Licenciatura en Ingeniería Ambiental: Envíos recientes
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Cosecha de agua lluvia para aprovechamiento urbano en el Proyecto Educativo La Cometa y el Colegio Técnico Profesional Uladislao Gámez Solano
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2019)Climate change represents a threat to humanity and natural systems, altering the rainfall regime, obtaining extreme scenarios, where there is abundance in certain sites and others with long periods of drought, influencing ... -
Propuesta de sistema de tratamiento para la reducción del contenido de Dureza Total y Sulfato del agua en el acueducto de la ASADA Santa Cruz de Turrialba
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2019)La Asociación Administradora del Acueducto Rural de Santa Cruz de Turrialba, a lo largo de los últimos años, ha registrado problemas con la calidad del recurso hídrico. Esto ha comprometido el servicio que se brinda a la ... -
Herramientas para la evaluación de estudios de impacto ambiental de tratamientos térmicos de residuos sólidos
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)Waste management in Costa Rica has been extensively worked in recent years; however, the high amount of waste that is not being separated and recycled has lead the government to find solutions and allow thermal treatments ... -
Sistema para la Gestión de los Gases de Efecto Invernadero en el Banco Central de Costa Rica
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2017)In order to define a system for managing greenhouse gas emissions at the Central Bank of Costa Rica, its GHG emissions were quantified through the construction of an inventory based on the guidelines of ISO 14064:2016 for ... -
Evaluación de Collect Earth como herramienta para estimar datos de activiada para el sistema de medición, reporte y verificación del programa de REDD+ en Costa Rica.
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)This study examines the capacity of the software Collect Earth to generate activity data as required by Costa Rica’s REDD+ MRV system. Thereby, consistency of Collect Earth data obtained for the 2013-2015 period in Costa ... -
Control de calidad de biocarbón para la producción de Terra Preta
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)The development of agricultural methods that increase crop productivity and improve the quality of soils in a sustainable manner, is essential nowadays due to the high degradation of soils. The proposal presented here is ... -
Saneamiento y disposición de biosólidos provenientes de lodos sépticos residuales
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)In Costa Rica, the septic tank is the single largest treatment for domestic wastewater, and its use grows every year. The generation of residual sludge derived from the purging of the tanks, their treatment and final ... -
Herramientas para la toma de decisiones en la gestión de la flota vehicular de la Unidad de Transportes de la Sede Central del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)The inventory of gases prepared in 2017 by the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (ITCR), identified that, of the total carbon dioxide generated using fuel in its Headquarters, the Transportation Unit issued 74%. In ... -
Evaluación de optimizaciones de sistemas individuales de tratamiento de aguas residuales
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)In Costa Rica, 76.9% of the Costa Rican population uses septic tanks as the primary method of domestic wastewater treatment (Twenty-Second State of the Nation, 2016). Despite the wide coverage of treatment of this type of ... -
Evaluación general del sistema de agua potable y aspectos básicos de saneamiento de la ASADA Agrimaga, ubicada en el cantón de Guácimo, en Limón, influenciado por el Acuífero Guácimo-Pococí.
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)Within the framework of the project "Strengthening water management in rural aqueducts in the areas of influence and connectivity of the Aquifers of Guácimo-Pococí, Prioritized Area Tortuguero", the ASADA of Agrimaga, ... -
Inventario de gases efecto invernadero de diez instalaciones de una institución pública costarricense
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)The climate change is a worldwide problem caused primarily by the anthropogenic activities as burning of fossil fuels, and whose consequences generate a negative impact on all living beings in general. In Costa Rica ... -
Criterios ambientales de cumplimiento para el desarrollo de proyectos de generación de energía marina en Costa Rica
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)Global energy production projections place ocean energy as a renewable energy with a considerable growth potential in the next years. Ensuring that the deployment of innovative new technologies in the oceans does not ... -
Selección de un sistema de saneamiento para el manejo de aguas residuales en el asentamiento informal Bajo Los Anonos
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2017)Poor sanitation is a problem in informal settlements. Although some efforts have been done in Costa Rica to improve the quality of wastewater, these areas still have a lack of actual solutions. This research presents a ... -
Impactos de la implementación de biodigestores en asentamientos rurales, caso El Porvenir de Limón
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)The production of biogas by means of low-cost biodigesters allows families in agricultural rural areas to contribute to their economic conditions by having their own energy source to cover basic needs, as well as a ... -
Herramientas para la estimación de Huella de Carbono de proyectos constructivos
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)The construction projects are responsible for the generation of more than a third of the total GHG emissions, which is why the need arises to create tools that allow the quantification of the carbon footprint to identify ... -
Centros municipales de recuperación de residuos sólidos valorizables en Costa Rica: situación actual y guía de buenas prácticas
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)The promotion of Material Recovery Facilities (MRF) is part of the country strategy to increase the percentage of recovered waste. However, there is a knowledge gap on the management and production processes of the MRF ... -
Propuesta para establecer criterios para el manejo ambiental enfocados en conservar la calidad del agua superficial en la subcuenca del Río Rincón dentro de La Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce en La Península de Osa
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)Watersheds in Costa Rica show a deterioration in their water quality, associated to the lack of an urban development planning to define the uses for each area. This planning absence leads to inadequate uses in areas of ... -
Evaluación del sistema de riego por aspersión de cultivo de piña (ananas comosus) en Banacol, sección Finca Sardinal, Puntarenas
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2017)This paper’s central theme was the evaluation of the sprinkler irrigation system, to determine the overall efficiency of the hydraulic network, because in the past years the company has presented a decrease in the quality ... -
Análisis de flujo de materiales de los residuos sólidos del distrito de guápiles
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)Due to problems in solid waste management in the district of Guápiles, the use of the tool called "Material Flow Analysis" is considered, for the first time in Costa Rica. This tool allows to visualize the flows of solid ... -
Elaboración de una declaración ambiental de producto para un Tablamel Premium de Maderas Cultivadas de Costa Rica
(Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2018)The implementation of policies for the mitigation of climate change promotes the use of environmental strategies to obtain products with greater sustainability. In the case of the European Union (EU), by 2020 it is required ...