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Experiment and Coupling Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste Degradation Under Multiple Influencing Factors

by Wu Xiaolong Rong Wan Yue Tengda Qingxiang Song Muhammad Muneer Liu Xinyang Dequan Kong ur Rahman Masood Muhammad Awais Hussain

Solid Waste Management

The increase in municipal solid waste (MSW) in northwest China has been substantial, with a significant portion primarily treated in landfills. This rapid growth in waste generation presents considerable challenges for landfill management and treatment. The factors affecting MSW degradation are...

Landfill Solid waste +6 more

Influence of zinc nanoparticles on maize productivity under heat stress caused by climate variability

by Ahmad Naseer Shah Shahen Bayar Jalal Korany Shereen Magdy Ahmad Uzair Gul Atia Khan Waleed Jalal Arshad AAlsherif Emad Ali Nawab AAldailami Danyah Teixeira Filhoh Marcelo Carvalho Minhoto Iqbal Babar

Issue 5

Climate change

Heat stress is among the most devastating abiotic stresses responsible for the reduction of maize yield. Therefore, the application of zinc nanoparticles (ZnNPs) is considered one of the precise and sustainable practices to meet the nutritional and food security demands of the global population. In...

Nanoparticle maize +3 more

Quantifying the Relative Contributions of Climate Change and Human Activities to Vegetation Recovery in Shandong Province of China

by Ma Shenglin Liu Huifang Li Senbiao Lyu Shuping Zeng Hongjun

Issue 5

Climate change

As global climate change intensifies, with frequent extreme weather events, the stability of vegetation is severely threatened. This study (2002–2023) uses NDVI, temperature, and precipitation data, along with methods like pixel binary, trend analysis, and multiple regression residual analysis, to...

climate change Vegetation coverage +3 more

Urbanizational impact on climatic variables and geographical analysis of physical land use land cover variation of a city using Remote Sensing.

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Santhana Iyyappa Sundararaj S et al. View all

Issue 5

Climate change

Climate change has serious implications foron the rise and variation of the average earth’s temperature, and intensified rainfall. In urban areas, temperatures and intensified rainfall variation are noticeably seenin the city which disrupts the normal life of a living things. Also, it affects the...

Urbanization Climate change +3 more

The Impact of Climate Change on the Development of Circular Economy in China: A Perspective on Green Total Factor Productivity

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Xue Lei et al. View all

Issue 4

Circular Economy and Bioeconomy

In the process of China's transition to high-quality development, the circular economy, as a key strategy for achieving green growth, is of significant importance in addressing climate change and promoting sustainable development. This study employs the SBM-GML model to analyze the Green Total...

Circular economy Climate change +2 more

Experimental study of biodegradability of organic waste with industrial waste combined with effluents: a comparison by vermicomposting technology

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Vivek. S et al. View all

Issue 3

Solid Waste Management

Vermicomposting is a mesophilic biooxidation and stabilization process of organic materials that involves the joint action of earthworm and microorganism. An experiment was conducted to prepare vermicompost using partially decomposed organic waste such as MSW, fruit waste, vegetable waste and yard...

Vegetable waste Yard waste +6 more

Screening, Identification, and Optimization of Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria from Post-coal Mining Ponds of Different Ages in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Eko Kusumawati et al. View all

Issue 3

Air pollution and health

This research was conducted to isolation, screening, identification, and culture conditions optimization (pH, temperature, thiosulfate concentration, and incubation period) of potential sulfur-oxidizing bacterial (SOB) to reduce sulfur concentrations in post-coal mining ponds water of various ages...

bioremediation coal mining +2 more

Optimization of Pilot scale Biogas Plant for mixed food wastes with cow dung by anaerobic digestion process

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Prithiviraj. C and Sivarethinamohan. R et al. View all

