background : among the industrial activities that may cause odor nuisance problems, baking waste one is of the sources of bad odor, and therefore individuals complain from the industry. the aim of this study was to evaluation of pollutants released from poultry rendering plant and also performance of existing refiners in removing these pollutants.   methods : in this study, 66 air samples were ...

In recent years, using new methods in utilization of energy resources has become necessary due to environmental pollution and restriction of energy resources. The hybrid system presented in this article produced power with SOFC and Stirling engine. The purpose is to analyze a 50 kW Solid Oxide Fuel Cell that could produce enough thermal energy for a 10 kW Stirling engine working in the hybrid s...

We present the first thermospheric wind measurements using a Doppler Asymmetric Spatial Heterodyne (DASH) spectrometer and the oxygen red-line nightglow emission. The ground-based observations were made from Washington, DC and include simultaneous calibration measurements to track and correct instrument drifts. Even though the measurements were made under challenging thermal and light pollution...

The use of unmanned vehicle networks for diverse applications is becoming widespread. It is generally hard to program unmanned vehicle networks as a “whole”, however. The coordination of multiple vehicles requires careful planning through intricate human intervention, and a high degree of informality is implied in what concerns the specification of a “network program” for an application scenari...

The declining health of coral reefs worldwide is likely to intensify in response to continued anthropogenic disturbance from coastal development, pollution, and climate change. In response to these stresses, reef-building corals may exhibit bleaching, which marks the breakdown in symbiosis between coral and zooxanthellae. Mass coral bleaching due to elevated water temperature can devastate cora...

This study examines whether plankton of the Lagoon of Venice could be considered as a bio-indicator of areas subjected to various anthropogenic influences. This study was a two year hydrochemical and biological survey in five areas of the Lagoon of Venice, each with different environmental conditions due to pollution from urban, industrial, thermal and agricultural wastes. Phytoplankton associa...

Thermal stability analysis of particles incorporated in cirrus crystals and of non-activated particles in between the cirrus crystals: Comparing clean and polluted air masses M. Seifert , J. Ström, R. Krejci, A. Minikin, A. Petzold, J.-F. Gayet, H. Schlager, H. Ziereis, U. Schumann, and J. Ovarlez Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Air Pollution Laboratory, Insti...

Distinct wind convergence patterns due to thermal and momentum forcing of the low level jet into the Mexico City basin B. de Foy, A. Clappier, L. T. Molina, and M. J. Molina Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Air and Soil Pollution Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Received: 7 October ...