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Volume 11
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The Ninth International Symposium on Salt and the Ecological Importance of Solar Saltworks
General
The Ninth International Symposium on Salt (www.worldsalt2009.com) organized by China National Salt Industry Corporation, China Salt Association and many other salt organizations of the world was held in the Beijing International Convention Center on the 4-7 September 2009. It is the ninth in a...
Biological pretreatment of municipal solid waste prior to landfilling
General
The conventional landfilling does not promote sustainable waste management due to uncontrolled emissions which potentially degrade the environment. In this regard, pre-treatment of municipal solid waste prior to landfilling significantly enhance waste stabilization and provides various advantages...
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...
Prediction and study of passive pollutant dispersion in a street-canyon in London using computational fluid dynamics techniques
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Pollution levels in an urban street-canyon area are determined numerically as part of the European research project OSCAR using the ADREA-HF code. Aim of the modeling is twofold: (i) to investigate the flow-field and carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations in the area and (ii) compare with measurements...
Principal component analysis of precipitation in Thessaly region (Central Greece)
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Characteristics of the precipitation pattern are determined for Thessaly region in central Greece by using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Mean monthly precipitation data from 75 meteorological stations are used covering a 35 year period (1960-1994). The first two principal components (PCs)...
Influence of inorganic oxidants and metal ions on photocatalytic activity of prepared zinc oxide nanocrystals
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Zinc oxide nanocrystals were prepared by precipitation method using ZnSO4.7H2O and NaOH as raw materials. The prepared ZnO nanocrystals were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD). Primary objective was to focus on the influence of inorganic oxidants, metal ions and anions on photocatalytic...
Oil spill sorption using carbonized pith bagasse. Application of carbonized pith bagasse as loose fiber
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Recent oil tanker accidents in the sea are very serious, not only since they pollute the environment but also because they release heavy oil. The preparation of activated carbon from agricultural waste increases economic return and reduces pollution. On carbonized fibers, sorption capacity for...
An investigation on treatment of tannery wastewater by electrocoagulation
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Treatability by the electro-coagulation (EC) and electro-Fenton (EF) methods have been applied to the tannery wastewater from an organized industrial region consisting mostly of tannery plants and compared with each other in this study. Iron plates were used as the anode and cathode. Electrical...
Soil water management problems using fuzzy arithmetic
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Drainage management problems are usually very hard to simulate due to the uncertainty of the hydraulic parameters involved. Fuzzy analysis is one of the available tools that can be used for such problems, involving uncertain data. A fuzzy analysis approach usually involves the consideration of...
Aircraft air pollutant emissions in Greek airports
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During recent years special attention has been paid to various environmental impacts from aircraft emissions. The effects become more important considering the present situation in the air traffic sector and future expectations for higher air travel demands. In this paper the evolution of aircraft...