The Global NEST Journal is an open access journal that publishes original research articles, short papers and critical reviews on all aspects of Environmental Science and Technology. These comprise, but are not limited to, Pollution Control Technology, Global Environmental Change, Air Quality, Water Quality, Water and Waste Water Treatment, Solid Waste Management, Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis, Emerging pollutants. Relevant topics incorporating the methodologies and state of the art of disciplines such as Environmental Management Policies, Ecosystems and Natural Resources Management, Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Clean Energy and Sustainability are included.
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Optimization of the furrow irrigation efficiency
General
Furrow irrigation is used for row crops. S.C.S., based on a great number of field experiments, under different circumstances and soil families, has developed design equations for furrow irrigation. These equations have been used for steady flow rate or for flow rate with one reduction when the water...
Route optimization for solid waste collection: Trabzon (Turkey) case study
General
In a municipal solid waste management system, decreasing collection/hauling costs, which consist of 85 % of total disposal expenditure, can be carried out by a route optimization. Thus, a huge amount of economical benefits is getting furnished. If route optimization is performed in solid waste...
Optimal Allocation Model of Plant Community in Slope Ecological Restoration
CLEANWAS
In order to effectively analyze the optimal allocation mode of plant community in the process of slope ecological restoration, 15 plants were selected and 10 plant community combinations were designed. The experiment lasted for 90 days, and the optimal allocation model of plant community was...
Optimization of groundwater resources management in polluted aquifers
General
Τhis paper focuses on optimal management of aquifers with pollution problems. Genetic algorithms are used as the optimization tool, while advective pollutant transport is simulated by means of a moving point technique. The approach is illustrated by means of two application examples. In the first we...
Reservoir operation using hybrid optimization algorithms
Hydrology and Water Resources Management
In the present paper, the authors present a new hybrid optimization technique toward optimum reservoir planning and operation. The basis of the developed hybrid algorithms is the combination of harmony search (HS) and incremental dynamic programming (IDP). This resulted in the development of a new...
Optimization of malachite green dye removal by sepiolite clay using a central composite design
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
In this study, a four-factor five-level Central Composite Design (CCD) was applied to develop mathematical model and optimize process parameters for malachite green dye (MG) removal from aqueous solutions using sepiolite. The individual, combined, and quadratic effects of four experimental factors...
A Method for Optimizing the Allocation of Sea Resources Based on Ecological Environment Protection
CLEANWAS
With the increasing demand for marine resources, the marine ecological environment system is gradually destroyed. The traditional allocation of marine resources has been unable to meet the global resource search, resulting in poor distribution uniformity of marine resources and high packet loss rate...
Prediction intervals for carbon dioxide emissions in china by extreme learning machine ensemble based on particle swarm optimization
Environmental data analysis and modelling
The emission of carbon dioxide is the major cause of the greenhouse effect, which has a negative impact on human survival and sustainable economic development; therefore, it is very significant for discovering the underlying influential factors of carbon dioxide emissions. In this paper, an extreme...
An Efficient Flood Forecasting Model Using an Optimal Deep Belief Network
Hydrology and Water Resources Management
Floods inflict significant damage globally each year, underscoring the importance of accurate and timely flood prediction to mitigate property loss and life. Precise flood prediction provides governments with crucial preemptive alerts regarding potential flood disasters, enabling timely evacuations...
An IoT-aware Air Quality Prediction System utilising Hybrid Optimization and Fuzzy Temporal Rules Enabled Auto Encoded Bi-LSTM
Air pollution and health
Recently, the environmental pollution is becoming a challenging issue due to the lacking of awareness about the importance of the environment and the growth of transportation facility and the various factories. The Internet of Things (IoT) technology is useful today for collecting and updating the...
Sustainable bio-oil from banana peel waste biomass: Optimization study and effect of thermal drying
Solid Waste Management
Banana waste has a high level of volatile matter, making it a promising feedstock for pyrolysis in bio-oil generation. Thus, an oven drying method optimization study was conducted to find the drying process of Saba banana peel on flap opening and fan speed. Based on the ANOVA results, it was found...
A multi-variant approach to optimize process parameters of two-step pretreatment of high FFA Prosopis juliflora oil
Air pollution and health
A feasible alternative fuel for diesel engines in recent days is biodiesel, which can be produced from both edible and inedible feedstock. When considering the economic and environmental aspects, there is a considerable academic interest among researchers in the transesterification of non-edible...
