Volume 22
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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) removal by combining bio-scrubber and ozone pretreatment
Air Quality
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are toxic for the environment and human health and their tendency to readily volatilize in the atmosphere can lead to problems connected to odours annoyance. Conventional VOCs gaseous emissions treatments entail the application of chemical-physical processes, only...
Analysis of Spatial-temporal and Ion Characteristics Change of Precipitation in the Southwest of China, from Policy Perspective
Air Quality
According to the data from Luzhou environmental monitoring center from 2015 to 2018, the tendency of spatial-temporal and ion characteristics in precipitation have been analyzed in order to demonstrate the precipitation pollution status. Traditionally, the environment may become worse as the...
Hybrid Phytoremediation: an Ultimate Bio-Solution for Leachate
In the recent era, utmost attention is paid towards exploring the alternative source of energies, being more specific green energies. In modern days, when growing energy scarcity is a hot topic and considered as a global threat, in that context a green technology capable of sustainably addressing...
Positive matrix factorization on elemental concentrations of PM10 samples collected in areas within, proximal and far from mining and power station operations in Greece.
Air Quality
The identification of PM sources and their contribution to measured PM concentrations is crucial for the environmental policy making since the findings be able to conduce to the development of relevant legislation in order to achieve effective air quality manage. In this study, the sources of PM10...
Short-Term Prediction of PM2.5 Pollution with Deep Learning Methods
Air Quality
Particulate matter (PM), classified according to aerodynamic diameter, is one of the harmful pollutants causing health damaging effects. It is considered as cancerogenic by the World Health Organization (WHO) because of the substances found in the chemical composition of PM. In this study, short...
Photocatalytic Reduction of AuCl4- by Fe3O4/SiO2/TiO2 Nanoparticles
Water and Wastewater Treatment
Metallurgy and recovery of gold in electronic waste sometimes involve the reduction of tetrachloroaurate ion (AuCl4-) to elemental gold form. Currently, for the reduction of tetrachloroaurate ion, people use reducing agents such as hydroquinone and sodium borohydride. Photocatalysts of Fe3O4/SiO2...
Investigation of ordered mesoporous carbon potential as low-cost CO2 adsorbent
Pollution Control Technology
In this study, an investigation was carried out in order to determine the potential of ordered mesoporous carbon including high ratio sucrose in its composition as a CO2 adsorbent. Structural characterizations of silica and carbon material were determined by using a scanning electron microscope (SEM...
Application of Box-Behnken model to study biosorption of lead by Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida tropicalis isolated from electrical and electronic waste dumpsite
Pollution Control Technology
Samples of soil acquired from electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) dumpsite in Kansuwan gwari, Minna, Nigeria were utilized for the isolation of microorganisms utilized as a part of lead (Pb) biosorption studies. The soil specimen was cultured for Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida tropicalis...
Spatio-temporal Land Use Regression Modelling of Ozone Levels in Athens, Greece.
Air Quality
Spatio-temporal methods have been developed for the estimation of concentrations of pollutants such as particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide for application in epidemiological studies. A limited number of city-specific spatio-temporal ozone (O3) models have been proposed until today. Our aim was...
Comparative impact of different iso-osmotic solutions on osmotic adjustment in Gossypium barbadense
Multidisciplinary research in environmental science
To discriminate the specific response of ion toxicity versus osmotic stress on altering leaf solute contents, contributing of organic and/or inorganic components in osmotic adjustment and its reflection on plant performances under ionic and osmotic stresses, two cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.)...