Air pollution and health
This study presents an innovative approach to air quality assessment by integrating low-cost sensor networks with line source modeling. The research focuses on monitoring air pollutants in urban environments, particularly along a busy highway corridor in Chennai, India. A portable sensor kit was...
Environmental management and policy
Wetlands are among the most important ecosystems in the world, owing to their ecosystem characteristics. Therefore, they offer rich biodiversity in the areas where they are located. However, despite all legal regulations, wetlands are at risk both globally and in Türkiye. This risk is mainly caused...
Air pollution and health
The influence of land-use patterns on water quality in the Huaihe River Basin was analyzed using the Nemerow index, correlation and multiple linear regression analysis based on the measured data from 62 sampling sites in the Huaihe River Basin (China). In the point buffer zone, a significant...
Climate change
Investigating the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of livestock environmental efficiency and its decoupling effect is crucial for fostering the coordinated development of livestock economy and environmental sustainability. This study examines the spatiotemporal distribution, regional gaps, dynamic...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the possibility of using a lignocellulosic residue, peanut shells after alkaline activation, as a low-cost adsorbent for the removal of methylene blue dye from aqueous solutions. Adsorption experiments were conducted by varying parameters such as the...
Sustainable Energy
Conventional electrical power systems often prioritize economic gain over environmental protection, which can lead to negative environmental consequences, such as emissions from thermal power plants. In recent years, there has been significant research and investment aimed at addressing the...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
In this work, untreated activated carbon (UDP-AC) and activated carbon chemically treated with H₂SO₄ (TDP-AC) were successfully synthesized from date pits, a solid waste material. Characterization was performed on both UDP-AC and TDP-AC, and both samples were used to adsorb methylene blue (MB) dye...
General
Heavy metal pollution and salinity is a serious ecological concern posing threat to agriculture sustainability and global food security. Chromium (Cr) accumulation in arable lands is of serious concern due to its long term persistent in the soil and strong detrimental impacts on crop yield. Soil...
Environmental management and policy
Rainfall erosion is a complex environmental problem involving multiple influences, both natural and human. To explore effective strategies to suppress the erosive power of rainfall on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, researchers considered the complexity of regional geographic features. This paper also...
Air pollution and health
Indoor air quality significantly impacts health and well-being, making the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations essential in urban environments. The increasing concentration of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in indoor environments poses significant risks to air quality and human health. This study...
Hydrology and Water Resources Management
Flood forecasting is significant for hydrology and disaster management due to the complex and nonlinear nature of flood-related data. There are several conventional forecasting methods often failed to effectively capture both spatial and temporal dependencies that leads to inaccurate predictions. In...
Climate change
Climate change is a prime threat to human health and the environment. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions play a pivotal role in global warming, the greenhouse gas effect, destroys the ecosystem. This impact of climate change can be prevented with the help of a solvent-based CO2 absorption process. In...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
This study focuses on the development and evaluation of novel materials bentonite-CaO, magnetite bentonite-FeCl3, and magnetite bentonite-CaO/FeCl3 as potent adsorbents for the removal of methylene blue dyes from aqueous solutions. Batch adsorption test was conducted with variations of contact times...
General
This research aims to enhance the composition of phenolic compounds, the antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of the methanol, ethyl acetate, and n-butanol extracts produced from the leaves of Achillea ligustica, collected in the northeast of Algeria. The measure of extracts' total phenolic and...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
This study presents a simple, cost-effective, and eco-friendly approach for synthesizing silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using Tabernaemontana divaricata flower extract. The formation of nanoparticles was indicated by a color transition from light yellow to yellowish brown during silver ion reduction...
Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis
The environmental quality of rivers is a comprehensive effect of the superposition of multiple sources, and distinguishing the contribution of coal mining areas to river is an important and interesting work. In order to explore the impact of heavy metal in the sediment and to distinguish the...
Circular Economy and Bioeconomy
Background: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of various concentrations of nano-silica on the germination process of fenugreek seeds. The agro-waste materials such as rice husk, corn cobs and bagasse were used as a precursor for synthesizing nano-silica. Moreover, their formation was confirmed...
Ecological effects of Environmental change
Hydraulic infiltration and decontamination performance of bioretention systems are influenced by plant species and planting layers. However, traditional evaluation methods are limited by their high subjectivity and inability to capture complex relationships among multidimensional data accurately...
Solid Waste Management
This study describes a simple way for making films from natural sources, which is relevant since there is a rising demand for new materials that can make biocompatible films that are both effective and economical for use in biomedical applications. Fish bone waste and chitosan, a natural polymer...
Air pollution and health
The study was conducted to quantify Pb, Ni, Cr, Cd, Cu, and Fe in drinking water (surface and subsurface water) from Nawanshahr Town, Abbottabad, Pakistan, and to evaluate the associated threat to the health of the inhabitants. An atomic absorption spectrometer (Perkin Elmer, AAS-700) was utilized...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
The increasing problem of underwater trash and its detrimental impact on marine ecosystems necessitates effective detection and mitigation strategies. This work presents an approach for underwater trash detection by integrating the YOLOv7 deep learning model with a Flask web application. The...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
This study uses Taguchi analysis to assess the performance and energy efficiency of a metal scrap-incorporating single-slope solar still (SSSS). This study examines the influence of key input variables solar intensity, wind velocity and water inlet temperature on output metrics such as daily...
Sustainable Energy
The growing need for sustainable energy solutions has driven significant interest in biodiesel as a suitable replacement for fossil fuels. This research aims to characterize the performance parameters and emission standards of a single-cylinder CI engine with the combined effect of oxygen enrichment...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
In this study, removal of reactive yellow 145 (RY 145) dyestuff by dry biomass of Ureolytic mixed microorganism culture (UMC), existing in domestic wastewater and various industrial wastewater, was studied. Optimum conditions of adsorption efficiency were tested. For this purpose, studies were...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
This study utilizes the Time-Varying Parameter Vector Auto-Regression (TVP-VAR) Connectedness model and wavelet coherence analysis to investigate, for the first time, the dynamic connection between China's carbon market and high-tech industry. The results show an overall market Connectedness index...