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Eco-Friendly Cost-Effective Formation of Copper Oxide Nanostructures and its Prodigious Potential for Environmental Remediation Applications

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Sreenivasan V.S et al. View all

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Environmental management and policy

The proliferation of environmental pollution, particularly from hazardous industrial dyes, poses a significant threat to ecosystems and aquatic life. This study uses extract from Nerium oleander leaves as a natural capping and reducing agent to produce copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs), an...

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Development of a novel green waste compost stability monitoring method using the CIELAB color model

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Dimosthenis Tsivas et al. View all

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Solid Waste Management

Compost stability is an essential parameter of composting. Recent studies have shown that the color of compost is influenced by the initial characteristics of the main organic substrates. In this study, the progression of CIELAB color variables and typical compost stability and maturity indices were...

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The physico-chemical and bacteriological effects of UV-treated wastewater irrigation on soil and turfgrass quality: A case study in a coastal golf course

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Sara Hajji et al. View all

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Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

This research describes the bacteriological and physicochemical impact of two types of irrigation water on soil and turfgrass quality during 2018 and 2019. Wastewater treated by an activated sludge process coupled with UV disinfection UV-TW was compared to fresh water FW. The first cycle (2018) was...

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Comparison of the Start-up and Long-term Operation Characteristics of floc sludge and biofilm Integrated Anammox Reactors

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Qiongqiong Xia et al. View all

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Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Integrated anammox process has competitive advantages of low energy and carbon consumption in nitrogen removal. Because of the coupling of partial nitrification and anammox process, complex physicochemical and biological interactions occur in integrated anammox reactors, and long-term operation...

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Composting of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste as an alternative to the uncontrolled disposal: The case of Kalamata Municipality (Greece)

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Demetris-Francis Lekkas et al. View all

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Solid Waste Management

Kalamata’s decentralized waste management and composting scheme is a successful demonstration of the capacity of a municipality to manage its Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) by adopting methodologies that can be supported by small scale mobile equipment. According to the revised legislation, Join...

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Effects of soil pH, Total Organic Carbon and texture on fate of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils

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Emoyan, Onoriode Onos et al. View all

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Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of quotidian organic compounds having between two and six condensed aromatic rings braced in angular, cluster or linear forms possessing hydrogen and carbon atoms only. This work aims to evaluate the physicochemical characteristics of soil as...

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Treatment efficiency and sludge characteristics in conventional and suspended PVA gel beads activated sludge treating phenol containing wastewater

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Chrysi A. Papadimitriou et al. View all

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Environmental Sciences

Protozoa play a significant role in activated sludge systems, since they graze on dispersed bacteria, supporting a healthy food web in the activated sludge artificial ecosystem. However, operational parameters and influent properties are the most important factors affecting the composition of...

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Assessment of Seasonal Variations in Surface Water Quality of Cooum River in Chennai, India – A Statistical Approach

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Shanthakumar S. et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

Rapid development in industrial sectors and population expansion has adverse impact on the Cooum river basin, especially Chennai region. The present study focuses on the assessment of seasonal variation in surface water quality of Cooum river basin. The samples were collected seasonally and are...

Seasonal variation Physicochemical characteristics +2 more
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Multivariate Statistical Analysis of pollutants in Ennore creek, South-East coast of India.

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Dr.M.Krishnaveni et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

Multivariate statistical techniques involving factor analysis (FA) and dendrograms for hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) were performed on nine water samples from Ennore Creek, Chennai, Tamil Nadu to assess the spatial distribution of water quality in each of three seasons. The water samples were...

Physico-chemical Multivariate statistics +2 more
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Total dissolved inorganic carbon and physicochemical characteristics of surface microlayer and upper mixed layer water from Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria

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Nsikak U. Benson et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

The carbonate and physicochemical characteristics of the surface microlayer and upper mixed layer of a tropical coastal lagoon were investigated. Data on the physicochemical parameters generally indicated a moderately polluted ecosystem. The influence of the ocean environment over the Lagoon system...

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Disposal options for dredged marine sediments based on physicochemical and toxicological characterization

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Katsiri A., Pantazidou M. , Damikouka I., Kontogiorgi Ch. and Tringali A.

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General

This paper presents a methodology of evaluating management options for dredged sediments on the basis of an array of characterization tests and gives an example application for the sediments of Piraeus port. A conceptual model is proposed to guide selection among three management options. The model...

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Adsorption capacity of GAC pilot filter-adsorber and postfilter- adsorber for individual THMs from drinking water, Athens

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Babi K.G., Koumenides K.M., Makri C.A., Nikolaou A.D. and Lekkas T.D.

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General

Trihalomethanes are a major class of chlorination by-products in drinking water. They are formed when chlorine reacts with bromide (Br-) and natural organic matter (NOM) in source waters. Toxicology studies have shown all THMs to be carcinogenic or to cause adverse reproductive or developmental...

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Some important ecological aspects of the Directive 2000/60

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Hadjibiros K.

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General

The Water Framework Directive 2000/60 is a characteristic example of modern European environmental policy, based upon advanced environmental principles. Is reflects a gradual convergence between actual European political consensus on environmental matters and positions of the green movements. Most...

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Physical and Chemical Characteristics of a Mediterranean Coastal Microenvironment: The "Salty Lake" of Aghios Nikolaos (Crete, Greece)

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Mihopoulos N., Dassenakis M., Anastasakis G. and Scoullos M.

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General

The present paper examines a small and deep (53 m) salty lake, as well as the adjacent harbor of Aghios Nikolaos (Crete). The survey was carried out in 1996. Physicochemical parameters indicated that the main characteristics of the system are the inflow of karstic water from underwater springs...

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