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Carolina Soares de Morais

Researcher

Centro de Estudos de Gestão do Instituto Superior Técnico

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Carolina Soares de Morais has a degree in Mining Engineering from Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, with exchange experience at Universidade de Vigo, where she attended courses in Industrial Engineering. She recently received her PhD in Engineering and Management from Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon. She has professional experience in fractional load transportation (4 years working with fleet management in a logistics company in Brazil) and is currently a researcher at CEGIST - Centre for Management Studies of Instituto Superior Técnico, with focus on the investigation of route optimization problems applied to smart waste management.

Research Groups

Projects

Mobile-Pro-U: Mobile Processing Unit to Recover Packaging Glass

The present project refers to the development of an integrated system to process waste streams targeting the maximum glass cullet recovery centred in Mobile Processing Units (MPU). The solution proposed in the project relies in the project of an innovative Mobile Processing Unit (MPU), incorporating a whole flowsheet able to process streams containing packaging glass, such as the heavy reject of MBT plants and the bottom ash of the incinerators fed with undifferentiated urban waste, that produces a glass product with added value.

WSmart Route - Waste Collection Based on a Real Time Route Planning System

The WSmart Route project explores a new paradigm based on smart waste management, where real-time information plays a central role in changing the way operations are managed today. Recent advances in ICT make it possible to access information in real time through the use of sensors located inside the containers. However, access to the information collected by these sensors is not sufficient to increase efficiency in the waste collection operation by itself, making it essential to optimize the collection routes according to that information.

Contacts

CEGIST - Centro de Estudos de Gestão
do Instituto Superior Técnico

Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 77 29 (ext. 1729)
Fax: +351 21 841 79 79
E-mail: cegist@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Sponsored by
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Financed by Portuguese funds through the 
FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., 
under the projects UIDB/00097/2020 and UIDP/00097/2020

Host Institution
IST Lisboa