Issue 1
Self–Evaluating and Benchmarking Environmental Performance of Businesses: A Web–Based Approach
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A Web-node has been created in order to address the specific needs of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of three important economic areas in the Mediterranean region, the food, textile and hotel sectors. The node provides important information on the market structure in the relevant sectors...
Polluted Water Effluent in the Sea
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In this experimental study some measurements and their analysis are presented concerning the polluted water effluent disposal in the sea water. The wastes are disposed through the round openings of a submerged in the sea diffuser, in the form of turbulent jets which are mixing (diffusing) with the...
Clean up of acidic leachates using fly ash barriers: Laboratory column studies
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Laboratory column tests were conducted to study the efficiency of lignite fly ash barriers in removing heavy metal ions, such as Fe, Zn, Mn, Ni, Cd, Co, Al and Cu, present in high concentrations in acidic leachates produced in mining and waste disposal sites. The experimental configuration comprised...
Removal of As, Cr and Cd by Absorptive Filtration
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) recently introduced more stringent arsenic regulations by lowering the maximum contaminant level (MCL) to 10 ìg l-1 (ppb) arsenic in drinking water. During the present study, an iron solution injection sand filtration process was designed and tested to...
Improvement of marina design technology using hydrodynamic models
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Á mathematical model is applied to calculate the water circulation in the marina of Latsi in Cyprus. The flow field in the marina shows the general behavior of coastal, wind driven flows, being strongly influenced by the characteristics of the entrance of the marina. The small dimension and the...
Exploratory traffic noise measurements at five main streets of Thessaloniki, Greece
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Although noise is a very common nuisance in Greek cities, information on actual noise levels in streets is sparse. Here, noise measurements at five main streets of Thessaloniki, Greece for about five weeks are presented. Ten minute, one hour and daily average noise levels were calculated. Traffic...
Risk Analysis for Environmental Hazards. The case of oil spills in Crete
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In this paper a review of most recent practices in the field of Risk analysis are presented. Then the available data for oil spill incidents in the area of Crete covering the period 1995-1999 are analysed and discussed in detail. Risk analysis tables are produced in order to formulate the spatial...
Nitrate pollution in the coastal aquifer system of the Korinthos Prefecture (Greece)
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Over the last decades intensified agricultural production is applied in the northern coastal part of Korinthos Prefecture (Peloponnese, Greece). An aquifer system occurs in the recent basin deposits, which consists of unconsolidated material, namely sands, pebbles and fine clay to silty sand...
Environmental Strategies of Polluting Industries
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Citizen concerns about environmental management practices will usually lead to public attention and legislative proposals. This paper intends to assess the behaviour of potential environmental polluting industries. In order to accomplish this objective, a survey composed of twenty-five questions was...
Ranking spatial interpolation techniques using a GIS-based DSS
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A GIS-based Decision Support System (DSS) was developed to select the appropriate interpolation technique used in studying rainfall spatial variability. The DSS used the ArcView GIS platform by incorporating its spatial analysis capabilities, the programming language "AVENUE", and simple statistical...