La technique Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) a été adoptée par plusieurs systèmes de télécommunications et de diffusion pour sa robustesse, sa capacité à transmettre de hauts débits dans des canaux radiomobiles et pour son efficacité spectrale. Cependant, les signaux OFDM sont caractérisés par des fluctuations importantes, mesurées par le rapport de la puissance crête sur la puissance moyenne (Peak to Average Power Ratio – PAPR) du signal, qui génèrent des distorsions à la sortie de l’amplificateur non-linéaire de puissance (High Power Amplifier - HPA) et ne permettent pas de l’utiliser dans sa zone optimale afin de diminuer sa consommation énergétique. La deuxième génération de la norme Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-T2) a notamment adopté la technique Tone Reservation (TR) de réduction du PAPR. Son principe consiste à créer un noyau, à partir d’un ensemble de sous-porteuses réservées, qui est ensuite ajouté d’une manière itérative au signal OFDM de façon à réduire les pics du signal et donc son PAPR. Dans la première partie de la thèse, différents algorithmes permettant d’améliorer les performances de cette solution TR DVT-T2 sont proposés. Un premier groupe de solutions, reposant sur la même définition du noyau, comprend : la technique Partial Oversampling and Fractional Shifted Kernels (POFSK) reposant sur un sur-échantillonnage partiel du signal, la technique Dynamic Threshold (DT) qui effectue un calcul dynamique du seuil de troncature et la technique Enhanced Peak Selection (EPS) qui améliore la sélection des pics à réduire. Le deuxième groupe de solutions comprend tout d’abord la technique Individual Carrier Multiple Peaks (ICMP) qui repose sur une nouvelle définition du noyau et utilise un calcul de phase différent permettant la réduction de plusieurs pics en même temps. La technique GICMP est une version optimisée de la technique ICMP qui, en parallélisant les opérations, permet de réduire le délai de traitement et le nombre total d’itérations. Les résultats de simulations et les mesures effectuées sur une plateforme de transmission réelle montrent que, par rapport à la version TR de DVB-T2, l’algorithme GICMP offrait notamment un gain de l’ordre de 2.5 dB en termes de Modulation Error Rate – MER ou permettait une réduction de 10 % de l’énergie consommée par l’amplificateur de puissance à performances identiques. [...] / Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has been adopted by many telecommunication and broadcasting systems for its robustness, high transmission rates, mobility and bandwidth efficiency. However, OFDM signals are characterized by high power fluctuations, measured by the Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR), which cause distortions at the output of the non-linear High Power Amplifier (HPA) and prevent the radio frequency designer to feed the signal at the optimal point of the HPA specifications in order to reduce the energy consumption. The second generation of Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-T2) adopted two PAPR reduction techniques, one of them is Tone Reservation (TR). TR creates a Kernel from a reserved set of subcarriers. The kernel is then iteratively added to the OFDM signal in such a way to reduce its peaks thus reducing its PAPR. In the first part of the thesis, different algorithms offering better performances compared to the DVB-T2 TR solution are proposed. A first group of solutions introduces changes and enhancements to the TR algorithm adopted in DVB-T2 TR but keeps the same kernel definition. This group includes: the Partial Oversampling and Fractional Shifted Kernels (POFSK) technique which is based on a partial oversampling of the signal, the Dynamic Threshold (DT) technique which allows better algorithm convergence by dynamically computing the PAPR reduction threshold for every OFDM symbol, and the Enhanced Peak Selection (EPS) technique which provides additional PAPR reduction by choosing the appropriate signal peaks to reduce and the peaks to skip. The second group of solutions includes the Individual Carrier Multiple Peaks (ICMP) technique which is based on a special kernel definition that changes from one algorithm iteration to another and uses a different phase calculation approach that allows the reduction of multiple peaks at a time. GICMP is an optimized version of ICMP that allows the parallelization of iterations in such a way to reduce the processing delay and the number of algorithm iterations. The simulation results and real hardware platform measurements of the proposed algorithms showed that, compared to the DVB-T2 TR version, the GICMP algorithm allows a Modulation Error Rate – MER gain of up to 2.5 dB or a 10 % reduction in HPA consumed energy with the same performances.

