M. Bacatelo, and Ricardo Gomes.

The following are selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Paulo Ferrão, including titles, publication years, and venues:

  • Industrial Symbiosis: A Sectoral Analysis on Enablers and Barriers, 2021, Sustainability
  • Global knowledge base for municipal solid waste management: Framework development and application in waste generation prediction, 2022, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Selection of a CO2 capture technology for the cement industry: An integrated TEA and LCA methodological framework, 2022, Journal of CO2 Utilization
  • Policies and Strategic Incentives for Circular Economy and Industrial Symbiosis in Portugal: A Future Perspective, 2022, Sustainability
  • Optimizing building retrofit through data analytics: A study of multi-objective optimization and surrogate models derived from energy performance certificates, 2023, Energy and Built Environment

Best Publications

  • Ecodesign of automotive components making use of natural jute fiber composites

    C. Alves;P.M.C. Ferrão;A.J. Silva;L.G. Reis

  • On the planning and analysis of Integrated Community Energy Systems: A review and survey of available tools

    Gonçalo Mendes;Christos Ioakimidis;Christos Ioakimidis;Paulo Ferrão

  • The impact of demand side management strategies in the penetration of renewable electricity

    André Pina;André Pina;Carlos Silva;Carlos Silva;Paulo Ferrão;Paulo Ferrão

  • A new environmental Kuznets curve? Relationship between direct material input and income per capita: evidence from industrialised countries

    Ângela Canas;Paulo Ferrão;Pedro Conceição

  • Residential electricity consumption in Portugal: Findings from top-down and bottom-up models

    Daniel Wiesmann;Inês Lima Azevedo;Paulo Ferrão;John E. Fernández

  • Urban Metabolism: Methodological Advances in Urban Material Flow Accounting Based on the Lisbon Case Study

    Samuel Niza;Leonardo Rosado;Paulo Ferrão

  • Sustainable Urban Metabolism

    Paulo Ferrão;John E. Fernández

  • A case study of industrial symbiosis development using a middle-out approach

    Inês Costa;Paulo Ferrão

  • Characterization of urban waste management practices in developing Asian countries: A new analytical framework based on waste characteristics and urban dimension

    João Aleluia;Paulo Ferrão

  • High-resolution modeling framework for planning electricity systems with high penetration of renewables

    André Pina;André Pina;Carlos A. Silva;Carlos A. Silva;Paulo Ferrão;Paulo Ferrão

  • Potential mitigation of the environmental impacts of food systems through urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) – a life cycle assessment approach

    Khadija Benis;Paulo Ferrão

  • Environmental benefits of substituting talc by sugarcane bagasse fibers as reinforcement in polypropylene composites: Ecodesign and LCA as strategy for automotive components

    Sandra M. Luz;Armando Caldeira-Pires;Paulo M.C. Ferrão

  • A Material Flow Accounting Case Study of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area using the Urban Metabolism Analyst Model

    Leonardo Rosado;Samuel Niza;Paulo Ferrão

  • Using pattern recognition to identify habitual behavior in residential electricity consumption

    Joana M. Abreu;Francisco Câmara Pereira;Paulo Ferrão

  • Assessing the economics of auto recycling activities in relation to European Union Directive on end of life vehicles

    Paulo Ferrão;José Amaral

  • A management system for end-of-life tyres: A Portuguese case study

    Paulo Ferrão;Paulo Ribeiro;Paulo Silva

  • Modeling hourly electricity dynamics for policy making in long-term scenarios

    André Pina;André Pina;Carlos Silva;Carlos Silva;Paulo Ferrão;Paulo Ferrão

  • Optimal investment and scheduling of distributed energy resources with uncertainty in electric vehicles driving schedules

    Goncalo Cardoso;Michael Stadler;Mohammed C. Bozchalui;Ratnesh Sharma

  • Assessing the costs of municipal solid waste treatment technologies in developing Asian countries.

    João Aleluia;Paulo Ferrão

  • Microgrid Reliability Modeling and Battery Scheduling Using Stochastic Linear Programming

    Gonçalo Cardoso;Michael Stadler;Afzal Siddiqui;Afzal Siddiqui;Chris Marnay

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos A. Silva
Carlos A. Silva University of Florida
Chris Marnay
Chris Marnay Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Fausto Freire
Fausto Freire University of Coimbra
Ana Paula Barbosa-Póvoa
Ana Paula Barbosa-Póvoa Instituto Superior Técnico
Afzal S. Siddiqui
Afzal S. Siddiqui Stockholm University
Krystyn J. Van Vliet
Krystyn J. Van Vliet Cornell University
Francisco C. Pereira
Francisco C. Pereira Technical University of Denmark
Glen T. Daigger
Glen T. Daigger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Deborah L. Swackhamer
Deborah L. Swackhamer University of Minnesota

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