Issue 9

Solid Waste Management

The primary aim of this research is to identify the best anaerobic digestion process yield for generating biogas from mixed food waste in the combination of cow manure. For the biogas generation experiment, certain biodegradable domestic organic wastes gathered from restaurants, waste storage...

biogas production Anaerobic digestion +2 more

Utilization of coconut and jojoba wastes for lipases production by Aspergillus niger and applied it for biodiesel production

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Ghada Abd-Elmonsef Mahmoud et al. View all

Issue 3

General

Industrial wastes represent a huge issue for the environment and precious materials for microbial growth. Utilizing these wastes in different fermentation process decrease the costs of production, materials, energy, and represent an eco-friendly way of waste recycling. Aspergillus niger (ASU49) is...

wastes recycling +4 more

Statistical Downscaling of Regional Climate Model: A Case Study in Penang Island, Malaysia

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Kok Weng Tan et al. View all

Issue 2

Climate change

Flooding events are the most devastating natural disasters that Malaysia had experienced these recent years. It has become a challenge for the government and society to mitigate the flood events that occurs naturally, especially when climate change had worsened the situation. This study focuses on...

Regional Climate Model Statistical downscaling +3 more

A Study on Cement-free Geopolymer Concrete incorporated with industrial waste Cured at Open Environment for different molarities of sodium hydroxide

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M SASI REKHA et al. View all

Issue 2

Air pollution and health

Nowadays, the increase in population and industrial growth that generates lot of waste products which creates disposal problems and severe environmental hazards. The cement industry is one of the important sectors which liberates greenhouse gas such as carbon dioxide. The consumption of waste...

Greenhouse emission Sustainable development +7 more

Copper recovery by slurry electrolysis using ionic liquids from waste printed circuit boards

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Muhammad Tariq Sarwar et al. View all

Issue 2

General

The regulatory framework of heavy metal pollution associated with electronic waste is prevalent all over the world. As a result of technological advancement and change in consumer patterns, the life span of electrical and electronic products has been shortened. This has contributed to the emergence...

copper metal leaching different ionic liquids +2 more

Application of free and immobilized laccase for removal and detoxification of fluoroquinolones from aqueous solution

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Amir Hossein Mahvi, Mohammad Ali Faramarzi et al. View all

Issue 2

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Laccase from Trametes versicolor was immobilized by covalent bonds formation on CPC silica carriers. Elimination of two floroqinolone (FQ); enrofloxacine (ENR) and flumequine (FLU) using laccase in both free and immobilized form in the absence and presence of 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HBT) and 4...

Enrofloxacine Flumequine +3 more

Water Quality Monitoring with Emphasis on Estimation of Point and Diffuse Pollution Sources

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Burcu SIMSEK UYGUN et al. View all

Issue 2

Air pollution and health

Population growth, urbanization and anthropogenic activities are becoming a serious problem for water resources in Turkey, which necessitates their monitoring and maintenance of water quality. In this study, water quality was implemented in the Porsuk Stream in Inner Anatolia, Turkey. Water samples...

Water quality stream monitoring +7 more

Scaling-up sustainable Chlorella vulgaris microalgal biomass cultivation from laboratory to pilot-plant photobioreactor, towards biofuel

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Prof. Vayos G. Karayannis et al. View all

Issue 1

Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development

Unicellular microalgal culture represents a new opportunity for producing significant biofuel quantities in the future along with other specialty products, due to several major advantages microalgae species present when compared to conventional crops, including much faster growth rates, cultivation...

scale-up pilot-plant +7 more

Biodegradation of aniline by Enterobacter ludwigii KH-5 isolated from the soil around Shiraz refinery, Iran

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Farshid Kafilzadeh et al. View all

Issue 4

Pollution Control Technology

Aniline is a harmful substance that pollutes the environment and seriously endangers human health. In the present study five different bacteria were enriched and isolated from the soil around Shiraz refinery (Iran) as aniline degrading bacteria. They were identified as Enterobacter ludwigii KH-5...