This thesis focuses on energy management and implementation of ISO 16001:2010. The first two chapters describe DEZA a.s., its operations and activities. The third chapter explains the requirements of ISO 16001:2010 and in the fourth chapter, the process of implementation of these requirements in operation is described.The last chapter describes the requirements of ISO 50001:2012 and compares them with the requirements of ISO 16001:2010.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-07-08T14:34:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Matheus Vicenzo Lehnen.pdf: 7507080 bytes, checksum: 1036a30adcb3840ea0e5fcb545f29987 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-08T14:34:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Matheus Vicenzo Lehnen.pdf: 7507080 bytes, checksum: 1036a30adcb3840ea0e5fcb545f29987 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05 / Milton Valente / Nos dias atuais, os componentes eletrônicos estão cada vez mais potentes e com mais dispositivos integrados e há a necessidade de uma dissipação térmica mais eficiente. Os atuais ventiladores e dissipadores de calor usando ar como fluido de trabalho estão ficando obsoletos. Por este motivo, torna-se necessário o desenvolvimento de um sistema mais eficiente. Existem três técnicas principais em estudo nesta área: resfriamento líquido, trocadores de calor compostos por microcanais e jatos sintéticos como transmissores de quantidade de movimento ao fluido. Entretanto, a análise em pequena escala encontra limitações experimentais de modo que uma abordagem por Dinamica de Fluidos Computacional (Computational Fluid Dynamics – CFD) é mais recomendável para caracterizar e validar o desempenho dos jatos sintéticos. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é realizar uma análise fluidodinâmica de jatos sintéticos e caracterizar a troca térmica de jatos sintéticos colidindo sobre uma superfície aquecida, através de simulação numérica. A flexibilidade da aproximação numérica também possibilita o estudo da sensibilidade do design a vários parâmetros físicos e geométricos, tais como o número de Reynolds, a frequência do atuador, o número de Prandtl, a distância da placa aquecida ao orifício da cavidade, o formato do orifício do atuador, a profundidade da cavidade e a espessura da placa do orifício. Os resultados caracterizam o efeito dos parâmetros físicos e geométricos de interesse na formação do jato e na dissipação térmica. O conhecimento agregado neste estudo permitiu determinar uma correlação para o número de Nusselt em função da frequência adimensional – o número de Strouhal – do número de Reynolds, do número de Prandtl e da distância adimensional da superfície aquecida ao orifício. Assim, é possível prever o comportamento de tais jatos sobre a superfície aquecida, e assim contribuir para os atuais estudos nesta linha de pesquisa. Os resultados apresentados tem então aplicação em estudos posteriores, de maior complexidade de design com atuadores combinados com trocadores de calor de aletas, coolers e micro canais, resultando em avanços na área de resfriamento de microchips. / Current electronic components are becoming ever more potent and densly integrated, which requires further increases in the efficiency of heat dissipation. With current fan-based heat dissipation techniques with air as the working fluid becoming outdated, there is a pressing need to develop more eficient methods to cope with demand. So far, three techniques have been the primary focus of studies in this area: liquid cooling, microchannel heat exchangers and synthetic jets used to promote increased momentum transfer. Analysis of such devices at the small physical scale of electronic components is somewhat problematic in experimental form so that a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach is recommended. The main objective of this study is thus to utilize a CFD approach to establish the performance characteristics of a synthetic jet impacting against a heated surface. The flexibility of a numerical approach also allows the examination of the sensibility of the design with respect to several physycal and geometric parameters such as Reynolds number, pulsing frequency, jet orifice shape and size, cavity size and distance between the heated surface and the device. Such results, provide insight in the effect of physical and geometric parameters in the jet formation and heat dissipation. The combined knowledge of this study allowed the development of a practical correlation for the Nusselt number based on the Strouhal number (normalized pulsing frequency), Reynolds number, Prandtl number and the distance between the heated surface and the synthetic jet. This result allows improved predictions of a jet impacting against a heated surface and, consequently, adds an important contribution to other studies in this area. It is expected that the results presented here will be the starting point for further work, in which increasingly complex geometries such as actuators combined with heat exchangers equipped with fins, coolers or microchannels are examined to further improve the knowledge in the field of electronic cooling.

