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05/24/2010 - Dr. Luis Alonso Díaz Robles will travel to CANADA, Calgary, to present two research papers and to participate in the Technical Meeting of the 103 rd Annual Conference of the Air & Waste Management Association, 2010-2013.
05/24/2010 - Dr. Luis Alonso Díaz Robles was invited to the Scientic Committee of the First A&WMA's Conference in Xi'an, China, May 10-14 of 2010. He also presented two research papers.
05/10/2010 - The School of Environmental Engineering won the CORFO INNOVA GRANT "Centre of Renewable Energies and Environmental Quality."
05/10/2010 - Mercury Emissions Control and R+D on Coal Burning Power Plants."
01/01/2010 - The Engineer Pablo Etcharren of the Air Quality Unit assumed an importan position at the CONAMA Araucania.
10/30/2009 - The Engineer Boris Pacheco of the Air Quality Unit was recruited by the CONAMA Biobio.
06/05/2009 -The Air Quality Unit won the FONDEF project "Research and generation of air pollutant emission factors for residential wood combustion of national importance."
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Conferences
- 103 AWMA's Conferencia
- Guideline on Air Quality Models: Next Generation of Models
- 15th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress: Achieving Environmental Sustainability in a Resource Hungry World
- International Specialty Conference: Leapfrogging Opportunities for Air Quality Improvement
OUR MISSION
- Under Construction
PROJECTS
- 2010-2014, INNOVA CORFO Project, "Centre for Renewable Energies and Environmental Quality, CREEQ."
- 2010-2014, FONDEF Project, "Research and generation of air pollutant emission factors for residential wood combustion of national importance."
- CONAMA Araucania project, 2009, “Emissions scenarios analysis using WRF/SMOKE/CMAQ at Temuco, a non-attainment area for particulate matter”.
- CONAMA Región de los Lagos project, 2009. "Satured zone determination for particulate matter at Osorno city."
- CONAMA Valparaíso project, 2009. "Proposal of the Decontamination Plan Actualization of Ventanas."
- FONIS (Health Research Funding) project, 2009-2010, “Ultrafine particulate matter pollution, mortality, and morbidity at Temuco; susceptibility among the elderly and children".
- CONAMA O’Higgins project, 2009-2010, “Diagnostic study of the VOCs inventory and photochemical campaign at Rancagua city.”
- CONAMA Bio-Bio Project, 2008, “Emissions Inventory Development for Chillan and Los Angeles Urban Areas, Chile."
- CONAMA Bio-Bio Project, 2008, “Short term effects analysis due to atmospheric pollution over mortality and morbidity by respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in the Concepcion and Talcahuano area, Chile.”
- CONAMA Bio-Bio Project, 2008, “Emissions Inventory Development for Metropolitan Concepcion, Chile.”
- Air Quality Megamonitoring of Temuco, M2CAT.
- FNDR-CONAMA Araucanía, Catholic University of Temuco, “Emissions Measurement from Wood Devices.”, which includes to build and implement an emissions laboratory with EPA’s standard methods to measure emissions, and estimate emission factors for the main wood devices used in the south of Chile to heating or cooking. UCT-FNDR 30040008-0. Emissions Measurement Laboratory.
- FNDR-CONAMA Araucanía project 2007-2009, University of Santiago of Chile, Catholic University of Temuco, “Short term effects analysis due to particulate matter atmospheric pollution over mortality and morbidity by respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in Temuco, Chile.”
- CORFO INNOVA project, 2009-2011, “Technologies Development for firewood burning, cleaner and more efficient for domiciliary use."
- FONDEF project, 2009-2012 “Research and Development of a Technological Packet to Produce Cellulosic Ethanol from Hybrid Poplars in Chile."
- PM10 Forecasting Project.
- Proyecto Interno UCT Cluster-DGI-CD-2006-2-03. DIUCT Project, 2007-2009, “Chemical dispersion, fate, and transport of pollutants over air and soil resources base on the high performance Cluster Beowulf architecture as tool to solve complex problems of scientific calculus.”
- Air Quality Dispersion Modeling using AERMOD, Forestal Santa Elena, Temuco.
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