aniline Biodegradation +3 more

The influence of single and combined effects of Zn, Cu and temperature on microbial growth

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Petros Gikas et al. View all

Issue 4

Air pollution and health

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the single and joint effect of zinc and copper to the growth pattern of the metal tolerant species of Arthrobacter sp. JM018. The results showed that, both, Zn and Cu at concentrations between 1 to 10 μM stimulated the growth of the above...

microorganisms Heavy metal +8 more

Investigation of the Annual Variability of the Aleppo Pine Tree-Rings Width: the Relationships with the Climatic Conditions in the Attica Basin

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Papadopoulos A., Tolika K., Pantera A. and Maheras P.

Issue 4

General

The relationships between the annual variability of the Aleppo pine tree-ring widths and the variability of the main climatic parameters in the Attica basin are analysed in the present study for a 45-year period (1959-2003). The Principal Components Analysis was applied to the times-series of the...

dendroclimatology climatology +2 more

The effect of heavy metals and temperature on microbial growth and lag

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Gikas P., Sengor S.S., Ginn T.R., Moberly J. and Peyton B.

Issue 3

General

A mathematical model to simulate microbial growth and lag time is proposed in the present work in accordance with Sengor et al. (2009). The model is verified experimentally for a mixed microbial culture growing at metal free and at Cr(III) or Cr(VI) contaminated environments. The model is further...

Modeling Heavy metals +3 more

Volatile organic compounds in the finished water of the water treatment plant in Thessaloniki, Greece

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Xanthopoulou N.J., Papagianni M.V., Papaioannou A. and Haralambidou A.

Issue 1

General

Chlorination has been the most widely used technology for the disinfection of drinking water around the world. The main purpose for the disinfection of drinking water is to protect it against microbial contamination in the distribution systems and to prevent or at least control re-growth of...

THMs VOCs +4 more

Modelling the dispersion of harmful algal bloom (HAB) in the Thermaikos gulf (NW Aegean Sea)

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Savvidis Υ.G, Patoucheas D.P., Nikolaidis G. and Koutitas C.G.

Issue 2

General

Coastal hydrodynamics are directly related to important environmental and ecological issues. This paper focuses on the study of harmful phytoplankton cells’ dispersion, after an episode of an algal bloom, based on mathematical modeling. The case of Thermaikos Gulf was used for the simulation. The...

phytoplankton bloom dinophysis +5 more

Effect of growth conditions on biosorption of cadmium and copper by yeast cells

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Anagnostopoulos V.A., Symeopoulos B.D. and Soupioni M.J.

Issue 3

General

The dependence of Cd(II) and Cu(II) uptake by yeast cells on the age and temperature of cell culture was studied. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Kluyveromyces marxianus and Debaromyces Hansenii were chosen as typical yeasts, while Cd(II) and Cu(II) as typical metal pollutants. Our results revealed that...

uptake Removal +5 more

Trends of the daily maximum temperatures in relation with the climatic change and the urbanization in the Athens basin

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Tzanakou M. and Deligiorgi D.

Issue 3

General

It is well known that the studies that associate the climatic changes with the greenhouse effect, as a sequence of uninterruptedly ongoing figures in the concentration mainly of carbon dioxide, have been focused on the trends of the mean temperature. On the other hand the variability and the trends...

Air temperature long-term variability +2 more

Influence of the Presence of Long Chain Fatty Acids (Lcfas) in the Sewage on the Growth of M. Parvicella in Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment Plants

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Mamais D., Nikitopoulos G., Andronikou E., Gavalakis E., Andreadakis A., Noutsopoulos K., Giotakis C... View all

Issue 1

General

Foaming and bulking problems in activated sludge treatment plants are associated to the presence of a variety of filamentous bacteria. However, it has been observed that M. parvicella is the most frequent filamentous microorganism causing sludge bulking and foaming, especially in treatment plants...

Activated sludge Filamentous Bulking +2 more