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Volume 21

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Global NEST Journal

ISSN numbers
1790-7632
2241-777X

Volume

Volume number
21
Publication year
2019

Inexpensive and universal growth media for biomass production of microalgae

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Magdalena Zabochnicka-Świątek mzabochnicka@is.pcz.pl et al. View all

Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development

New challenges for industrial microbiology and biotechnology of algae are to increase the efficiency of microalgae growth rates and decrease the cultivation costs. Algae could be cultivated in fresh water as well as in salty sea water or wastewater. Microalgae biomass can be used as a sorbent to...

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

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Burcu SIMSEK UYGUN et al. View all

Water Quality

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

Optimizing operation of a large-scale pumped storage hydropower system coordinated with wind farm by means of genetic algorithms

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Bakanos P.I. et al. View all

Protection and restoration of the environment

Due to the intermittent and fluctuating nature of wind and other renewable energy sources, their integration into electricity systems requires large-scale and flexible storage systems to ensure uninterrupted power supply and to reduce the percentage of produced energy that is discarded or curtailed...

Pumped-storage hydropower plant multi-reservoir systems +3 more

Investigation of Solid Waste Characteristics in Field-Scale Landfill Test Cells

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Mehmet Sinan Bilgili et al. View all

Solid Waste Management

This paper presents the results of an experimental study carried out in field-scale test cells in order to determine the effect of aeration and leachate recirculation on waste decomposition rate, solid waste characteristics, landfill gas composition and settlement in the landfill body. Four landfill...

Aerobic landfill Anaerobic landfill +4 more

Evaluation of antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxic activities and characterization of bioactive substances from freshwater blue-green algae

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Nermien Helmy Seddek et al. View all

Multidisciplinary research in environmental science

Organic solvent extracts of three cyanobacterial species (Anabaena oryzae, Oscillatoria sp. and Stigonema ocellatum) were tested for antimicrobial activity against human pathogenic fungal and bacterial strains as well as for antioxidant and cytotoxic activity against human breast adenocarcinoma (MCF...

Cyanobacteria Antimicrobial activity +3 more

Using an online platform for the improvement of industrial symbiosis and circular economy (in Western Macedonia, Greece)

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Prof. Athanasios Dounavis, Email address:ath.sot.dounavis@hotmail.com and Fax number: +302461041819 et al. View all

Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development

The part of industrial ecology known as industrial symbiosis engages traditionally separate industries in a collective approach to competitive advantage involving physical exchange of materials, energy, water and by-products (Dounavis et al. 2015, Dounavis et al. 2016, Ravindran and Jaiswal 2016...

Western Macedonia industrial waste +3 more

Impact of urbanization on climate change and geographical analysis of physical land use land cover variation using RS-GIS.

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Jeykumar R.K. C., Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Thirupparankundram, Madurai-625009, Tamil Nadu, India. E-mail ID: rkcjey@gmail.com, cell: +919150077046. et al. View all

Hydrology and water resources

This study focuses on the impact of climate change on rainfall-runoff pattern, and to assess the surface runoff and groundwater recharge potential from the intensified rainfall for the effective management of surface and groundwater resources in Tirunelveli city. The rainfall contribution is...

Water resource management Rainfall-Runoff +3 more

Modelling the removal of Lead from synthetic contaminated water by activated carbon from biomass of Diplocyclos Palmatus by RSM

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Venugopal et al. View all

Multidisciplinary research in environmental science

Diplocyclos Palmatus biomass activated carbon (DPAC) was used in this work to remove lead (II) ion from the synthetic wastewater. The DPAC was characterized for structural, surface morphology by SEM, functional group was analyzed by FT-IR and XRD analysis. Removal of Pb2+ was studied by batch method...

DPAC Hazardous Pb2+ +4 more

Performance Evaluation of Fly Ash-based Geopolymer Concrete Incorporating Nano Slag

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Isam Mohamad Ali et al. View all

Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development

This study investigates the effectiveness of fly ash-based geopolymer concrete was conducted to be used as an alternative material to replace the normal concrete. The concrete mixture was prepared by mixing fly ash, fine aggregate, nano-slag, and SP in Na2SiO3/NaOH solution. The mixture was divided...

fly ash Geopolymer concrete +5 more

Composition and production rate of cytostatic pharmaceutical waste from a Greek Cancer Treatment Hospital

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Voudrias E.A. et al. View all

Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis

The objective of this work was to determine the composition and production rate of cytostatic pharmaceutical waste produced by Theagenion Cancer Treatment Hospital (TCTH) in Thessaloniki, Greece. This information is necessary for the design and costing of management systems for cytostatic...

Antineoplastic waste Vial waste +3 more