Amanda Carvalho Miranda

• Doutora em Engenharia de Produção
• Professor at University of São Paulo

Após as severas restrições causadas pela pandemia de Covid-19 e todas as adaptações sofridas pelos funcionários para se manterem empregados, o período pós pandemia foi marcado pelo fenômeno intitulado como a grande resignação. Funcionários de muitos países pediram demissão em massa e mudaram de forma drástica suas rotinas, muitos enxergaram novas p...

This work shows a proposal for reducing emissions, fuel costs, and respiratory disease hospitalizations using environmental cost accounting principles for the production of biodiesel production from waste frying oil (WFO). PM10, PM2.5, and O3 data from 2017 to 2022 were collected and correlated with the number of hospitalizations for respiratory di...

The significant volume of vehicular traffic has been considered one of the main causes of air pollution due to the rapid growth of urbanization and motorization in the world. This trend has instigated efforts to search for sustainable solutions aimed not only at mitigating the deleterious consequences stemming from air pollution but also at impleme...

This paper presents a case study conducted at a food supply centre in a shopping centre in São Paulo city, Brazil. A waste digester was developed based on specifications provided by GE for the generator, and the cost of electricity production from food waste generated in the region was subsequently assessed. Results show that 1,368,750 m³ biogas wa...

O presente artigo teve como objetivo analisar a literatura existente sobre os níveis de poluição do ar relacionados com mobilidade e veículos, e a influência da pandemia por meio da bibliometria. buscou identificar os principais elementos e aspectos relacionados ao tema proposto. o trabalho foi estruturado em 4 seções, sendo a primeira referindo-se...

This work aims to obtain an artificial neural network to simulate hospitalizations for respiratory diseases influenced by pollutant gaseous such as CO, PM10, PM2.5, NO2, O3, and SO2 emitted from 2011 to 2017, in the city of São Paulo. The hospitalization costs were also be calculated. MLP and RBF neural networks have been tested by varying the numb...

Renewable energies are cleaner forms of energy, and their use, has intensified in recent decades. Thus, this work presents a proposal for reducing the emissions, fuel cost, and respiratory disease hospitalizations using environmental cost accounting principles to produce biodiesel production from waste frying oil. In our methodology, we conducted s...

This study focused on verifying whether the emission of air pollutants in São Paulo increases the costs and number of hospitalizations for respiratory diseases in Brazil. Data on pollutant emissions, hospitalizations, and hospital costs were collected from 2008 to 2017 and correlated with air quality standards. The results showed that the concentra...

Some classes of drugs represent greater criticality as environmental contamination; antibiotics in general represent the most potent contaminants and cause greater damage to the environment. The purpose of this work is to quantify the percentage of soil contamination by Azithromycin in presentations of 500 mg, through the application of Infrared Sp...

In Brazil the main destination of municipal solid waste is controlled and sanitary landfills, although a considerable part is still sent to open-air deposits better known as dumps. Whatever the destination of these wastes (landfills or dumps), a constant monitoring of these areas is necessary due to the generation of liquid and gaseous effluents th...

Pharmaceutical industry growth and incorrect disposal of medicines are major problems, especially in large cities. The lack of commitment of the responsible bodies to manage pharmaceutical waste and a population awareness plan characterize a public health problem as well as serious environmental damage. The effects caused to the environment are man...

The Brazilian Petroleum Regulatory Agency (ANP) regulates the use of biodiesel in fuel oil throughout Brazil. Current laws require that from 2017, diesel oil must contain 8% biodiesel (i.e., B8). In fact, the bus fleets of some Brazilian regions already use the B20 blend (20% biodiesel) as fuel. The objective of this work was to analyse the costs a...

The data presented in this article are related to the research article “Environmental and techno-economic considerations on biodiesel production from waste frying oil in São Paulo city” (Silva Filho et al., 2018) [1]. This article presents the variation of the concentration of waste frying oil (WFO) with the reaction time and temperature during the...

O uso de indicadores da qualidade vem sendo valorizado na gestão de laboratórios de controle de qualidade para otimizar a qualificação e a quantificação de falhas nos diferentes processos analíticos; bem como, para auxiliar a implantação de medidas corretivas e preventivas a fim de apontar a tomada de decisão. Este trabalho trata-se de um estudo ex...

Biodiesel is a renewable and biodegradable fuel that reduces the greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. However, the use of food oils in biodiesel production is severely criticised because its impacts on food prices, increase in crop area and deforestation. Thus, the production of biodiesel from non-food sources should be encouraged. This stu...

This work aimed to produce a biodiesel from oils used in restaurants of São Paulo, Brazil, to discover the power production city and to demonstrate its economical feasibility. For this, it has been researched in the Brazilian market sales prices of glycerin, carbon credit, biodiesel and diesel blend, well as well, the amount of B20 blend (70.1 103...