With new energy directives in place, the Swedish Social Service (SSS) stands before the challenge how to reduce the energy demand in its locales. It is a complex matter, as the locales are rented from various property owners and it becomes a question of how to reduce the operational electricity and influence the property owners to work more with energy efficiency. This thesis takes a balanced research approach in three parts. Firstly a qualitative part in form of interviews with personnel at the SSS and its property owners, secondly a quantitative part of descriptive nature in form of energy statistics and thirdly a literature review of Energy Management (EM) Supply Chain Management(SCM), Green Supply Chain Management(GSCM) and Enviromental Performance Indicators (EPI). This in order to be able to give normative recommendations of how the SSS should act to reduce its energy consumption in its locales and provide new insights on how EM, SCM, GSCM and EPI can be applied in effect. The results show that the Swedish Social Service should act in the following areas to control its energy efficiency: statistics and follow-up, locale strategy and operational electricity. To get efficient statistical material the SSS should update their registers of property owners, update guidelines for energy statistics reporting and continue with the same collection method for data (e-mail survey) to get continuity. The literature review and interviews show that a segmentation of suppliers (property owners) based on factors like area in property, good relations, area of local and energy performance indicators should be useful as to know how to distribute resources to enable energy efficiency. Finally, the study shows that various locales has high rates of idling loads and have a energy saving potential of 10-15%.

La protection pénale du consommateur est un enjeu essentiel, à plus forte raison, à la suite des dernières réformes législatives intervenues en la matière. La protection du consentement du consommateur représente l'essence même de l'intervention du droit pénal dans la sphère consumériste. La question fondamentale qu'il convient de se poser est donc celle de savoir si ce droit pénal sanctionne les comportements délictueux dont peut faire preuve le professionnel de manière accessoire au droit civil ou bien, plus intéressant, s'il revêt une autonomie dans la protection du consentement du consommateur, sans être un simple droit sanctionnant et dissuasif. / The consumer’s penal protection is an essential stake, even more so following the last legislative reforms that occurred in the matter. The consumer’s consent’s protection represents the very essence of criminal law’s intervention in the consumerist sphere. The fundamental question that must be asked is whether criminal law punishes the criminal behaviour that a professional might show as an additional legislation which is dependent on civil law or, more interestingly, if criminal law is in fact autonomous in the consumer’s consent’s protection without being nothing more than a repressive and dissuasive legislation.

År 2014 trädde lagen om energikartläggning i stora företag, även känd som EKL, i kraft och sedan dess har energikartläggningarna tagit god fart. Med lagen om energikartläggning i större företag har drömmen om en utsläppsneutral framtid kommit ett steg närmare relisering. Denna rapport är ett av många steg som krävs för att göra världen till en mer sund och framtidssäker plats att leva på. Energikartläggningar ämnar att skapa en uppfattning om fastigheters energianvändning och dess potential till förbättringar. Denna energikartläggning behandlar Gårda 19:12, en kontorsfastighet i Göteborg där kommunalt ägda förvaltningsbolaget Higab står som förvaltare. Energikartläggningen behandlar energin ämnad åt fastighetsdrift då det är detta som Higab råder över. Verksamhetsdrift behandlas  endast kort utan noggrannare analyser då det inte är av beställares intresse. Fokus ligger på stödprocesser som verksamheten i fastigheten inte råder över. Mätningar har genomförts vid upprepade besök och inventeringar i fastigheten och nödvändiga beräkningar har genomförts baserat på insamlad information och standardiserad brukarindata. Simuleringsprogrammet IDA ICE har använts för att simulera nyttan av åtgärdsförslag presenterade i slutet av kartläggningsrapporten. Energikartläggningen av fastighetens energianvändning baseras på faktiska mätningar och systemanalyser baserat på tillhandahållen information av fastighetsförvaltare. Analyserad fastighet är från 1987 och har sedan tidigare ett lågt energibehov och klarar redan idag under en mild vinter kraven för nybyggnation. Energibärare in till fastigheten är fjärrvärme och el. Inkommande energi kommer i rapporten redovisas under användningsområde. Med energikartläggningen har fastighetsdriften kartlagts till att stå för 77,6 % av totalt använd energi uppdelat på belysning, lokalvärme, lokalkyla, ventilation, tappvarmvatten och användning av hissar. Energianvändning uppdelat på dessa användningsområden kommer att presenteras i rapporten samt systemens uppbyggnad och användning inom fastigheten. Fokus i energikartläggningen ligger i att indentifiera och analysera energianvändarna i fastigheten och kommer att mynna ut i ett antal