Optimizing operation of a large-scale pumped storage hydropower system coordinated with wind farm by means of genetic algorithms
Protection and restoration of the environment
Due to the intermittent and fluctuating nature of wind and other renewable energy sources, their integration into electricity systems requires large-scale and flexible storage systems to ensure uninterrupted power supply and to reduce the percentage of produced energy that is discarded or curtailed...
A Deep Learning-Based Buffalo Optimizer based Squeeze and Excitation Network for Garbage Classification for a Sustainable Environment
Solid Waste Management
A Squeeze and Excitation Network is a deep-learning architectural component designed to enhance networks. The "squeeze" step reduces the spatial dimensions of the input feature maps, and the "excitation" step adaptively recalibrates channel-wise feature responses. This allows the network to focus on...
Optimization of degradation of ciprofloxacin antibiotic and assessment of degradation products using full factorial experimental design by Fenton Homogenous process
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
The Pharmaceutical contaminants specialist antibiotics into environment can create problems for both human health and environment. Ciprofloxacin (CIP), an antibiotic Fluoroquinolones group, has recently been used widely for infections treatment. The main purpose of the research was to develop a Full...
Ultrasound Assisted Enhanced Extraction of Lutein (β, ε-carotene-3, 3'-diol) from Mircroalga (Chlorella pyrenoidosa) Grown in Wastewater: Optimization through Response Surface Methodology
General
One of the fundamental carotenoid compounds available in microalga Chlorella pyrenoidosa is lutein, which is a commercially valuable antioxidant compound. The extraction of lutein from C. pyrenoidosa was studied in detail under various operating conditions. Acid pretreatment was done using 10% HCl...
Adsorption of Remazol Brillant Green 6B (RBG 6B) on chitin: process optimization using response surface methodology
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
In the present study, the adsorption of Remazol Brillant Green 6B (RBG 6B) on chitin which characterized by BET, FTIR, XRD and SEM analysis was studied. Response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to determine interaction between solution pH, initial RBG 6B concentration and chitin dosage being...
Optimization of ACH Coagulant, Settling Time and Powdered Activated Carbon as Coagulant Aid with Economic Analysis
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
Regular water treatment-plant (WTP) comprises of a number of units. Of course, problems exist throughout design and operation of the WTP units. Consequently, the current re-search aimed to minimize the shortcomings of the coagulation, sedimentation, and the adsorption methods through applying...
Characterization and optimization studies of cellulose based bioplastics extracted from Musa paradisiaca L.
Environmental management and policy
In recent past, attentions are towards preserving and restoring the resources of environment in terms of development of new products of environmental safety, Therefore utilization of vegetable fibres, extracts from stem, leaves, fruits and roots for the production of biopolymers / improving...
Graph-based neural network model for predicting urban environmental air quality using spatio-temporal data optimization
Air pollution and health
Environmental protection and the need for accurate pollutant forecasting have become increasingly important as worries about environmental issues and the harmful effects of pollution have grown. Predictive accuracy of air pollutants is generally unsatisfactory due to the fact that conventional...
Performance and Emissions Parameters Optimization of Thermal Barrier Coated Engine Tested with Tamanu Blended Diesel Fuel: A Novel Emission Pollution-Preventive Approach
Air pollution and health
Diesel engines cause major pollutants such as hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), and oxides of nitrogen (NOx). These emissions affect environmental systems and lead to global warming and climatic change effects. These pollutants also affect humans and lead to health problems like lung cancer...
Optimal temporal distribution curves for the classification of heavy precipitation using hierarchical clustering on principal components
Protection and restoration of the environment
A novel method that utilizes a combination of statistical and clustering techniques is presented in order to classify statistically independent heavy rainstorm events and create a limited number of temporal distribution curves. These curves represent the centers of many unitless cumulative rainstorm...
Factorial Design and Optimization of Date Stone as A Natural Coagulant for Organic and Heavy Metals Removal from Industrial Wastewater
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
Several chemical coagulants previously utilize for wastewater treatment with significant performance in removing heavy metals and other parameters. However, their cost effective and the residual of toxic chemical precipitates that pose problems to human health and the environment. Therefore, using...
Optimization study of adsorption of crystal violet and congo red onto sepiolite and clinoptiolite
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
The purpose of this study was to investigate the adsorption properties of locally available sepiolite and clinoptilolite materials as adsorbents for the removal of crystal violet and congo red dye ions from aqueous solution. Previous experiments have revealed that two variables, concentration and...
Optimization of process variables for treatment of food industry effluents by electrocoagulation
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
The present study investigates the process optimization for treatment of potato processing industry wastewater by electrocoagulation. Performance of treatability was evaluated by achieved chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiencies. Response Surface Methodology was applied to determine...
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