ABSTRACT Pollution from metals and metalloids of the environment of Greece seemed to attract many researchers and elemental pollutants in air, soil and water have been determined and studied systematically during the last decade. The most recent of these studies, concerning the last five years (2003...

Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are widely used for the removal of recalcitrant organic constituents from industrial and municipal wastewater. The aim of this study was to review the use of titanium dioxide/UV light process, hydrogen peroxide/UV light process and Fenton’s reactions in wastewater...

Enhancement of the permeate flux due to reduction of cake layer resistance by air-liquid twophase flow in a cross flow spiral wound microfiltration membrane has been investigated. Experiments were carried out with two different suspension systems, namely baker’s yeast suspension with a dry mass...

The goal of the current review is to present and analyze the known information proposed and discussed the last few years about UFP and their possible health effects. It includes references from 1992 to 2008. It also includes references from some fundamental studies in the 1970's and 1980's. The...

The traditional approach to urban water management is primarily based on a supply-oriented approach, where water follows a one-way path from supply to a single use, treatment and then discharged to the environment. The wide acknowledgement of the need to shift towards more sustainable practices has...

There is an emerging need to support water and food policy and decision making at the global and national levels. A systematic tool that is capable of analyzing water-food relationships with high spatial resolutions would be very useful. A GEPIC model has recently been developed by integrating a...

C.I. Acid Orange 7 (AO7) commonly used as a textile dye and could be degraded by UV/ZnO, UV/H2O2 and UV/H2O2/Fe (III) (photofenton) processes. In the photocatalytic degradation of dye by UV/ZnO process, effect of some parameters such as UV irradiation time, presence of ZnO and UV irradiation, pH...

In the present study, the Kalman filter algorithm was applied to forecast the wintertime PM10 concentrations of Macau. The algorithm was implemented on an AR(2) model and an AREX model, respectively. The AR(2) model is essentially an autoregressive model of order 2, i.e., the daily averaged PM10...

In this study, the variability and trends of the mean annual and seasonal surface air temperature in Greek peninsula are examined. The climatic data used, concern mean monthly values of air temperature of 20 meteorological stations of the Hellenic Meteorological Service, for the period 1951-2000...

Phytoremediation is a low cost alternative solution to soil contamination compared with traditional removal and/or disposal techniques. One of the phytoremediation technologies is the phytovolatilization, whereby the contaminant is not primarily accumulated in above-ground tissues, but is instead...