All projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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Environmental Sustainability of Renewable Methane for Mobility
Within this subproject in the framework of the National Research Programm 70 regarding energy turnaround, an environmental sustainability assessement of power-to-gas (PtG) methane will be conducted by applying life cycle assessment methodology. In the PtG technology, hydrogen and carbon dioxide are converted to ...
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COST Action – Mathematical and Computer Science Methods for Food Science and Industry (FoodMC)
The agriculture and food processing sector (agri-food) is facing sustainability challenges of growing complexity, from consumer expectations to concerns over food security, right through to environmental regulations. In such a context, innovation is becoming a decisive factor of competitiveness for companies in this ...
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Biogas2Algae
Biogas production by anaerobic digestion is an established technology that allows farmers to generate more income from biomass waste and closing nutrient cycles. These synergies can be extended even further if microalgal cultivation is added to produce algae-based bioproducts. The side-products of biogas production, ...
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ERBINAT - Erleben und Bildung in der Natur
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Erosion in Alpine Areas
The protection of Alpine Soils is of great importance and closely linked to suitable farming strategies. The Guidelines for environmental protection in agriculture provide detailed reference for surveying, controlling and preventing erosion on alpine surfaces. In this research project, an ArcGIS® Toolbox was ...
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Historizing GINES
GINES is a spatio-temporal decision-support system for planning applications. The software emerged a research project of the geoinformatics research unit that spun off in 2015 into an independent software company. In this this collaborative research project between the geoinformatics research unit and GINES GmbH, ...
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Wind energy potential in close proximity to the rail network of the Swiss Federal Railways SBB
The wind energy potential in close proximity to the railway network of the Swiss Federal Railways SBB is analyzed and quantified with reference to the vertical turbines A32, A45 and A64 of the Vertical Sky series (Agile Windpower AG). Wind conditions, topographical restrictions and an extensive list of criteria ...
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SIDAC2
The aim of the SIDAC2 project is an integrated system for the valuation and management of existing real estate. The SIDAC2 project team was made up of ZHAW researchers from the Institute for Facility Management (IFM), the Institute for Administration and Management (IVM) and the Institute for Applied Information ...
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Ressource management ski world championship 2017 St.Moritz
Large-scale events usually cause an increase in the consumption of resources and can therefore have a temporary or lasting impact on the environment. Environmentally friendly resource management is therefore essential for a major event in the dimension of the Ski WM 2017 today. In 2016/2017, the Environmental ...
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Life Cycle Assessment of the Dismantling of Wind Turbines
There are currently just over 30 large wind turbines in Switzerland, with strong expansion of wind energy in the next few years as part of the Energy Strategy 2050. Wind turbines are designed for a service life of approximately 20 years. The plants are then dismantled and disposed of. There are different views on ...
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Food for Future
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Perspectives Muotathal Klöntal, Switzerland (project dossier from Phase I & II, 2016 to 2017)
If the eastern part of the municipality of Muotathal SZ and the Klöntal GL with the connection over the Pragelpass are understood as a functional space, new possibilities for tourism offers and for raising awareness of the outstanding natural and landscape values of the two subspaces open up compared to an ...
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Sepsis-Associated Microorganisms in Brazilian Ambulatories (SAMBA)
Fifty-six cases of bloodstream infections caused by contaminated total parenteral nutrition were recorded between November 2013 and July 2014 in four Brazilian states resulting in 15 deaths. One of the bacteria involved, albeit repeatedly causing similar outbreaks, is habitually misidentified in clinical diagnostics ...
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FM goes independently / SLA Good Practice for FM in Healthcare
Up until now, work in hospitals has been carried out more or less when called upon and rarely on the basis of systematic, written Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Due to increasing cost pressures and the resulting need for greater efficiency and quality in healthcare, the topic of SLAs is becoming increasingly ...
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Global site assessment for hazelnut production
Currently, 64% of the world's hazelnut production comes from Turkey. A further 13% is produced in Italy. This concentration on a small number of countries poses a risk for the long-term safeguarding of the hazelnut supply. In order to ensure the procurement of hazelnuts in the long term, hazelnut production must be ...
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Implementation of BIM for a new building - cantonal hospital Baden
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Persistence of Neophytes in anaerobic Digestion and composting
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Spatio-temporal databases (st-DB)
The overarching goal of this project is the build-up of expertise in designing and maintaining spatio-temporal databases in the context of data-driven ecological monitoring (software, hardware). The specific goals of the study are Case studies. Design and implementation of spatio-temporal databases in the ...
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MycoTOF -Determining mycotoxigenic molds and mycotoxins
Food spoilage by molds is a very important issue, since molds negatively influence the food quality and safety, due to mycotoxin synthesis. Apart from being allergens or irritants, some of the health effects of mycotoxins found in animals and humans include death, identifiable diseases or health problems, or ...
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Facility Management goes virtual (FM2VR)
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IbD – Intensified by Design® for the intensification of processes involving solids handling
IbD® will create a holistic platform for facilitating process intensification in processes in which solids are an intrinsic part, the cornerstone of which will be an intensified-by-design® (IbD). The IbD approach is hinged on the use of robust data about a process to ‘redesign’, modify, adapt and alter that process ...
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Nespresso Coffee Knowledge
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Predictive - Prescriptive Analytics for Emission & Combustion Monitoring Agents in Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants
The project will create a novel software system and service for predictive-prescriptive maintenance of gas turbines. The service will be based on predictive models created from historical data including the measurements of physical engine parameters as well as the measured output emissions and pulsation. The service ...
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SHAREBOX – Secure Management Platform for Shared Process Resources
To pave the way forward for IS as a solution for more efficient processing and energy systems for the process industry, we will develop a secure ICT platform (SHAREBOX) for the flexible management of shared process resources that will provide plant operations and production managers with the robust and reliable ...
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True Color Pigments