åtgärdsförslag av olika storlek i investering och energibesparing. Beräkningar och mätningar visar att den specifika energianvändningen för fastighetsdrift är 47,5 kWh/m2Atemp. Fastigheten är bra optimerad i många energianvändningsområden. Energikartläggningen gör det tydligt att belysning står för en betydande del av energianvändningen på knappt 19 % av total fastighetsenergi. Av denna anledning riktas tre av åtta åtgärdsförslag åt syftet att sänka byggnadens energianvändning inom belysning. Resterande åtgärdsförlag är inom områdena ventilation, installation av solceller och tappvarmvatten. / As a result of the EU energy efficency directive, in 2014 the government decided about the law of energy audit in big companies. Since then, the speed of which companies does energy audits have greatly increased. This is a major step towards an energy neutral society. In 2014, the law on energy audits for large companies came into force and since then, energy audits have taken a good pace. With EKL, the dream of a emission-neutral future has come one step closer to realization. This report is one of many steps required to make the world a more healthy and future-proof place to live in for the current and future generations. The work with energy audits aims to provide an idea of ​​the energy use of real estate and its potential for improvement. This energy audit deals with Gårda 19:12, an office property in Gothenburg, where municipal-owned company Higab stands as property manager. The energy audit deals with the energy intended for maintaining property functions, as this is what Higab can control. It does not cover business operations completely, but is covered briefly without more accurate analyzes as it is not of the client's interest. The focus is on support processes. The IDA ICE simulation program has been used to simulate the benefits of action proposals. The energy mapping of the property's energy use is based on actual measurements and system analyzes, measured or provided by property manager. The property was built in 1987 and has a low energy requirement as it is, and does during mild winters already meet the requirement for new constructions. Energy carriers to the property are district heating and electricity and will be divided into their application area in the report. With this energy audit, energy used for maintaining property functions has been surveyed to account for 77.6% of total energy usage, consumed by lighting, heating, cooling, ventilation, hot water and the use of lifts. The focus of the energy audit lies in identifying and analyzing energy users in the property and will result in several measures of varied sizes in investment and energy saving. Calculations and measurements show that the specific energy use for real estate operations is 47.5 kWh/m2 compared to 58.93 kWh/m2, which was the total energy use in 2016. The property is well optimized in many energy applications. After completion of the survey, lighting accounts for a significant part of energy use of more than 18 % of total property energy. For this reason, three of eight measures are aimed at reducing the building's energy use in lighting. Remaining measures covers ventilation, installation of solar panels (for electricity) and tap water.

The pressure on the healthcare sector is increasing all over the world. The amount of treatable diseases increases and the time spent with each patient decreases. As a reaction towards the way the healthcare works today, patient-centred healthcare has become increasingly popular. Bringing the patient into the centre also needs changes in the staffs’ way of working. One way of making these changes is by implementing Lean healthcare. This thesis uses a systematic review approach to find out what organisational changes have been made at hospitals where they have implemented Lean healthcare and how the implementations were done. The results showed that the most important thing was to engage the staff at an early point. Those hospitals that had representatives from all the different categories of the staff were the ones who managed to make the modifications with less effort and they also had an easier way of maintaining them. The most obvious similarities in the organisational changes the hospitals had made were that they clearly defined who were supposed to do what and that they changed the work into multi-disciplinary teams. By that the hospitals saved a lot of time both for the staff and for the patients. Lean thinking has similarities theories of cognitive science, like distributed cognition and safety barriers and it could get inspiration from these areas to enhance the implementations. There are few articles concerning the organisational changes that have been made at hospitals when implementing Lean healthcare. However the results of this thesis was that the most important thing when implementing Lean healthcare is to involve everyone at an early stage and the only way to get Lean healthcare to really work is by changing the attitude and making people realise that improvement is a never ending process. The changes that were most common among the hospitals were to clearly define and document who was supposed to do what and to change the structure to multi-disciplinary teams working together.

Tesis por compendio / [ES] El consumo energético de una estación de bombeo (EB) representa el mayor consumo de energía de un sistema de de distribución de agua. Adicionalmente, otros problemas como el cambio climático, el estrés hídrico y emisión de gases de efecto invernadero conducen a la necesidad de optimizar este tipo de instalaciones, tanto en su diseño como en su operación. La presente tesis doctoral consta de tres etapas de desarrollo. La primera etapa desarrolla una metodología de optimización de la operación de EB. La segunda etapa desarrolla un método de diseño de estaciones de bombeo considerando aspectos técnicos y económicos basados en el método AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process, del Ingles). Finalmente, la tercera etapa es una mejora de la segunda añadiendo aspectos ambientales y consideración de variabilidad de la demanda. Una de las principales contribuciones es el desarrollo de una metodología para la optimización del funcionamiento de una EB. Esta metodología se basa en el uso de la curva de consigna y una operación combinando bombas de velocidad fija (BVF) y bombas de velocidad variable (BVV). El objetivo de este método es determinar el número óptimo de BVF y BVV en para cualquier caudal minimizando el consumo energético total de la EB. Esta metodología corrige la eficiencia de BVV determinada por las leyes de semejanza e incluye una formulación matemática de la eficiencia del variador de frecuencia. El diseño convencional de EB se basa la minimización del coste del ciclo de vida (CCV); suma de costes de inversión, operación y mantenimiento. La segunda etapa de la tesis, desarrolla un método integral de diseño de EB considerando aspectos técnicos y económicos aplicando el método AHP. La metodología propuesta consta de tres fases. La primera fase está relacionada la definición de los datos requeridos de la EB y permite definir los modelos factibles para la red. La segunda fase está relacionada con la definición de las posibles soluciones y su evaluación con los criterios técnicos y económicos. La tercera fase está relacionada con el cálculo del frente de Pareto del conjunto de soluciones obtenidas y la aplicación del método AHP. La metodología desarrollada en la segunda etapa de la tesis presenta cuatro limitaciones. La primera es no considerar los criterios medioambientales en el diseño de la EB. La segunda es no considerar la optimización del funcionamiento de una EB definido en la primera etapa. LA tercera está relacionada con la escala utilizada en el método AHP. La cuarta es la consideración de un único patrón de consumo en la estación de bombeo. Por ello, en la tercera etapa de la tesis se desarrolla una nueva propuesta de metodología de diseño de EB que pretende solventar estos problemas. Este nuevo método considera criterios medioambientales como el MEI, las emisiones de efecto invernadero o la eficiencia del método de regulación en la EB. El método incluye también una propuesta de modificación de la escala tradicional de valoración clásica del AHP. Las metodologías propuestas se han validado de forma comparativa con dos redes de distribución de agua (redes CAT y TF). Sobre ambas redes se compararon tanto los diferentes métodos propuestos como su comparativa con un planteamiento clásico del problema de diseño de una EB. En resumen, el la tesis recoge una metodología estandarizada para el diseño de cualquier tipo de EB (para agua potable, para riego etc.) considerando la configuración de bombeo más adecuada, haciendo uso de una variabilidad de la demanda, y considerando diferentes tipos de criterios (técnicos, económicos y ambientales) a través de un análisis multi criterio de toma de decisiones. / [CA] El consum energètic d'una estació de bombament (EB) representa el consum d'energia més gran d'un sistema de distribució d'aigua. Addicionalment, altres problemes com el canvi climàtic, l'estrès hídric i l'emissió de gasos d'efecte hivernacle condueixen a la necessitat d'optimitzar aquest tipus d'instal¿lacions, tant pel que fa al disseny com a l'operació. Aquesta tesi doctoral consta de tres etapes de desenvolupament. La primera etapa desenvolupa una metodologia d"optimització de l"operació d"EB. La segona etapa desenvolupa un mètode de disseny d'estacions de bombament considerant aspectes tècnics i econòmics basats en el mètode AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process, de l'Angles). Finalment, la tercera etapa és una millora de la segona afegint-hi aspectes ambientals i consideració de variabilitat de la demanda. Una de les contribucions principals és el desenvolupament d'una metodologia per optimitzar el funcionament d'una EB. Aquesta metodologia es basa en lús de la corba de consigna i una operació combinant bombes de velocitat fixa (BVF) i bombes de velocitat variable (BVV). L'objectiu d'aquest mètode és determinar el nombre òptim de BVF i BVV en qualsevol cabal minimitzant el consum energètic total de l'EB. Aquesta metodologia corregeix l"eficiència de BVV determinada per les lleis de semblança i inclou una formulació matemàtica de l"eficiència del variador de freqüència. El disseny convencional dEB es basa la minimització del cost del cicle de vida (CCV); suma de costos dinversió, operació i manteniment. La segona etapa de la tesi desenvolupa un mètode integral de disseny d'EB considerant aspectes tècnics i econòmics aplicant el mètode AHP. La metodologia proposada consta de tres fases. La primera fase està relacionada amb la definició de les dades requerides de l'EB i permet definir els models factibles per a la xarxa. La segona fase està relacionada amb la definició de les possibles solucions i la seva avaluació amb criteris tècnics i econòmics. La tercera fase està relacionada amb el càlcul del front de Pareto del conjunt de solucions obtingudes i laplicació del mètode AHP. La metodologia desenvolupada a la segona etapa de la tesi presenta quatre limitacions. La primera és no considerar els criteris mediambientals en el disseny de lEB. La segona és no considerar l'optimització del funcionament d'una EB definit a la primera etapa. La tercera està relacionada amb l'escala utilitzada al mètode AHP. La quarta és la consideració d'un únic patró de consum a l'estació de bombament. Per això, a la tercera etapa de la tesi es desenvolupa una nova proposta de metodologia de disseny d'EB que pretén resoldre aquests problemes. Aquest nou mètode considera criteris mediambientals com el MEI, les emissions amb efecte d'hivernacle o l'eficiència del mètode de regulació a l'EB. El mètode també inclou una proposta de modificació de l'escala tradicional de valoració clàssica de l'AHP. Les metodologies proposades han estat validades de manera comparativa amb dues xarxes de distribució d'aigua (xarxes CAT i TF). Sobre les dues xarxes es van comparar tant els diferents mètodes proposats com la comparativa amb un plantejament clàssic del problema de disseny d'una EB. En resum, la tesi recull una metodologia estandarditzada per al disseny de qualsevol tipus d'EB (per a aigua potable, per a reg etc.) considerant la configuració de bombament més adequada, fent ús d'una variabilitat de la demanda, i considerant diferents tipus de criteris (tècnics, econòmics i ambientals) mitjançant una anàlisi multicriteri de presa de decisions. / [EN] Energy consumption of a pumping station (PS) represents the largest energy consumption of a water distribution system. Additionally, other problems such as climate change, water stress and greenhouse gas emissions lead to the need to optimize this type of facilities, both in their design and operation. This doctoral thesis consists of three stages of development. The first stage develops a methodology to optimize the operation of the PS. The second stage develops a pumping station design method considering technical and economic aspects based on the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) method. Finally, the third stage is an improvement of the second stage by adding environmental aspects and demand variability consideration. One of the main contributions is the development of a methodology for the optimization of the operation of a PS. This methodology is based on the use of the set point curve and an operation combining fixed speed pumps (FSP) and variable speed pumps (VSP). The objective of this method is to determine the optimum number of FSP and VSP at any given flow rate while minimizing the total energy consumption of the PS. This methodology corrects the VSP efficiency determined by the similarity laws and includes a mathematical formulation of the variable frequency drive efficiency. Conventional PS design is based on the minimization of the life cycle cost (LCC); the sum of investment, operation and maintenance costs. The second stage of the thesis develops an integral method of PS design considering technical and economic aspects by applying the AHP method. The proposed methodology consists of three phases. The first phase one is related to the definition of the required data of the PS and allows defining the feasible models for the network. The second is related to the definition of the possible solutions and their evaluation with technical and economic criteria. The third phase is related to the calculation of the Pareto front of the set of solutions obtained and the application of the AHP method. The methodology developed in the second stage of the thesis has four limitations. The first one is not considering environmental criteria in the design of the PS. The second is not considering the optimization of the operation of a PS defined in the first stage of the thesis. The third is related to the scale used in the AHP method. The fourth is the consideration of a single consumption pattern in the pumping station. Therefore, in the third stage of the thesis, a new proposed methodology for the PS design is developed to solve these problems. This new method considers environmental criteria such as MEI, greenhouse emissions or the efficiency of the PS control method. The method also includes a proposed modification of the traditional AHP classical rating scale. The proposed methodologies have been comparatively validated with two water distribution networks (CAT and TF networks). For both networks, both the different proposed methods and their comparison with a classical approach to the design problem of a PS were compared. In summary, the thesis presents a standardized methodology for the design of any type of PS (for drinking water, irrigation, etc.) considering the most appropriate pumping configuration, making use of demand variability, and considering different types of criteria (technical, economic and environmental) through a multi-criteria decision making analysis. / Briceño León, CX. (2023). Contributions to the design of pumping stations in water distribution networks considering technical, economic and environmental aspects [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/193080 / Compendio